[AdmiralZhao]

Contrary to my earlier joking, I would agree with Pelthin. I'm still looking at two Ashdod armies of 400+ units, they still have complete control of their capital, and they are still making an SC per turn. It would be nice if we could put down one threat (Ashdod) before starting the ritual drawing and quartering of the next threat (Shinuyama).

As to the comment about why people haven't ganged up on rising leaders, I would say that they have, since that is what I, Man, and others did to Ashdod. And as you have seen, it is thankless work, and likely to lead to your death either from the original threat or from the nations you are trying to save. It now looks like the spiders that we so doted on, that we sent so many lovingly prepared care packages, are now turning their many, many eyes away from us. I think that truly hurts worst of all.

Honestly, all that a dis-illusioned Shinuyama wants to do at this point is retire in peace back to the farm, having done its part to save the greater community of nations. We'll even go further than our previous guarantee, and will leave Ashdod in possession of its Mictlan holdings and all its other territory in the west. That will quickly level off the province graphs you are so worried about, even if I am successful against Ashdod.