OK, found how to demolish buildings.

I demolished a monastery and my pop usage went from 485 to 335. 150 population points! In the listing it said this should have cost 30 population points.

I'll try demolishing a few other buildings and see if any others have the same sort of issue.

Found a couple of others...

Inns and Merchants are both supposed to be 10 population cost but are 50.

Brad - I created a thread here to poll simultaneous tactical combat damage. If you add simultaneous damage and add first strike ability it would go a long way to deepening tactical combat.

P.S. - no ATI Radeon DX errors yet. Crossing my fingers. 

Heavenfall is referring to the fact that random events, the ones I've seen so far, are actually quest that you can accept or ignore. They're not so much random events as occasional quests that you can chose to not accept.

I was expecting something a bit different, like: "An earthquake just tore the continent in half", or "An eclipse caused all mana sources to fizzle out for the duration", "One of your children has contracted a life threatening plague and will die unless cured in the next 10 turns".

As for the HP drop, it makes the armor rating a lot more important, to the point where I sink everything into armor, and on the battlefield, I just berserk one unit and use it to murder everything while the other stacks defend it. 

Also, a funny thing sort of happened. I had conquer a town right next to another enemy town, and when I destroyed one of the improvements they had in their ZOC, I could build mine on top of it. I did, but it immediately defaulted to their property. 

Also to the also. When you conquer a town, any improvement it has built will continue to extend the multiplier for population consummation,  leading to actually having more people working, assigned to the improvements than the population of your kingdom and that of the conquered town combined. It is annoying. If I'm not mistaken, the population cost increases on a global scale, that's what causes the problem. If it was just local, it would go away.

Also to the also also, a bunch of icons are missing from the cloth map, chests, temples, graveyards, a bunch of stuff, and since I play mostly on the cloth map, since after a while the 3D engine stutters a lot, I miss most of them. And some other stuff, like abandoned villages don't have a tile on the 3D engine map.

Alsox4, the Kingdom power counter seems to be working better, I'm actually capable of staying on top of the list, regardless of how many weak units the enemy has. Although, it could be because mine are also all groups, instead of very powerful individuals. 

After a lot more playing, I have to say I am digging the new, much slower pace of the game. You can't race to the top of tree X in 100 turns anymore. For whatever reason, this seems like it gives the AI an easier time to keep up. It makes the game feel a lot more strategic and less "get that one thing then steamroll the entire map". It is definitely a major shift in how the game plays, and I think many will argue that it shouldn't be changed like that, but I absolutely like it. It makes it more like playing Civ and less like playing SC2, turnbased.

I still think units take too long to train, both in the start and at the high-end game. I don't want to spend 30 turns training a staff-wielding unit that will die in 1 hit. 30 turns? That's 7.5 YEARS.

I like the changes as well. Need to play more though to be sure but here are some things that bug me.

1. In the Dark Concoction event the Rogue Mage didn't cast spells. He attempted to beat me to death.....

2. Heroes start with 5hp but in a few levels I got my sovereign to 27hp. That's a huge difference.

3. Old issue, but armor and weapons are to good. Even just getting equipment and cloth armor makes you monster proof. Every level of armor/weapons shouldn't make you nigh invincible to the level before it. A more gradual increase in armor/weapon effectiveness is needed badly.

Awesome so far though guys, I'm actually very surprised at how much of a difference this patch makes.

My sov mystically lost his ability to cast spells after a bunch of turns... 

Edit: Found in the support forum that the wolf quest is bugged.

Seriously, what do the war council and archery ranges do now?

I have played 2h yesterday. I think, when the pop.thing and growing house/food thing works as intended, when there are more events and the tactical AI is better, then 1.3 is the same big step like 1.1 was. It feels like this is the right direction.

Most of the things are already described by other players in this thread. I don´t have to add something.

I like it too. And i´m fine with the spawn rate. In my previous games i always don´t care about building units. All i needed were 4-5 champs. and i ruled the world. No fun!

Then with 1.4, an overhaul for factions (more differences) and more special traits/abilitys for champs. and WoM is a 80+ game for me.

Ok, a few more hours played.

The low hp of trained units is just silly. I want it to be 100 times as high, then have champions as support units with special abilities. (Can this be modded?)

Tried to focus on magic research. That was stupid... Warfare techs are overpowered imo. Or maybe the others are underpowered.

What still breaks the game for me is the lack of exploration. There's nothing to find other than brown, flat land and maybe an inn that looks exactly like all other inns, and maybe a quest you have done 100 times already. I don't care about the world around me or my kingdom. Zero immersion.

Not sure about city building changes, it doesn't bother me and that's good I guess. I want to fight battles and explore, not manage population.

And why is it that I can play other games like World of Tanks and Kings bounty on my laptop, but not WoM? Sure, I can play on the cloth map but my god that thing is ugly. I set it to lowest settings on lowest resolution, and still units can't move at proper speeds without stuttering. Can we have an option to turn off fancy water and fog of war? I have a feeling they eats my gfx powerz....

Are people seeing a massive reduction in world resources? I sort of am. A medium map will have only 2-4 world resources I can build on now.

Yes, same here playing on medium. Not sure if I'd call it "massive" but there sure is a reduction.

Here's some mod feedback on the event system.

I really think it would be a lot better off if we could use numbers with decimal points in the <TriggerChance> tag. If I do 10 new events, and give them a 1 triggerchance, well... that's almost 10% chance of an event happening every turn! If I do 100 new events, you are very likely to see one happen each turn. So, without being able to use decimal numbers in the field, we are extremely limited in the amount of events we can implement, if we are to avoid the user being spammed with events simply because we wanted to provide a high variety of events.

Either that, or we need some way to make events mutually exclusive, ie event 1 has happened, that means event 2 and 3 cannot happen. Obviously that tag would have to be repeatable, for example I might put 10 events and then have them all be mutually exclusive so only 1 of those events could happen each game.

These changes are needed to allow the event system to provide a varied gameplay, not the same gameplay every playthrough. The system should be more accommodating to a huge amount of events.