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[Hadrian_II]

Lazy_Perfectionist said:
However, I hope we are all able to blitz the game this weekend and get past the expansion stages. In a game this size, I understand planning a blitz is impossible, but I hope we can pull it off to get several turns out this weekend.

I will be away until sunday, so im very sorry, there will be no blitzing.

[Aristander]

Yes Warhammer I agree with you. The heavy cav & crossbowmen are slowing me up something awful. However my spy's report that Ulm is not having any trouble. Ulm Commander Meligol with his infantry and Rangers are kicking some.

Wish I could say the same.

Aristander

[Janlm]

Is it me or are independents just stronger than usual in this game, or is that normal for late age?

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

They seem fairly typical for the late age, at least where I'm standing. That said, the late age is in some ways tougher, some ways not.

If you're a lightly armored nation, crossbowmen are in ways less of a threat than archers. If you're Atlantis, barbarians are a huge threat, while a nation with halfway decent archers will rip those barbarians apart. Occasionally your luck is bad and you're surrounded by your national weakness, as evidenced in my last Atlantis game where at least three adjacent provinces were filled with sixty-plus barbarians. As Atlantis, again, 20 heavy cavalry aren't a huge threat. You've got many seal hunters to harpoon and a small core of Mournful to slice and dice.