After taking Khora’s Throne, I was 2 thrones away from victory. There were 3 potential targets : 1 throne that for all purposes looked like it should be Tortuga’s. I decided not to risk a bump or a diplomatic argument. The other ones were one west of Khora in Diamedulla’s territory, and one south-west of Aurum in LA Edranor territory. Given the positions of my armies, if they went 1 prov per turn, both armies would mostly arrive on site at the same time.

Also, given the time-table, they would both arrive in Autumn, when my Autumn queens would be the strongest (E4, H3). H3 meaning able to claim thrones.

Finally, when I reached Const 8 I was surprised to find the Horror Harmonica was there, so I forged it with my 2nd Ether Lord, and it would be useful later to counter-raid and disperse armies poised to stop me.

So now let’s talk about Diamedulla which was one of the most powerful nation in the game. This is a bit of a diplomatic mess. I had first promised Anthikythera to help them against Diamedulla, so I sent a NAP breakage message ….. one of the turn they stalled. They didn’t get it and I resent it just before it broke. I asked for 3 provinces in return to keep the NAP …….. they accepted (I took the said provinces turn 65). So I didn’t keep my word to Anthihythera.

So I sent some gem and gold support. Anthikythera did a very good job holding him off (he had had a very aggressive RP strategy and had already unlocked every single spell), while I was carving a huge territory in Khora. And I was starting to make plans for the last thrones. So after only 6 or 7 additional turns I finally broke the NAP for good. A little after, the player disappeared, probably both fed-up with losing against the robots and having to fight the now most powerful nation (first attack occured turn 73 as the NAP came to an end).

And so began the march for the thrones. Markgrafdom had started to vulture Khora and had cut off the way to the Diamedulla throne. I didn’t hesitate and striked one of his army, killing half of it and most of the mages there (battle Turn 75). I also started to raid Edranor to open the way for my army there.

Nothing really tried to oppose the Last March. I did a few Horror Harmonica golem raids on Markgrafdom to put pressure on him, but by turn 78, I was sitting on both thrones and had them cracked.

Meanwhile, I also captured the 2 diamedullan forts closest to my border and went on taking his cap, because why not, while starting to flame from the sky everywhere (Markgrafdom, the Edranor throne, a big Diamedullan stack, …).

Also, I asked tortuga why he had left this throne neutral on the north of Khora. Apparently, the pirates were too drunk to see it and it was labelled “uncharted territory”. So I decided to take it just to ensure I’d finish this if one of the other thrones failed. So I sent a full magical phase attack. I tried to make it fun : summon 500+ insects, put Army of Gold, Fog Warriors and Will of the Fates on them, and look at the poor defender of the thrones trying to stop these hordes.

On turn 79 came the last battles, in particular that neutral throne (province 149) and a big battle over Diamedulla and the 2 others thrones. On the battle against LA Edranor in (373), we see the power of the Sword of Aurgelmer against storm demons. Killing 54 storm demons for only 10 deads, that’s pretty cheap. Also to note on top of the Diamedullan throne Markgrafdom tried a magic phase Wind of Death attack, but failed thanks to my Faery Dragon, using one of its random spell attack and webbing the mage till he got murdered …

The last turn has 1 last massive engagement on top of diamedulla, and a lot of random raiding …

And with that came the end of the game and the Ascension of the only One and True Goddess, Oooolooo’Ma, Mother of All !

Sadly the final score graphs were bugged out, so I retrieved some from Fenral that extracted some from the end of the game. First, graphs of the main actors of the AAR. Click to enlarge and browse :

And the full score graphs (it’s a mess, but still …)