I would say this: go with ANY of these options, just please do something about the weather. 19 out of 20 battles, there's a storm and it rains. Yeah I know all that stuff about the skies weeping etc. but it's a little annoying. I think I read sthg a long time ago about rain affecting archers' lethality - wet bowstrings and so on. Is this why it almost always rains during EB battles? I even fired up the vanilla RTW to check, and it doesn't rain anywhere as often during battles, so this inclement weather business must be an EB thing.