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Originally Posted by Isokron
Well as was becoming a habit by now Ulm attacked me just as I was finishing off Pangea. The situation again looked grim for a while and there was several tense turns when we manoeuvred 200+ armies around each other but somehow not triggering any large battles. Meanwhile my research finally allowed me to equip effective raiders from my vanjarls and they started doing their work in his backyard. When the big battles finally occurred I had arrowfend up so my skinshifters more or less ignored his huge amount of crossbows as they killed everything.
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Heh, yeah, we had some pretty damn big armies jumping at one another for a while. I had thought I had finally gained the upper hand when I moved around a major army and finally laid siege to a big fortress of yours with a VP in it. Then I realized that the magic sites were all wrong, and it ended up being someone else's capital that you took earlier.
I went with an awake dom 10 ghost king with a bit of nature, blood, and death, hoping to really leverage my immortal vampire counts with a lot of dominion push. The ghost king did wonderfully in helping me expand and I had a great early game, right up until the point where the first fort I was building was destroyed by an ancient power awakening and eating the population and the commander building it...
This was made up by me ganking Atlantis pretty early, including storming their second fort pretty fast (replacing the one that was interrupted) and ruining a Man army at Atlantis' capital, following that by taking said capital. The Ulmish rangers blotted out the sky with their crossbows.
Pangaea had some truly terrifying armies and was sitting right on my border, so I decided that I needed to stem that tide, so I attacked and won through some major casualties. When I saw Pangaea attacking Midgard, I thought it might be my only chance to get a leg up over the vans, so I attacked them with pretty much everything I had. Unfortunately, he turned and *CRUSHED ME MERCILESSLY*. I only hope that all the slave collars I put on wolfherd commanders when he stormed my capital managed to get on some key mages of his.