Lord Thane
As anxious as I might be for a real round that takes 6 months... not if the battles aren't right. Every time a bug like this is found and fixed, in my head, every piece of data before it is invalid. Swarm wasn't working? Crap there goes all of those. Anti-cav not working? DOH. QR not working, well shoot. Knight charge bug? Dang it.
I already know this will probably be an unpopular opinion.
Strip out the strategies that aren't working correctly, don't even give the option to choose something that is known to not work as intended. Get the base layer going, No strat then QR (which I think QR could use a rework anyway and instead of half damage, maybe only half army is exposed to battle, this way it actually saves 50% of troops even if someone sends a massively bigger army capable to killing your entire army even with 50% damage reduction).
If that means everyone is running no strat... so be it, at least we know what we're working with, and as you have time to make sure the strategies are working as intended, add them in. Racial strategies will probably be last, as all of them will need to come in at the same time.
As this is going, maybe a series of 1 month mini rounds with 30 minute ticks just to keep everyone engaged. As I've said in other places, if 30 minute ticks are put in then protection time needs to be extended.
