Clash of the Newbies! PBEM

[RicoRico]

:-)

But still I'd really like to play for 2 or 3 more turns and see the final battle in Arcoscephale, for the fun of it.. Probably not much work for you to play a turn currently ;-) .. Really curious if you can beat what's coming to you this time.
I think I will have won the game in 3 turns anyway even without Arcoscephale.

You could ofcourse have Abysia & Atlantis put to AI if they don't have the patience anymore, and you wait for my last castle storming, Cor?

It is too bad indeed that Oceania AI attacked Atlantis. I would also be curious to see Atlantis SC pretender in action against one of my bigger armies..

I decided not to go strongly for magic at all this game, even though it had such high site rating to start with. Just build expensive elite units that stay alive long so the investments don't go to waste and expand fast and aggressively to the economic strongpoints: the plains with rivers. With my high income, I could speed up research once I had some extra fortresses.
I also learned a lot this game. Especially about the power of some higher level spells such as Fire Storm, massing elemental summonings and communions. Phew!
By the way, my globals really weren't cast that strongly, but no one seemed to want to try and dispel them. Dispelling does not seem to be tried a lot in other games as well. Nobody wants to risk losing their precious pearls I suppose?

[Cor]

I am up for another few turns, But I warn you, There will be no "final storming of Arco". We are invincible here.

I kept expecting you to cast Nukes on my capital, kill all the pop and let me have it until you dominion killed me. Not sure what I could have done about that.

I also found out that you cannot seduce commanders if you only have a single province. I kitted out a thug with seduction and then couldn't use her. Very sad.

[cupido2]

Of course Rico and his evil troops have won 10-20 turns ago. My god is dead (his death was as heroic as it was unspectacular), I'm holding 2 or 3 provinces and as it was my first MP-game I have learnt a lot about Abysia and their expensive troops (and I'll never have a drain 3 dominion again. Fire Storm is a must-have for them (who thought that??))

So if all agree he is the offical winner.

[Cor]

I think we all agree that RicoRico is the winner. He wants to play a few more turns. If you want to go AI that is fine. I will stick around until he storms my castle again, unless he takes forever.

[cupido2]

Hmmm so put me to ai

[Cor]

Atlantis, Did you want to submit a turn? Or are you out?

[RicoRico]

ok great, just to play that one more castle storming :-)

[RicoRico]

Pheeeuuww!
That was a long and heavy battle!
Clogging that gate sure can stop an army for a long time.. Perhaps I should have positioned my SC Bane Lord at pole position to clear that up.. Unfortunately I could not see him in action in this battle...
This time, I would have been very surprised if you would have won again. Perhaps berserk was the keyword here, otherwise we may have routed before you did. I threw in a host of battlefield spells though, that will have helped
;-)

Pity I did not get to battle Atlantis' pretender, it was looking awesomely menacing, with his Aegis, trampling, invulnerability, 15 reinvigoration, over 300 hitpoints, and some nice combat enhancement spells..

Well, thanks a lot everyone for playing, I had good fun!

[jutetrea]

Very nice job, I took a lot of the things I did wrong this game and have hopefully improved upon them. Doing much better in perpetuality and in a winning race in mid_unlucky.

Really wish I was able to see some of the epic battles you guys had over in the east.

[RicoRico]

Perhaps Cor could place some screenshots? :-)

I'm wondering, can you see a battle if you have an astral window on a province?