Maybe this is a balance issue, maybe just my fault, but I think it is worth mentioning:
I was playing continents tiny map, Clan with warlord difficulty, Bts version, patch e. I ended on a continent with Grigori (while Bannor were on the other one) and decided to unify my continent by eradicating Grigori early to be ready for later decisive battle with the Bannor.
However, I was killed (maybe overkilled) by overexpansion - I always keep captured cities even in Bts and my monetary balance was slowly sliding to negative vallues. I expected this, fed my war machine by pillaging and rampaged on. However, as I eradicated the Grigori, i had yearly income cca -30gp, about 12 cities and no research. My units went on strike.
This was still expected, I thought, that while I have my continent for myself, I can afford having no army for a while until my economics rejuvenates. I minimzed all civic upkeeps, transferred Palace to more beneficial location, hordes of workers quickly upgraded all available terrain.
But I still can not get from red numbers, my Axemen and Work Boats are disbanded immediatelly - heroes and workers never. Inflation kills me, is around -40 (with Bronze working being my best tech, I have no chance to get money making specialists or GP etc.). This is a dead end.
I was in simillar situations before in BtS, but I was always able to reach some balance and rebuild exhausted empire (even at cost of losing my army) - but keeping positive bank balance is somehow harder in FfH (even in other games, in BtS I usually end with 70 percent research, 20 culture and 10 espionage, but in FfH, usual stats are 30 percent research, 10 percent culture and rest goes to keep money in green numbers).
Of course,from an other point of view, I went bankrupt and it is my problem, but I still think there is something wrong about early expansion killing the Clan. Damn, these are orcs, not accountants. Going bankrupt due to my policy is OK for me, but staying in red numbers for hundreds of years with no research is unrealistic because in real life, there is always some low-energy-level balance, even if it means return to foraging and great societal changes. Having a permanent -50 income and no research is simply unnatural.
(I even tried to adopt the Order, turn good and beg Bannor for help so I can bulid at least a Marketplace. But these bastards gave me only Cartography
