MP Game, Early Era, Random Nations, Victory Points

Corwin · #1 January 13th, 2007, 09:46 PM

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Maltrease said:
It might have been that way. But was we stated truthfully throughout we were utterly unprepared for Caelums alliance with Tien empire. Sadly were were not able to shift gears fast enough, and ULM not able to put up enough of a fight for a stallmate situation to occur. Except for a few battles the war was pretty one sided.

True. The largest surprise of the war for me was that Helheim turned out to be very unprepared for it, despite the fact that they have started the war by traveling secretly across my entire nation to attack me with 2 raiders in the most remote corner of my Empire. But these two raiders were all Helheim troops that I saw for the first 9 or so turns of the war. Had Helheim positioned more troops over my territory before the start of the war, the outcome of the war might be different, since in the beginning of the war I totally lacked anti-raiders measures, and all my castles stood completely empty of troops. Besieging some them while pillaging my territory would cripple me.

Ulm also contributed to my and Caleum's victory - they chosen to surrender their entire nation without a battle, retreating to their capital for the last stand. Had they chosen to make a stand earlier, before I tripled the size of my army and got Flame Arrows spell, that devastated Ulm's horde, they had a good chance to repel me, or at least significantly delay me.

Don't get me wrong - both Helheim and Ulm were strong and challenging opponents. Helheim especially shown great generalship by repelling twice my attacks on his capital, against overwhelming number of my troops, scattering my armies to the four winds. Helheim also destroyed a lot of my mages with his spells and his improvised assassins between the storms, weakening my army significantly. And Ulm also put up a good fight during their last stand, destroying more than half of my army at the end.