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Old March 4th, 2004, 09:37 PM

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Turn 48


6 blood slaves were captured in Gol Phalas, another 6 in Kolermegor and 4 in Dunheim.

Acashic Record cast on Ermithia revealed 1 magic site – Mineral Cave (+1 earth gems).

A King of Elemental Fire, a Treelord, a Queen of Elemental Air, a Tartarian Titan (no leader, afflictions: never healing wound and diseased), 3 Vine Ogres and 20 Foul Spawn were summoned this turn.

Ressources have been increased by 10 in Old Man Mountains.

Devourer, Silvania, Holoma, Yellow Mountains, Gol Amrod, Laria, Recenna and Dust Fens were taken without any serious resistance.

Nicia and Forest of Ildun were defended vs attacks from low numbers of enemies.

Meges attacked 15 crossbowmen and 6 Black Plate Infantry led by a Master Smith and a priest in Giant’s Rest. After casting Invulnerability and Summon Earth Power Meges charged the enemy. The Black Plate Infantry was routed by Meges Fear Aura (+5 fear) and after reaching the crossbowmen those routed, too.

Glisas and the small barbarian army (10) were met by 40 longbowmen, 20 militias and 5 crossbowmen in Kark. Sadly Glisas routed (despite 30 morale) after the barbarians were broken/killed while only being able to kill 5 longbowmen.

Ulm was defended by 30 crossbowmen and 10 Infantry of Ulm led by a priest and a Commander of Ulm. My forces consisted of 5 knights, 6 Vine Ogres and about 10 fodder. 4 Infantry of Ulm were enslaved and attacked their former friends while my 5 knights charged the crossbowmen. The crossbowmen fought bravely killing all but 2 knights and 2 Vine Ogres before routing.


Provinces: 80
Treasury: 2.258
Income: 3.887
Upkeep: 1.925
RP: 545
Fortification: 9
Temple: 17
Converted Provinces: 37

Conjuration – 9
Alteration – 9
Evocation – 6
Construction – 8
Enchantment – 7
Thaumaturgy – 7 (researching,will reach 8)
Blood Magic – 7

Fire gems: 90 (+18)
Air: 39 (+15)
Water gems: 39 (+22)
Earth: 9 (+9)
Astral gems: 1 (+23/+18)
Death: 0 (+11)
Nature: 40 (+12)
Blood: 9 (+1)


Updated province information:

Man, Dust River and Dust Hills are each defended by 50+ longbowmen, making it very challenging to attack them. I should have build some Staffs of Storm earlier...

My Provinces:

Due to the info about my provinces getting longer and longer I will skip this one, too.

Mainly I reduce taxes by 10% for each 5 points of unrest/raise them again when unrest is going down.


The Golden Adept is 2F, 2A, 1D and will research, another one will be recruited.

I got a 1W, 4S, 1N mage who will get a Sceptre of Authority and will lead 29 Illithids to C’tis – recruiting 1 more.

The Lore Master turned out to be 2F, 1A, 1B who will research – recruiting 1 more.

3 More Vine Ogres will be summoned for 1 nature gem in Kolermegor.

Acashic Records will be cast for 25 astral gems on Silvania.

The Skull Staff (+1D) is given to my 1W, 3S, 2D mage who will summon Pale Riders for 10 death gems.

A Starshine Skullcap (+1S) is given to a 3S mage in Gol Phalas who will continue with his 10 Vine Ogres towards the northern front to Gol Ryepe.

A Starshine Skullcap (+1S) and a Sceptre of Authority (+25 leadership) are given to a 3S mage in R’lyeh who will move to Kolermegor to pick up some more Vine Ogres while another identically equiped 3S mage will move to pick up the summons in Tiash.

The Robe of the Sea (+1W) is given to my 5(6)W mage in Tiash who will forge a Water Bracelet (+1W) for 1 water gem.

The King of Flames from Tiash will move to Hoburgdorf while the Queen of Elemental Air will move to Gol Ryepe.

The 3F Adept moves from Aran Plain to Dunheim with the other 3F Adept moves from Birman Hights to Aran Plain.

My mage led army from Silvania will move to Faran in order to attack Kark next and defend Faran now.

The 2 fodder armies will move from Holoma to Gol Amrod while my mage led army with 8 Illithid Soldiers will attack the lightly defended province of Ryd from Gol Amrod.

The armies led by the Sea Troll King and a mage supported my a starspwan priest will move from Laria to Dust Fens, getting into position to attack Man’s capital and protecting Dust Fens for now and as additional defense the PD is raised to 10.

The mage led army in Dust Fens (2 Greater Otherness, 2 Sea Trolls and 3 Jotuns in one squad, 6 riders in the other one) will try to attack roughly 60 longbowmen/longspears in Dust River, possibly getting severely beaten. Man would have been the more interesting target, but with 25+ PDs in addition to 60 longbowmen I would like some additional troops. I have to hope that Dust River is not heavily defended by PDs. Glisas will support the attack.

The fodder army from Nifel will move to Bolfagon, the mage led army from Moss Woods to Stone Heavens and 1 commander will be recruited in Jotunheim to attack Kark next turn (and defend the provinces into which they are moving).

My 3 mage led armies (mainly 7 Greater Otherness, 4 Otherness, 11 Illithids and 10 fodder) from Recenna will try to take Dust Hills which is defended by roughly 130 militias, longbowmen, light cavaleries, flagellants and spearmen.

PD in Yellow Mountains will be raised to 10, but I doubt I will be able to defend the province if Atlantis launches a determined attack. Meges will move here in order to try to defend the province.

Wailwind Waters is defended by roughly 20 Atlantean spearmen and Ichtyids and hopefully my commander leading 14 Illithid Soldiers will be enough to beat them.

The commander in Witches Copse fetched 17 fodder and will move to support the siege in Nicia.

The commander in The Two Woods picks up a lone knight and will move to Nicia, too.

My heavy mage led army in Devourer will attack the barely defended province of Depth of Dago.

A small fodder army moves from Gol Ryepe to Glimmering Field.


Sadly I lack the nature gems to cast Gift of Reason on my new Titan, but will do so on the next turn, but in order to test the Treelord’s Vine Ogre summoning ability (he has a bonus there) I will summon some Vine Ogres with him.


Tartarian Gate will be cast once again for 10 death gems in addition to summoning another King of Flames for 50 fire gems.


1 Blood Thorn (+1B) is forged to get another mage high enough in blood to hunt for blood slaves in addition a Sword of Swiftness (2 attacks) for 4 water gems and 4 Clams of Pearl for 16 water gems.

27 Illithids will be recruited in R’lyeh.


To be continued...

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Turn 49

Thaumaturgy reached level 8 this turn.

9 blood slaves were captured in Gol Phalas, another 7 in Kolermegor, 8 in Glimmering Fields and 4 in Gol Ryepe.

Acashic Record cast on Silvania revealed 1no magic sites (first time that I failed ).

A King of Elemental Fire, a Tartarian Titan (no leader, afflictions: feebleminded), 6 Vine Ogres (so a Treelord is able to summon 3 Vine Ogres without any tools) and 22 Longdead Horsemen were summoned this turn.

Some earth gems were found in Gol Ryepe and Jerib, while I recieved some astral pearls, a magic item (Wall Shaker – nice, could have used this one BEFORE sieging Ulm ) and 100 gold as a gift in Ulm (looks like somebody knows who is going to win there ).

My forces trying to take the Depth of Dago caught the Altantean pretender – a wyrm with 416 HP – supported by 10 Atlantean Spearmen, 10 tritons and 1 Consors in addition to 1 Initiate of the Deep while my forces consisted of 30 Illithids and 2 Greater Otherness led by a mage. The spearmen broke after the first volley of mindbLasts which killed 4 of them and stuned 3 others. The tritons attacked my rear and managed to kill 3 Illithids before being killed/broken. 2 tritons were enslaved and the pretender paralysed after the 3 paralyse cast on him effectivly ending the battle.

Man attacked my forces in Fagan (8 heavy riders and 7 jotuns) with 33 longbowmen, 5 tower guards and 2 knights led by a Castellan. Both charging knights were enslaved and with infantry quickly dispatched. 19 troops and the commander of Man were killed while my forces didn’t lose a single man.

My forces attacking Ryd were a tad too slow since the defenders were able to retreat before the fight began and only left the PDs who were easily dispatched.

A part of Man’s troops in Dust Hills moved to Namor and conquered it without a fight, again my troops were to slow to attack Dust Hills.

Right after this my forces attacked the remaining forces in Dust Hills – 10 militias, 7 Cu Sidhe and 3 light cavalery led by a monk and a castellan. Due to 3 mages the Cu Sidhe were enslaved before even getting into close combat the Illithids were bLasting away at the remaining troops and Man routed before my Greater Otherness got any chance to engage them.

The PDs in Wailing Waters were killed by my Illithid soldiers in 1 turns.

The PDs in Dust River + 1 additional commander withstood my onslaught 1 turn longer

The walls of Ulm have been breached and my troops in Dust Hills are beginning to starve.


Sadly my troops have been too slow on the attack costing me an undefended province and forcing me to redirect some of my troops to deal with the 130 troops of Man in Namor.


Provinces: 83
Treasury: 2.154
Income: 4.137
Upkeep: 2.065
RP: 545
Fortification: 9
Temple: 17
Converted Provinces: 40

Conjuration – 9
Alteration – 9
Evocation – 6
Construction – 8
Enchantment – 7
Thaumaturgy – 8 (researching,will reach 9)
Blood Magic – 7

Fire gems: 90 (+18)
Air: 39 (+15)
Water gems: 39 (+22)
Earth: 9 (+9)
Astral gems: 1 (+23/+18)
Death: 0 (+11)
Nature: 40 (+12)
Blood: 9 (+1)


Updated province information:


My Provinces:


The Golden Adept is 3F, 2A (argh, now I get TONS of them, oh well, of to Tiash), another one will be recruited.

I got a 1F, 2W, 3S mage who will research – recruiting 1 more.

The Lore Master turned out to be 1A, 1E, 1S, 1D who will research – recruiting 1 more.

3 More Vine Ogres will be summoned for 1 nature gem in Kolermegor.

Acashic Records will be cast for 25 astral gems on Spire Woods (I need more nature gems now since I still can’t cast Gift of Reason and have 2 Titans waiting for it + 1 Tarrasque).

The Water Bracelet (+1W) is given to my 5(7)W mage in Tiash .

4 Clam of Pearl are given to star children in C’tis.

The Blood Thorn (+1B) is given to a 1B star spawn mage and a Dousing Rod will be forged for 8 blood slaves for him his turn.

The King of Flames from Hoburgdorf will move to Glimmering Fields while the Queen of Elemental Air from Gol Ryepe will move to attack Banded Hills.

The 3F Adept moves from Dunheim to Tiash with the other 3F Adept moves from Aran Plains to Dunheim.

The commander in Bolfagon (+3 troops), the mage led army in Faran, the barbarian leader and his 10 barbarians in Jotunheim and the mage led army in Stone Heavens will attack Kark.

The 2 small mage led armies in Ulm will storm the castle now supported by a priest.

My mage picks up 23 Vine Ogres in Kolermegor and will move to Gol Phalas.

The mage led army from Gol Ryepe continues to Yellow Mountains.

The 2 fodder armies from Gol Amrod will move to defend Recenna.

My 3 combined armies from Dust Fens and Dust River (2 mages, 1 Sea King Troll supported by a star spawn priest) attack Man’s capital this turn.

Since my army in Ryd is too weak to attack Dustlands I will move them to defend Dust Hills, but I hope that Glisas is strong enough to tackle the 60 longbowmen and longspears in Dustlands.

My 3 mage led armies in Dust Hills will attack Namor.

The mage lead Illithid army from Depth of Dago will attack the lightly defended Utterdeep.

The Bane Lord in Gol Phalas is given the Sword of Swiftness, the Wall Shaker and the Winged Boots and will move with the 22 longdead horsemen to Glimmering Fields.

The mage lead Illithid army in C’tis plus some fodder will attack the lightly defended province of Soth Beaver.

Meges and a fodder army from Yellow Mountains will try to conquer the Atlantean province of Ministra which is defended by 70 Altantean Spearmen, War Shamblers and Shamblers which might mean quite a fight there, but I want to attack this force before there are able to possibly interfere with my siege of Nicia where I expect the walls to be breached on this turn.

Ghost Riders will be cast on Namor for 5 death gems for which the Skullface (+1D) will be given to the 2(3)D mage in Gol Phalas in addition to casting Awaken Dark Vines for 12 blood slaves.

Another Skullface will be forged for 8 death gems this turn in addition to 6 Clam of Pearl for 24 water gems.

Angelic Host will be cast for 50 astral gems on Dustlands to support my attack there with some artillery. I am not sure if the summons will attack before or together with my armies or if there are differences between summons, that’s why I try 2 summons into enemy provinces here.

1 of the mages in Tiash picks up some troops (25 assorted Foul Spawns and 3 Vine Ogres) and moves together with the King of Magma to Hoburgdorf.


A lab will be build in Glimmering Fields for 200 gold (to get magic items there and move to blood slaves to my lab).

27 Illithids will be recruited in R’lyeh.


To be continued...

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Old March 12th, 2004, 12:49 PM

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Geez, fairly busy week here, but I hope to be able to get some turns in again during the weekend

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Geez, fairly busy week here, but I hope to be able to get some turns in again during the weekend
Been nigh on six weeks. I miss reading Charon's Posts. Especially now that patch 2.11 has dramatically changed the effectiveness of squiddies ...
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