The cool thing is that with impossible Ais the starving is not such a big problem because they have so good scales or so good bless effects that their troops are still frigthening
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Another "problem" is that my Thugs like banelords tend to get too much afflictions and without trading it is not so easy to forge all good stuff early enough
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I have downloaded a few of your maps Gandalf but i haven't played them often because i found faerun then and it was my taste for large maps . Now i prefer 200 province maps because conquering whole faerun takes too long i think
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Hope you don't hate me after this confession