How many factions are there?

Well, I wouldn't say that... Do those Minotaurs really resemble the Legionnaires? The increase is almost twice as much, there's a significant difference in stats and HP... The speed is different. Only the initiative is the same, and even with the new upgrade, the initiative is already 9. Besides, the Chaos Druids are very, very different from the Emerald Dragons. I'm too lazy to go into detail, but they really have less in common than they do similarities. The fact that 70 new creatures have been added, yes, that's true. Of course. But personally, for me, nothing has fundamentally changed. Imagine, 70 creatures is like 5 races, not counting alternate upgrades. In my opinion, the conscious perception of 70 completely new creatures is more significant than the perception of 70 remakes, even with new abilities. And yet, alternate upgrades were not created to simply increase the number of creatures. It was necessary to diversify the tactical possibilities, to give players even more alternatives, but for this, of course, they had to be recolored. Um... And besides, who said that he was tired of 8 races? At least I didn't say that; at this stage, I'm quite happy with what we have. Of course, I wouldn't be against new races, but I don't feel any lack of these new races yet. And Nighon, the Swamp, the Preserved Thicket – these are primarily the result of collective creative work. So far, no one except the creator of the Swamp has seriously thought about implementing them.