Ooh! Look at that. Game's ended, and over a month ago now. (Gonna still necro the thread a bit to congratulate Micah. Hah!)
Your defense against my attack on you might very well be the best piece of strategy I've faced in my Dominions career thus far, and won you the game. Together with convincing Utgard to join you obviously. But without the stellar defence Utgard would just have been too late to help you, so I still maintain it is that defense that did it for you.
Although by the end (by which I mean the end for me, but not yet for you, obviously) actually playing the turns had become a nightmare, I still had great fun on a tactical/stragic level. Pitting my wits against the best the Dominions community had to offer certainly proved a serious challenge and I look forward to giving it another go at some time in the future. Maybe. Someday. If I can work up the courage. Or get me a slave monkey to actually do all the MM stuff while I ponderously ponder deep thoughts...