[Corinthian]

Welp, thats how it is when you cast Arcane Nexus. Either it gets dispelled directly and you loose or people fail to dispel it in time and the next cast is unbeatable and it is chayot apocalypse for everyone. I was working from the assumption that you got pearls from Pan, Oceania and Caelum and that you made somewhere between 80-200 pearls from the nexus every turn. As such I could not afford to not dispel it on turn one and neither could anyone else.

And as for four people... Well, four people offered sympathetic words. Three of them also promised pearls and two people delivered on those promises. (Abyssia!!!) But the great majority (80%) of the pearls were mine. And I had to alchemize quite a bit myself and had to overcast the dispels to guarantee success. Not cheap!

Also, your alliance is not half as doomed as you make it up to be. I would never consider a nation with a wisher and the village of strange men to be harmless. And both Oceania and Caelum have individually more thugs than I do. Both combined have three times the number of thugs that I do and thats considering I cant see parts of Oceania. Oceania got all the water queens, a Cyclops and at least 3 commander tarts that I can see. Not counting the one I killed. Oceania alone would be pretty scary if he was not frozen down under. It fit the name of his pretender though.

As a final note. Executor. Did you really intend for that big scary communion to cast returning? Were did they return to? Wasn't that their home castle?