Re: Host delay?
There's rarely any truly lasting consequences from having someone who's going to die stinging you - other than the fact that it slows you down momentarily which, in and out of itself, is something of that will have an ever so slight effect that will affect you forever. You know, in the form of a maybe slightly smaller troop number/research/etc in turn X after war (which is kind of a given), which is the best I can hope for in the first place.
And yes, I'm quite certain that you did need Abysia to help you out - as in, instead of him being in opposition of you, really. Although. Had you been alone and Abysia had stayed out, the effects of my raids would've been... I'd say, a lot worse for you (basically because I'm forced to rush and exert myself even more than I had originally intended), as Abysia wouldn't be lowering my income, forcing me to bring my mages and such closer to the capital instead of letting them sit where they were, running after my raid groups and so forth. Your poison arrows are little more than regular arrows for my armies as most of them are undead, and by extension, poison resistant. Only really scary thing you have are those durn sacred riders. Just against you, I would've expected a rather prolonged war which I would've lost as I couldn't have kept up in sheer numbers (my (gem) income is abysmal) I think, but still, a long war.
What I'm trying to say is that I was rather optimistic of my ability to fight the war until Abysia came in, too. At that point I knew I can't even survive for long. Throwing half of my armies on one of you and the other half on the other would've been suicide - your army sizes were practically identical to mine, and together they were TWICE the amount I had. I knew I had to fight one almost exclusively while giving the other practically free passage through my lands, or I wouldn't be able to do ANYTHING.
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I'm gonna go away on Friday and come back on Sunday, so could the turn be postponed if I haven't sent my turn? Puhleeze! This is an important time for my nation, as I try to cause some havoc on mah enemies before actually dying.
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