Hello, I'm back. What happened?
Hey. The Ancoran Confederacy is pretty much destroyed. It has just the town in the mountains left, but odds are very good that it won't even have that soon. I tried my best, but there really wasn't much I could do without the central two towns and lacking a iron (which I would have ended up using to get dragons/fire wizards). NQT helped a bit, but not nearly as much as he would have needed to to stop Kash.
Tryrar dropped out just as Orangeworld was attacked, and I took over for him. Orangeworld repulsed Kash's attack, and manged to take Forstis (his capital). I also negotiated a peace with role (in which I gave him the town Tryrar took from him as well as the iron mine). Since you left it has also become a fairly strong power in its own right (with every one of its towns now having a iron mine, and good troop production power). The battle was fairly bloody, but with Forstis in Orangeworld's control the outcome is pretty clear, because Forstis produces both dragoons (for Orangeworld) and has the only Mithril Forge in the game (which Kash needs for mithril units).
After this I started the process of exchanging Forstis for Riverton and a peace treaty with Kash. The reason for this is that I didn't really want to win the game with Orangeworld, and a peace would stop it from happening that easily.
If you are interested, I am willing to give you control of Orangeworld on the following condition:
You have the choice of either going ahead with the metropolis exchange planned with Kash or not. If you choose not to you have to trade the Iron mine back (presuming he trades it to Orangeworld this turn that is). You do not have to keep the agreed upon peace afterwards if you do choose to do the trade, but you cannot attack him while it is going on nor the turn after. If you do choose not to do it, you still cannot attack him (which includes moving troops into positions next to his cities) this or next turn (due to him not being prepared for it due to our peace negotiations).
If you do take control of Orangeworld, then I will control The Ancoran Confederacy for the (very) few turns it has left.
notquitethere's empire game also got started a few days ago. Its up to turn 6 now, and I have been autoing you there.