The best feeling of course is being able to stop them in their tracks, but that’s just not always going to happen. The only real question is, how prepared will you be? It doesn’t feel quite as awful after all if the person who plundered you lost most of their army to do it. It’s one of the few things that isn’t an if, it’s a when. Being attacked and plundered is something that will happen to you.

You can be a trader if you want to be, but you’ll still need some sort of an army to protect your precious goods from those who don’t want to be as peaceful as you are. It should not be forgotten that this is a war game.

We’d all like to play as a peaceful existence, but sooner or later you’re going to have to unlock Military Tactics in the Iron Age, and from there on out it’s game-on with your neighborhood. Making army selection faster will change the balance in GvG because the strategy of mixed Defending Armies in a GvG sector will be less effective thus making sieges go faster and be harder to defend against.Once your city is more than five minutes old, it’ll be producing sought-after resources. I still believe it will speed up army selection when fighting in GvG once you know what the defending armies are. an idiot could then choose from the units shown in your system and have a better chance of winning than choosing from all the units at their disposal in the current system because the 'no-bonus' troops are hidden. This action of hiding 'no bonus' units does make it easier and in my opinion, removes an element of skill and expertise or perhaps care (not all skill and expertise. 'and in doing so, all the units that have attack bonuses against the units that are the enemy are shown and the units with NO bonuses against the enemy are hidden' My comments were based on your original proposal which, based on your detailed reply, apparently needed more fleshing out which you have now done.

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