She's no hoe - she's a witch and must burn! I blame her personally for turning my sovereign invisible! He was both alive and not present anywhere on the map - damn you Procipinee damn you!
Diplomacy is another method of keeping the end game in check. If one country is clearly powerful enough to walk over a single enemy nation, then it becomes much easier for that countries adversaries to justify entering into both military and trade alliances with each other. Thus the end-game for the most powerful country becomes dealing with the economic difficulties of everyone else having trade agreements - whilst dealing with the military challenge of how to expand ones power
Personally I see caravans as a horrendous bit of micromanagement - if I'm a king while would I be dealing with horse and carts - that's what peasants and underlings are for. A nice system for dealing with trade routes that I've seen recently was in the Total War series - where by you could block off trade along road or sea lane by parking a unit upon said road. This effectively represents you robbing every caravan coming along, without the caravans themselves having to be dealt
Thanks for the quick reply, I saw the walkthru for it on the website and assumed it was live already
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