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Old April 14th, 2007, 11:30 PM
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Default Re: List top 3 MA MP races

PD matters a lot if you are fighing *against* Caelum.

He'll send out flying scouts, and if he knows how many Caelumites it takes to beat PD X, he'll split his forces accordingly and go wild. He'll lose, say, three of these armies, which are made up of worthless caelumite scum anyway so who cares?

Having good province defense drastically reduces the number of provinces you lose this way.

Vanheim does the same thing - if I can take twenty of your provinces with 5 van each, rest assured that I will do so.

And, of course, even opponents who don't like to micromanage will sometimes spam call of the winds / arouse hunger at your entire empire.

Against a clever opponent it's a real weakness.
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