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Apsara...hmm, kick and holy. Fire 9 bless for Flaming Punches? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Turn 23
Very little happening. Belief in the false Caelian god fell a little. Ananda is now preaching - trying to explain why I am the smart choice for godhood.

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Turn 24
Another uneventful month. Everyone has been quiet this winter.

Caelum threw some more hawks at me. Belief in him wavered several places. I recruited more troops. I waited patiently.

I guess while I am sitting around waiting for the Caelians to lose faith in their god I will build up an expeditionary force and take some more independant provinces. The border with T'ien Ch'i is strong enough to withstand a medium-sized assault, so I feel fairly secure...

Two years so far and I am still not free of my chains. Still, I am happy with my troops' progress: we have dominated one of the nations that compete for mortals' attention, and even though those mortals haven't yet given us their attention the end is in little doubt. Ghanivallika will conquer all!

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Turn 25
All the provinces bordering Caelum's capital have given up faith in him. They have not yet embraced faith in me, so I guess you could call them atheists. This is an important step forward though.

Arana is taking what troops I have north, to exchange a few with Ananda. Then he will start a campaign against the remaining independant provinces.

I am recruiting another Yakshini in hopes that she will be skilled enough in nature magic to summon up more of her kind. I have a stockpile of nature gems that I could turn into Yakshas and Yakshinis if I only had the mage with skill enough to perform the ritual.

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Turn 26
Balakrit, my Markata scout, witnessed some barbarians attacking Vanheim in the deep south of the world. In the fight was Sinfjotle, Vanheim's prophet, who is a hero impressive enough that I could wish he were fighting for Kailasa. His toughness is legendary, not to mention his incredible strength, and skill at both attack and defence.

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...mprophet26.jpg

In Kailasa itself things are less exciting. Arana is working his way north to attack independants. The Yakshini I summoned doesn't know enough nature magic to be helpful, so she has been given the job of helping the Yogis with their research. Otherwise things are stable and frankly uninteresting. Now if I were actually able to be present in the world things would be different...

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Three Apsaras for how many gems? They don't seem that great, especially since you can recruit sacred troops that have better equipment. Ok, they don't have the 'standard' ability but 13 morale + 3 for blessing (if that hasn't changed in dom3) means you aren't going to route much anyways...

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3 for 3 gems - so they're not too pricey.

They have higher awe as well as the standard effect. The standard could be useful particularly when they are combined with weak-willed monkeys...

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Well I'll be reading this AAR faithfully to see how you use them. Thanks for doing this, its excellent.

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Turn 27
Breakthrough in research! My yogis, under the watchful eye of Ahana the Yakshini, have discovered how to call a group of Gandharvas! Gandharvas are warrior musicians of the same race as the Yakshas. I am instructing Divya to begin the ritual immediately!

Vanheim's lands appear to be very extensive. He has at least two strongholds that I have discovered so far. He may be the hardest of my opponents.

Arana traded roles with Ananda. Since Ananda has more experience he will lead the assault on the independant provinces, while Arana preaches with a small bodyguard of Guhyakas. Ananda is moving his troops up to the Caelian capital, where he will confer with the prophet Devasura before heading west to take the lands on the northern coast.

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...1560-27map.jpg

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Warrior musicians? Bards? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif Show them!

Good going...it's almost three years too!