The name of this age should be The Age of Everyone Being Overpowered - Defense Is Useless. That's kind of a mouthful, but it'd be more accurate.
With all of the insane increases of offenses this age, everyone can break everyone. Did you hear that? EVERYONE can break EVERYONE. You may be asking, how is that different from any other age? Oh come on, in past ages, people at least had a little difficulty in breaking everyone. They at least had to try. If you ran a good attacker province with decent defense, you weren't able to be broken by everyone and their grandma. This age is completely different. All of the attacking numbers went up so high that defense is essentially useless. Well actually the only purpose of defense is to prevent double taps. Only turtle mages have any hope of not being broken this age, and they have to seriously try and run forts, lots of them.
Have you seen all of the dwarves out there? Having one class so overpowered really defeats the purpose of having a choice. Humans are second to dwarves. These two races really dominate the age, it's really ridiculous.
Welcome to the age of anyone can break anyone at will. Have fun never being able to defend your land!
Btw, these new forums suck.