The Dark Union may have lost it's fleet, but it now scores a major land victory.
Almor is overrun, it's cities falling to the onslaught of Union forces.
The Union forces meet up with the easternmost elements of the Legions of Kas, and meet in friendship.
The Dark Union finds the Grandwood a death trap. They lose thousands of men before even realizing just HOW BADLY the whole place has been boobytrapped.
The defenders have tunnels, they have traps across every glade, they are fighting the finest kind of guerilla warfare.
And they are being helped by Planars.
The Dark Union realizes that the Grandwood battle is going to be a long one.
THIS one they are in for the long haul.
The Dark Union has better success finding and killing the enemy elements that came out of the Grandwood.
In the north, the combined armies of Creamsteak and Turrosh Mak, along with the defenders of the Eastern League, and now a great force from the Sky-Sea League, drive the forces of the Dark Union back with great loss from the Flinty Hills and from Garrel Enkdal.
The Legions of Kas offer their aid to the forces of the Union, now in retreat.
From Adri Forest, the Lost Elves emerge, and they also offer their aid.
The Planar Army of the Dark Union stands at the ready also.
Forces fresh from conquering Almor offer to help.
It would appear the Hellmaster has refused the challenge of Sanctus.
Instead, he has launched a counterattack against Delrune and it's lands.
The forces of Kas have overrun the entire southern half of Nyrond.
They still have not taken Rel Mord, the capital, although both sides have lost tens of thousands in the awful battle for the city.
In the west, Verbobonc is abandoned, and the whole of the eastern Gnarley, as the defending forces pull back and consolidate.
In the Crystalmists and Barrier Peaks, the forces of the Kevellond League search for the drow in vain.
It would appear the drow have retreated deep underground.
IF the forces of the Kevellond League wish to go down after them, Williams had better tell me.
Ket has not attacked the Baklunish, or done anything yet.
The Valley of the Mage is still holding out against the assault from the Kevellond League and the Coalition of Light and Shadow.
The Robots of the Barrier Peaks light up the skies as they turn their laser guns and cannons on the attacking forces.
The Kevellond League and their allies are beaten back from the crashed spaceship, with the robots in hot pursuit.