When I decided to launch my Alpha-strike, Khora had 2 armies besieging the 2 last Aurum forts. 1 big army on top of his cap, and 1 medium army on top of the other fort.

I launched the attack so that his armies were entirely surrounded, and thanks to my extra-mobility in my dominion, I could gather quite sizeable armies against them. They stood no chance and were entirely annihilited, meaning he lost probably more than 80% of his sacreds and all of his best mages in 1 turn.

After that, the player didn’t know what to do and I conquered the rest almost unopposed until I got his cap turn 72 and he went AI. In the end I lost more against the AI than against the player … there were several things he could have done to make my life hard, but he didn’t (put S1 mages in provinces to spam his national S1 charm spell against my thugs, use more of his seducers given the low morale of my mages (he used them against my higher-morale knights which were also males when they were made to seduce females…)).

It is interesting to note they got vultured by Fenrel and Markgrafdom only very late when I had already taken most of his 50 provinces.

This campaign was such a huge success, on turn 75 I had 120 provinces, 10.000+ gold per turn and 298 gems per turn …