[Burnsaber]

Valerius said:
Burnsaber, it was a lot of fun battling it out with you. I actually think you played a better game. When you defeated Pangaea and had three globals in place I was really worried. My advantages were an excellent ally and absurdly good luck (your king of banefires being sent to inferno when he should have destroyed my army is just one example; better examples are having indie enchantresses, crystal mages, illusionists and, of course, trogs and more trogs).

If we do call it a game I'd be interested in everyone's impressions of their nations, since this is a newbie game. Was your nation fun to play? Did you discover anything surprising/interesting about them?

Well, yeah, those Trogs and illusionist's helped you a lot. But I kinda nuked myself by taking F9N6 pretender. So he was good in paths I already have, what was I thinking? A bless strat with capitol only sacreds? Sure the bless was cheap, but you really can't expect to win a game on 200+ province map with cap-only sacreds.

Having no astral surely sucked. You just were able to nuke all my provinces with teleporting horrors while my guys were knee-deep in some swamps and forests. Just too damn slow, Johnny, just too damn slow. I also consistedly forgot that you have acceess to mass flight and Army of Lead. I lost lots of troops for naught when I sended them to fights they coudn't win.

It's really a shame that you found those Trogs. My Banefire Archers would have just *nuked* your "I'm 35 and dying to old age"- infantry.

About my nation, I think that Machaka is very solid. Black Sorceres are just awesome and your regular sorceres aren't that bad, hoplites are solid meat shields. The lack of Astral magic is probably the biggest weakness.