Britannia Divided: Total War

[caravel]

I'm currently working on adding unit graphics; and more importantly balancing and tweaking the AI and province/buildings incomes since they are completely over the top.

What will you do with Abbeys? Leave them as they are or reduce their income? I think they imbalance the game somewhat and act mainly as magnets for the Vikings. Also if the AI relies on them and the provinces gets razed they can plunge into the red quite quickly. It may be an idea to reduce the income and building cost of Abbeys and try to tweak provincial income and trade to give a greater balance instead?

Also how about starting the Vikings off as Catholic? That way you can assign them a less destructive AI type (Catholic Expansionist maybe?) and watch them actually colonise Britain instead of raiding/razing a few provinces, getting stuck on Man for a few years and going slowly bankrupt. As Catholics they would have a better chance of holding down provinces (due to being the same religions as all other factions) and will stop the aggressive raid/raze/flee behaviour.