Yet another new person with a question...

[Gandalf Parker]

The thing I was going with is that the OP (original poster) said he was looking for "something to ease a new player in to the game" and "looking for a faction that might be a bit easier to wrap my mind around" after "my post-tutorial experience".

Since the tutorial is Marverni and was chosen to give abit of everything, I was shooting for something simpler. Less "learn the nation" just to get used to the buttons. Niefelheim does seem like it might be a good choice but Im probably biased in that I thought some sort of human nation would be the least specialized.

[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.

[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.