I just remembered one more question:

4. How do you force the game to tell you when your turn is done? The reason I'm asking this is because I was moving my Sovereign around on the map he would move a certain distance then stop, if I clicked on the spot where I wanted him to move to again he would move but the turn indicator would advance forward one turn. Can that be changed to display that your turn is done before it moves forward a turn?

Thanks for the reply, I didnt see the auto-turn option in the options screen, I'll have to look a little closer.

In regards to question 1: Are the flying units going to be a trainable unit from your cities or are they just one time creatures?

5?

When you build your first town, you are beginning your Kingdom or Empire.  The whole game is creating your Kingdom (if you're one of the Kingdom factions) or Empire (if you're one of the Imperial factions).

Though.... the factions need a lot more flavor and differentiation, they are still too vanilla.  It needs to feel different if I'm playing against a trade-based magocracy than if I'm playing vs slave labor plantations with hordes of cheap conscripts.

Tweaking tech availabilities (so that some factions are more likely to get rare special magic techs, diplomacy techs, adventure techs, etc.) could be part of this.

ad 5: Custom faction creation is currently not in - it was in own of the Beta 3 version. This is maybe not 100% true - you can create a custom faction with the XML modding, but currently there is no screen for this ingame

ad 6: look for special resource tiles - one of them generate horses and one of them wargs.

You can also purchase wargs in the store, even if you're a Kingdom.  This leads to some amusing scenes...

As far as I know:

No, purchased items are just for Sovereign and Champions.

You can't group existing units, it only applies to newly trained units.  In the unit build menu, above the portraits of which unit you're picking, you can pick party, squad, etc. and level of veterancy.

There's no way to set up formations before battle, though the ordering of units does I think depend on the party order in the strategic screen - but the only way you can change this is through the in which new units join the stack (they're added to the end).

The first is as it should be (though you should be able to upgrade existing units).  Others should be changed.

The tactical map isn't that small, but units start so close together that the vast majority of it is ever used.

I'm guessing in theory you could increase it in size, but only by manually creating new tactical maps or changing the random tactical map creation scripts.

In the current build, armies start *extremely* close together, only ~2-4 tiles apart.

Arrows and most spells have infinite range, so range is never an issue.

The current tactical combat.... isn't.  [Tactical that is.]

It needs a lot of work.