And yet, when you tried to move into one of those "wide-open" provinces you got soundly beaten... wonder how come?
1: Because Call of the Winds is frickin' useless against heavilly armored units. Even five of them, and 2: Because you're good at predicting where I'll move and having an army there beforehand.
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