[sum1lost]

This was in a game I just played about half of (two day lan marathon)... Poor guy is playing man, and has a pretty solid set of armies built around longbows, knights, and wardens, with a water bless. He decides to attack Ermor with two of his armies, and captures three territories and a chokepoint territory on an isolated landmass. At this point, Jotunheim attacks the rich farmlands with a surprise attack consisting of an unusual amount of vaettir wolfriders. He sends the armies back a step (Each around 130 men strong) to reinforce his newest army of around 80. At this point, roughly 800 ermorian undead and 200 living finally arrive late to the party. So, he sends his 260 men back to patrol the chokepoint (I've been astral windowing and scouting the whole thing), and pulls the new army into his capital, to bolster his forts against jotunheim.

The ermorian legions arrive, and are slaughtered (much of which is done by some indy preists and hydromanders)- except that they manage to kill a nasty commander (rhianne with defense 30, awe, luck, quickness and frostband), and around 60 troops. The loss of rhianne and some of the commanders means that the army is stuck one extra turn. It arrives just two turns before the jotunheim army breaks down the capital gate, attacks, and slaughters most of the researchers and man's god before routing. Man's armies then turn back the scattered jotuns, but man is down a lot of money and turns with the loss ofthe researchers and around 80 wardens and knights, plus some longbows.

On the way into jotunheim, man careens into a pythium army coming the other way, and gets slaughtered (longbows useless against towershields+storm). Jotunheim is gone, sure, but Man's magical and dominion spread are shot, as all of his resources are going towards defending against ermor.