Seems nobody can cast spells in tactical battles at present . I've found when loading it helps to leave it at the title screen for 30 secs, click load, select the save, wait thirty seconds, then click to load the game. Seems this helps others as well btw.

Quests need to be re-tuned, I think. I just got a gigantic red dragon as a companion, with an attack power of about 950 or something. Also, that dragon now is so big, he conceals most hexes around my sovereign.The quest itself was pretty trivial, with one big combat, which is at the moment an autowin as long as one can attack and move without running out of space to move to. Retaliatory strikes really need to get into tactical combat.

no i did farms no problem

How long do you need to wait at the Load Game screen before you can successfully load a game?  100% of the time now it just keeps playing the intro movement and doesn't seem to actually be getting anywhere loading the game.  Someone who has been able to load into a game successfully, how did you do it?  I thought "fine, I'll just play without loading save games" then the game crashed.  So far loading doesn't work on my computer, plus the game can just crash for no apparent reason, making it hard to do much testing.

Best regards,
Steven. 

@Spellcasting: Go to your spellbook and click the star (add favourite) next to your tactical spells