The island really has taken a turn for the better. It's turning out a lot better than it looked like it would. All three realms are doing a very good job of carrying on the fight.
Well, that's until one realm takes a second city, which in turn will attract many of the defeated realm's nobles, and it becomes a cakewalk because of the huge discrepancies in income and nobles.
And with the scales more or less balanced right now, it makes me wonder if we could ever see a proper 1v1v1, which to me is the big attraction of the War Island.