Malleus Maleficarum

[Swan]

Perhaps you are right : more than a guide is a summary.
the point about spy and assasin was that: they are nothing special.
crossbow is the core of marignon strategy for expansion until late game.
about scales what else could i have said? they are a nation with no weak points that you can fix with scales, so i simply wrote an opinion about what to take only for some of them(like temperature).
But anyway your "marignon in 5 easy steps" is right(point 4 is "evil laugh")