I don't have Win 10 yet (waiting for end-of-year sales to build a new rig before upgrading the OS), but if I can get DE working on 7, I'll try to give them a shot this weekend as well.
Edit: it runs! And my God, is it gorgeous.
Also, Alaric is totally re-made. The first 2 scenarios aren't even in Italy. Too bad the narrator's not Alaric's wife anymore, but man, the scenarios are fun.
Edit (Nov 19th): beat the new Alaric campaign over the weekend. The only thing that remains from the old one is the map for the siege of Rome, even if the scenario itself has been overhauled. Most of the RPG elements are gone, but the story of the new campaign is far more coherent. Scen 5 destroyed me a few times until I took my starting force to snipe the other Goth very early on; after that the game became far more manageable.
Next up, started Attila and... moderate AI seems to be way more aggressive: I found myself having difficulty sniping the Romans early, and if I tried to sit back and age up, I'd get rushed by Castle-age Persians;
After a few tries I turned the speed down, and was able to play the scenario normally.
Yesterday night I went through the Battles of Forgotten, to get a feel for them; Bapheus, Honfoglas and Cyprus were re-formed, dropping a lot of the early RPG story bits; Langshan Jiang was re-named, but seems to be pretty similar premise to the original; everything else seems to be largely the same, though I haven't gotten deep enough into York to see what the final objectives would be. Didn't go through all the battles of the conquerors, but Tours does have Berbers and Saracens now
Tonight I had very little time to play, so I just booted up Scen 1 in each of the Forgotten campaign- and they've all been re-done to varying extent. Wowee, that's a ton of new content even aside the new civs...
[This message has been edited by kud13 (edited 11-18-2019 @ 11:44 PM).]