[Squirrelloid]

I thought I might be able to kill Mictlan faster than Jotunheim could kill TC for a couple reasons. (1) Mictlan looked somewhat overextended. (2) TC had been turtling all game, surely they had something awesome up their sleeve that would hold Jotunheim for awhile (ha ha - no). (3) Mictlan had enough VPs to put me within a reasonable distance of winning - figured I'd finish of BL and Pangaea for the final two in all likelihood (BL would probably be the harder of the two). (4) There was no way in hell I was going to attack Jotunheim, therefore, only by attacking Mictlan could I get enough VPs to win.

There were two reasons I wasn't going to attack Jotun:

First, I was pretty sure Jotunheim was ready for me to do attack him, and it would be bad for me. In IRC Micah confirmed my fears that attacking Jotun would've been the death of me - not exactly how I thought, but probably even more brutal than I expected.

Second, Zeldor, you attacked me first (in former Van territory). I had no reason to believe you weren't massing forces to begin a real invasion, so with the likely threat of a war with Mictlan *regardless* of what I did, there certainly wasn't any way I was attacking Jotunheim.

Further, even if I do attack Jotunheim, why do you come in against Jotun and not me? Just like you could give me enough VPs to make victory plausible, I could do the same for you. So I see no reason to suspect people would join in against Jotunheim when I'd make at least as tempting a target.

Of course, when it became apparent that Mictlan was capable of stalemating me (ugg.. Undead Mastery everywhere!), it was pretty clear who the winner was going to be.