Love 'em great for GA play, once, when playing as the Danes, I had the French destroyed and then re-emerge in Antioch (high period). Conquered the entire Middle East, getting rid of the Eggies, Turks and Byzantines who can ammass rather large GA scores without scoring any points for homelands at all It is fun to manipulate faction re-emergences like this, although I must say the have a nasty tendancy to always attack the human player (ignoring other provinces nearby that are almost totally underdefended).