[Squirrelloid]

AAR:
I ran a forge lord pretender. I don't remember if he was awake or asleep, but i think he was asleep. Hung my early expansion on troglodytes, because they're the only unit you have which can actually kill indies efficiently.

Discovered my neighbors were Arco (ok), Mictlan (ouch), and Nieflheim (double ouch). Resign myself to an early death.

I'm pushing construction as hard as i can while site searching manually from turn ~4 with a D2E3 oracle. My pretender wakes up and starts spitting out hammers and then skull mentors. I build a second fort.

Turn 20 passes and no one has attacked me. I boggle at Nieflheim and Mictlan and keep researching. I think i'm pushing Evocation now, but it might have been conjuration.

Turn 33: Mictlan finally attacks. My second fort gets overrun and he rampages through my lands despite my research advantage. I huddle in my capital and finish some last minute research before emerging, then tearing my walls down so i can keep researching while defending from his army while it returns. (Need all my mages)

Virtually annihilate Mictlan's army when it tries to retake my capital.

I've got Evo 6 and Ench 6 and Conj 5 at this point for sure, I'm running down Alteration for Darkness, having a D3 Oracle by sheer luck. I'm burning most of my gems on summons.

I annihilate a second Mictlan army. Do some counter pushing to try to get some gem and gold income.

Laugh when Lanka and Niefl die before I do.

On the turn i finish Alt 6 a Mictlan assassin with B2 (the first i've seen it) gets lucky and picks off my D3 Oracle.

At some point here Mictlan gets jumped by Helheim, and deals with them while continuing to send massive armies my way.

I think I repel one more major Mictlan army, and then die to the next one: having literally spent every last gem on summons to keep me alive.

Summons used: statues, claymen, cave drakes, fire drakes, umbrals. Basically anything that might hold the line long enough for me to drop bladewinds and magma eruptions on jag warriors.

Each Mictlan army I remember was like 200 jags + beast bats + etc..., often with Onaqui and Mictlan Priests carting blood slaves. There was an Arch Demon eventually.

If Mictlan had attacked me on turn ~12 (or earlier) like they should have, i wouldn't have had the research or material to do anything.