Always attack-retreat Throne provinces. Learned that too the hard way.
At last the Great Army of Pyrene tried to engage a similarly-sized opponent. With his God dead and its blessing significantly blunted, the results were a given.
The Jentils escaped, and I do not doubt they will continue to cause havoc until they impact in a Elemental or Olm hunting party, or they simply desert. Still have a shitton of cleanup to do but I guess this is the decisive battle for the Underground: it's not particularly interesting to watch as it's simply a bunch of troops running straight into massed Evocations/Maws of the Earth and then the survivors getting Elemental'ed to death.
That said, I have a postmortem on the Great Pyrene/Agartha conflict:
what the fuck.
Pyrene took a hellbless. Invuln/Blur/Reinvig/Heroism, terrible scales but whatever, it's a functional hellbless and it works on Brebyx Guards and Jentils make for serviceable (if expensive) Thug chassis and Pyrene got a good deathstack of them. Also Awake God, decent chassis for thugging/minor SC work.
I took a scale build, and bet that Pyrene would not come barreling towards me.
In my complete hubris,
I even declared war first. I wholeheartedly hoped that Pyrene would split his stack and attack, I pretty much built two forts to bait him to fight inside my Dominion to avoid his Cold2 Dominion and exploit -MR and -morale. I waited and waited and, as Kavafis said, the barbarians
never came. I honestly do not understand why he didn't push and push while he had the advantage and let me reach all my research goals and even let me push towards his capital and
murder his God while sieging one of my border forts.
IMHO, a Decisive Battle before I got my research engine and mage phalanxes on-line would have been a better option. And of course, after I got Earthquake online
any underground battle between stacks is going to be risky as hell. I do not want to be bothersome or anything,
Tanaka , but I was at time genuinely
puzzled as fuck about your plans: you had better options and chances than you probably thought at the beginning of our war.