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My Anydice numbers agree with USEC_Officer. This is the input I used, checking the 0 line of the At Least tab:

output ((1d100+112)-(2d100+35))
And no, not having to take notes makes it a lot less of a burden to do my turns. I can just do them. It's a lot less mentally taxing. There's things about my situation that feel more stressful than the last game at this point, not least b/c I have my experience in the last game telling me my lead is ephemeral and not at all safe, but not having to document things gives me more distance to relax about it. Not saying that should make sense, pretty sure it's weird irrational stuff, but it's how my brain is interpreting things.

Gotta say, this game has been a lot more relaxing than the last simply b/c I'm not making myself write up AAR notes.

...time to find out how much more reticent and unforgiving the merchants are...

New beta patch - do we want to update? Looks like the main things for in-progress games is further nerfing of trader buying behaviors and nerfing max armor on light tanks.

They are. Looking at them, they seem very Quad-MG-like. I'm inclined to think their infantry will be stronger than their cavalry.

I've gotten close to 10m recently. You need a big world to start with. Survival stress helps. Then you need to be willing to re-roll the Dissolution phase; my experience suggests that you'd want a fall where most people starve rather than dying in war, disease, or above all else, fallout.

That's where I stand as well. 6/8 of my neighbors are hostiles. OTOH, I'm pretty sure I killed off one of them this turn and will finish off another next turn. OTTH, all that means is that my border will suddenly be shared with the nastier two hostile zones behind those.