I started a 'Let's Play' series of the beta and am really enjoying the changes. In the video there are a couple of 'annoyances' such as:

• Difficult for colour-blind people to see the difference between the yellow and green Turn button (I would still much prefer a pop-up once a city stops production - especially now that we have the new city generic build additions).
• Clicking hero in HUD doesn't scroll to the hero on the map
• Not all the movement bubbles are accurate (when they loop back through a town [unless the mechanic has changed and I haven't noticed that yet])
• Starting on inaccessible terrain in the tactical battles.
• Some racial perks no longer apply (Kraxis ability to recruit heroes from both kingdom and empire)

All in all though, a great start to the beta process.