Maybe in my case...
My vacation on Sylt was far more challanging than sitting in the office! Errr, or maybe it's just my lack of office-sleep...
Btw way as far as I can remember we were supposed to concentrate on the EARLY era first!:hmmm: Apart of the Kontaratoi there are no pike units in this era...
and the Kontaratoi lack the phalanx ability for unknown reason...
In addition to that I usually had the superiority of heavy cavalry in my battles - in order to prevent my campaign generaly to rebel...