LoloMo 
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Re: LA R\'lyeh
Since everyone is laying down their cards, hehe, I'll show mine too.
I was pulling in about 120 Astral Gems from Clams, and about the same number of Earth Gems from blood stones. Making 4 clams and 4 blood stones per turn. I was wishing for gems every turn, and had started in motion another unit to do 2 wishes per turn. My problem was recruiting enough units to put all the stuff I was forging. Most of them were reserve items that I wasn't expecting to use immediately. I had the Steel Oven Construction bonus, so that even though I had access to the forge as part of the Sinister Six Alliance, I found it more convenient to forge my own.
If pressed I would have been capable of 15 seeking arrows, 10 earth attacks, and 6 ghost riders per turn, while still doing all the forging and "turtling" activities. Plus I had prepared a batch of stealthy assasinating Claws of Kokytos casting Spectres that I was about to seed around to catch raiding SCs hehe. Also lots of Druid led raiding Shadow Vestals, a lot of them with flying carpets. I had only used a few squads against Pythium and they were surprisingly effective, enough to probably win me the war by themselves. I had quite a lot of specialized units in reserve that I planned to use to fight a gem efficient war against SCs. I had also planned to use huge communions with my cheap Astral and Death mages.
I had been holding back in the war against MA C'tis, going for gem efficiency rather than a quick kill, as I did not want LA R'lyeh to conclude that it was over for MA C'tis and reveal himself as an ally of MA C'tis. My theory was that the longer the game run, the bigger my advantage gets, especially since no one seems to think that I was clamming =) Without the Steel Oven, I probably would not have spent the huge resources needed to get clamming started.
The biggest danger for me the entire game was in the beginning in the war against Abysia. My vestals were not very effective against heat auras and the dragon pretender, plus they had control of the steel oven then. Then Vanheim joined Abysia in fighting me. I had to pretend to be a lot stronger than I was at that time to get those two to agree to non simultaneous ceasefires, that allowed me to eventually concentrate on Abysia.
After that I had to forge diplomatic ties to keep out of war while I leverage the Steel Oven advantage.
It makes me feel better that someone else of note had trouble with EA Abysia as a 1st foe as well. I will lay down my cards as well Lolomo. You were fighting one fist of my army. My main army sat in my in my mainland. I was hoping to draw out the full tartarian hordes of la ermor and whatever you had up your sleeve in a remote part of the world-which did not connect to my mainland.
I was prepared to lose several tartarians and that gated army, formidable though it was, to draw la ryleh into the war on my side. I figured that was my only hope longterm to even have a possible shot to win. get la ryleh involved, get my advance force killed off, then build up myself while la ryleh took over the fight against the Ermor faction.
of course all of that was before i found out he was wishing 5 times a turn. had I known that i think we could have just declared him the winner.
