OK, this may appear a little short, but that's because I wrote most of it out, then accidentally closed the tab 
Anyway, I lost a bunch of my screenshots between playing this game and now, so I don't have anything until turn 263, just before I attacked Sabathiel. The only interesting thing that happened before that was an attack by Falamar, which I defeated with the help of Varn Gosam. Auric kept sending random stacks of Javenin Throwers at me, it was actually kinda sad. My main focus from the start was going to be Mages, with a core of Chariots as well. Plus I had a secret weapon.
Anyway, I was scouting in Sabathiel's land and saw this:
being confronted by this:
Not entirely sure why there was a second Hyborem, but oh well, it seemed as good a time as any to invade. That war went smoothly enough, I took all but one of his cities, then made peace. He was at war with pretty much everyone at that point so he didn't last much longer after that. Fireballs to knock down defenses and soften up stacks, Chariots to finish things off.
Here you can see the bane of my existence for way too long.
Those Eidolons just would not die. I didn't really have any decent AoE spells on my Mages, so all I could do was freeze them in place with other spells and hit them every turn with Fireballs until they went home. This sort of thing happened way too often.
A little later on, Varn Gosam attacked, the last of the AI civs to declare war on me (except Sabathiel). This was his main stack, fresh from fighting to my south.
The war didn't go too well for him:
That was 4 turns later.
These were the demos at the time:
And I had my secret weapon, and I was pretty close to victory in any case:
Blasting Workshops do in fact give Mud Golems Fireball. They formed a sort of quick reaction force on my border with Varn Gosam while my main stack of Archmages, Mages and Chariots (and more Mud Golems) dealt with that southern army. Enough Fireballs will kill pretty much anything (except for those goddamn Eidolons).
Speaking of Os Gabella, I just had time to get my revenge on her:
Turns out, enough Fireballs can even kill Eidolons with a hundred promotions.
Here's my empire the turn before victory:
My cap (with 10 Golden Hammer Engineers settled):
My best other city:
And:
Tower of Mastery Victory, turn 314.
Here's units killed this game:
And units lost:
That's a lot of Fireballs.
I still have the save file, so if anyone has any questions or wants to see screenshots, I can load it up and get more info.
Anyway, I lost a bunch of my screenshots between playing this game and now, so I don't have anything until turn 263, just before I attacked Sabathiel. The only interesting thing that happened before that was an attack by Falamar, which I defeated with the help of Varn Gosam. Auric kept sending random stacks of Javenin Throwers at me, it was actually kinda sad. My main focus from the start was going to be Mages, with a core of Chariots as well. Plus I had a secret weapon.
Anyway, I was scouting in Sabathiel's land and saw this:
being confronted by this:
Not entirely sure why there was a second Hyborem, but oh well, it seemed as good a time as any to invade. That war went smoothly enough, I took all but one of his cities, then made peace. He was at war with pretty much everyone at that point so he didn't last much longer after that. Fireballs to knock down defenses and soften up stacks, Chariots to finish things off.
Here you can see the bane of my existence for way too long.
Those Eidolons just would not die. I didn't really have any decent AoE spells on my Mages, so all I could do was freeze them in place with other spells and hit them every turn with Fireballs until they went home. This sort of thing happened way too often.
A little later on, Varn Gosam attacked, the last of the AI civs to declare war on me (except Sabathiel). This was his main stack, fresh from fighting to my south.
The war didn't go too well for him:
That was 4 turns later.
These were the demos at the time:
And I had my secret weapon, and I was pretty close to victory in any case:
Blasting Workshops do in fact give Mud Golems Fireball. They formed a sort of quick reaction force on my border with Varn Gosam while my main stack of Archmages, Mages and Chariots (and more Mud Golems) dealt with that southern army. Enough Fireballs will kill pretty much anything (except for those goddamn Eidolons).
Speaking of Os Gabella, I just had time to get my revenge on her:
Turns out, enough Fireballs can even kill Eidolons with a hundred promotions.
Here's my empire the turn before victory:
My cap (with 10 Golden Hammer Engineers settled):
My best other city:
And:
Tower of Mastery Victory, turn 314.
Here's units killed this game:
And units lost:
That's a lot of Fireballs.
I still have the save file, so if anyone has any questions or wants to see screenshots, I can load it up and get more info.