Hi, guys,
After getting familiar with a couple of games in normal difficulty, I tried a new one in challenging. Apparently, I started doing fine, looking at the power scores. However, all of a sudden Pariden declared war on me. My main army was led by 2 L20 heroes focused on magic and army buffs. They had good equipment and artifacts and the troops were mainly defenders and archers around level 14. The opposing hero was L17 and she had militias and spearmen. It seemed like a piece of cake. Well, no. For some reason, their troops had +280% bonus in defense, so even the militias had more than 25 defense. I was badly defeated. To make things worse, a few turns later she had a couple of dragons. Looking at their capital, it seems like they have a huge technological advantage (I calculate at least 50 seasons of research ahead of me), despite having just 4 cities against my 12 cities. I'm still wondering what did I do wrong. I started focusing on civilization research, then I did some militar and magic research so to build a better army and then I returned to strong focus on civilization, while steadily expanding my kingdom. To be honest, I find it very odd that Pariden could outmatch me so bad with basic troops and so few cities, specially that insane +280% defense and so absurd research advantage over me. Any clues?
Thanks.
