Byleswar (GAME IN PROGRESS)

[licker]

Heh, no no, I've tried that in another game where my allie agreed to have a massive battle royale, but after a turn of figureing out the logisitics of getting our mega armies inplace for it we both decided it wasn't actually worth the effort.

I'm sure you could cause me some problems, but honestly, I don't think I've lost more than 5 or 6 jarls all game, and I've been building them nonstop since probably turn 4, so I have over 50 of them, and some are earth empowered, many are boosted to A2 for CT and my packs of Niefels can warp around with either the flying ship or the gate stone.

Any dangerous looking thugs I have 4 or 5 different hunting spells to target them with, an dangerous looking armies which are not Caelean... can be torn to pieces unless they are cold immune, and I've even built up my fire mages to the point where I can spam fires from the sky remotely.

I'd love to hear from Radiogibbon though, he may have a wish factory going on, or any other number of silly Astral end game strats (though his gem income has been pretty poor all game, unless he's been claming like crazy) he wants to try out. I do have a Tartian factory going though, and will expand it to 2 per turn if I really feel like I need to

I've got anything I want researched researched, so I don't really even know what to do with my researchers anymore. I don't have a huge blood economy, but with the amount of blood mages I have I could turn one on at any moment if I really wanted/needed to, though it would take a couple turns to get the logistics of it worked out, and frankly, after playing LA Ulm I don't really want to bother with more blood economy micro nonsense.

My gem income is huge, and getting bigger as Caelum loses land to me, the forge is massively overcast at this point, but I have such a huge earth income (including blood stones...) that even if it went down I could put it up again easilly.

My only weakness is dominion, but what do I really need it for? I can freeze any province I need to attack, and its not as though either of you are running big heat scales anyway.

Obviously, since I seem to be winning, I'm happy to call this game, but I hope Marverni has something to try on me, though even if he can put a good sized and maged army or two out there, I can raid him (really anyone) to death while that army takes whatever overland spells I can throw at it.

I'm thinking I can be raided as well, but Caelum really didn't have too much overall success with it, and I have so many SCs and Thugs (haven't even mentioned my conjuration bonus site cranking out death summons like crazy...) that I can take stuff back easilly, and even garrison things if I really wanted to.

[rdonj]

Yeah, I don't really think it would be feasible for anyone to defeat you at this point. Even both me and marverni together, unless he has some really nasty surprises in store for you. Me, I've been gearing up most of the game to kill bird people, not giants. Some of that overlaps, but I would definitely want to change things around for anti-giant duty and I don't think I'd have enough time at this point to do it before I was crushed. I certainly don't have anywhere near your number of SCs, so I would have to rely on mage-backed armies and anti-sc groups... I think I could kill a few more jarls than caelum did, but overall I would expect to lose horribly I only bothered to deploy counters to what caelum actually used at least once, so there are areas I haven't really developed terribly much that would be enormously more useful against you. For one thing, I hardly have any of my main battle mages because every remotely large battle included a storm... rendering my hannyas incapable of hitting a damn thing. There's also a school or two I haven't finished off because I more or less haven't been fighting big army battles against caelum since turn 30 or so, when one of his massive armies with storm/wrathful skies/air elementals/thunderstrike spam was defeated by one of my massive armies of demons and lightning immune thugs. I actually outlasted him, his wrathful skies killed enough of his own 75% resistant troops to make him rout Of course my losses in non-immune units were pretty horrific, so it was pretty much a mutual decision not to waste our resources on one another.

Anyway, I'm just not prepared for it, it would take me over a year to even think about invading you and I'm going to have my hands full with caelum for a while in any case. I'm surprised you've lost so few jarls, I must have seen the deaths of nearly every jarl who died. It was giving me the impression that you were actually having some vague level of difficulty :P