Oh HELL yea Im going to try it out.
I've been following WAR for months now, and just got into beta last month. Can't wait.
And yea, 4 classes (out of 24! 20 Left) were cut and they shifted their Capital City design so that they only have 2 super-huge cities now instead of 6. They have so much in those two though that to make 4 more like them would have taken ages. Even though my favorite class, orc choppa, got cut, I don't think the cuts are terribly detrimental to the game.