Bogus was very painful indeed since that fort was resource rich and I really needed more men to hold the line in our fights. Bogus shut me down right when i needed men the most (how much did you bribe him to attack simultaneous with your invasion?

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Pyth didn't really play dead. We took back what we could and then its just detrimental to have to use one's entire force of mages to counterattack since we need to keep up on research (Destruction would have been nice to get, Banner of NS would be nice too - difficult research makes all this tough though). My few Hydras got ripped to shreds - that was impressive.
Anyway, after we took back all the provinces you took, we hoped to force a standoff at that bottleneck province. Sadly I had just built a lab and found a magic site, when you overran me before I could get reinforcements - never even got to see what the magic province was.
Anyway, I always enjoy fighting and trying things out. Looks like we'll be overrun now but Pyth will fight to the end and see if we can do some damage on our way out. Maybe the new Jomon will take note of your words and renew the attack. Sounds like konming had some effective strategies for fightng Ashdod