Troops vs magic, what am I doing wrong?

[nordlys]

I've been playing a 300 everything EA game on Faerun map, and not a turn had passed without AI wiping a 125 PD of mine here or there. Everyone from Sauromatia to Atlantis to Arcoscephale to the japanese. Not with particularly large armies even, typically in 500-1000 range, and that's with normal difficulty.

Of course, I played Niefels, and their PD is notoriously sucky, or so I've heard.

[sector24]

I do play on 300 supplies, but the really large armies still starve if they province they are sitting in doesn't have enough population. I guess I am an anomaly, or I've just been using nations with powerful PD. The worst things for PD to have is low morale, and/or flyers. So Mictlan, Caelum, the giants, etc. are going to get rolled eventually. But most human nations do fine: T'ien Ch'i, Eriu, Ermor, Pythium, Utgard, etc.