The game starts and you can not cancel the first video sequence. (After the first time it is boring)
When I started the first CAMPAIGN makes it wonderfully fun .. everything is explained step by step. Only the building, then fighting and then the action. But there is already the first frustration is spreading. While other things are explained, it is basically the same and is, to me at least, boring. I have always loved freedom in settlers. This can, with what you have, must come to terms. But that is now completely different when you start a skirmish, the starting regions see exactly the same, you have exactly the same to you requirment.
It comes to no natural feeling, everything is predetermined. I would not at all!
Settlers was for me always to arrive in a foreign country and build something there. But that did not happen here. I repeat - everything is predetermined, from where you have hinbauen further product chain building, about the combat system (You can see the strength of the opponent and simply needs more soldiers, with foot soldiers can attack any fortress).
Full desolation is, there is no fast forward, the one would necessarily needed in this game, as there is often only a matter of the last three gold coins zuschaffen in the warehouse.
I like this "settlers", it has the name eigendlich not deserve not.