After we finish the built-in translations, I'm going to start on the themes. I think those two features in combination with the new player advisor will make onboarding new players a lot more friendly.
People can test the advisor by turning it on in Preferences - it's still a bit of a work in progress and could use more tips - especially for the individual races (on each page it gives generic tips about that page first, then race specific tips).
Once those 3 big things are fully implemented then we'll do another big round of marketing for new players. I'm especially excited about the Themes since I have so many ideas for designs and features in themes that I think will attract new/younger players. Like we can have a visualized battle for attacks with little troops fighting each other in battles, and show that battle in each phase range/short/melee. Fun stuff like that will be easy to do in the themes. We'll still have old trusty classic Thard for us old farts, and the flashy modern themes for the newbs.