Just as I was giving up hope
Your raiders totally washed the floor up with my army. Since at the beginning of the game i didnt have a developed scouting network i would be grateful for ur AAR or some sketch of the events. Here is mine:
One reason I like playing with abysia, is the numerous, very different and still viable pretender builds i have found to be made up. this time i wanted to try a bless strategy (which i never did before). Since the new CBM buffed production (its neccessary for the lava warriors), and it was a very small map, with lots of anticipated early conflicts, I thought it was the perfect time to do that. A nature bless would have helped a lot, but there is no pretender that can give N and high E bless and still have points for scales, so I thought an E8S9 Sphynx with superhigh dominion will give me just enough options: good bless for the lava warriors, high S for the Strands of Arcane Power (i wanted to try this too finally), the E bless would help my demonbreds a lot. I took death scales, so heavy bloodhunting was out if the question, i planned sacrificing that few virgins i collected (synergying with the high dom of the sphynx). My plan was to sit a little, castle up, then be opportunistic and attack someone asap. So:
Right after the indies got conquered, i saw mictlan attack Ermor. After some early success for the triple great blessed jaguars, Ermor (ghoul) played excellently, using apostacy casting archtheurgs, he beat the aztec army back! I ordered all my infantry in the meantime to the border already, and after some great losses for Mictlan I launched the offensive. The mictlan capitol got under siege in mere 4 months, with the remaining forces trapped inside the fort. After about two more months of siege, a desperate and quite dangerous breakout was attempted, and failed: i was recruiting only demonbreds in my capitol, and they easily flyed there, preaching mictlan out, then calling incinerating fire on the defenders. At this point, i was surprised u didnt put ur hand on the most northern mictlan provinces. it took me about half a year to conquer all of them, i was very cautious and slow. After the conquest i planned to rest a bit, but Ermor invaded some of my border provinces, so i have found myself in war again. Ermor summoned up about 50 behemoths by the end of the war, and was able to cast Rain, exploiting my one-dimensionality: my amry consisted only heavy infantry, lava warriors and firecasting demonbreds. His offensive cought me with my pants down. i had to rush to research fire shackles (of whats its name) against the behemots, and some blood spells to circumvent the Rain, but in the meantime i tried to domkill him. When Ermor attacked, I thought up the main storyline for the game: i saw u battling, and beating machaka. I knew, that As soon as u defeat the africans, u will attack me. i thought i had not much chance versus the combined might of u two, so i thought i had to finish off my second opponent while u finish ur first. Barely, but managed.
Then those tuathas came. I had absolutely no experince in fighting them, and in retrospect i had no weapons versus them at all. I began to recruit warlocks since u had rain too. I researched mindhunt, and forged all the penetration items, it took me about a year... then I managed to got Strands up. I wonder, what do u think about it? Did it hinder u? to what extent? what mages did it kill or feeblemind? Then I researched Looming Hell, which seemed very weak, but on the other hand it killed one tuatha, and a dozen cu shidhe and made u assign bodyguards, for a mere 60 slaves. Still not impressive, but i wonder what ur opinion is! I have made A LOT of testing, trying to figure out a way to deal with those stealthy raiders, and i have fiund an answer: frozen heart. but i had zero research in alteration at that time. Now i know: in similar situations, it worth hiding away the armies in forts, until i can counter the raiders. two more working counters: stellar cascades (and some chaff) kills a lonely tuatha, just as the rod that spits acid.
At one point, i thought about giving up, but the last 5-6 turns i was playing only for the domkill, seeing it as my only chance. i didnt even patrol for the disease spreading scout(?) (who was he?), knewing the game wouldnt last long enough for the disease to kill anyone.
I was sacrificing like mad for the last 30 turns, and had about 12 idol-carrying assassins and scouts hinding everywhere they were needed.
Did the Melancholy spell in the last turn get thru ur air dome?
Thanks for the game, and showing me the true might of Eriu, i was very impressed, u played great!
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