Mockery? Hardly, I see Aurvandiil and many others trying really hard to bring depth and interest to BM. If BM is about cultures and civilizations and war then there is no way that BM can be entirely restricted to something as vague as an SMA that is static. It is up to Tom to code in how he wants the game to be, if we are supposed to be SMA then remove every title except medievals ones, make a list of accepted religion types that players can choose from. That way no one can go outside of th boundaries, no new ideas need be introduced, we can play battlemaster without these issues constantly coming up. Instead we can play stats master and whine and complain about HP/MP and unit strength.
