For example, recently in a game with Alessandro, I attacked him on day 126 with angels and grand angels, leaving everything else in the reserves, I didn't even take mermaids. And this happens quite often. And angels/vivams have such good stats... having experience is an advantage for the defending side.
Exactly, I didn't like that in hot-seat mode, archers shoot for longer (instead of 24 shots, they have 30).
Once, Samurai organized a tournament "Bai vs. Runet" with Bai rules. I signed up and played against Markon. In the first game, on week 3, I was thinking about whether to take a utopia or not. I decided to take the risk. I was surprised that, thanks to the experience, I didn't lose much.
I really liked Invisibl's phrase: Heroes with experience are not Heroes!