Some time ago i have posted that sprites were blinking in the game
(cvs - dosbox20040122.zip and before)

Right now it is not blinking
(cvs - dosbox20040131.zip and after)
but the game is speeded up so much that it is not possible to play it at all
cycles=1109 is way too slow (almost impossible to click)
cycles=1110 is way too fast (not possible to capture/defend a fort/train)

When the game was blinking (previous cvses) the speed was very good with cycles 2500, 3000, you could speed the game up or slow down freely when needed. (and when you reached 15500 it even stopped blinking but was too fast of course ), (when using 1000 cycles it wasn't blinking too being too slow )

if that may help i would also want to add that there are at least two versions of the game:
1. (hercules,cga,ega) 1989 - works in dosbox
2. (hercules,cga,ega,tandy) 1990 - while in battle lots of artifacts apear on the screen and it crushes