Unfortunately, quest #19 (Scout a province or defeat a large army) is probably going to be an event breaker for me. I'm working my way through the last ME province, but just recently crossed into ME myself. Therefore I have a limited supply of goods and troops for ME. I can't scout ahead until I finish the province, which likely will take more goods than I can acquire in time. And since I'm not generally a fighter, my unskilled efforts with the few ME troops I had, were spectacular failures, even with a 50% attack bonus.
I"m not complaining to Inno, per se. It's just an unfortunate situation that I find myself in. I realize the blame is easily laid at my own feat, HOWEVER, making a quest that requires one thing that sometimes simply CANNOT be done at your point in the game (scouting), with a difficult battle scenario seems a bit heavy-handed this early in the quest line. But I'm gonna keep trying on the goods side, and maybe I'll get lucky.