I never played CMx1, so I have no real baseline to compare my experience to (besides my previous experience with the TW and COH franchises). I am playing the German campaign and two scenarios (both German vs. AI) and I really enjoy both. I've found I've had to unlearn bad habits learned in previous games to be successful in CMBN (although I find I am still far more often unsuccessful than the alternative). I think the best analogy I can use is that when I played COH, I always felt like I was 10 years old playing with my Airfix soldiers (and that was a good thing for me at the time). However, the concept of just throwing a mass of flesh and material against an objective doesn't work in CMBN and I find myself now feeling like I am leading real people (they even have names!) instead of my Airfix 1/72 fallshimjagers. And that takes an emotional drain on me than I've ever experienced. I know I like it and I think I might start to love it.
Two things that probably would enhance the game for me:
1. I play WEGO and I almost NEVER review the replay. I really need to start doing that more to get the cinematic aspect of the game.
2. I still have a horrible time managing C&C, particularly with artillery and mortars. I'm not blaming the game...user error clearly is the root cause but I would like to figure that out sooner rather than later.
Otherwise, I love the game and will be a Battlefront customer for life.
Danke und Prost.