After starting the Crusade a player can finally get good factories focuses. The problem is that for whatever reason the game choses non-core regions for these factories and I don't get anything... It is quite challenging to beat southern ponies so these factories are really essential... It would be a bit better if a player could complete factories focuses before starting the crusade because you basically start the crusade to get these factories and sit defending against pony hordes (this should be the other way around ofc...) until enough equipment is produced to overwhelm them...

Btw: I don't get the bones route - it gives more population but the league already has quite a lot. The thing is that it even in the vampires route it is impossible to arm all the available manpower. Bones route could be made better by making primitive weapons 10x cheaper for example that would make them viable, or small arms in general could be made cheaper and this may balance the tech disadvantage.

EDIT: I encoutnered an even worse problem - decisions tech bonuses are brocken. When you make a decision to get a tech research bonus - venedian expedition for example, you do not get the buff for the next tech, but for 1016 tech. So I did not research tanks at all and now I have a bonus for a 1016 modern tank... Same with rifles bonus for river ponies - I got a bonus for 1017 tech weapons. It is 1015 in my game but ofc I am far away from these technologies and I do not get any bonuses for the next technologies in my tech tree...