Fun little SP

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Attached is a screenshot from my current SP game. There's nothing amazing in the screenshot, no weird bug or silly amount of troops or anything of that nature. It's just to illustrate probably the most fun SP game I've had in dom3 so far.

Settings:
Late Era, 7 players.
Map: NI (no indy troops recruitable) Aran.
Mods: Conceptual Balance Mod Complete, Worthy Heroes, Streamers and Standards, CBM Ulm Reborn.

I'm playing as Ulm Reborn and the AIs are all 'Normal, Standard' because I started them as humans to sort out their settings and then switched to AI. I staled (did nothing but hit end turn) for the first 4 turns of the game to make fighting the AI more challenging. This is all stuff I do often, although usually I don't set up the AI nations, I just stick them on impossible.

The game has been a blast. Lagging four turns behind I was under attack pretty much before I'd even grabbed the provinces around my castle. Utgard were doing very well from the get go and decided to tangle with me, resulting in 6 or so turns of nasty fighting between us. My PD was worthless against them, so I ended up playing musical chairs with a big force of jotun huskarls and woodsmen, chasing them with my only real army, a squad of Neugeboren Guard. By cranking out drain immune white priests I'd managed to catch up the average AI nations in research, but I was increasingly having to use my whities to support my troops and smite away at giants.

Although with high resource cost high prot troops I had something of a disadvantage against giants, the penitent (flagellents) I was spawning made up for it and I managed to see them off, finally. By this point they were no longer running away with the game and both tienchi and regular Ulm had risen up to their level. That's when regular Ulm decided to attack me, just as all my armies moved over to throw the utgard scum out. I'm now fighting a war on two fronts, am basically totally surrounded and having to use my researchers, the white priests, to bail out my armies from total destruction. Hoch-Hammers and Black Templars have been my saving grace, tearing up jotuns and ghoul guardians alike. At this point I took the screenie. You can see it looks like a civil war between Ulm and myself, because we have very similar flags.

I just thought I'd share about this great SP game I'm having. Eventually it might turn into a tedious mess, at which point I'll drop it, but for now it's pretty damn exciting.

Anyone else got awesome little SP games on the go?