tremere110: The second game is superior to the first in just about every way. There is a lot more tactical depth and it includes all the factions.

The biggest difference is skirmish. The first game each skirmish would award you points to build your fleet with. You would build up your captain's fleet over time. The second game did away with that, you can create whatever fleet you want within a point limit and set your enemy's point limit - no building your captain and fleet over multiple games, although playing a faction repeatedly unlocks skills and perks for said faction.

A big point - the second game uses Easy Anti Cheat. There is an exe to run the game without it but you can't play skirmish games. You can run the EAC linked exe and play skirmish games - but playing offline has slower loading times. If your computer setup doesn't like EAC for any reason - it might be an issue so keep that in mind.

Anothername: Thanks a lot :)

I really don't care about online or skirmishes. I'm more of a long campaign singleplayer player that need some wiggle room to fool around with stuff. Some Warhammer games in the past I played usually involved figuring out that one way to solve the mission and then on top of that need tons of luck solving it. Thats something I really do NOT enjoy.

tremere110: The campaigns are very sandboxy. You build your units and send them to kill things like most war games. You do have a lot of control over various options on custom difficulty in the second game - including what kind of missions you can encounter.

Anothername: Anyone played both? Is two just like 1 but better in all regards? Does any of these have a sandbox mode or does the campaign itself allow sandbox like freedoms (play-style, mission approach, "grinding" to overpower later, etc)?

And yeah, I'm aware that there is a deserted sub-forum for BG:A but considering the sales time-frame I'd appreciate this not being moved there at least till after the sale. Thanks :)