Heroes VII

As Menti correctly pointed out, in previous installments, I enjoyed recruiting troops from two castles of my choice, tailoring them to my preferred tactics (or boosting morale and recruiting as many as possible), and then assigning the remaining troops to secondary heroes to defend passages. However, in this game, that strategy doesn't seem as effective.
On the other hand, the price for racial uniqueness is that recruiting creatures from other factions is often simply inefficient and inconvenient.