Thanks for the insight on your strat.
For whomever might find this interesting I will give my account of the game.
The turn files I can't give as of yet as I am using the same passwd. for one of my current games (stupid, I know).
Usually I like to take an SC for pythium to get them started early with expansion. I have successfully used virtue in the past. Previous MP games exposed a weakness in one of my favorite strats. with pythium which is using large communions. Those were countered by spells that kill low HP targets on all the battlefield like earthquake for example. Those spells kill most of the communicants on round one. To counter that I took a S9F2 Oracle. The S9 gives twist of fate. The F2 I think was a mistake and I might gave done better with E4. I took scales order 3, sloth 3, heat 0, luck -2, magic 3 with castle.
First few rounds were very bad for me because I couldn't expand well. At that phase I considered the game forfeit. Then the communion circles started doing their work and my expansion has accelerated.
I had a peach agreement with R'lyeh. At that time Arco was the greatest power in the game by a large margin. So I started a war with Arco. During this war I've used the oracle as to teleport on large armies and astral tempest them. I have had many harbingers and A. angels which I used to raid his provinces. They proved to be a failure because they are to frail and Arco has hunted them all down. By the time he did the war was starting to go our way. IIRC I also delivered the coup de grace to Ermor. Finishing Arco proved to be a difficult task for he had created large armies of summoned critters.
Next target was R'lyeh. They had one tough army in Jotunheim. The army was made of something like four abominations and many starspwan mages casting enslave mind. The battles against this army were always spectacular. I have brought large armies against it, sometimes with more the thirty communicants. But time after time they were defeated. At the end it was attrition that killed this army.
research wise I rushed to astral tempest then wish. I then put an arcane nexus global up, I think I've put something like 200 extra astral gems into it. Indeed it had lasted for a long time allowing to cast wish each and every turn until the end. Wishing got me a thriving blood eco and I've summoned all the blood royalty. I kept them from doing much battles because I wanted them to be a surprise for you. At the end game I had all the blood royalty. In addition to two vampire counts, fallen angels and three wraith lords, which I didn't even get a chance to use in battle
All in all it was a fun game albeit somewhat time consuming. I want thank all the players and Griffin for hosting.
Oh and it is my first Dom-II MP victory, to be celebrated by bawdy dancing and feasting :-)
BTW,
Thought the new name more fitting than my university login...