Happiness in Darkness -An Argatha Ktonian Dead AAR

[Boron]

"Late winter in the year 2 of the ascension wars"

WAR !!!


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Fortunately we only border 1 ermor province so far, nontheless the ermorian DOW is annoying. We have basically no forces in this area, and research is not ready for ermor neither (we only have evocation 4 so far).

My idea how to deal with this problem is to defend only the next turns and research thaumaturgy 6 for wither bones and evocation 6 for the other goodies mentioned already in my update for Jurri.

“Early spring in the year 3 of the ascension wars”

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A barbarian attack into the heart of our empire .

Here you have your first summon, Nerfix .

Costs 3 deathgems. Not bad, but i won't use them i think and rather wait for other summons. The attack and defense ratings are simply too low for my taste.

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At the end of our turn. The barbarians will keep the province 1-2 more turns, x-bows move slow, and there are 70 barbarians, so i need to amass at least 50 x-bows to have a reasonable chance of routing them before getting into melee range.

The conquest of the seas is slowly proceeding though. But our expansion slowed down quite a bit and now our misfortune 3 scale starts taking its toll. Almost every turn at least 1 negative event.

Our gem income per month is ok:
7 firegems
1 airgem
2 watergems
18 earthgems
15 pearls
15 deathgems
3 naturegems

Most of our land provinces have now been searched for fire/earth/astral and death.
With the underwater provinces i wait, i hope to somehow find an indy water mage for voice of tiamat or get very lucky with a necro that i can turn him into an accashic record caster. Theoretically it is possible to get an astral 2 necro because of his 100% and 10% randoms who can both be astral too. But the chance for that is rather low, i am no statistics expert, but my guess would be that the chance is like 1 out of 100 or so.
Maybe i instead empower a necro simply. Since accashic is conjuration with my 50% bonus site it becomes then competetive even costwise with the normally better way to sitesearch via the single path searchspells (that's what i did so far).