

Pharaoh was balanced around chariots and chariots are obnoxious and desperately need micro managing. Worst entry point possible tbh.
Shogun, Rome, or the Warhammer are definitely better entry points. I’ve heard good things about the Three Kingdoms too but haven’t got around to that one









In the sense that there’s a lot of moving units around and ranges are important. All the dice rolling is just going to be stat blocks though, obviously, but the Warhammer Fantasy actually did a pretty good job of converting the units into the game.
The characters were usually pretty well done but they did make some weird decisions in characterization and they by and large ignored timeline questions, like Bretonnia had a Joan of Arc type historical character that’s playable.