Dormancy?

[Twan]

I think the nation has a big importance too. In our cradle game the 2 players with the more provinces have an awake pretender of course, but we are also Man and Machaka. Man has his uber and cheap longbowmen, and Machaka (I) can produce lots of weaker archers per turn (their cost is only 3 ressouces... so why I've twice more troops than anybody is not a mystery). Taking an awake god allowed us to have a bigger income fast to make more archers and take more provinces with them in addition to what our pretenders take. Nations producing only heavy units can't compete with Man & Machaka before turn 10 or so in the number of provinces we can take, with or without an awake god. Later, when only provinces with heavy units will stay independant, we will have far more difficulties to expand than others and scales, magic, etc... will probably become more decisive than our good start.