The Warlord has dwarves and goblins fighting together.  Ancient enemies marching arm in arm.  How does he do it?  I don't really get into the lore of games, but whenever I show the game to someone, this always comes up eventually.  So what's the skinny?

That X+Y clock is brilliant.  I personally hate in any game (Mage Wars or otherwise) when both players see it is going to time and one tries to do a bunch of damage (or heal) at the buzzer even though it wouldn't be a good longterm move at all if the clock weren't about to expire.  It makes for cheesy endings.