R'lyeh hopes everyone has spies in Sauro's cap, so that instead of being just a total and complete disaster, it will have been an entertaining total and complete disaster. Entertaining for the spies, that is.
Here's what the sneaky AI did:
First, it lulled me into a false sense of security by doing crazy stuff like kitting out commanders with hammers and clams and double blood stones, and sending them to their death.
Then, it vacates the capitol, sending its armies out to take back useless provinces, instead of securing the gates. Oooh! Oooh! Oooh! If I invade now, I could take the capitol, and those damn vampires won't have anywhere to come back to! Muuu ha ha ha ha ha! I thought.
So, land on the capitol, have to leave a couple muttering tartarians behind, oh well, no time to waste! And bingo! Walls ripped down the very same month. Time to invade!
Everyone's all set to storm, just a couple straggler Sauromatian armies in the neighboring provinces, nothing to worry about right? Where did all the vampires go? Bah, Agartha must have killed them or somethin'.
And ... BAM! Sauromatia flies its 60 Vampire Lords back to the capitol with accompanying vampire chaff army, and fights my army before it storms the castle. It's a frikking Disintegration machine gun. 'Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff' Only, not to worry ... I've got Antimagic up, so I lose my iron dragons, and a couple of Abominations, but almost all my SCs survive, and demolish the vampire army.
Except ... the buggers instantly resurrect inside the castle walls, and I only had ONE pearl on my Antimagic caster, and this time it's 'Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff' again but I've got no more chaff and my MR bites and ARGH! All the vampires are just fine, sitting in the castle, the few stragglers of my army that survived are scattered about, and I'm not even back to square one, I'm at like, square minus nine hundred and fifty.
Curse you, evil AI! Curse you, Executor, and your vampire hordes!
Agartha, please stop mucking about with your Chalice-stealing, and just come kill me now.
-- R'lyeh
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