Good Game Baruk!
Glad you played and hope you had fun.
Sorry you got one of those erroneous battle recordings. Reay can tell you sad stories about those from Fallacy, the last game we were in together.I think we have all been on the short end of those at one time or the other(:
MR makes no difference with Drain Life. The only thing that may have helped your banelord with that is luck, if he got lucky.
Sorry about the "bad" starting spot. Some spots are much better than others. I think the worse spots were those next to aggressive bless nations though, and had little to do with lakes etc.
Good luck in future games!
