Allrighty, I have made myself AI. There isn't anything I can at this point against Sauromatia.
For those intrested, my "build" was:
W9A9D4B4!? Sleeping Blue Dragon with:
Dominion 4
Order 1
Sloth 3
Heat 3
Death 3
Misfortune 1
Even with sloth 3, Hinnom one scary nation (althought I couldn't build Melqarts, I didn't have the resources
). Expanding with Horites was suprisingly effective and with the farmlands near me, I was able to expand pretty well. My gold income rocketed and I was able to spam forest forts like mad. Mt blessing proved very scary on the few sacreds I was able to build. I was really confident in my start, but I forgot one crucial thing.
Never, ever, neverever, mess with Baalz playing with a nation that has blood and death access
So I attacked Sauromatia and things were going pretty well, but then he managed to kill my god by routing him and taking the single available retreat province. Apparently he had Medusa as his god that was able to fly to that retreat province I thought was 100% secure. This why you use scouts, kids! I was pretty dependant upon my god, and I didn't have the temples or the priests to call him back.
Baalz then continued to spoil my fantastic gold income with well placed Arouse Hungers, which apparently now with CBM boosts can beat giant PD under strenght 5. Didn't see that coming at all. When the Toads started dropping from the skies, my capital was shut down and my sweet sacreds with it.
With my gold income spoiled, so was my research, as I couldn't keep recruiting Ammies. As Baalz kept on pouring new and new toys at me, I was forced to send more and more mages to support my armies in the front-lines, which slowed my research even further.
Really, I'm sort of embarrased. I could have done better, but I'll take this an learning experience. My only saving grace was my Mazzikims, that kicked some serious arse with str boosts and body etheral (being size 1, you can hit five of them with single casting).
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