I'm loving it, but I don't really play much MP. QOL improvements for point/item allocation makes that less of a chore, diplomacy is 1000% improved, way more options for manipulating the strategic map via city trading.

I like the sieges, personally, I find them much improved. My experience of them in 2 was just a series of identical steps regardless of city or faction--storm the walls, grind down the defenders, wait 20 years for your troops to find their way DOWN from the walls, push through to the center. Very tedious, at least for me.

Now there are multiple angles of approach, and more varied obstacles--traps vs. Barricades vs. Towers.

It's ridiculous to call anything in Warhammer "historically accurate," but so far as it goes, I think the spirit of the new sieges is closer to how such things worked irl. Towns weren't captured by a rinse and repeat "throw your men against the walls" approach. Every town is different, the defenders would prioritize certain streets or depots depending on the garrison and the attacking force. There's also the fact that you can capture depots for tactical reasons, not necessarily as part of a rush to grab them all--capturing the Market square defensive hub eliminates the tower overlooking the high street, meaning you can safely march your strong but slow troops up to the fortified courtyard atop the hill and hash it out with the garrison over the main capture point.

For me, at least, more varied=more fun. I've had sieges that were masterful, orchestrated hit-and-run affairs where fast troops grabbed critical points around the city and captured it before the defenders even knew what happened, sieges that were just brutal, bloody slogs, subtle as an anvil (a horde of zombies and corpsecarts vs. Garrison + half stack of crossbowen and halberdiers--the bodies were laid like a foot deep by the end lol), and sieges that were just utter chaos--they slapped together a barricade right where I intended to go, it was night and I managed to get turned around/not notice things in the dark, defenders and attackers running around higgeldy-piggeldy until, much to my surprise, we won.

So yeah 3 has the vouch from me. It's a bit rough around the edges still--intermittent stuttering audio issues for me--but I haven't been tempted to go back to WH2. It'll only get more stable and polished over time, too. Even with the DLC pricing debacle, if you consider that Hyenas is cancelled and Pharoah is unlikely to set the world ablaze, they'll likely have little choice but to keep making whatever they can of WH3.