Yesterday, we started a game, and here are my first impressions: the whole evening was spent dealing with restarts, which I usually try to avoid... But here:eek: how can you play when you can't leave the castle with a stack of 15 pikemen, and in both directions, there are blockades of weaker units, but you can't break through them. And just when it seemed like you had 2 heroes on the first day and a prefecture, the opponent takes another restart, and in the next round, you're running around with one hero in a deserted republic with 500 gold... Or you just reach a village on day 114 when the opponent appears and wins the encounter:D The result is obvious – we started the game with 0-0 restarts, depending on what everyone gets. We've only been playing for the first week, but I have a feeling that the AI will start to dominate:smile16: if there aren't more favorable encounters:p

I really love the 200% bonus on Haven, but Spider is something else... when on the first or early second day, the AI is already swarming you from three sides with purchased troops... They don't even have time to react:smile54: Another great lottery:smile08: