Newbie Game EA (Running)

[FAJ]

I didn't want to insult TienChi's intelligence. How else could you interpret a complete halt of our artifact/gem relations and my armies concetrated on your boarder?

Anyways, Oni can't understand words as long as "Treacherously". Could you rephrase that in the form they could understand? Like, bloody corpses? The Oni are big into eating the living and slaughtering the innocent; not so much into civil diplomacy.

I would rather be snuffed out by the Ulm-TienChi alliance than sit by and watch my only ally be trampled do death in his own lands.

[Foodstamp]

Pangaea is AI now, goodluck people!

[Shovah32]

Foodstamp, i honestly feel our war could have went the other way had you put some decent scripting on your pans.

You fought well.

[FrankTrollman]

Interesting news. With the Power of the Ankh I decide who lives and who dies. Naturally, I decided that the armies of Isodea should die and that my own armies should live. I think that my reasoning here is pretty self explanatory.

Furthermore, Yomi is trapped within a web of magical power and it is now certain that the fields of Baron's Road will be heaped with the corpses of the Oni and their dogs. There is at this time nothing they can do to prevent the fate I have prepared for them, their friends cannot be saved, their god cannot be saved. It's a good feeling all around.

Pangaea has turned AI, which means that they are no longer a threat to Abysia. But it also means that they can no longer be trusted to keep their borders with Tien Chi. It is regretable, but it seems inevitable that we will drift into war with Pangaea, and through them with Abysia. It's unfortunate, but at this moment we don't see any other eventuality.

On a lighter subject, the Bracelet and Boots you ordered are ready, if you know what I mean. You will be the belle of the ball.

The Great Catsby has Spoken.

[FrankTrollman]

Attached is the results of our battle with Sauromatia.

The Great Catsby has Spoken

[FAJ]

Nice G drive, it describes Catsby's personality.

[Foodstamp]

Shovah, I made alot of mistakes this game. I am still having alot of difficulties figuring out what pans are good for beyond just spitting out manaids. In the next game I have a different strategy for using them, but it is hard for me to figure out a good strategy with them being 3-4 nature, 1-2 earth and 1-2 blood.

[Sheap]

I think the problem wasn't with the pans, but the maenads. You had hardly anything else in your army. Maenads are like any other freespawn, they are just chaff troops. You need to back them up with heavy hitters. Earth magic isn't really good for you since the only really good earth-only combat spell is blade wind, and that will kill more maenads than Abysians. Blood has bad combat magic and always has, and Pangaea isn't really much of a blood nation anyway. IIRC you also have access to Death, and death is chock full of great summons and even has one or two battle spells you could make use of.

[Ironhawk]

Foodstamp said:
I am still having alot of difficulties figuring out what pans are good for beyond just spitting out manaids.

A good combination of Pans + maenads is to bring a horde of Maenads and then cast Mass Protection and Growing Fury on them. With some earth magic you can also cast Weapons of Sharpness or Legions of Steel, etc. Or Blade wind of course.

Generally speaking Nature is a summoning path tho, like Death.

[llamabeast]

What's "Power of the Ankh"? And Frank, do you know why my flaming arrows didn't work? Or at least didn't appear to work? My men all said "flaming arrows" on them, but the arrows weren't actually flaming.

Well, at least I tried. You must admit I learned from you, I went from no magic to vicious magic (although you're sneaky use of undead made my death magic less good), and that time I had half-decent troops too. If I'd been fighting one of your earlier armies (back in the days of Arcoscephale) I think I'd have won. But in the end your army was superior in both magic and troops.

Xox, read your PMs.