[Carkaton]

Well being that I was the only one at war with him, that he sent his 10 to 15 man squads of giants at me that got wiped out with the only losses being my skeleton spam and a couple afflictions on my pretender, then with his lack of response, I'd say that it isn't "quite an assumption". He had no answer to me, and instead of try and figure one out, he quit.

Now as for my actions after he quit, yes I did exploit the lack of control of his troops. I didn't wait until i was sure he was going to stale before submitting my turn, but after the 2nd stale I had a good idea he wasn't coming back. I ask you this. After fighting and killing him on an even field of battle repeatedly, what would you do?

I feel that I have earned the lands, that this was an inevitibility that just took a few turns less than planned. Maybe he would've found an answer to the skel spam, but the AI wouldn't have, and his position wasn't exactly a great one to get a sub into. You see, his giants never retreated, N9 bless with beserk ftl, so when he lost it hurt his pocket bad. Giants aren't cheap. And by the time I got to his jarl squad leader he was already at 100+ fatigue from casting his own skels(trying to match my many sauromancers with his one jarl wouldn't work). An easy kill for sure.

As for being left with a sour taste in regards to MP play, well what are you going to do? Make sure everyone is equal in skill? I'm the same newbie he is, just that I happened to have a good answer to his poorly chosen bless and battle plans, and beat him into submission. I can't apologize for this. Please remember this, He did not kill ONE of my casters when he was controlling his army while he lost 1000's of gold worth of giants. It's not as if he was effective when he was playing.

However if there is something that you other players feel that I did wrong, I am open to solutions. As for finding a sub, well I own all his lands save 2, his capitol is under siege and with a presumably superior force than his researchers(time will tell).

I will admit fault in not tipping Edi off to turn him to AI 2 turns ago, but what kind of jerk would I have been if he came back wanting to put up a final struggle(who knows maybe he wants to still, one last chance to bloody my nose. I hope he does.)