Its as brilliant as D5, and somehow "feels" nicer and looks nicer (even though it looks the same) when playing. I cant quite put my finger on why, but its nice. Battles are 50% larger overall, and the UI is improved.

The only bad thing is the way the devs "locked" the music.
For those of us who had a great love for Dominions 5's music, to the point where it created a cozy nostalgic feeling we dont want to disappear, Dominions 6 has entirely new music, in a different style.

It is more medieval and slightly "space-y" in parts.
It is NOT like Dominion 5's very high fantasy LOTR-style mystery-astral-holy feel.

And you cant just mod it, because the way the devs coded it, ANY changes in the music files stops the game from booting. And there is NO "music" folder you can just dump files in.
its completely locked-down.

You CAN copy over the music files from D5 and rename them to the same filenames as the D6 music, but then obviously you LOSE the D6 music rather than ADDING to it....

You also cannot listen to the files in any audio player. So you have no clue which file is which track, to decide what to replace.

You have no clue which are combat tracks that play in combat, and which are overworld tracks. So you cannot match with D5 properly.

Its ridiculous.
Just let the game load ALL music files in the folder, without restrictions.

I've been playing Dominions since the second one, so basically twenty years. There isn't another game that comes close to how in depth and well developed it is. Think of Total War : Warhammer, remove the graphical fidelity and add ten layers of complexity, with an essentially infinite number of ways to play, complementary skills - there's nothing like this series, and once you figure out how to play it, it's really fun.

Ulm -> Bonk. Ulm happy.