[cthulhu]

Yeah, I'm killing Pythium. I've been fighting him and Japan. Japan kicked my ***, but now seems willing to leave it be without pressing the fight. Pythium rolled over and played dead except for a little bit when I moved too much of my resources to dealing with Japan. Abyssia also has been keeping a huge (400+) army on my border for a turn or three but he hasn't attacked me, so I hope that army is just for dealing with the monkeys he's been fighting. And I border China too, who the graphs say is absolutely kicking ***, but I can't afford to fight him too, and besides the territory around there is too hard to march my armies through.

Pythium:
For fighting my guys, I thought your tactics were reasonably effective. A few more soldiers would have helped, more communioned (or banner-of-the-northern-starred) S1s casting paralyze would have helped, I just had more gold to pour in to the armies that you did, especially since I dragged your income down a bit (when did communions start working decently? last time I tried communion strats, 4 masters with 32 reinvig 11 slaves killed all the slaves from excessive fatigue in about 12 turns of casting... though that was like version 3.07 or thereabouts...)
And that Bogus attack on your 2nd keep the same turn I attacked you was seriously bad luck. I don't know what it cost you to get rid of him.