Harmony - Troop Symmetry

The tactic of not investing in an army, but instead focusing on development, is not very good because at any moment a plague week can occur, and the progress made over a couple of weeks will simply be lost. This is similar to: "Come on, enemy! Take my built-up city; I have no army, and I'm defenseless." I don't understand why the game is being dragged out. The essence of the battle is war; the goal is victory, not developing the city, leveling up an overpowered hero, and aimlessly wandering around with a huge army, engaging in what is called a "total clearing." I really don't like how often everything is reduced to the final battle. For example, I watched several streams from this group http://vk.com/tgamev, and the players almost always limit themselves to the final battle. Where is the strategy in that? Yes, there is a tactical element, but the rest is boring and monotonous – just beating up AI-controlled mobs, and only one player-versus-player battle, which ends the game. The strategic importance of objects such as cities and garrisons is completely absent. It's as if people are playing together (and not just beating up AI), but at the same time, they rarely interact with each other, and 99% of the time they don't even cross paths. Where is the capturing of cities, the attempts to hold them, the loss of a city, its recapture, the encirclement of the enemy, and conversely, attempts to escape from him, break away, and reach the coveted goal? With all of the above, you need not one army with all its troops and an overpowered hero, but at least three or four. I personally used to solve this problem in a different way – I limited the hero's level; the army became strong more due to the number of warriors than due to the infamous overpowered hero. This increased the value of dwellings and cities. It is impossible for one hero to hold many cities on a non-linear map, so you have to have several armies. This, in my humble opinion, is strategy.