It has begun.
The mighty nation of Helheim has decided it is time to put their play-seal aside and to strike at Tien Chi Empire.
Apparently they have spent several turns positioning their flying sacred troops deep in the back of Tien Chi nation. This turn the infiltrators got the order to attack. Meanwhile main Helheim armies are moving through Ulm lands toward the heart of Tien Chi empire.
All this doesn't seem to be distracting Helheim one bit from finishing brave but small Vanheim nation, whom they have already pretty much defeated in just few turns.
So this turn Tien Chi Empire has found itself facing by far the most powerful nation of our realm, who is also allied with Ulm, which is the 4th nation on several graphs.
Needless to say the odds are heavily stacked against us. Helheim is clearly trying to eliminate what their perceive as the largest threat to their plans for world domination, as they informed us themselves in their letter we recieved this turn. We can't say we blame them for this.
However if this will happen the game will be won by Helheim, without slightest doubts. This should be obvious to anybody who is familiar with uber-blessed Helheim and who has been watching graphs recently. Even before the start of the war, the Tien Chi Empire had almost twice less provinces than Helheim. As everybody know, the graphs for army strength are very misleading. Despite "similar" army size the Helheim nation has infinitely better army due to their masses of sacred glamour troops, both flying and cavalry, empowered by mighty bless of course. And unlike Tien Chi, Helheim nations didn't suffer any serious losses from the very beginning, so their have huge hordes of almost invincible W9 glamour sacred troops, with whom they can raid any uncastled province. (We knew it from the very beginning, and that’s why I’ve build as many castles as I could. But this will not be nearly enough in this situation.)
So this is the moment of truth for all Helheim neighbors, as well as all other nations. Helheim is already by far the most powerful nation of our world. In few turns they will get gem income and money income of most of my uncastled provinces, since there is little I can do at this point to prevent riding by glamour flaying sacred troops - Tien Chi nation is not exactly famous for its riding and counter riding abilities. If you look at the graphs, you can add most of my money income and gem income, as well as those of Vanheim nation, to those of Helheim, to get an idea how the Helheim will look like in 2-3 turns.
So here is the bottom line:
Helheim has made their move to eliminate the nation that they have considered the most dangerous for their world domination. Not only that, but they did it in alliance with another strong nation.
If Helheim is allowed to continue to grow, and to devour Vanheim empire and my own, they will without any doubts win the game. As a nation number two (or number 3-4 on other graphs), who is facing nation number one AND nation number 4 or 5 at the same time, we ask all other nations who would like to maintain the balance of power in our game, and to prevent Helheim from dominating the game even further that they are doing it already, to act. Any form of help - such as direct military intervention (best of all), or aid in form of water and air gems, or help with forging items, would be highly appreciated by Tien Chi Empire.
In few turns most of my gem and money income will belong to Helheim, giving them huge boost in power. To all free nations of our Realm - it is time to act if you want to continue to be free.
As for our own nation - on the behalf of Tien Chi Empreror, here is the Royal Decree, mobilizing our nation for war against Helheim invaders.
"We shall fight. We shall fight in the mountains. We shall fight on the plains. We shall fight in the swamps. We will fight in our besieged castles. We shall never surrender".
So spoke Geya, Ruler of Tien Chi Empire
P.S. We understand that the first natural reaction of some nations, when they would read the news of this war, would probably be: “Great!!! Now these two scary nations who lead in graphs will tear each other apart, while we will have a chance to grow and prosper.
However such perception would be far from reality. Helheim is much scarier and stronger that Tien Chi. And by allying with Ulm before attacking their weaker rival they have ensured that they will win this war quickly, if other nations will not step in. Like I said, add gem/money income of Vanheim and Tien Chi to Helheim, and you will get the nation who is considerably stronger than all other nations combined.