[quantum_mechani]

Blitzes are different than long term games, but not that different. This is because late game, everyone is more or less playing from the same bag of tricks, so what tends to matter is how well your nation did early game.

Now, I don't consider Patala weak, and I don't think that was Kiss's final conclusion either. They simply have - like almost every nation - a lot of troops that don't stack up to the others, or a few that are too good, depending how you look at it.