Heroes 6 - Discussion

After playing for a while, I noticed two things that stood out to me: 1. The hero can now board a ship without spending any turns! 2. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it seems like it's TOO MUCH of a bonus! Now, if we have several identical castles (by the way, converting a castle in the beta only takes one day!), we can buy the ENTIRE army that we have in ANY of these castles from ANY of them (as long as the castle where we're going to buy the army has the same unit buildings as the others)! Now we really don't need caravans and, in principle, we don't need city portals! I'd like to hear your opinions, gentlemen!