As this is on the latest internal build I am hoping that we get to see some more fleshed out minor races/diplomacy.

My questions:

1. What does interaction/diplomacy with the minor races entail, are you receiving buffs from them, gifts (units, materials, weapons, crafting plans) or do they become properly assimilated into your own empire (as in you get their cities and units).

2. Have you considered having a visual representation, like some buildings, to indicate the tiles you have chosen when you level up your cities into?

3. Do you think the sorcerer kings captains/key holders locations will ever be made visible to the player? I made a post previously about how it can be a bit difficult to hunt them down.

Finally...a little different

4. How long does it take to make the cinematic released for the game? Is that something the devs have input on/storyboard or are the artists given free reign to do as they wish.

Many thanks

I'd love to see the minors in all of their glory!

Are Vetrar and A-whatever placeholder Loo-tenants or are there going to be some new ones? Or maybe there is a random pool of up to 6 Loo-tenants. Since cold and fire are already covered, maybe an air, earth, water or death type Loo-tenant as well would be cool.

What´s in store for city management? Current system is too streamlined and offers no specialization or REAL choices.

Are you thinking about some building paths, exclusive buildings, wonders etc.?

In bigger maps, the city building will get very tedious (all cities the same) and will ultimately lead to dreaded "build everything everywhere" strategy.

I hate that I had to miss the stream but I will definitely be catching the re-run on Youtube.

#3 I may actually suck at SK    We'll see how the next few streams go

Stalkers and Trog Archers I avoid like the plague. Most everything else I can handle but those creatures lay the serious beats.

Agreed on the bears returning. It'd be nice to craft some berserker (Bear shirter) gear.

I found later in the game that I almost had to automatically lead off with a blizzard or a flame wave or I'd lose a unit to Trog Archers. Usually I'd end up having Tandis or a unit equipped with a ring of haste (horseman work well) cast the spell.

I started a game on Insane for fun and I am doing quite well. Got beat up by 2 ogres when I did the Keplin the Mage quest a wee bit too early. Tandis suffered a broken nose and I lost all my troops there. I came back and got my revenge later.

Other than that, the only time I had real trouble was when I met 2 Trog archers and I don't have fireball, blizzard or really anything. It's really early in the game and they are already harassing me.

Updated post with replay.

I'm fairly sure that they do lose attack effectiveness when they lose members of the unit.  Not sure what happens if you have a unit that is showing two members and then heal it back up to 3 - currently it doesn't update the graphic, but it may still update the number of members of the unit still functioning.

Multi-unit groups certainly do a lot less damage as they lose members. As for attack ability, I am not sure.

I think Trog Archers and Trogs are going to become a meme of some kind. They can sure dish out the beats.