@Michael Vogel Not really. The game actually informs you that skirmish defeats aren't the end of the campaign, but I didn't expect to fall this way on a deployment indicated as "Easy" on a Normal difficulty setting campaign.

Each deployment also has a lot of randomness, with several multiple choice decisions with no indication about the potential rewards/risks. In my first deployment after the tutorial, I only got negative outcomes, but I still prevailed in the tactical battle.

In the second deployment, I chose to avoid multiple choices as much as possible, and the tactical battle was cruelly unfair.

I still have about 600 games in my backlog. They aren't all good, but if I can't somewhat figure out any given game in the first hour of play, I have to leave it aside, no matter how good it may be otherwise. Too much randomness is definitely something I loathe in games because you can't figure it out by design.