Hm... we're now leading or very close to the top in nearly all categories. We're 3 or 4 provinces ahead in expansion over Pythium who's our nearest competitor. Still just using conventional troops, no mages in battle although our scout prophet is smiting a few guys here and there.

Look at the map here if you'd like to see the current expansion of Arcosephale.

Interesting points on the map:

• Blue dots indicate Ichytid (sp?) provinces. Once these are captured I'll be able to build an army to start taking sea provinces.
• Darker blue dot (Darban's Deep) has 90 tough sea troops (Triton Guards I believe) which I'll leave alone as a sea border guard. The arrow points to the home province of Atlantis who's the only other sea-faring nation I believe. They're doing very poorly.
• Light purple dot (just captured) is another 'Wolf Tribe' - type province. Temple is being built and mage is on the way to build lab next turn. More mages for research.
• Green dot to the NE of home province is the next expansion province in that region. I'll have to decide how much further to proceed from there depending on what's around the area. That army isn't very big but the hypaspists have been good enough to deal with the rabble encountered thus far (Militia / Heavy Inf combos). Also, 'Blessed Gorge' (to the SW of green dot) is a Heavy Inf group - border guards which I'll leave for now.
• Red dots finally indicate some provinces that will be a little difficult to take. One is Militia/ L Cav/ Heavy Cav but I'll hire some L Inf fodder to absorb the Cav charge, the other is the other Ichytid province with about 90 or so of the guys, with the tougher armored once being the biggest group.

All in all though it looks like rapid expansion will continue, and that this game is gonna be a cakewalk! With the only sea nation very weak and bordered on my side by a TOUGH sea province, and with a large peninsula with only one southern access point it looks like Arcosephale will be able to control a large number of provinces with very few borders to guard.

We'll have to see how things progress but things are looking very good for the Arcosephalian nation!