I Would Be Sovereign - Newbie-intermediate game 8/8 - WINNER IMMACULATE(Mictlan)

[Immaculate]

So my shishi drop worked? I won?

If so thats the greatest comeback i have ever had. I thought i was dead. I opened a turn (don't remember which but its the one when bogarus and pythium forces were spilling across my border and i had a central fort under siege by skinshifters with no real answer to them- all while fighting patala in their homeland), went ai, thought about it- didn't submit, opened it again fresh and played it out... Thats how close i was.

[Ragnarok-X]

Nothing can be done about it.

Funny how you played your trump card, but it was trumped by another trump card. lol.

[Immaculate]

What do you mean by trump card?

i.

[Immaculate]

And does anyone want to give a brief and unoffocial AAR just to hear how things went, what their plans were etcetera?

[Tiavals]

For Bogarus, things were uneventful. I made NAPs with all of my neighbors, except Pythium. For much of the game, I intended to focus my attacks on Pythium. But as fate would have it, we became staunch allies. Then I decided to attack Ulm, when it seemed he was powerful, but we had a NAP with a most annoying clause of "will have to go on for 20 turns before can be cancelled", and I didn't realize it. So to pass the time I moved my armies to Mictlan, where they were promptly annihilated.
I realized I had to modernize, so I redoubled my research. By this time I had produced some 50 storm demons and had planned to have all my Starets cast Hellfire on the enemy, thinking that those forces combined would make short work of any foe. Then I intended to attack Ulm as I finally could. I took a handful of provinces, then it came to my attention that Mictlan was growing strong again and beat Midgard, so I tried to make peace with Ulm and planned with Pythium to attack Mictlan with all of our strength, I also tried to convince Ulm to do the same.
And then the game was over.

[Ragnarok-X]

Bogarus trump was obviously the Gift of Health he did cast this turn.

My Plan ?
Well, i was metagaming. Halberds kill Giants good and in addition i had ghoul guardians who could chop down wereskrattis.
Basicly, Utgard expanded too much into my direction and i was forced to attack him. I won 2 major battles and then i lost a major battle because i had a all my ranged troops on attack instead of fire.
I then got soul slay and a huge communion did take out loads of giants which is good, cuz i rather soul slay one size 4 giant than one size 2 human.

This turn, i had planned a blood communion with hellbind heart on a douzen skratti thugs and i they would have been mine. Then i would have conquered the sea above my capitol and attacked pythium together with ctis.
I had a couple devils under possesion (GoR) thugged out and one arch devil prophet.
My gem income was really, really bad despite more than average searchin imho.
But i had great research due to 3 quick forts and magic 3.

[Immaculate]

Well, i got to see the turn. I guess thats it.

Thank you all for a really great game. Sorry i whined about the 4v1.

Immac.

[Lumix19]

Hey all, thanks for a fun game. A surprising, and impressive, victory for Mictlan.

[Archmage]

Good game, everyone. I really thought I had Mictlan on the ropes--and then they come around and win everything!

[Immaculate]

you did have me on the ropes. i had no real good response to your shifters for a long time.