[Amhazair]

calmon said:
I weren't prepared for this war. For me this declaration was also surprising.

I didn't necessarily mean that you had planned out your moves in advance or anything, but apparently (a large part of) your forces were in position to attack straight away. While I was using the first turn(s) of the war to move my forces from where I had recruited/summoned them to where I actually needed them, you teleported stuff on top of them, preventing them from arriving (and incidentially also destroying much of them ), while your conventional armies moved into my un-reinforced border provinces. You might have noticed that all my moves up to now where made in an attempt to counter your attacks, and that I didn't manage to launch any (even minor) offensive of my own.

The thing with our NAP and arcane nexus may be discussible. As i said before for me is nexus a very aggressive spell (like utterdark) which has a heavy impact in all others gem using. This spell could be taken as a declaration of war to everyone. However thats my viewpoint but i admit that this may be debatable.

As I said: I totally agree that this is a valid reason to attack me. I just thought that the gaming community on these forums thought otherwise, and as such I was not prepared. I won't make that mistake again.

Well, i think you aren't defeated. You take over my best combat global and you have much armies with very good combinations of mages. Your huge arcane income give you a big advantage and good options to react. How many gems did you get from the nexus each turn?
Furthermore T'ien Ch'i decided to attack my backlands and take out most of my water provinces.

dont think this game is over yet as Agharta and I have some forces left to join the battle at some point. But in the moment it is not easy to say who will win, as ermor might be stronger now but Ulm with the Arcane Nexus will become very powerful in the long run. Too bad i neglected my scouting and cannot say how the war is going in the east.

Let me rephrase what I said and clarify what I actually meant: Ermor has dealt me some big blows that hurt me badly, and has huge and powerful forces ready to deal some more blows. If the two of us would be left alone I might still win a battle or two, kill of some stuff, and resist a while longer, but I don't see myself capable of doing any serious harm to his empire. That does not necessarily mean this game is over. If other nations launch a serious attack on Ermor, doing real damage and possibly forcing him to pull back some of his troops, Whatever I still have left at this point might help me hold out long enough for the nexus to pay of more, and then the situation could possibly change.

I also have only very poor information on the strength of the other nations, as T'ien Chi fought his war underwater and thus out of sight of my scouts, Man was on the opposite corner of the map and I only saw some minor engagement where unsupported knights fought of some stupid AI attacks, and Agartha actually hasn't fought any war yet (which could mean he has huge forces at his disposal) In none of these cases do I have the slightest idea of any independent mages they have that might widen their magical spectrum, of their gem income and reserves, of any kind of SC they might have, etc...

Oh, and the income of the Nexus is quite nice. It almost doubled my total gem income. (with less diversity obviously )