I'm sure you're right. I think I started playing it a couple of years after it came out.

Also, I found the battle simulations tiresome, so I stayed on the strategic side and auto-resolved the battles.

The one big bug which puzzled me is that there is a probability indicator before you auto-resolve, yet, no battle that it predicts you will win EVER is lost. So the probabilities are meaningless. I liked that bug, though. I don't want randomness.