Two enemy nations were spotted last turn, the new Japanese nation and Ulm. Shinuyuma I guess is the name, and they don't seem very strong (only one province taken as of last turn (about the 10th) and they don't have a big army). Ulm has taken maybe 4 provinces but they do have a very large army according to the score graphs, made up of their very heavily armored Ulmish troops as well as a bunch of longbowmen and other assorted rabble.

I will be attacking Shinuyama very soon as you can see from the map. We have a huge army there now with a ton of hypaspists and tribal archers. I also added in a small chariot corps (10 chariots) to help possibly clear out the Shinuyama fort entrance if it happens to get stuffed. I also added in an extra Strategos for the standard as well as to protect against some fluky arrow shot, as well as a priestess for morale spells plus to build a temple in the fort which we expect to be capturing in two turns.

Overall situation remains much the same as previous turns. We're now 2nd in research by a hair with the most RP's gained per turn. Two more 'tribal' provinces were just discovered so labs and temples will be built there also to hire more research mages.

Meanwhile Conj 4 will be researched next turn then Conj 5 should be available in around 5 or so turns after that which means we can start casting Acashic Record and start pumping up our gem income.

It's quite exciting to look at the current map and think about future plans. I'm looking forward to some BIG BATTLES later on with some big AI armies - hopefully. The AI players seem to be playing fairly weakly so far... or has the rapid expansion of Arcosephale over the weakly held independent kingdoms swelled the Arcosephalian leaders' heads?