I am not sure if it is just my imagination but it seems like the AI is capable of learning how I play. Anyone else experience something similar? Might as well keep on ranting- I am sure this has been addressed but longbows are very good. Too good(?) I feel, Lancers do work against them somewhat but massed longbows...Yikes! Reminds one of massed Elite longbows in Aok! Do people build those other cannons? Only cannon I build is the Field Gun, it is pretty much capable of everything the other cannons specialize in. My humble suggestion here is to make the other cannons bit cheaper: say 300 gold instead of 400. In the demo the manor house do not give me extra villagers. I assume that's just a demo-bug right? I read here how people think natives are too underpowered- or overpowered: I personally think they are just right. They don't cost any gold and they are not too overpowering. Natives should never form a core of an army anyway...I find the flavour they add to the game to be great. Good move by ES I think. I must say I miss formations greatly. If bonousing formations is bit too hard to balance just the practical formations from AoK I would welcome alot...although I heard someplace they are not coming back...oh well not too much of a loss. Did anyone read that? Once again, yay for a great game. Demo itself seems to be very entertaining! [This message has been edited by pinter (edited 09-18-2005 @ 01:37 AM).]