Simians is not as of this time barely winning. Acres are very close, with pool and land lust, and networth is slightly to sanc's favor on the first wave and dead even since then. Of course this could change at any time.
At risk of revealing too much of our strategy, I'll give some more info. Simians has a number of out-of-range large provinces, but none are unbreakable. Gains on them however would be extremely low due to nw diff. The avians (evil peanut and kandall) have been fireballed and have extremely low military and peasants. The elves (mystics) pose more problem, having formidable wpa despite their lack of economy otherwise. At one point fikon was chained down to 3000 acres, however his wpa was such that he land lusted and hit his way back up and we thought it Unwise to touch him more at that time. The military on all their bigs though is quite poor, and they aren't really our problem. Over the last 12 hours peanut has been dropped to about 3500 wizards.
Provinces "in the pack" are generally the ones that hit for the most acres, and these are the ones providing the most hitting power for both sides. But these are hard to disable because the "pack" is fairly small at this point and there aren't enough in-range hitters available to do a good chain. Those who are available are spread out, and doing slowchains drops networth too fast. So chaining has been rather ineffective for both sides over the last few waves. The chained provinces have been alternately trying different strategies of quadding and doubling...simians does have sanc provinces down to 0 defense but some of these can still quad even against the simians chained guys all home. We try not to get elites killed unnecessarily, but use them to die off in hits and get credits we can save up for later :).
At war start sanc's cow was hitting for about 250 acres a day. This is up to 700 acres now, substantially less than simians big guys are hitting for, so most likely this isn't much of a factor. Simians has about 350k max offense and the cow has 1.3m throne def so "taking down the cow" seems unlikely.
Both sides, as I said, have been land lusting. From simians this is mostly coming from their faeries. Sanc's done trad march hits on simians faeries, which they try to recover via land lust. In that way we've negated some of their faeries magery ops but at a cost of land. Three of the simians faeries were hit down pretty well and are easily breakable; the other two are unbreakable and growing steadily. All three sanc t/m faeries are unbreakable. Long term since there are a lot of unbreakable faeries, it may come down to whoever can get more acres on their faeries fastest. Which is a really bizarre way to war, but probably good for both kingdoms later in the age since having big t/ms is pretty helpful.
Sanc's rogues are aw'ing regularly now. At war start they were unprepared and only able to get about 2 tpa since they were focused on not getting massacred or chained. Now that's a bit higher and opping enemy avians and elves is pretty easy.
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