Yet another new person with a question...

[Squirrelloid]

Ok, playing nieflheim with a build that is pretty stupid (Son of Niefl with dom 2, lots of points in magic i never used, O3C3). I then proceeded to hire nothing but niefl jarls and niefl giants (at 2/trn), never did any research, never scripted anything but attack closest (ie, never blessed my sacreds), and never repositioned units on the battlefield.

My opponents were 5 random hard AIs. I've got 2 crushed and just waiting for walls to break as of late fall year 2 (fomoria and marveni).

Now, to actually kill Oceania i'm going to need to do some forging for Rings of Water Breathing, but this is seriously on auto-pilot with no problems whatsoever. And I'm sure even a brand new player would put more effort into their turns than i have. (I also made some mistakes early that resulted in my pretender getting killed simply because this strategy is beyond stupid, and lost some combats to not bringing enough Niefl Giants. Still crushing AIs, and they're harder AIs than a new player is going to select).