Early game expansion rate

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
This is a recipe for probable disaster with independent strength of 6 or greater.

He did say he was new at this. Maybe he's unaccustomed to playing at anything above Indy-3, where they likely wilt when you so much as breathe on them, as opposed to slaughtering anything but a potent national army or buffed SC.