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Ouch, you cast wish for armageddon I assume.


I have stealthy preists but I was not using them to preach covertly. I just make sure I have a temple in every one of my provinces. Even if it was razed I could afford it because i was not investing in troops. I couldn't put together normal armies because they would just get mass enslaved so I have tons of gold.

The Elemental Queens of Air were my emergency strike force. I would only use them if I could think of no other way out of a situation. If i had used them frequently and predictably you would have been able to counter them with anti- lightning or kill them (I already lost one to enslavement). If you had scripted a defensive force with lots of oppositions (or enslavements) and some penetration items it would have worked. But that never came up.

I didn't feel like I could have won in October. Maybe I overestimated your strength, but I think you over estimated mine. I had about 20 badass tartarians but you had the Arcane Nexus and had stolen my chalice which is key to any tartarian factory. You had me locked down. I could not produce magical troops without giving you gems and I could not feild normal armies because they would be enslaved. To make matters worse my highest astral caster was a level 3. The turn after you cast arcane nexus I tried to dispel it with all my astral gems, over 300 and failed. I assumed you were using those gems to crank out your own super combatants or at least counters to mine.

So went on the defensive for many rounds as you took my lands. I was slowly accumulating the gems I needed to empower someone high enough to cast arcane nexus, then i alchemized many of my gems to cast it and hoped. If you had cast it with 999 gems I was screwed. When I got the Nexus, that was the turning point from my point of view.