Quote Originally Posted by orangat
So if the AI gets help in the form of more money then it seems to make little sense to blockade ports and despoil regions with rampaging armies. It makes the game less fun imo
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since its just another straight out monotonous campaign of attrition in numbers
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Thats exactly what I think, the player is forced to fight enormous numbers of battles in a war of attrition and frankly it is boring.