Simple way to solve this problem:
Never play with no tech trading. Same thing happened to them as happened to me in RBPB1, you have to play to game so that you can defend yourself easily and still threaten players on the attack. Spullla got the former (luckily, IMO) but not the latter.
Never play with no tech trading. Same thing happened to them as happened to me in RBPB1, you have to play to game so that you can defend yourself easily and still threaten players on the attack. Spullla got the former (luckily, IMO) but not the latter.