I doubt anybody thinks it is easy, but it is something that needs to be improved, sometimes I've had plenty of resources around, sometimes almost non, or useless ones for early game. When that is the case I almost always felt obliged to start a new map.
Did you pick a faction that has war horses as a trait? I have some issues with that as well. It seems to be only when you have warhorse trait you can't buy horses or warhorses but only wargs.
I too found that the AI is somewhat too easy to beat even on highest difficulty level. Another thing you mentioned was the fire spells being powerful. I would say in general the whole water and fire tactical spells are too powerful, My sovereign casting blizzard with the initiative +10 attribute will be like instant cast blizzard and wipe out the whole enemy army (regardless of the gear they are wearing) if I have one water shard harvested. Same goes for the fire fireball (if I got the name r
Hey, I was wondering why your sovereign does not regen mana during combat without help of an item or building like fire giant and your children do. It bugs me cause if you are under attack by a lot of groups in the highest difficulty level your mana gets eaten early on and you cant defend yourself properly. Also health of sovereign (and of most of heroes) tend to stay low unless you put all your level points in constitution. Enemies just need a siege engine of s