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6) Forget about any complexes regarding the starting army and give Ufrethin, Strack, Edric, and Korbak an army like the regular heroes of their respective castles.
It would be good to clarify the purpose of introducing these or other changes.
If you make the starting armies absolutely identical for all heroes, that's one thing. If you strengthen the starting army of the specified heroes, this can be done in other ways.
As for Edric and Korbak, I don't see any problems here. If they are weak, increase each stack of level 3 units by one. Give Strack a 1-2-2 composition, like Ufrethin, plus add dwarves and zombies to both.
The main imbalance in the starting armies currently exists for the Necropolis, Dungeon, and Barbarian factions. This is what needs to be addressed first. Either reduce the starting armies of Gosh, Shakti, and Tiras, or strengthen the armies of the other heroes, or do both a little, depending on the inter-faction balance. Moreover, the Barbarians currently have almost equal stacks of wolves for Tiras and the other heroes: 5-7 and 5-8 respectively, which is completely abnormal.
If the goal is to diversify the starting setups, then you can introduce level 4 units into the starting armies, and not just for the heroes who specialize in them. And if you give Bron vasques, then you should definitely give level 4 units to the other specialists. Except perhaps for Vokial.
And for specialists in level 5 units, give one level 5 unit in the first slot :)
Learning - reduce the bonus to experience (the numbers are up for discussion), but don't forget the skill on the expert difficulty; instead, change it to any basic skill of the player's choice.
That's too much, of course. The skill is already useful, and this would be an even bigger bonus.
This bonus could be given to the scholar, as you once suggested.
In this version, you lose 2 levels for it. Plus, it's a relatively simple way to strengthen the skill from a technical point of view. You can always remove it later if needed.
