trupheus yeah in the current state of the game with this small player base, having provinces at all doesn't make sense. If you have a small group that all go in the same prov with no outside alliances, it's a huge disadvantage because you lose access to passing castles. That's all theoretical though, because our group split up at the beginning of the round and everyone else had multi province alliances all round so everyone had equal access to the passing castle stuff.
