The DS would have had a better chance, if the northern and southern teams had set themselves up to support one another at game start. Apart from them, the rest of us did quite well. And while we would have knocked the White Wall from the game this last turn <burning his capital with armies, and influencing away the backup major town he had received from the Shroud>, the war of attrition would not have been in our favor, only because we lacked an equal number of character orders to match those of the FP.
Alas, not all character orders are created equal.
Adam