Played my first game until Hyborem losing all his traits (see the bug thread) forced me to quit. Still, it was a great game while it lasted.
Large Pangaea, Monarch, Quick speed. Started off as the Sheaim, beelined to the Ashen Veil and switched to Hyborem when he was summoned. Proceeded to wipe out the Sheaim and moved out to attack the nearby Ljosalfar.
Now, the fun thing was that I and the Calabim were the only evil civilizations on the whole map, with all the rest being neutral - and even the Calabim soon ended up being neutral when they adopted Runes. As a consequence, I had no allies, only enemies. The Khazad summoned Basium, and after a while every other civilization on the continent had declared war on me. The AI being AI, it wasn't using its units as optimally as possible, which probably helped save my demonic behind - there was a huge siege around the one city I'd managed to capture from the Ljosalfar. Elven troops, dwarven troops, vampire troops, angelic troops... all united against a common foe and besieging the city of demons. Even after Hyborem slew Basium and took Orthus's Axe from him, it was all he could do to weaken the invaders enough to prevent them from overrunning my cities through sheer force of numbers. I tried to divert Hyborem from the defense to assault the nearest Ljosalfar city, but he never got the time to wear down its defenses before I had to return him to within my borders. I had four cities, and against me was the united force and production power of
everybody else.
I planned to turn the situation in my favor by upping the Armageddon count high enough to reduce the number of units my enemies were wielding, allowing me to take a couple of extra cities and even the production disadvantage I had - fortunately I had build the Propechy of Ragnarok, and was, albeit painfully slowly, increasing the armageddon count by building new units.
Once I realized that my cities had started to require food (Hyborem had previously been reincarnated after dying in a battle against Archeron, but this wiped out all of my traits - including Fallow), though, I decided to quit. Those big juicy Ljosalfar cities would have been nice to capture, but with me needing to actually ensure they wouldn't starve, it didn't seem worth it.
Still, even so far it made for an epic story.