[Xietor]

I think Shinuyama equates his downfall with the end of the game. Certainly Ctis, Ermor, and perhaps even the Ryleh have as good a shot as Pythium at winning this game.

Pythium loses troops every turn, and spends gems every turn. Though we do not feel obligated to post the news for public viewing.

If Shin wanted to give completely accurate reports for last turn, he could say how his mages spammed banefire and gifts from heaven on my trolls and summer lions killing them all.

He would report on killing untold troops with flames from the sky, and diseasing them with leprosy.

And while a Seraph is indeed a SC, harbingers are thugs. So Pythium does not have 5+ sc's running around anyone's land.
Pythium owns 1 and only one seraph, and regrettably he be horror marked(:

But Pythium is winning the war with Shinuyama.