[johnarryn]

The reason I was fairly confident of victory was my 8000 gold income a turn (about 5500 after upkeep) and the fact that I had a gem income of more than 40 of each gem type (except water, it was like +33). So I was pulling in a simply massive amount of all types of gems, was forging all the unique items at Construction 8, summoning up the kings and queen at Conjuration 8 and getting ready to start my Tartarian factory. I also killed Micah's Jarl that had the Aegis (and then stole it) through some nice luck (and the use of a black bow of botulf that feebleminded the Jarl before he could Soul Vortex). All kinds of craziness.