There is the general idea that seafaring will be something planned for future games. I would think we will see a basic implementation in FE and maybe some specialization in the following expansion. I really hope the idea catches on that crude ships can be fashioned by any unit and discarded upon arrival on new land as we saw in Civ5. The challenge should be to research more effective ships that can comprise a professional navy. There has always been a disconnect in TBS about how many ships it would actually take to transport an army across a body of water. Strangely this game can get around that with its tragically small unit numbers.
a unit hits the water and somehow gains a transport to cross & then loses the ship again upon landing: just seems a bit cheesy & too easy to cross to me, perhaps if it took so many turns in relation to the size of army to be shipped to have them build there transports, along with costing gold & materials, anything larger (more usefull) than just small transports being built could require the unit spending time and resources at a port allowing for larger more warlike sea vessals with the type of armies on board mattering if you attempt boarding enemy vessals. the small transports that can be built on any beach by nearly any unit could be usable to go up & down rivers as well maybe, being that the other ships would be to large?. To be honest I don't like any of this and look foward to what they come up with in the next addition in regards to water vessals/races & such.
To me Fallen Enchantress is simply the next step in the evolution of Elemental, while not having everything, I believe it will be hella/mucho/alot better than wom and once the've gotten in & gotten good what they have in this version of Elemental then we will receive the next stand-alone expansion. Having already gotten down the basics of the game in FE, it will allow for the team to work on the horde of other things that didn't make it into FE like (I'm thinkin) awsome seige warfare, sea warfare, & other things practicly rendering FE useless afterwards like FE is to do to wom. I must say though that it seems the Stardock team is throwing some things in FE that wern't supposed to make it in, can't wait to see what all's in store.
