I don't think anyone would imply cheating, nor should really. Though it's pretty obvious they either pulled a lot of family gold or another realm provided them gold (which, is very likely).
Regardless, we just threw them out of the Tower once our army got back.
My stats show that overall we loss 3K strength. . .and they lost 6K at the end of this exchange.
I'm pretty happy with it
And more importantly. . .it was fun.
