Re: New Game
I would be the very first to agree that the false horror spell is overpowered and needs to be nerfed. I already posted that elsewhere on the forum. Nearly any race but Ulm can counter it, but the cost is usually higher than the cost to Caelum for doing it. Only Arco, Pythium and R'lyeh can easily beat the horrors without having to target it specifically since they are usually researching up Thaumaturgy anyways. Abysia has a good counter if they go the devil path. Until the inevitable Caelum staff of storms shows up, that is.
I also suspected that you were going to enlist Ulm in your alliance, so that is why I went to 3 day QH to slow down the game while he was gone. I did not want Pasha's holiday to influence the game, and it really did not all that much.
I too was surprised just how easily your GK died. I did not know you would attack with the lone GK, though. I did expect you to attack there, but with your army, and maybe also with the pretender. And because I was so close to getting the required number of VPs, I decided to jump in with every single troop I had that could reach the castle. I definitely wanted to break the walls in one turn to try and win the game at once by taking that VP. It was a very nice army. I think I had 23 mages, 2 AQs and a ton of archers, ogres, and draconians. I had 2 wine bags and the army was still starving! I had not realized until this game that the Caelum archers are size 3 and eat more than you would think.
Turns out that I found Pickles with an undefended VP province that he took from Ermor and that is what let me go one over the requirement. It was my insurance policy in case I lost the battle to you.
As for the bane lord, I never did get the chance to attack it with a decent army and see how it might have worked. And, as you know, I did lose several times with a small strike forces of a single seraph and a couple of archers when I guessed wrong on where you were going.
I always seem to easily predict the AI during SP. But people are rarely predictable, which is one of the things I really like about this game.
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