Ah... and I finally got my hands on an Adon. I guess I should have deployed one of my Tartarians earlier, too, even if she was undergeared.
It was great fun. Thank you, Septimius! Thank you, Vets! Thank you, fellow noobs!
Personally, I don't think I'll join a team game again, unless the teams are only 3 or 4 players strong. I'm in four other games; I still spent more time on each turn in NvsV3 (reading forums for team mate reports, posting the same, etc...) than in all 4 other games combined. It was fun, but it was a little draining.