OT: New Screenshots look uglier than the old ones because i turned down graphics to a minimum. My PC is not the newest and has problems with mass battles.
Nothing important happens the next turns. We get averagely 2 provinces per turn but lose one province per turn through a random event attack. We have now 300 research points, so research is slowly progressing.
"Fall in the year 3 of the ascension wars"
Caelum dows and attacks 1 province in which it wins.
We have almost finished our war research though, magma eruption and the other toys are already ready. Here is the secret test vs. barbarian "volunteers"
Magma eruption is my favourite non-gem battlefield anti-troop spell. 1 successful hit kills 10+ troops often
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The border situation with caelum. They took 1 province, but i have many castles there and they have not much troops there, 50-200 troops per province. I will need 2-3 turns to position my armies, but then my necros in combination with the blessed fighters should overwhelm caelum fine.