Thanks a lot for the advice, Frank! I'll try that during the course of the next week. Sounds hilarious. I play each game over the course of 2-3 weeks, not having ten hours a day to play.
I'd love to see the Magma Eruption en masse take those Van bastards out. I should probably bring a small crew of siege folks along. Risky though, gold-wise, when I'm being nailed by R'lyeh from another direction. Very expensive but I do have about nine fortresses, so could muster it in about five or six turns. But seems like it would be terribly worth it to get Van off my left buttock.
I appreciate the response. And I also am stunned at how so many of you are master strategists with Dom3. Jerks!
Oh, and Gandalf - I've never once had a problem dealing with Ermor. In fact, in this game, they're right next to me and I knock them down easily as they're having a lot of fun raining on Bandar Log's parade. But I suppose that could be the AI being even more moronic and inept than I am. And it's a largish map, 140 provinces or whatever, with default settings. (other than the AIs set to 'difficult' and me sucking against Van)
