I was not aware of your winning position so it's my fault too that you win.
It's nearly everyone's fault :
Only Abysia offered any resistance in his throne province, and that's only because one of his armies happened to be there on the way to reinforce his frontline...
I don't understand why you guys didn't build Fortress on the throne provinces ^^'
not enough money is the easy answer...the relative early attack of Marveni and then the trampling of the fishes needed troops. then I saw my dominion going down and I build temple. And mercenaries costed money too but were very helpful.
So I only build one fortress.
And the graphs offer quite nice informations (even if most of it was expected) :
Berytos stopped researching magic ? Was it only to get more power in the war, with the evocation-oriented mages ?
I needed my mages to free the Marveni siege of my capital (what shutted down my income for some rounds
). The mages had to conjure items and fighters. And when my fountain (my only real blood slaves catcher) was busy and some mages casts spells (Fire from Afar or Reanimation) my research suffers.
Every time I saw the thrones nearby for a win I was angry that I had an immobile pretender (without teleport magic, only blood and fire). My prophet was shoot down by luck and my then promoted Hawk died by mistake a little later. Several times it was not a problem to get the regions with the four thrones but to claim it because I had only my hero who I need in the battles too.
My next plans were next blood magic level for Melqar (for the thrones) and underwater breathing stuff
What was not perfect for me was the far away wastelands to summon my special blood units. And after I had the coastal wastelands there were fishes anywhere