First Blood - Newbie game - Finished - Rotarr/Nightfall/Sephorin win!

[Nightfall]

Originally Posted by Valerius

At the same time I try to be reasonable - if you get greedy and box people in and they have no direction in which to expand they have little to lose by attacking you. By and large I think early wars are bad for both parties. Assuming equal skill, you will drain each other's strength while other nations build up.

This is exactly what I tried to explain privately, you just put it much more eloquantly than me. Although everyone else is almost certainly more skillfull than me, even an average opponent can still drain you of resources.