Niefel AAR: "...Some Say In Ice"

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by Arryn:
Peter, your writing just gets better and better. Nicely done. And I like the touch you added to the pic by labelling the elephants as "food". LOL

Thanks.

Strictly speaking, just about everything except for the Sea Trolls counts as food, but there is good eating on those mammoths!

Originally posted by Bossemanden:

Damn shame you lost the second battle of Himalayas.
Ice vs. Ice = Seatrolls it seems

You can say that again. I have really come to appreciate Sea Trolls. Amphibious, regenerating, tough, do not consume supplies - and their Sea Kings even produce a water gem per turn, just enough to summon an extra Sea Troll. Since I only use water gems for Clams of Pearls (and I have a quite decent astral gem income by now, thank you very much ) and summoning Sea Kings (three at this time, more to come), it is easy to see why the form the bulk of my forces at the moment.

Caelum's use of them caught me completely by surprise and unprepared. I mean, I had fought them in more than 30 battles over the Last two years, and I had only ever seen flying troops and the usual light infantry used. Being hit by a force based around four Sea Kings and their retinues (60 Sea Trolls!), more Sea Trolls than I had ever gathered in one army before, backed up by those damnable mammoths (capable of trampling Jotuns!) and more mages and priests than you can count on two hands... Was nothing short of an unmitigated disaster.

Those happen - the important thing is to put them behind you, regroup, and return with a vengeance.

As always, once you know the AI force-composition that you need to defeat, it is fairly easy to take countermeasures - and I had been piling up those astral gems faster than I could burn them anyhow, having no dedicated Acasric Record mage yet