[Edi]

All right, I'm officially done for. I just lost six or seven provinces to ghostriders, had some of those taken over by blackhawks, had all of my SCs killed, or worse, charmed, and most of my remaining army destroyed.

My fire gem income has also been significantly cut due to Eternal Pyre being dispelled, I imagine Thufir was getting tired of having Skyfire raining down on his armies...

Anyway, the sum total of my situation is that what I can do from now on will be the feeble twitching of a near-corpse, and I certainly don't have anything capable of dealing with 6+ fully equipped Tartarians, a King of Fire, charmers, a Heliophagus and now two fully equipped Arch Devils (Ethanim and Furcas), and certainly not while having between three and six ghost riders or more cast at me every turn (because I hadn't managed to madcastle everything).

I'm not going AI quite yet, there's still some ways of hitting back and if nothing else, dumping my gems and items for someone who can make better use of them when I'm too far gone to do anything effective.

Edi