[merlinme]

Well, like I said, I have half a dozen badly afflicted sacred troops, so it's probably worth waiting a turn or two, and I could probably benefit from doing a troop build up anyway and letting my dominion spread a bit.

That's one thing I have found interesting about the lack of a built in save and reload feature . I rarely actually reload other strategy computer games, but I always save every turn (just in case it crashes, as much as anything else). But not having that facility does tend to make me much more cautious. If you know that if it goes terribly wrong you can try again, you tend to be much more aggressive.

I kind of like the way it forces you to think about your strategy a bit more. And also I tend to crush the computer in the long run, not being able to take back stupid mistakes should make it much more challenging. I think I'll take some backup saves though, I'm still very much learning the game, and I want to try out different things if it all goes horribly wrong (rather than spend 12 hours setting it all up again).