[CUnknown]

I think there's no hope because I had three powerful armies that all died doing basically nothing. I don't know what else to do but to make another one of them....but I doubt they'd be able to do anything either.

The things I am doing that are actually having an effect are: inciting unrest with spies, and assassinating his mages with earth attack and with actual assassins. I'm pretty sure he's hurting for money, more or less. But then again, so am I. I'm also pretty sure that I can kill almost all of his mages if we keep playing for another 15-20 turns. But, what does that really get us? He'll still wipe us out with his SCs. If he gets some good money provinces from us, he'd be able to replace the mages anyway.. But, I can count on a good 5 mages killed a turn.