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A message has arrived from Pangaea
The people of Pangaea hereby issue a cry for help from all nations bordering Mictlan. Mictlan has devoted massive resources to an unsuccessful siege of our capitol and are constantly increasing their presence here with no success. Their troops will soon fall to disease and given their efforts to take our capital they cannot have many troops in reserve for defense of their own nation.
Now is the time to strike at Mictlan while they pay for the upkeep of over 200 sick and diseased troops and leave themselves vulnerable to attack from other nations.
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You make this sound like its my first rodeo. The only way to know for sure if my troops are diseased is to engage them, even if it is with only one commander. (A summoned mound king maybe?) Clearly you haven't done this recently or else you would know that my guys are just fine. Remember that all of the supplies are located outside of your castle, not in it. I'm sitting on 706 supplies a turn. Besides, I have nature mages and clearly would not let starvation happen to my army if that is an option.
Now, if you knew I was starving and in enemy dominion then you could defeat me easily with a little thaumaturgy. Panic spam plus a -6 (maybe -5, can't remember) moral penalty would probably cause me to rout easily. Then your fast as lightning maeanads could pick my non-flying guys off as I retreated.
Since this is not the case I wouldn't advise this. Instead I would research Alteration. If Mass Protection was in reach then you could turn all of your naked chaff into naked medium infantry. If Mass protection is too far away then wooden warriors is a much more obtainable substitute.
I also need to make a clarification. A reasonable strategy for me at this point is to begin a dominion kill rather then commit more troops. In this case I need only to have an army large enough to match what you have inside. Now that I have limited your income to the best of my ability I can hope that you reach a cap based on upkeep cost. I have never expect you to lose units to disease as Pangaea can easily counter starvation. Your capitol alone supplies you with enough gems to make a bag of wine a turn, more if you've made a hammer. If you're suffering from starvation and can make bags of wine then I suggest you do so.
I know that all this advice is against my interests, but still I wish you the best of luck.