Ok I bought the original game and played it I enjoyed it very much and thought it was great, then I added the expansion unlike many other I had no problems running it.
The good about entrenchment is that it gives you new options like starbases and new technology which makes it easier to defend a system.
The bad thing is that some moron managed to make the computer played opponents surrender when you take their homeworld while they still have a huge empire. This rather ridicilous to be honest.. who gave the devs the idea to change this??
Playing against computer is no fun anymore you win easily in a short period of time just aim for the homeworld and after that the empire is still there but takes no actions against you or others and appears as dead.
I heard rumours that some people complained that the computer oppponent took too long to kill unless they applied this change not sure wether it's true or not but if you want to beat the computer quickly play on small game not on huge.. gawd this is so annoying payd 10 bucks for a useless expansion.
If this is true why didn't the devs just put in the option that AI surrender when homeworld taken in game options when creating new game.
So I'm back to play the original game where this stupid thing is not applied when I can't play against other players.