[JimMorrison]

Honestly? No, you did not get "outplayed", as you say, you won the war. However, you did get taken off guard. I can list a bunch of things that can cause you a ton of grief in this game if you are not totally prepared for them already.

Should VoTD be moved a little deeper, say level 6 in research? Maybe, maybe not. I'm sure you may have noticed, S+D combo is not exactly common in the game. The spell is cleverly tuned to only be somewhat economical to a very select group of nations. For everyone else, it requires their pretender to cast, or empowerment. Was it his pretender? So, you're mad that his pretender cast a spell that killed your pretender?

The more rabidly you defend your position, the more you make me feel that my original satire of your first post, needn't have been qualified as a joke, and just been left as the honest and biting satire that it is.

Did I mean it lightheartedly though? Yes, I did indeed. And you took the little jab on the chin, and feel into a berserker rage. Is it too late for the icewater?