Yes you can But you sacrifice alot to do it and it's not as 'safe'.

Maybe we can give the "Beta Discussion Group" or at least IW an acceptable time frame of X conditions.

Like the Triple T (Ten Turn Test) and see what is and is not acceptable in that timeframe as far as resources (gems, gold, resources, provinces, castles, research, supercombatants, items) and potential abuse.

Because if you could get a Count by turn 5 but had 80+ unrest and no cheap patrollers (like Normal Ulm theme does, and Niefelheim Jotun) then it might be more acceptable and requires less tweaking than if you have 8 Provinces, 10~15 Unrest, 1 Count (with equipment noted below), 120 Research points, 10 Blood Slaves, 70+ Rangers of Ulm, 6 Heavy Infantry, 10 Indy "Commander", 1 turn of 2 complete on a Wizard Tower ... etc, etc by turn 8.

Edit: My main reasoning behind this is so we can bring up some of the more lackluster nations up to par with whatever the IW concept of Balance is OR tone down the nations that are above it.

[ January 14, 2004, 08:43: Message edited by: Zen ]