[Mightypeon]

This war was in the early thirties, and my research was highly unulmish for the following reasons:
-I had conquered Acro, large parts of my Domain did not have Drain Scales, and I let my experienced mages research there. I think my research at that time was on quite in the middle of the pack.
-I took the special pretender awake, he had like 8 or 9 research points from turn 1, in turn 30ish, these add up to around 300 RP points, or level 3.5 in one school.
-Pythium used very large communions to attack Mictlan, talking about 50ish commanders (split over 2-3 armies). I was using geography to ammas my mages only when I needed them.
-I found early Air and had a fair amount of air research boosters.