[merlinme]

Thank you all very much, very helpful. I do think some of these things (e.g. being able to waste time searching your home province, being able to waste time doing a level 9 search when you've done a level 4 search) are a bit... quirky, but I guess it comes with the territory when you're playing a game which is such an obvious labour of love. As I say, I'm certainly finding it absorbing. I'm playing as a random nation in a single player game and I got Arcoscephale, so I noticed that my priestesses had a heal ability, I wondered how common it was. It's actually quite handy, as I've got lots of sacred troops who get regeneration after blessing. They've been taking a lot of punishment but surviving with good experience, so a turn or two healing them seems like time well spent.