[Morkilus]

I just won my first SP game, but it took a long time, from the comparisons I get to other big MP's... turn 90. I did spend plenty of time screwing around, and often forgot to set thing correctly just because I "had to see the next battle right away"... you know. Unfortunately the AI started to beat itself up towards the end, mainly by sending pathetic forces headlong into my 21+ PD. (I was playing Ulm). I had a terrible time assaulting Man's castle because of the mages who spammed me with dragonflies; but then it attacked into my beseiging forces and I could get my knights back around to knock out the mage. An army of flying amazons and their devil cohorts really helped me out in the end to clean up after the AI started a rampage; reminds me of the Eastern Front tactics in WW2: let them in, and cut them off. Every subsequent attack by the AI cost them due to those blacksteel-clad crossbowmen. I have a feeling such a tactic won't work in MP...