Thank you all for this excellent & exciting game!
The playing level and competition were high despite the deceiving early victory.
I also want to extend a big thank you to Amhazair for admining this game and to Dimaz for assigning nations
This is my first ever win in a RAND type game and the earliest I've ever one.
I credit this to perfect luck. Almost every choice I made, every guess, was right on the spot and I absolutely don't expect this kind of luck to happen again. Not soon anyway.
It also helped a great deal that none jumped me when it was still possible to stop me. Only Pythium and later Pangaea attacked me but it was too little too late.
I played EA Caelum once, in the artifacts game, and put to play lessons hard learned. Mainly re. usefulness of crow tribe.
I also took to heart Executor's observation from last YARG that I play too cautiously and decided the hell w/ caution in this game
Caelum short AAR:
- My Pretender
Caelum, King of Kings, the Hidden One, the Divine Shepherd, Lord of this World,
Prince of Insects
Caelum, Late Era
Master Druid (Body 268, 10 hits)
Magic: Nature 4
Dominion 9
Scales: Order 3 Productivity 3 Cold 3 Growth 3 Misfortune 2 Drain 2
Awake
- game plan: make lot's of money. have good resources. Concentrate on building all flying super mobile armies.
Let awake Dragon deal w/ early expansion.
Then, scout like crazy. Find weak opponents. Jump one, or even two at a time. Make the kill. repeat.
I went almost straight for construction 8. Picked up and cast two globals on the way. Not strong but enough to give my plans a push.
I got weapons of sharpness and then forged all the artifacts I could.
This got me to 6 VPs I think and I knew my next move should trigger a global war vs. me so I had to plan well and pick up courage to give the "go" command.
I decided to strike at Midgard+Utgard 1st. Midgard b/c I noticed him massing armies on our border and Utgard b/c I thought I'd get two easy VPs from him (his + Atlantis). Attacking Migard was actually a defensive move: attack 1st and have him on the defense instead of the other way around.
The attack on Utgard failed to yield the expected result since Fungalreason has put up a spectacular defense of his VP. However, the attack on Midgard was more successful than expected and I ended up taking the 8th VP from him (Mictlan) and aiming for 9th+10th (Midgard+Atlantis).
My highlights and notes from this game
- Mobility rocks. All mobile armies are invaluable.
- I was shocked when my scouts reported an evil twin of my pretender - Midgard's green dragon.
- As it happens our dragons never faced off.
- Dust to Dust, Thaum. 2 (the highest I got), killing badass undead thugs. You gotta love (or hate) that spell.
- Utgard defense of his VP. I lost two major battles to him. Kudos man, that was a great show of resilience!
- Losing the Ankh to Utgard
- Thinking Midgard is Executor's and Pan GFSnl. Yeah, I suck at guessing.
- Going from no wars to a three fronted war in just one turn due to Pythium's unexpected weak arsed punch
- And yeah, I noticed Gath attacking Pythium and thinking WTF. The guy probably has good reason to attack Pyth knowing that the game is about to be over.
- Predicting exactly when Pan will strike at me and preparing a sufficient counter offensive to break his charge. I actually attacked him on the exact same turn he attacked me.
- Raptor clan. I have a new measure of respect for this clan after this game. Esp. Raven guard and Harab elder.
Short PR:
I'll be soon starting two new game:
- House of Chains, non newb game, diplo allowed, WH mods + CBM1.94
- YARG5, EA RAND game.
PM me if you want to reserve a spot in one, or two of them.
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