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The appropriate term for these battles is ‘bugger’ (or yippee depending).  Rather wisely, neither army wanted to go flying and sailing in gale force winds.  The Coalition adopted a most amusing tactic involving hollowing out their own sandy island and using storm spirits to light the place up like a neon sign.  Geth was rather keen on smashing through and crushing any resistance and defenses.  Thus, he stormed the beach beneath the neon sign.  This went very badly for Geth when he discovered that the defenses consisted of levitated sand over a hollow filled with things wanting to kill him.  Needless to say, it was quite the slaughter.

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In a somewhat unexpected tactic, the Coalition declined marching aggressively to war against the isolationist elves.  Instead, they spent days beforehand carefully taking and assimilating the outlying elven communities; making sure to convince them of the dangers of Phyrexia (occasionally backed up with a bit of force).  Thus by the time the Phelddagrif arrived at the palace itself, Kaysa had been lurking in the trees for much of the week and her constant vigilance had proved a drain upon her troops.

Kaysa however mistook what the Coalition desired - she had set out a string of shiny treasure to lure in her foe.  Instead of an army after treasure, she received a small force bearing a flag of surrender.  They were promptly killed as soon as they entered arrow range.  Not to be deterred, the hippoian elves went on the attack with the entire force instead.  Protected behind a tough shield wall they advanced, their foes of course were protected by the forest canopy, thus ensuring that the first exchanges were relatively minor.

As the Phelddagrif approached along the ground, his units became bogged down with druidic summoned roots and attacked by berserkers.  But fortunately, his elves came prepared with short swords and spears, rapidly freeing themselves and switching to a forward infantry while the rear maintained their attacks upon the canopy bound foes.  As they pressed forward, Kaysa couldn’t break the lines, and thus ordered the final charge from within the palace.  Allosaurus riders and battlemages burst forth, swarming towards Phelddagrif’s line.  The dinosaurs set to simply tear the elves apart.

It was quite a surprise when there turned out to be an extra 100 battlemages who ‘accidentally’ 'fell over' disrupting the charge and allowing the Coalition elves to hold firm.  In addition, as Kaysa gained access to her secondary arrow stocks, she found them ruined beyond repair.  Bereft of her breaking forces and humiliated by the hoodwink she slunk away - but she would not give up so easily just yet.

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As the day dawned, there was peace over the swamps.  Nim happily feasted on decaying flesh, neurok tried not to become that flesh, and phyrexian critters did phyrexiany things.  But the peace was not to remain.  Urabrask had come to visit, and he didn’t intend to leave without stopping in for cake.

Mirri however had no wish to share.  The throne might be uncomfortable and bony, but it was hers!  Thus, she set about barricading the single openning while creating a large pit by prying into the metallic ground below.  Urabrask wasn’t going to use the front door however and had decided to make his own back entrance.  By peeling away at the corroded metallic shell and bombarding it with dragonbreath it proved a simple matter to melt his own doorway.  Of course, using dragons as welding equipment isn’t the quietest of activities, so Mirri was not caught unawares.

It was a long process, but at last, the final barriers fell and dragons swept into the throne room.  Exactly as expected, bolts flew from the walls and numerous dragons fell.  But parasites and chancellors had direct access behind the false walls.  It didn’t take long until the crossbow wielding skirges had more pressing matters to attend to.  Mirri was forced to call in the next phase premptively, at which point mortis dogs leapt down from the platforms above, tearing into dragons and those on the ‘wrong’ side of the false walls.  Yet, even these proved insufficient against the full brunt of the Phyrexians.  In what had proved a fatal decision, Mirri had left her zombies out hiding in the swamp to attack the rear of her foe once the battle within Ish Sah had begun.  As such, the slightly superior strength of her opponents wore down the confined skirges while numbers worked against the dogs.  By the time the zombies arrived, it was too late.  All the same, they made a final attempt to break through, nim devourers swarming into exarch lines after Urabrask’s head.  Unfortunately, they never even made it into Ish Sah.

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In the fair seas off the coast of Jamuraa sat Vorinclex upon a shining emerald of an island brimming with vegetation and life.  A powerful wind blew the water into a froth, dragging his boats far out to sea to the very edge of their chains.  Meanwhile, the Coalition under Progenitus and the Lord of Tresserhorn joint up far in distance, gathering their forces into one to better crush their opponent.

Once the Coalition had formed into a single force, the order came to advance.  Darting swiftly over the waves and making the most of those capable of flying in the windy weather they came across what they thought were the advance guard of Vorinclex in his boats.  Closing around them like a fist, they easily crushed the few defenders - who promptly ignited all the pitch on board.

Burned once, the Coalition were more cautious as they followed the chains back to the secluded island.  Small glowing orbs occasionally popped above the canopy and caution went once more to the wind as units swept in to engage.  Attacking from every angle the Coalition hoped to completely overwhelm their enemy.  Smashing through the trees as lightning rained down from above this seemed to be a likely outcome.  Yet Vorinclex would not go down easily, anglers caused many became distracted by their glowing orbs to disappear to their deaths, but there were simply more Coalitioners than anglers.

Vorinclex’s forces were pushed ever tighter into the island’s centre.  But the Coalition made one slight miscalculation, while they sought to tie together their opponents’ legs, this was exactly where Phyrexia wanted them to be.  The sight of numerous big things doing belly flops must have been quite amusing - not so much for those underneath.  Yet no matter how many were squished or eaten, there were simply more and Vorinclex had ever less room to move within.  On the verge of being overwhelmed, he ordered a charge through the weakest enemy point and escaped out to sea; content in the knowledge that he at least gave worse than he got.

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Results;

Army of the Damned: (D) 11G
Burning Revenge: (M) 1G
Gluttony: (D) 17G - intercepted by Agent of Chaos
Leonin Den-Guard: (M) 14F
Mercy Killing: (D) 4D
Natidorian: (P) 11B
Terror: (D) 17F - intercepted by Inception
The Steel Thane: (M) 7D
Twilight Crusade: (D) 15G - intercepted by Resurrecting Flames
Wielders of Ultima: (P) 12H