Hi everyone!

I'm recently thinking about buying Revival on GOG, but reading reviews/opinions about game made me even more confused than initially :P So I thought I will try to ask here about my doubts, would really appreciate your answers!

(disclaimer - asking here, as game's sub-forum is totally empty)

1.What are possible ways to win the game? I've read a bit opinions about the only way being conquering other players and that it's extremely long and tedious process.
2.The one thing that made me quite concerned was the description of how average game goes, and that it's involving very long process of "obtaining" new provinces and that enemy can easily convert even well guarded by player provinces (in other words, player has plenty of obstacles to overcome and his progress is constantly regressed by actions of enemy, who doesn't seem to be equally limited). How does it look like in the game at the moment, after all recent patches?
3.How long does average sesssion takes to complete the game? (if it depends on factors like map size, I would really appreciate making distinction here)

And bonus question - I personally enjoyed some time ago game Warlock: Master of the Arcane. And by some reason looking on screenshots for Revival, I felt "similar vibe" here - if you had a chance to play both games, do they feel somehow similar (how much similar?)