You are 'underhanded degenerate scum' because the role you play in our game is that of the enemy. You see, we are the wonderful heroes of the story who stand for all that is good (except for the 13 Knights, who are pagan and worship Tydeus the Nerfer), while you are the evil villains trying to bring freedom and democracy to Strat, which is anachronistic. And you must have read enough posts to know what people think about historical accuracy here.
And most of us have jobs or school or panhandling during the day. But caravans and field armies don't stand still. When I attacked Al Yazid, I wanted Dirk to intercept the lightly armed large reinforcing army. But unfortunately Dirk is a gentleman and explained that would cause an early morning war, so he just reinforced me. And I got my ass kicked. Perhaps I would have lost anyway, but I'm sure Dirk would have won had he attacked.
So tell the Devs to skip nighttime settings and just have battles in 'primetime'.
And maybe a little less EU bashing would have helped your rosters. Maybe.