I grabbed all my villages pretty quickly, then advanced south two fighters and an archer in the middle, and a shaman and a scout on the west. As I found, he had recruited fairly heavily into wolf-riders and assassins and trolls, with a conspicious lack of grunts. Oh well.
He killed my scout and my shaman, who, following standard defensive doctrine, clung to the defenses near the mountains. They were pinned down, and eventually died to terrain-ignoring assassins, etc. He also swept by with his wolf riders, and seized a bunch of my villages, taking about four of them. I recruited units to attack his wolf riders, and moved my other forces over to deal with the threat. Eventually I got them all, but by then he had gotten a good deal of money, and swept up the other side with wolf-riders and assassins. I tried to go home, but he sat on my keep with wolf-riders, and 70+ gold burned a hole in my pocket.
Eventually I was able to drive off his wolf-riders and recruit, and soon things were going much better. Over the course of the game, I had killed many more units of his than he had killed of mine, which almost made up for his economic advantage. I fanned out from my keep with my units, killing a few of his, and managing to outnumber him in that part of the field. Things were looking up - I might pull even! However, I was a bit careless with my leader, and he got killed by archers and wolf-riders and a few other things. So I lost.
Very annoying, but quite deserved. If you don't keep your leader safe, then that's a big risk you are taking. Still very annoying.
Really need to learn to deal with mobility better. More units spread out to block, etc. Less of my tight formations, etc.
Many more games to go.
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