Idk, I think I've spent the past 2-3 days on this Shadow Wars stuff.

There's 4 Forts and each one gets attacked roughly 3 times, I've defended each one and now I'm on Stage 5 where two Forts are under attack at the same time (Luckily there's no time limit)

Yesterday I spent a couple of hours rebuilding my army in one fort area as it was full with older and weak Orcs (You can't dominate Orcs above your level and it seems like they can't be bothered to level up themselves for the most part) so I had to run around the map finding and dominating new Orcs to replace them.

Orcs can die in the battle and you'll need to replace them, or betray you, or just kill each other

Now I'm looking at the next Fort battle and the enemy Orcs are all stronger than my Warchiefs plus the Overlord is 6 levels above my level so I can't exactly dominate Orcs near his level without grinding my own level up (I've done all Side Objectives so It'll have to be probably small 5k Xp quests with a total of 50k Xp per level)

Or, as I'm reading now, If you fail the Fort defence and take it back over, It counts as a win and you progress forward in the story, plus you get 3x the xp for basically losing then retaking, so I guess it's not all bad, I'm kind of tempted to just fail since attacking is easier than defending.

You have to defend forts personally? Ugh, not a fan of that, I see bad flashbacks from AC Revelations happening. AC Revelations base defense system totally ruined the game for me, every hour or so a base would get attacked and you'd have to stop whatever you were doing in game to go defend it or else you'd lose it and have to retake it again later. I hated it so much I quit playing the game, to date it's the only AC game I never finished and my least favorite AC game overall. 

Now I'm thinking I might just watch a let's play of Shadow of War instead of playing it myself. My favorite youtuber is playing it fortunately. 

Fucking Shadow of War seems to be trying it's best to get me to buy some loot boxes for Captains

Getting a tad annoying now, I'm on Stage 5 and there's 10 Stages, I think you have to defend each fort 3 times and I just had the perfect defence, no walls breached, no captains killed, until of course my own ally captains enrage perk set off (Which means they attack anyone in the area) and around 5 of my captains were killed by....ally captains.....

Might end up watching the ending on Youtube

Only chance it has at selling decently is if it catches on with the Twitch crowd Imo.

I think it will be a fun game but man are they taking forever, unless they suddenly throw in a bunch of content before launch I think the game is going to be pretty barebones on launch (Hence why I believe it's release in Early 2018 is just an Open Beta release) and I don't feel like they're living anywhere near their full potential, there's so much stuff that I think about like "Why don't they add that?"