Defending vs. stronger neighbor early attacks

[alexti]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
Hector's Horse are still a good deal at 350 gold pieces, but I can't imagine that someone would spend their entire first turn's income on mercenaries.

I don't know... But if one did it, it would be pretty reasonable way to get oneself into troubles. I'm actually curious what Reverend Zombie did with his money. He was probably referring to the recent MP game when he's attacked me very early with mercenaries and I couldn't figured out where his money went in that game, so I was thinking that may be he has just paid too much for mercenaries.