[Burnsaber]

Valerius said:
I do recall reading somewhere that an incorrect version will cause problems with the battle replay (though I think the battle summary is still supposed to be correct). That fight was so close that I could see any glitch in the replay showing a different result.

My replay shows both of us casting our buffs and exchanging artillery fire. Then your spiders and trolls advance to meet my PD and some undead. Your troops are held up long enough that the demons and occasional gifts from heaven take a toll. Still a half dozen spiders engage the storm demons and some trogs on my right flank and the trolls and the king of banefires engage frost demons on the left flank. And this is where I get completely lucky. One of my warlocks gets under 100 fatigue and using the last two blood slaves on the field (actually assigned to another mage) casts infernal prison at the king of banefires. After that the battle goes on for a while, all of my frost/storm demons are killed and many of my mages flee but again I get lucky and the commander with so many of my trogs on guard commander (a dumb mistake on my part - I accidentally had no trogs on attack orders) is killed and the trogs attack. At the end I think the only commander I have on the field is my PD commander.

BTW, the kindly ones had a huge effect on my planning. It was bad enough dealing with all the earth attacks. I got lucky (and Jotunheim unlucky) that he received two of three attacks last turn.

In my replay, the King of Banefires is not sent to hell, and I win easily as the Trogs can't stand the beating from the King and flee, trampling each other and your mages at the same time (you lost all mages expect one!).

It's such a shame that your version is apparently the correct one. *sigh* One can dream...