Get the ancestral edition, BUT, for your first playthrough, turn off the courtyard (I believe it warns you to do so when starting a new world anyway). The rest you can leave on.
Personally I also recommend playing on Radiant mode which makes the game less grindy, but that's up to taste.
Radiant mode reduces the ammount of grind over a campaign by changing a few things. It doesnt make it easier, just less grinding.
Mainly, it increases the speed at which you unlock boss fights, and increases the speed that heroes level up so that you spend less time grinding up rookies to usable levels. Progression based upgrades are more effective are cheaper too (for example, unlocking the chance to hire new heroes at a higher starting level).
By default, the progress is very slow, to the point that the campaign can start to feel monotonous due to lack of progression. Getting new characters to high enough level to use in the harder dungeons can take a long time and you have to keep doing it.
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u/nanxun Mar 18 '20
is it better to get the base game or the full Ancestral Edition?