Hi,

How is it possible to complete a game (and win!) in under two hours, or isn't it? I'm a fairly new player and most of the time until recently I was saving games that went on for over two hours with the intention of coming back to them later (only to forget what had been going on and started a new game anyway). Recently, I've started playing games right through to their conclusion, and, even though I'm still yet to win a game, I've found them to be really good games. The only problem is time.

I've finished 5 games, now. The first two were just over 90 minutes long (I didn't really know what I was doing so I just got overrun fairly easily), the next two were both around 3:30:00 and involved me getting more to know what I had to do but still being overrun, and the last one was six hours (with me basically winning for the first five hours, only to be overrun in the last hour.

I've seen people say a 'normal game could be expected to last about two hours, yet I fail to see this as possible, especially if the player wants to win. I am playing against easy AI and can't believe I'm getting nowhere......

Any tips or hints or help or anything would be greatly appreciated,

Kage.