That was a nice move of yours Alex. Hatty had been getting a touch too powerful and is an obvious target to attack ... so tricking her into attacking both Rome and Japan was brilliant. Our war army should be ready to mow her down while she has her forces engaged elsewhere.

Yes, it was a clever move, except that we have failed to over-run the Egyptian lands as I would have liked. It seems that our forward advance is very slow even with the new bombers that are streaming off the assembly line. Have you found anything new about the mythical Sky Gods and their frenzied bloodlust ... if we could somehow spark that, we could control the whole planet and not stop with Rome and Egypt.

Ahhh ... well ... as it turns out yes, I have. Just finished reading the report. According to the text, the Sky Gods can be whipped into a bloody frenzy by sacrifices. [Alex starts to interrupt] Wait, I know we are killing thousands of our people at the front line. It is not quantity but quality that the texts mention. Apparently, you have to sacrifice your leading scientists, priests, merchants, artists, engineers, war generals, etc.

Hmmn ... well, yes. That might be a bit of a problem. How would we gather them together? I'm assuming a big sacrifice rather than one at a time would be better? Hey, isn't there some form of gathering today at the Aztec Museum?

... and so you can see that our modern bombers are very similar to the Sky Gods ... and these false images are why our Gods have turned their backs on our great nation. As you know, the war against Egypt and Rome is not proceeding well, every city is suffering greatly from anti-war protests, our productivity is dropping ... shortly, it is WE that will need to ask for peace and accept any terms that the Romans and Egyptians offer.

Gentlemen, your leader Alex wishes to discuss the current state of the War with you and is asking explicitly for your assistance with this. He has organized a great war council and would like you all to join him ...