I haven't had a buffer size lesser than 300 for ages, and currently its 1000 (or maybe 1030).

Don't understand how this could affect K&M in this fasion though. I didn't have problems with billions of serfs, builders, bakers etc running around. Also it doesn't matter if the army concists of 10 or 100 soldiers. Its the fact that they engage in battle that slowed the system down.

Anyway. It works well now. And I guess the tip of the day for everyone is not to put K&M on a FFS formatted partition =)

Spidey:
The trick seem to be to build up a vast army before crossing the bridge. The enemy doesn't seem to bother me before i do that.

I'm on level 5 now =)