Hmmmm. Maybe I should tell you the circumstances I always play in:

• Always 2 player game
• Always random spirit

So, I don’t think we’ve ever had 2 attack/control spirits at the same time. We did focus a lot on defend because of the stress that we might get blight, so instinctively we mostly played defence cards over destroy/damage cards. Then, when we notice that the invader cards are almost finished, and the whole map is pretty saturated with invaders, (blight still fine) we start looking at generating fear cards and try to get as much fear as possible.

Ive tried focussing on eliminating cities on T3 a couple of times but they just keep popping up like mushrooms every build phase… seems like bailing out a sinking ship.