Congratulations Turms!!!
Seems like there was no way of stopping you! My Caelian forces were a bit distracted by my Ally T'ien Chi turning AI suddenly, which was quite nasty having our provinces interspersed thanks to flying. But I do not think that this would have made a big difference...
I wondered why those mages banes seemed ineffective against you AirQueens, but if I recall it correctly, I think the Mage Bane wielders were placed badly and did not even try to attack them, right? I just reforged the matrices for communion (after killing the first caelian communion of with a seraph casting rain of stones on himself grr!), one of those incineration rods and prepared myself to get an iron dragon, but it was all to late and would just have been a single attack squad...
It was a pretty interesting game, especially in the beginning versus Arco and Marignon, though it was somehwat disappointing with both Abysia staling from the time when I was ready to attack them and Tien Chi suddenly turning AI at the same time. Both might have been helpful if they used their forces to help against that Pythian invasion! Fighting Pythium made the game interesting again after Abysia & TienChi being absent!!!