This game scratches a very particular itch for me. Sometimes I want to just have hotseat grand wars in a large sprawling map with a ridiculous amount of units and minimal management overhead in general. This is the game for that, for me. I typically create my own maps with sprawling cities representing all of the core races in the game and then battle it out. The flexibility the dev controls give you is immense as well--you want to create a true hero? Do it. You want thousands of units? do it.

Overall great strategy game, good stories gameplay and looks

I really wanted to play the game, but I can't. I asked for help on the forum, but instead of receiving help, I was banned without any explanation.

Newcomers should be treated better. When you see an open-source, community-driven game that's been in development for years, you naturally have certain expectations and assume a certain reputation around such projects. But this game and its developers are damaging the reputation that open-source projects have worked so hard to build. It's a sad thing.