Happy Life
Eh, it's playable, we'll defend the queen from rumors (does she also refresh turns for rumor victims?), buy a few Sithian units, assemble a knight doomstack and win. We could also send Axel to ally with Silverdan, then by sound logic the hire should unlock.
I'm not saying it's unplayable — it's almost always playable even in the most hopeless situation. It's just that this kind of thing doesn't motivate you to dig into the mechanics when you'll spend half a day just wrapping your head around it and watching how bots and other players moved for reference, then another two days thinking over a move, grinding yourself, the GM, and the thread with questions, and flipping through two hundred gray pages of questions from the lads, only to then eat a turn skip, a kill by that Revaland bastard, a cut to finances, army, everything you want, the loss of three sheds on the border, allies, an explosion in the nearest settlement, and so on and so forth.