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You sent me an in game message to make the agreement. The game is dominions 3, not forums. Either send me a message in game to begin the 'end of peace' agreement, or I will consider that you did this on purpose.

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The agreement began as soon as you read those words dude. I'll give you an extra turn but there's no real point in sending an in-game message. You're just trying to weasel out of this now.

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Okay C'tis is now under my command for the time being. Things don't look great after so many stale turns but I'll do my best to keep this nation alive. Looks like my first objective is to stop that hideously large Man army. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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You might be able to stop it with the all powerful spell, "Diplomacy". Its a zero level spell that has a variety of effects. Sometimes it doesn't work.

C'tis originally failed to cast diplomacy and instead directly assaulted me. So hence the large army coming your way.

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I would normally try to invoke diplomacy but C'tis is so boxed in atm it has to fight someone in order to have any point in playing. Since the original player decided Man is the target so be it. Let's see if I can muster enough troops to beat your horde.

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The fall of Ulm

Chapter 1: Cult of Illuminated
The Iron Faith won the civil war against the Master Smiths.
The Malediction hits the Land.
The Hunger overcomes many Guardians and Counts.
The Cult of Illuminated is founded to harness the power of the Malediction.
Young Women start to disappear.
Fur-cladded barbarians appear in the north mountains. Fortunetellers tell they are responsible for the disappearence. The Hochmeisters do nothing, and direct Ulm's troops to the farmlands of the sout, instead of the holy Mountains in the north, which fall completly under the Mountain Fey dominion.

Chapter Two: The Red Terror
The kidnappings increase.
The Cult discovers that the Malediction is a living entity.
Malediction awaken.
The Cult secretly pleads fealty to the Pretender God.
Malediction wears the Mantle of the latter Iron Faith's God and they too plead fealty.
Vampire Counts awaken.
Iron Faith dissidents start a partisan movement, which base is in the lands of a rogue Vampire Count, Günther.

Chapter 3: Cults of Blood and Death.
Agartha attacks Locmar.
The Siege is long, and bring back the terrible memories of the breaking of The Black Cidatel.
Rangers start a deep strike plan, and break with the Ulm's main force before the Recover of Locmar plan, which fails.
Locmar falls and Agartha marches to Ulm's Black Forest.
A Vampire Count try, despairately, to cut enemy lines, but fails, and the ranger strike force is killed.
Faced with a hopeless situation, General Bernardo abandons the command of Ulm's war effort. General Andrea Inseldorf (AI) assume the control of the Ulm's last stand.

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Very nice post Bernardo. Shame you are withdrawing. You could have out up a desperate last stand.
But well played none the less, I suddenly got very nervous once that vampire count and rangers appeared out of nowhere.

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Hmmm I have a feeling that the AI will not respect our NAP with Ulm!

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Probably not. But the AI does normally declare war first before he invades so you might get a turn or 2 to fortify.

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Zenphos: Unfortunettlly, I discovered too late the Ulm's stealth power. The game is lost when all you can do is hamper a little your oponnent. In my case, it was lost when I send my ranger teams into a fortified province without early scouting the local defenses. With that defeat attrition war wasn't a option anymore. There is some well-positioned Second Tier Illuminated and two Vampire Counts, but there is no hope to victory, you are in the Black Forest with a large army of which my normal armies cannot defeat one to one and you have more fortifications.
It was fun, and I learned a lot about Ulm, Black Forest. That was a fun war to play, for a moment I thought a could win, but, in the end, I was defeated.

Profanicus: I hope the AI don't attack you. Zenpohos is at the door of my two last Strongholds, soon all my former troops will be trapped in the fort. Sorry for the inconvenience.