[Diplo, All Players] Seven Pines - The 49th Council

[coldrain]

I'm pressing forwards slowly. Let's see if this works.

[Mr. Cairo]

Coldrain, be aware that Auro has withdrawn a lot of units from his stack attacking Xist (according to my Hawk eyes), including his Archmages and Hemah, so he likely has reinforcements heading our way. We need to be cautious. He's not so fast that those units can get all the way to us in one turn, but Chariots can get most of the way.

[xist10]

I'm not sure how much Auro has remaining.
I see ~20 units remaining, but I lost sight of a few arcane units. I think I killed ~40 of the ~80 he started with ?
So I'm missing ~20 units ?
But I'm not sure if my army survives next turn.

[coldrain]

Auroarcher played it smart: He used maelstrom to bring the health of our stack to 70% and used a dispel mage to remove all of our positive magic effects (regeneration, loyalty, spirit healing..) It also removed poisoned weapons buff from my Ghosts. There are two war turtles and archmages near Eclipse now, in addition to the mages, chariots and horse archers.

Advancing in these conditions would enable Aurorarcher to just use blinding light to freeze our army in place and whittle away the units with summons and chariots without risk. I retreated back for now.

[xist10]

Auro under what circumstances do you accept a peace treaty ?

Edit: I got hit by a few chariots

[xist10]

Sadly I lost my scout - Auro found the spider before I could kill something.
I saw only summons, but this means nothing, my scouting ability is very bad right now.

[coldrain]

Xist10, I can recon the city of Cevedes at your front. It has the following units:

[coldrain]

Treants are gone, so Aurorarcher advanced boldly into Ljosalfar territory. He has a lot of 6-move horsearchers + chariots, and a few Aurealis summoning archmages. The top tier summons are up to 18 strength by now.

I just got the tech for archmages myself, but it is too late to prevent the fall of xist in the next couple turns. I managed to use a cast of blinding light on the mounted stack near Dendrom, but many of them resisted the spell.