Early Expansion Question

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Certain maps do tend towards them more often.
The games I've been involved in (all strength 5), especially early era, tend to have one province I must avoid due to blood druids and those blood vine monsters. I've seen other spell casters as well who've devastated an unexpecting expansion army.

On indie 5, I tend to see 20-80 troops to a province. On indie 6, sixty seems like it might be the low end. In the late era I generally saw less indie mages, but that might just be coincidence. Instead, I saw a lot more barbarians, HI, and crossbowmen - on 5 and 6, that is.