Yet another new person with a question...

[Cosian]

Originally Posted by thejeff

What those provinces probably were was regular indy provinces where one of the commanders had generated with a magic item. Specifically, a Soul Contract. One devil/turn. If you hit those late enough in the game they can be brutal.

Hmmm...ya something was clearly up because these two provinces were substantially harder than anything else I faced. On the plus side, one of the provinces was adjacent to the enemy capital and clearly doing a good job of keeping him pen'd in there as well.