Randomocalypse - 5 players, randomly generated nations - Squirrelloid wins!

[Squirrelloid]

And what did you take as your pretender? A bless chassis? Great scales? Scary comes in multiple flavors. Mine is obviously doing research.

You seem to have chosen scales. So you're going to pass me in research at some point, its a matter of time. At least you would have if you hadn't committed many hundreds of gold to an army that has failed you. I think you've mistaken early research advantage for something that means I'm dominating. You should be looking at growth in RPs and rate of fort production. The first I will certainly start lagging in since i can't keep up in the latter.

In your shoes, I would have noticed yellow is obviously the scariest person to attack early, and chosen *anyone but*. You think I didn't research combat magic first thing?

Tell me, how exactly do you expect to beat me when your armies can't even beat my PD and modest army while my mages stay home?

[Lung Drago]

To be perfectly honest, I find myself divided.
It's true I feel uneasy and that something has to be done, yet I dislike ganging up on someone just because of that. Myself, I kinda expected the Starets to shine in the research graph; though it surprised me anyway how Yellow propelled himself forward. I mean none of us is stupid, all that's left is some boosters and/or little bit of gem income and we can be out-teched instantly. No great scales will help us here, and a bless is also at it's best in early and mid game only. Scales won't help at this moment as you say since they kick in much later and as you himself hint at at present time you can pick up a target for annihilation anytime. To summarize it, your strategy can kick itself up at a later time too. So, it's kind of understandable the situation provoked a reaction.

So, what will I do in the end? I think nothing. I'd like to keep the province I conquered just now, since it follows a rule "2 provinces to capitol" which I find myself fair (and would make the conditions for NAP anyway) and won't engage any further. This conflict is in the end very pointless as erasing Yellow from the map is not a solution in my opinion anyway. It's only being too trigger happy. Shame on me I didn't realize this a little bit earlier, I suppose. This only kills the enjoyment for Squirrelloid and I can be scaring away in a corner that my maenad hordes will provoke a game-wide attack on me too. Guilty of empathy.