[llamabeast]

Apologies for that. I was in a twilight state of being doomed and trapped in my capital for... maybe 20 turns? And of course I couldn't talk to anyone. So I kind of lost track of things a bit.

I attacked Atlantis early for fun, and made progress until they started fighting back. It was looking to be a fun war, but then Jomon attacked me (fair play, I should have noticed them massing on my borders), and then Mictlan piled in on the next turn. Probably coincidence since I'm not sure Mictlan can have known what was happening. So my three turns were like:
n: Oh, Atlantis can actually kill my troops when they try! This should be a fun war.
n+1: Oh, Jomon has attacked. I have probably lost, but this could still be a fun war if I play well.
n+2: Mictlan has attacked. Ugh.

Anyway I quickly got trapped in my capital, and then sat there building Lifelong Protections with the blood slaves obtained from mages in my other fort (which Mictlan inexplicably didn't siege for ages. I also had a few Soul Contracts so my army was gradually improving. Finally I burst out of my capital and satisfyingly massacred Jomon's sieging army, and went on a brief rampage. After a few turns though he gathered an army to attack me. I was looking forward to thrashing him - my army was strong enough to last a few turns, and I had 6 Lifelong Protections, so time would swing the battle my way. However he had some flying things (can't remember what now - actually maybe it was Mictlan with Eagle Warriors) which swooped in and killed all my commanders with the Lifelong Protections on the first round of combat. Vastly disappointing.