The second game coming out feels insulting to all of us who owned the first game and were hoping for it to be optimized properly. Now, if we want the game we purchased to have acceptable performance, we have to spend $20 USD.
That's now surprising though because, in my opinion, Brilliant Game Studios' has a tendency to overcharge for an unpolished and unfinished game.
The game runs very poorly, is over 5gb in size while being baron of content, and has a very "slapped together" feel as your units will constantly bug out while navigating terrain.
You can see this practice imitated in another one of the studio's games, The Black Masses, where it is similarly very unfinished. That one, while claiming to be in active development, has not seen an update nearly two years (April 2022 - Jan 2024).
In my opinion, you, as a consumer, are better off waiting for a battle simulator to be made by another, more experienced, developer team than buying the two from this studio.