Just passing on past experience of my own and others play. Maybe there are other factors too, but pure size of army DOES seem to be a large part of it.
Perhaps LT was unlucky…
The other great thing about this game, apart from the interaction with other varied personalities, is that you are learning all the time. I`m actually one of those players who WOULD like to see some more randomization of things from game to game, but where things are constant i see no problem in sharing that knowledge with other players.
Thank you for putting me on the road to enlightenment, though. I`ll keep and eye on this phenomena more closely in the future!
david