[Ironhawk]

Yeah dont go above 2:1. We won the last game and perhaps from the noob perspective it looked like we were steamrolling you. But the truth is that all of our offensives were balanced on a knife's edge. The only reason we werent wiped out was because we were organized and experienced.

And about balancing expansion: as Demon said, why would you want to do that? The ability to intelligently exploit the strengths of your nation and the weaknesses of certain indy's is a hallmark of experience. Don't overreact to the 2:1 land advantage the vets had because you have to remember that there were 2x as many noobs. The lands held by each team were basically the same.

Lastly, about the big armies: is your rationale for this only thematic? Cause building huge armies is actually bad training for noobs. Huge armies have a very short useful life in the early part of the game only.