MP: EA: Vanilla, Newbie game [GOOD AGAIN!]

[GameExtremist]

Well there is really only you and Lanka that can pose any sort of resistance I think, Vanheim and I had a epic battle last turn, which was entertaining. Unless you have some SC's up your sleeve its probably not going to be easy to stop me.

I'm surprised Lanka is doing do well, I have spies too and it (the AI) has really creamed Tien Chi.

I'm happy to keep playing if others are...If not I don't mind if people set to AI, it gives me a chance to try some stuff out.

[Num]

Lanka has completely taken the edge against Tien Chi, I do not know the story. But I am backstabbing Lanka, demons are suffering many losses since (The AI is so bad).
I only have a few SC, and they are very bad tuned. My armies are slow and not adapted to counter SCs, I guess. So you are probably going to get rid of Ermor soon and quick. I do not have Tartarians, as I did not managed to reach enough nature and death paths on my pretender (Empowerment cost much and I waste lot of time, gold and gems in secondary goals, as I was battling with C'tis for a long time).
I have hard times in finishing the last sauromancers in the C'tis capital, that means a lot.

@All the players : Do not hesitate to write and explain what were your plans, strategy, goals. I would be glad to read that.

[Stagger Lee]

Originally Posted by Num

@All the players : Do not hesitate to write and explain what were your plans, strategy, goals. I would be glad to read that.

Well, I'm done. My strategy was simple and not clearly defined. I wanted a chance to try an astral heavy nation. My pretender was s9e6 I think. I eventually wanted celestial soldiers and thought maybe MR would be important, but I also wanted good scales. In most of my games so far, I have sacrificed scales for bless, or SC pretender. I knew this was also a chance to try clamming, which is not usual now, and I haven't played enough to be sick of that game.

I tried to rebuild after my disaster when Lanka went AI, and should have been able to. BoT killed or rendered useless all my replacement celestial masters. I tried to regroup again, managing to kill a bunch of my masters of the way in various ways, usually with poorly planned communions and lots of dead slaves after a victory, leaving me weaker for the rampaging hordes of Lanka. A well set up empire, and even when I was winning battles, I never took Lanka land, just retook TC territory.

I just retook my cap again, for the third and final time. If I lose it again, I won't even try. I got nothing left for this game. I wish I could say it's been fun, but it hasn't. Not for a long time. Someone once said you learn more from one desperate situation than you do from ten easy victories. I hope I have learned something here. For one thing, a stale turn will always be better than a stoopid charge just 'cuz you're pissed off.

Good game to those still in, and congratulations GE if you get concessions. From where I sit, some of you had some real epic battles, and hopefully some fun.

See ya

[Num]

Thanks for answering, it's hard to figure out what were the other player's strategies and moves.

My strategy was simple and not clearly defined

Haha that is clearly my thought about mine .
I wanted a SC pretender (In my other game, Rattlehead, my C'tis pretender was useless, with strong scales and dominions, but it has fitted very well), but I missed magic diversity, and did not reached good numbers in nature and death paths... So I had a good early game. But with a lot of wastes and mountains and lack of magic paths, I missed both gold and gems incomes.
War with C'tis was successful at the end (I suspect Blackguard to play in too much games for his available time, and so I luckily had reasonable success against him ) but I have no endgame plan : No tartarian, few SCs (Fire Kings), too much standard troops, lot of summon tries. No chance (I guess) when Ulm is coming...
Anyway, I had fun, I hope I learned some things, I will continue playing a little.... See you.