so DW 9 empires not the best DW ever that's for sure it still suffering the issues that plagued DW 9 in the first place such as the combat the good news is they made the weapon system easier to upgrade so there is that

however it still suffers from the same thing other empire games since 6 have the overall control of an empire is awful you have one action a turn and your subordinates will occasionally do stuff for the empire but for the most part all they do is train themselves which makes the only one doing things plus you don't want to trust the auto resolve unless it overwhelmingly in your favour.

another issue is the vagabond armies which will always attack the turn after they form now it might seem simple to deal with them before you remember you have one empire action which is required to start any movement of officers between regions.

honestly this is a pretty bad game which is sad becuase it has the bones to be a good game with just more optimisation and better empire mechanics plus the AI needs to actually win fights in a battle and not just hold out until you get there

Don't really understand the hate this game gets. Sure 9 was controversial and the open world was poorly done. But the gameplay and empire loop is fun, I personally prefer it to every previous empires game (except for 5E).