This Game Sucks!!!

[LordArioch]

I found it pretty amusing, because by the end you are certainly revealed as sarcastic.
I used to not like the idea of losing control over battles, but then I realized that Dominions II has more control over battles than many games because of the combat system.
You cannot give direct orders, but your indirect orders matter because battles are more strategic and less of a "large army beats small army" slugfest. I much prefer the Dominions II system than having to give the same orders every battle to my army because there's no strategy and the designers threw in a bad combat AI/autocombat. Nothing worse than battles with simple strategy where you can still abuse the AI battle after battle.