Ascendant - Game On!

[Shigure]

Renojustin said:
Stravinsky is dead! We bring freedom and democracy to the people of Kailasa.

Aiya. That turn didn't quite go off as planned. I was really hoping that my siege-breaking army would hold for one more round so I could pop off the last two earthquakes I had ready. Considering how injured your troops were from the first two, that should have been enough to cause you to rout with no adjacent province to escape to.

[Renojustin]

So we exchanged 150 troops for your god and your capital, and two irreplacable mages... not bad!

[kasnavada]

I think that R'lyeh, Abysia, and the rest have gone about their response to a large nation in an illogical way. You need to attack the weakest neighbor as soon as possible, to even be competitive at the next level. When you attack the strongest, you waste energy better spent ensuring that you even make it to the next round of players. And later your magic can make up for the difference. Basically you waste your miliary when you could instead be using them to conquer the weak and get an advantage for your own nation.

Claier will do the translation

Please, can you waste your armies in petty wars ? (I'm afraid of opposition)
Please, can you come at me one on one ? (I'm afraid of getting attacked)
Please, can you deplete your defenses against me so I can invade your back ? (I prefer to attack weak people so I grow stronger while the people that are strong don't get any stronger)
Please, can you let me grow even stronger while no one acts ?

Claire says, where are those ideas good for Claire ? Nowhere. Even suggesting those idea shows how little you thing of your opponents. Claire will not get willingly backstabbed by these "suggestion" that doom the world to your rule. Anyway, as far as Claire knows, the inaction of your early neighbours gave you a big enough advantage already. Claire means that you did take 3 nations without anyone interfering !

Sure, Claire will be going against large odds. She will probably lose. But Claire prefers to have a small chance of success and maybe hasten her death, but doing the right thing, rather than dying a cowardly death cowering in fear waiting for your armies to come pick Claire's territory.

[Renojustin]

Sauromatia no longer hears you, Claire.

Prepare yourself for annihilation.

[Vellon]

Military leaders of helheim, I advise you to remove yourselves from Arcosephale's territories and concede all provinces you stole from us in your greed. Our lord, the one true God walks the earth again, and is filled with wrath.

You have been warned.

[kasnavada]

Claire hopes for you that you do not win though. Claire says that by winning, you have large chances to dig your own grave because this time your victory will be recorded by all, and all will turn against you. Claire adds that by losing, for obvious reasons, your also dig your own grave.

Claire says that the smartest solution would have been yielding : you keep a chance to strenghten up, and don't make an ennemy of the entire world. That's the solution you didn't choose. Claire says it's funny how, for most would-be gods, pride is a more important thing than brains.

[Darkwind]

Yoth'Shothogg is running low on money due to spending 5-10x her resource spending in money. Perhaps a nation not fighting Sauromatia but eager to help could donate a few hundred gold coins to the cause? Or a nation fighting Sauromatia that has no use for some extra gold?