I haven't seen that many Clay Pits on a map since my first FE 1.0 game.
Hmm, I'm not sure, if it was a good idea to build the Workshop first in your second city. It only provides 3 more production and that is still subject to unrest. Building the Bell Tower first would have probably provided a bigger boost to production by reducing the unrest from 29% to 19%. Still, it doesn't really matter, unless you play on ridiculous or insane.
According to Derek, champions still split XP in LH.
Also, the changelog for 0.51 mentions, that the cost for Pioneers will be changed to gold again.