PBEM game: The first step (Running)

[Molog]

Turn 9

A strange whisper is going through the forests of pangea.

Someone supposed to keep a friendly distance from my dominion shows up with an army at my borders . I'll be watching.

I've been checking out the scales in provinces under enemy dominions to learn more about the dominion choices of that player.

Ermors army and gems are starting to rocket up. Ermor also build/found the first castle.
Machaka is leading in provinces and income, but way below in research.
Earoscale is doing good too, but that low dominion could screw them up if they are neighbouring Ermor.

Dagan could be stolen from man.

Black beards pirates are for offer. Bunch of heavily armoured guys, can't remember if the leader had sailing ability.

Casino site might be real. I guess the developers might be adding new content from dominions 3 in dominions 2.

I encountered an independent air 2 and air six mage loaded with magic items, accompagnied by phantom warriors in a single player game a while back. Never saw that before.

[Shmonk]

Sorry, yes, I was joking about the casino magic site. I've been thinking about going to one over the holidays, and I thought it would make an interesting magic site.

[BigDaddy]

Keep you hand closer or someone will shake you down .

[RibbonBlue]

Arg I am surounded by knights, I have to build up a huge force just to capture a province!

[sushiboat]

Turn 10

The province tally is: Machaka 9, Arcosephale 7, Ermor 7, Pythium 6, Marignon 6, Pangaea 5, Man 4, and Jotunheim 4. Over the last two turns, Marignon has had substantial income gains and has now overtaken Machaka (by a little) for first place in that category. Ermor found gems. Pangaea and Man lead in research. Ermor has taken over first place in army size from Machaka. Marignon now employs Dagan the Sage.

[Molog]

Turn 10

Not much important to report, except a strange whisper getting stronger.

[The Panther]

sushiboat said:
Ermor has taken over first place in army size from Machaka.

One problem is that the army size graph does not take into account the relative worth of the actual troop. An Ermor soulless therefore counts exactly the same as an Ulm knight in the graph, when the knight is maybe 50 times as powerful. So Ermor will skyrocket to the top of the army size graph and eventually squash all the other nations into the bottom of the scale such that it becomes totally meaningless. Ermor with 7 provinces and high dominion (assuming he is either AE or SG) is plenty to begin the exponential growth in army size.

[RibbonBlue]

Ya, problem is I dont have enough gold to recruit a bunch of air two mages, or knights, but I am slowly taking out the knights with masses of spears to repel em, and LBS to fire at their archers to cause em to morale and flee.

[Ironhawk]

RibbonBlue said:
Arg I am surounded by knights, I have to build up a huge force just to capture a province!

How many knights are we talking here Ribbon? Cause they usually range in the 5-10 area, which you should be able to counter with a handful of your own knights and the tactics I detailed earlier. Additionally, you can recruit some mages with 2A (2 Air) magic and script them to lightning bolt x5 and all your troops to Hold&Attack and Fire. One or two mages like that will really savage a knight block. Be sure to bring chaff. And I really mean chaff! What is your cheapest unit? Slingers? Militia? Use those to sacrifice on the knight lances.

[Agrajag]

Hooray!
Internet Explorer has gone insane and now I have to use another computer to get my Emails
Its so much fun that now all of my turns will take longer to be submitted!
Or, in short, expect my turns to take longer untill I submit them.