Well, in the game I'm referring to I started sandwiched on a side between niefelheim and ulm. After a long period of peace that I shouldn't have gone through but did because I am a bit too peaceful for my own good, I attacked ulm. I was halfway or so through killing ulm when caelum, who was in a very open area and had just been playing with a nation that went AI for a while, decided to attack me. I finished off ulm while madly forging items and grabbed for the diplomacy stick. A few turns later, the diplomacy stick broke as another nation decided to attack the one helping me (the only other nation bordering caelum), so now I am pretty much stuck fighting them on my own. I'm pretty much holding my own, but this turn he brought in an air queen with full elemental resistances that I'm not quite sure what to do about. I have a few ideas but one of the biggest problems I'm encountering is simply a lack of mobility. I don't have the air paths to forge boots of flying and the terrain is pretty rough, so the fairly small number of dai oni I have are going to have trouble getting to it to try and bring it down.
I think the game in question would be a fun one to watch if two expert players were given command of mine and my opponent's nations, but I suspect my position is not one terribly likely to survive
Anyway I'm getting a bit off topic so I'll try not to go on about my game anymore.