So, after playing the beta for a few hours, here are some thoughts on balancing:

Right now, I can build troops, and more troops, and more, and more, and more, because the gildar comes in extremely fast after some time of city growth. I have no idea what to do with the thousands and thousands of gildar in my treasury.

Still, I rarely see any AI armies containing more than 2 or 3 troops. As it is now, the AI is hardly worth a fight.

Sadly, I dont even need any troops, except to defend my outposts against some roaming bandits. I imbued 2 Champions with magic, and then starting killing everything in my path with my Sovereign + the 2 mages.

They are still labeled as weak, although they beat up strong monsters.

Next point: As soon as you have 1 mine and 1 Horseressource, you never lack metal and horses. From one of those ressource types, you get more ressources over time than you will ever need.

In my opinion, the amount of ressources gathered each season should be lowered a lot. Also the income needs to be lowered, maybe via lower percentual boni? Or raise the wages of better equiped troops.