Well can only hope they fix those things before release

To me it makes perfect sense to have at least an Assassin sovereign / champion with kingdom of Tarth

It gives you more diversity than forcing you to have spellcasters everywhere with meatshields (and/or summons) to support them.

Really happy to see the city curses UI issue addressed, yay!

In fact happy with all those UI items.. groundcover my old friend, yay!  

Hopefully we can get a few more before release.

Nice.  Does that stack per hit?

Nerf on Pikes is    but needed.

What exactly does this mean? What qualifies as a Treasure Chest? Goodie Huts? Currently (0.87) I'm getting leather armor out of goodie huts so not sure what Treasure Chests refer too, unless leather armor is considered uncommon...

What about the poison vial? How come we can't buy that for our champions but we can definitely buy it for the soldiers? We can even FIND the item in the game, but even if we have the assassin race skill, we still cannot buy it for the champion...

Honestly, I feel the heal buff + the heal trait has made those spells too strong, for a low-mana spell that can be cast every turn.  Healbot mages seem way more useful than fireballers, that's for sure.

Loving the changes. And can't wait to get me some war boar mounts =D

I'm curious though, any chance of us getting a unique mount pen? Instead of stables or warg pen, maybe one that gives war boars or lizard mounts (at a decreased rate naturally). Maybe another resource that allows you to produce more rare gear for your soldiers.

Don't get me wrong, I love the changes to the heroes and making them feel more epic, but I'd love to be able to get an epic army with unique units and gear in the longest of games. Ogre with darksteel shield and hammer or troggs with dragonscale armor and mithril greatswords. Just talking out loud here

The damage scales far faster than anything you could heal. Swarm bonuses, Maul, Cleaves, spell damage etc. 

Healing spells did need some love for sure as they were useless before. Mana costs for low level spells (tiers 1-3) becomes irrelevant as you progress in game, as you will have loads of mana and mana / turn.

Regeneration in its current form leads to micromanaging terror. If you want to heal a unit (or even worse: several units) after battle, you cast Regeneration, click Next Turn and then immediately Dispel due to its mana maintenance cost.

Please fix that! Either make it an (very) expensive enchantment without maintenance or make it an average cost one time shot.

Maybe change Regeneration to have only a cast cost with no maintenance and last for 3 seasons, healing the unit for 25%, 15%, 10% of HP for duration? (45% in total, so you have to recast it on same unit to heal it full - since units still heal each season by themselves).

This way you don't have to cancel it next turn from 10 units or forget you put it on and have a drain on mana etc (is really not a problem past early game in current incarnation as you can simply leave it on :D).

Agreed Regen needs to be autodispelled, for both balance and micro sake.

How much does Dispel cost to cast? If both were reasonably high in casting cost, it wouldn't be something you could spam over and over.

There are goodie huts called "treausure chests"

90 mana.   It's not trivial.

I've wondered the same thing.  That would be a nice and evil tweak to the assassin's trait tree... an increasing poison damage line for both ranged and melee attacks.  

Also this class should get the ability to switch weapons in battle, to reflect the ability to snipe from a distance and then ensure the contract has been fulfilled.

The little UI tweaks are nice, such as the faction banner and color stripe at the bottom of messages from AI sovs.

One little pathfinding glitch I found was I tried to move a hero to a goodie hut on a coastline and sloppily overshot onto a water tile, clicked and then the hero "ghosted" over the goodie hut and stopped at water's edge.  Had to use a turn to get off and then back onto the goodie hut.  My sloppiness was the cause but the pathfinding allowed me to target a water tile. 

Had a big slowdown after about 4 hours of play/running the game.  Had to hard boot computer similar to Anelyn above.

Oh and thanks for reducing the level requirements on weapons!  My Level 8 sov got the Legendary Broadsword and she could use it!! (Att 25, req lvl 7)

Is anyone else getting an abnormal amount of Leggings as reward items?  I'm getting so many it's making me feel like an AI sovereign.

Just put them on. Doesn't it feel good? Oh yeah.

An odd occurrence concerning custom troops.

In a previous game(,85) I created a custom faction, and several unit designs. One of those designs was a Medium Spearmen, with the chain proficiency and a couple of other traits, in chainmail and armed with the 2nd rank spear.

Started a new game yesterday with .87, with the same custom faction, and the Medium Spearmen unit shows as buildable at the beginning of the game, same traits, but equipped with only the gear normally available at the start of a new game(basic spear, soldier's gear). I was able to build them, and upgrade them to leather once it became available, and new units from that point built start kitted in leather, so I assume chain will be the same.

Is this WAD?

Enjoying the game right now, but I do have 2 complaints / comments.

First, I'm finding the main issue to be unrest and large nations.

Namely... it really seems like building-wise, you're capped at reducing unrest by 30% (20% from town hall, 10% from shrine).

There's also palace for the extra 10%... in 1 city in your nation.

However, low taxes increases unrest by 22%.

And of course, the more cities you have, the higher your unrest gets...

All this quickly means that on larger maps, you really cannot own more than 9 or so cities.  And if you raze what you take from the enemy, they just keep rebuilding them...

Second, for some reason, the autosaves seem to be a bit buggy?  I've had heroes literally disappear when I load an autosave, and had battles randomly show up to be fought...

You can mitigate unrest with champions, spells, resources, and city level-ups, among other things.

Let us not forget apiaries and other city bonuses cause empire wide unrest reduction as well.

Not to say there shouldn't be a few more ways to reduce unrest.  Again, in the Tech Tree, nothing in the Entertainment tier reduces Unrest?  Wtf Stardock?

Growing up near Los Angeles, the entertainment from the staple center caused more riots than reduced...

Fortunately, I had already swallowed when I read this, or else my monitor would have been covered with red wine.

Regular troops could also give you a small reduction in unrest.  

Do we get anything for razing a city?  I think Magnar gets slaves, but what's in it for the average Diplomat or Warlord?