[Nagot Gick Fel]

Daynarr said:
Even smaller maps then Faerun (like Cradle)

Cradle looks like a rather large map to me.

will produce significant loss.

Significant loss, yes, but over time. In a single turn the loss amounts to a small fraction of your income - and that's not even including gem income, bar the odd clam. Ditto with old age and afflictions: they will affect only a small percentage of your troops each turn, and most of these afflictions won't have a significant impact on leaders. A limp, one-eyed, battle-fraught sage can still research just as well as an healthy one.

Keep in mind I was replying to something who wrote:

Of course your opponents will pool their resources and get rid of [Burden of Time] within a few turns.

So BOT is a nuisance, sure, but since it brings no direct benefit to its caster, since it affects other nations as well (I'll always have more enemies than allies), and since its effect on my econ and manpower is only marginal, it comes in the Last tier of my own 'to dispel' list. There are several other GEs I'd want to dispel first.

Then there are losses you get if you collect fetishes, clams, etc and your carriers keep getting killed from old age.

Clams maybe, although I'd bet a clamhoarder will still churn them out faster than he loses them. Fetishes carriers on the other hand, are usually undead leaders who don't really care about BOT.