But if not playing as them, it might be a bit strange - especially for a player who's new to EB - to see "Faction Destroyed" after two turns. Moreover, it will ruin all the work that goes into creating that faction if the player never really has an opportunity to fight it unless he is bordering it. Not to mention that if the player were to go to war with a one-province faction, it would all be over in a turn or two, again wasting much of the team's effort as the player can't fully appreciate that faction's strengths and weaknesses.