Hi,

    I have been playing FE for a while and liking it very much (MUCH better than magic). One thing that was made in the latter versions was improve the monster aggressivity. Thing that i agree and think that is THE imrovement that is lacking in the game.

  I think in a post apocalipse world with magic beings, the monsters should be one of the main dificults, you should have to fight your enemies AND the enviroment, they should garantee that the world will not be overpopulated quickly or even be overpopulated at all. But even with the improved agressivity they does not pose a real threat yet...  right now they just delay a little the expasion becouse you need to clear the nearby lairs or they destroy your cities, but after that you can just expand without problemns as before (a.k.a without any defenders in your cities).

 One thing that people complained in other threads that i agree is that right now the winning factor is just who can span pioners and do more cities faster...  but the solution for me is not civilization mechanics, but monsters and raids..  in the real world we had an entire age of feudalism becouse after the end of the roman empires unprotected settlements were constantly atacked by brigands, and people moved to castle protected settlements... the brigands always knew what places had no defense becouse of travalers, merchants, spys, etc. in a world populated by Trolls, goblins,etc this sould be worse...  EVERY unprotected city/outpost should be atacked sooners or latter.

  I think that game should spawn brigands looking for easy money that atack cities and outposts that are undefended or with poor defense...  by making the players spend turns to build troops, waste money to maintain the troops,etc you should change the speed of expansion and make expanding a conquest, by doing so you have no problem of "more cities is always better" as if you could expand and defend your cities you deserve to get the beneficts.

  I have thought of a "Raid system" that i think is balanced and should not make the end game boring (by having too many uselless fights), but i think the post will be too long if i put it here, so first i just want to know what you think of the idea.

PS: English is not my native language, so sorry errors.