The gameplay and what the player can do is on par with what a strategy game should provide, but the AI sucks, they cheat the system way too much and ruins the experience. Enemy AI have the information so close to their head, they counter your moves immediately the next turn, it's too annoying, blocking cities with troops, so much going on that a player can't do easily but the AI can. On the other hand, the ally AI is way too dumb to even move troops. The balance is off a ton.