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Ah, thank you.
I forgot to finish my sentence, excuse me smoked too much -- I thought meteroite guards would be worth the production points, but maybe Im wrong.

Nice to see, however, that I am not the only Arrow Fend addict out there.

Argh, more people saying Luck helps summons and Luck doesnt help summons. ARgh.

Maybe I dont have success because I either get greedy/panicky and think: "quick, run to land while the indies are still for the taking and build castles!" or because I still go down to tritons or because I still get my illithids killed or because I (foolishly?) purchase those armored Illithids or because I foolishly forget my fodder or because I use my mages to search instead of cast those search spells (I have *never* used them, any of them, ever, on any nation! I think that is because I suck, videlect: I play very conservatively and instead conquering province for province for province, I usually get a province + wait/search/send for reinforcements/purchase mercs turn, repeat, so I am slow. And I suppose I research wrong things too....)

Uh sorry for the ramble. Thanks much for the help.