[melnorjr]

I'm not sure that that is necessarily true, Ironhawk. I could be fighting down in my little corner of the world, then get SC's dropped on my head with cloud trapeze or simple flying from somewhere I can't see, and them just smash my entire nation. Marignon basically did this to me this game, though not with enough vigor to kill me, just mess me up a bit, because I had no available counters.
I was busy getting counters ready for other things that I was fighting at the time, and his SC dropped on my head. This doesn't mean that I don't understand the tactic - I knew he would eventually be putting out angel SCs, but I was too busy fighting other things to be able to counter that too. What lumen wants is to be beaten by things he doesn't already understand. Being a noob, I hadn't encountered the skinshifter tactic atul is using. By itself it's not going to beat me, but it was something new. Other than that, I havn't fought (or heard of being used) anything I don't already understand and know.