Wow! This is great! I love seeing innovation and improvement in games, and it looks like the developers are very aware of the flaws in KB and are being creative in improvements.
I like that they rebalanced units. The new Knight/Paladin plans are great to compensate for it's relative weakness in games now. I'm looking forward to the other unit balancing.
The tweaking of the skills sounds great too, and it looks like they took to heart the fact that some skills weren't very useful. The improvement of the "Rage" skills to make them all useful is also great.
I like that they changed mages to allow successive castings of lower mana spells. This allows probably greater spamming of weaker spells than currently possible, allowing greater tactical variety in that area, while not allowing ridiculous things like casting Hypnotize twice or something. Very creative.
I think the developers showed great judgement with KB:TL, such as with the Talent/Rune system, the Magic Crystal/Spell system, Leadership, etc, and I'm glad they seem to using that judgement and creativity to improve the game rather than simply make a clone with different characters.
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