Cytherea captured.
No news from Carthage.
Garfield, you had some phenomenal misfortune. Once a strategos becomes veteran, they can even destroy forts without taking much harm. I just took one out with the Strategos still green. I actually like the fact strategoses are handed out randomly, aside from the one Sparta starts out with. Was that one to make up for the fact all of Spartas cities, aside from Sparta itself, are almost useless at the start due to distance - and there fore corruption? Corinth might actually become a ruling power thanks to those two early strategoses. (Naturally it'll mostly be on McMonkey's brilliant play, but those two can hardly hurt!)
I will be leaving for London - then Morocco - very early in the morning. I hope my absence does not sour the mood! I'm starting to feel the old thrill of expansion and conquest again, haven't felt that in years!