Thanks, good game everyone.
I had Bogarus pegged as my early target from the get go, since he was in the corner with only me as a neighbour. So I rubbed my hairy palms when the big armies he moved to my border attacked Gath instead! But then the war took way too much time for me to be able to pitch in against the trogs.
I also suffered from the 65% mistake, I thought I'd try Acashic Record for once - end result 120 pearls burned and 3 sites with total income 4 found
I hadn't done any site searching, just rushing to conj5 and then I was screwed.. Bogarus also taught me that elephants die to soul slay
But that made me think that they could be pretty sweet decoys against anti-SC spells in the late game. Never thought of that before.