Yeah, and the fact that a lower-skilled player can do the challenge is actually a great motivator for the likes of yourself. Thunder's challenge isn't a problem at all for any TeamSpeak players. EE exam requires 20 swordmen and bowmen suits/weapons, 5 horses, 3 towers, 40 recruits. A mediocre TeamSpeak player would easily do 25 25 5, 4 towers (no more needed on loc3), 60 recruits. The only problem would be food, usually, since lower skilled players tend to lose focus in the last minutes of the peacetime, trying to fix their mistakes (that's from the personal experience of the most famous noob in this game
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This challenge is intended to make people interested in making the first step towards having a good army in 60 minutes of time, which in the old times was enough for most people, and now in the days of long peacetimes and high speeds, seems overly difficult to "randoms" while it's totally not true. But then, when the game settings are dictated by people who make their first sawmill 30 minutes into the game and proceed to make vineyards afterwards, nothing good can happen... no doubt people like this refuse to play PT lower than 90, or else they would have no troops at all (most of them still don't...)