Wait, wait what the heck just happened? Expert AI all of suddenly became smart.

I got dogpiled and attacked with 30+ armies. Not all at once but, one by one with several stacks of 3+ armies.

Empires and Kingdoms just dogpiled me, and I actually outlived Resoln who got squashed so fast. And I"m still alive and attacks seem to have let up for now....

And worse, The gilden faction is actually kicking butt for the first time in 400+ hours I've been playing this game for. And reached their golem armor/shields and Hammers! And they was even fielded in great numbers.

I somehow survived the dogpile by resorting to nothing but complete violence.

There was one more gilden defender but I managed to overrun him.

My Epic fortresses got attacked!

That never happened before.

And then Markin actually brought good mix of accessory with one screw up, anti ranged belt accessory.... yithril have none

Dogpiling Markin hard after long battle.

I only can be thankful that my 2nd fortresses finished building it's castle and got reinforced with 3 juggernaughts JUST IN TIME before massive armies hit it. I had a pile of gold doing nothing. heh. I have never gotten hit this hard while playing as gilden on expert ai mode. They was just dowing me left and right. And attacking with credibly threatening armies. Healer trait paid off big time otherwise i would've lost long time ago.

And uh Juggernaughts is other reason why I haven't lost yet.