Controls are exactly what I expected so that's great, no complaints there except maybe rally patrols being confusable with rally attacks, lots of hotkeys I still needed to learn but clicking around revealed what I needed to know. Unit teams aren't very clear to me, especially since they can change on a whim as you take over covens. Pirates felt unfair since I only had the archers to hold them off and the pirates easily killed 2-3 of them at a time, making it hard to keep up. I assume I had to be more aggressive and capture covens before it got to that point.