Seen some of that on SS3 today, i personally think it's idiotic. if he's offline w/ only small armies in those castles and he gets hit hes swimming upstream. And he could never have enough npcs to feed all of those with decent size armies.
I'm just completely anti hub of any form :)
oh my lol didn't even see ur post earlier :P Yeah me too I spread my cities 10 to 20 miles apart. The farther apart you are, the more targets there are