What were your expectations for Heroes 4?

Actually, I'm not even sure if the balance in the third game is that bad. There were even more mods for it than for the fourth, as far as I remember. I recently read posts on the forum of players of the fifth game, and there was an opinion that there will always be some "imba" race (I'm not very good with the terminology, but I think it means the strongest race) at the start. They were talking about the extremely fast start for Orcs and Necropolis. Maybe it's true, I don't know. In the original third game, it seems to me that the fastest start was for Sir Mullich from the Castle and Solmyr from the Tower.