hey, don't beat yourself up mate, it sounds like there wasn't a lot of choice anyway. those dastardly french!

I haven't been a part of other games like these but I have lurked a bit and watched them and I have to say I think that enabling the hotseat so that Cecil controls all the bad guys makes this significantly harder.

we really can't just steamroller the AI like we would do in a SP game - because it is all human controlled!

So we need to be careful how we proceed and not make too many enemies at once.