Dunno why people are complaining about the difficulty. It got tight a few times, but there wasn't a single campaign I lost. I DID lose my first random battle. I had a few melee, didn't know where they'd show, they appeared 3 tiles away and had a crossbow and 2 horse guns.
Well, I enjoyed playing this on the weekends when I came home, but it seems I lost my progress over this past week. Great game, but I can't bring myself to start ALL over.
Good game, but it has some bugs that could do with fixing. Naming one of such right now: The building of roads. Unless it's just me, the "Road To" button does the exact same as the normal road building button.