[LDiCesare]

Given your position and troops, you should take out those giants'castle south of you.
I can't really comment about your start. You had a lot of bad luck early on, but then so did I. Afterwards, I don't know Tir na n'Og. I know Eriu relies on thugs a lot, but Tir na n'Og may have some troops worth recruiting?
I did rather well once started, but I think EA T'ien Ch'i is very strong and a W9F9N4 bless makes my warriors of the 5 elements very hard to kill and very good at killing. The demons of heavenly rivers are just awesome with such a bless, too. My starting fever fetish also provided me with lots of fire gems, which let me field an insane amount of demons of heavenly fires, who are really good against Niefel giants. So my strategy was Conjuration for the awesome national summons, followed by evocation for acid bolts and rain. I could use flaming arrows too but haven't really had the opportunity.

I'm trying to take out Hinnom's underwater fort and Atlantis's funny southern province with a big thing I've never seen in the middle of the province. I don't know what it is, but it looks big.