I'm sorry to hear that, elmokki. To each his own, I guess, and this one apparently wasn't for you.
One of the things that, in hindsight, should perhaps have been brought out more during the beta test phase is that CoE3 is better compared to Warlords 2 and Warlords 3: Darklords Rising than to the HoMM series or Age of Wonders, never mind Dominions.
However, memory being finite and the Warlords series being as old as it is (meaning from the early to mid 1990s), it was not the first comparison to come to mind.