[Mightypeon]

Congrats to your win RonD! You see, there was a reason why I attacked Shinuyama early. From SP testing, I am fairly certain that Rose Ulm can Trollface/Rush anybody without something like an awake SC immortal Pretender early on (spies to lock down the cap, early summonable troops to get monomentum, Mages that dont need much research to kill things), so I tried took out the nation I saw as the largest threat asap. I may have did it without Acro interfering.
It was propably a bad move to attack Pythium without having the means to finish it quickly, but I saw a great opportunity to eliminate Pythiums standing army with some cooperation from Mictlan, which didnt quite work out as it should have (wasted an army I needed not to have lost).
The next mistake was no longer being diplomatically active, as well as not bringing Anti Thugs to bear earlier against Pythiums harbingers.