galahorn

I agree the concepts are right for the leveling but the items are too strong vs the ones you can research: why even take time to build an axemen troop while your hero with some armor and one magic weapon can destroy loads of regiments... Better just recruit lv 3, 5 and 9 heroes then pesky low lv units with bad equipment...On a third game on challenging, didn't even build a single troop and destroyed all factions with heroes and yes, a summoned fire elemental (that helped my sovereign). It

Well, on my second game of 0.91 (and yes, I played couple with 0.9 too) with challenging AI on large map with all factions on, I conquered easily all map just with heroes....Was really wierd, had more then 15 cities and was just doing building while conquering the map with 2 heroes (not together), then a stack of doom (with all vassals)...Died once to the AI titan monster (and it hurt: 30 turns of disability! I came back with 2 peons after). Really, wasn't that fun after a while, especial