best defensive formations

[Olaf Blackeyes]

THAT is a RTW thing. Its the AI.
The AI tends to go berserk to destroy you as soon as you border it/go to war with it. It has probably stopped build troops on ALL of its other fronts just to come over and kick your arse.
In vanilla RTW the AI couldn't pump out that many elite units due to the fact the vanilla didn't HAVE that many elite units to pump out. However EB has like 10 times the number of options for troop recruitment including twice the number of elite units so yeah it does that.
Also due to the raised money prices and the fact that the AI has the GIVE ME FREE MONEY script, (Like 10k mnai a TURN)(another RTW thing) PLUS the fact that they can produce like 20 unit per turn in their biggest settlements means you gotta fight through like a !@$!load of fullstacks of elites b4 you get anywhere. And you have to struggle to get the higher level barracks for you elites so your using militia units to fight elite units. EB is not for the fainthearted.
@#$ing cheating AI.