Governor with the modified skill tree is actually a great path for one of your champions.

The problem with the old governor in FE is you were presented random upgrades. 

With the new system you can build a custom governor that focuses on research or credit upgrades. Much more powerful and unique this way.

What I would like to see with the customization is more skill or spell unlocks rather than base stat upgrades. Even passive upgrades that do something in battles would be cool, like immune to swarm or something like that.

The 3d map is almost taking on a spartan, WoM-ish look.  I personally would prefer an option that added ground cover.

Thank you...keep it up, and deliver us open beta for preorders as soon as possible...

I wish you added a DLC with huge tactical battles and bigger armies then 6....as well as terrain modifiers, sieges, battles encompassing all squares bordering the attacked square etc...

and a DLC for multiplayer......or at least Hotseat/simultaneous turns. If enemy can use multicore CPU to do their turns, why cant we use external CPU to do ours?

He is part frog, after all.

I couldn't help but notice this also, it was painful to watch, I don't have a lot of game time nowadays but some of the maneuvers should have been instinctual for someone who's played the living heck out of a game.

Why wasn't Brad using any of the units special abilities? Were they disabled/bugged for the beta?

What really got me was when Brad was trying to build a pioneer for a crystal pile just outside his border. The town he was attempting to build a pioneer with had not yet built a monument that gives +1 border. EH???

Look, I understand he was occupied with recording a video and trying to cram as much info into the video as possible, but I get concerned if Brad doesn't even know how to play the darn game and he's in charge of the AI!

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Why do the AI's run around with Pioneer armies?

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Has anyone at Stardock loaded up one of Brad's save game files to see how well he plays??? Has he named his custom Pioneers, "Deth D34lerZ"? Yes, I'm just teasing...

It looks good.  I'd love to see City level ups have the same kind of path choices as heroes, so you can see how to plan your city specialization.

When's the beta out, I want to part with my money!

Well, I can't wait for getting LH! It really looks awesome (and the mountains seem vastly improved!).

The thing I like the most? Changes on heroes and leveling. No more having to have a tanky hero despite me wanting to play all mages. No more having to choose a hero I find ugly (yeah, I sometimes chose on aesthetic grounds: I hate Urxen)... But, above all: finally being able to make real choices when leveling up! Those are things I really, really love.

The new changes on the combat also look very nice. I think the fights are going to become much more interesting, and to require a lot of moving arround and changing positions. No more tanks holding all the ememies while archers kill! Hurray! That said, I wonder, will the AI be able to effectively use the abilities? Because if all weapons are going to have abilities, I don't know... I just remember spiders beguiling and webbing archers...

Now, as for the Governor discussion, I really, really like that class. Most of the time, I build a great mage, one defender and all the rest of heroes as governors. When there were changes of requiring population to create pioners, it was even more important. And, as was already said, now that you can choose the abilities, governors are going to be even more important. However, I do agree that perhaps there should be a way to make governors more ·playable". As has been mentioned many times, their problem is that to get more abilities, you need them to be fighting, but to benefit really from all their abilities, you need them to be inside cities.

The idea that Frogboy mentions of making them kind of general-style hero, that improves the behaviour of the army he is with, could work very well along with the changes in unrest and the such being global. That way, the governor is a kind of general-senator. I am thinking of a Roman style of general, not only leading armies but also making sure the infraestructure worked, directing engineers arround... That would require, of course, to make the economical benefits a little smaller (I mean, a +2 growth and -15% unrest would be a bit BIG for being global!) but it would make it really attractive. And, after all, there are already many governor skills that work that way (loremaster and merchant, mainly), affecting not the city, but globaly. Mainly, I think that with such changes, the path of the governor would no longer be the kind of thing you give to secondary heroes, but an option even for the sovereign. Empereor Kavarox, for instance, strikes me as the kind of guy who would go governor...

 Anyhow, I can't wait to get  the LH... Keep up the good work!

Overall it was an interesting watch. I have one suggestion though.

Upon choosing a path the champion should get a path defining ability that changes the way they play in tactical combat over a normal unit. For instance, a defender might get a taunt usable every 2 turns that forces the target to attack the defender on its next action. Say later on in the tree this ability has an upgrade allowing it to hit two targets, or allowing it to be used every turn. Say the assassin gets a backstab ability that grants an automatic critical hit when used from behind a target who is swarmed, with an upgrade to work from the side. The warrior could get the current Crushing Blow ability, with an upgrade later that modifies it to +200% and lose 2 turns. Wizard could get a "focus" ability that costs a turn to use and roots the mage, but gives the mage a 20% casting cost reduction. Govorner now ... I think you should change the name to "Leader" or "Commander" and roll city governing and amry leadership traits into two branches, perhaps with a base ability similar to Battle Cry from the Rise of the Magi mod, an ability that takes multiple turns to cast, but gives all of your units an instant fresh turn on cast.

The best part about tactical combat for me is using abilities that have uses beyond your standard move and attack. The weapon skills like the pierce on show in the video will go a ways towards more interesting combat. The part I would like to stress, is that the earlier these abilities are introduced the better, even if they are weak or have marginal use. It adds variance and interest to combat aside from 'whack each other until dead' vibe that a lot of battles in FE currently seem to be. The swarm mechanic is also a good step in the right direction.

I think the best solution would be to combine the two popups into a single one. Have the little area description (which is nice lorewise) popup followed by a line break with the item image and description in the next paragraph. Also, make these dialogs dismissable with the enter key.

Be nice to Frogboy, that he is bad at the game means he is working hard on our game, and not playing around too much

This.  In LH have control over the skills the governor can select.  A hero only gets one path.  You can prevent offensive and defensive skills.  So "free" xp should not cause a problem.

Oh it is? I had never seen it before I started a game with RotM, Perhaps it was inclyded ina  patch while I was playing.