Re: AAR: Pyrothere
Well, I was Tien Chi.
I had a e9 cyclops with very good scales (my only bad scale was sloth, I assumed that I'd start next to two forests like everyone else, still it was ok).
I was next to Ermor, Utgard, Ulm and Bogarus. When I had some scout reports about very large forces of giants on my borders I prepared for a war and allied with Ermor (evil me), but when he then attacked Utgard it became quickly apparent that I'd have a very large Undead empire killing my population below me, so I cancelled the NAP and attacked Ermor instead.
Asking a few people for help (sorry about just sneak through my province it will be fine...) I took a large force of mages and whatever priests I could get and went southwards. This is something I later regretted bitterly, as when I came to artifacts and uniques a good bunch was already taken. Often the mages did nothing better than banish, but I couldn't pull priests out of my hat and still, when Ermor was finally down to one province my initial force of about 40 mages had melted to 10. During the war I built tons of temples to prevent Ermors (and to a lesser extent Ulms) dominion from spreading and to have priests. When Bogarus was quickly conquering Midgard and I made war plans against him, organizing my mages into strike teams (called hordes) and giving them funky chinese names to remember what they were supposed to do.
I'd have been mostly trying to drown him in undead chaff (I had the priests anyway, why not kill them off? Only that the armageddons then made their death final), with my mages having a variety of SC killer spells at their disposal. I also tried to thug out some ancestor smiths for cheap raiders but this worked not so well, when I tried it against Ulm.
In the end it never happened since the Ermor front grinded to a halt on his range of castles and with so many around me going AI in the end I had lots of other engagements (I wasn't really happy about Bogarus taking a lot of these from me, though) and letting Ermor just regain two or three territories would've ment a lot of pain again.
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