Newbie game 2 [Started]

[Zrave]

good luck have fun

[Potatoman]

... And welcome back to the Dominions News Network. As the world's only secular news network, DNN is your number 1 choice for unbiased ascension coverage, 2 years running.

Tonight, we join our Field Reporter Dennis Hardbody in Troll Land, where he has exlusive coverage of the ongoing cataclysm that has gripped the southwestern populace tightly in icy tentacles of fear. Dennis?

Thank you Jon. The scene here in Troll Land is one of unfettered desolation, and from what I've learned, the nations of R'lyeh and Kailasa are both responsible. It's like a moonscape now, Jon. I need a special helmet just to survive out here.

What happened Dennis? Are there any survivors?

Yes Jon. Fortunately, anyone that was able to burrow down more than a mile beneath the Earth's crust was able to survive the battle's collateral damage. Otherwise, well, it would have been a good time to invest in a Crystal Heart or really hope for the success of your pretender.
As for the cause, Jon, eye-witnesses tell us that both the Kailasan and R'lyeh armies were spamming the same spell- Gifts from Heaven. For those not versed in high level battle magic, this spell grabs giant chunks of rock from outer space, some weighing more than an Earth Mother, and hurls them down at our defenseless Earth. This is an Extraordinarily deadly Spell, Jon. There really is no defense after you have been hit with a piece of rock the size of a tropical island, some of which are radioactive, or on fire.

How many times was this spell cast at Troll Land, Dennis?

Reports are sketchy, Jon. A mole that we interviewed via Gift of Reason was not willing to comment and the other witnessess have marched on with their army or passed on to the Celestial Sphere, a place that has denied entrance to this foreign correspondent. The one thing I'm sure they all agree on is that there were certaintly enough gifts from heaven to go around. Our experts estimate that almost 50% of the earth's kuiper belt "got lost" sometime last night. With this kind of destructive power as the plaything of pretending gods, this reporter can only hope that the R'lyeh and Kailasan armies learn from the lesson of Troll Land, or their eventually victory will be pyrrhic at best. Jon?

Thank you Dennis. Now if you've been counting days obsessively, wondering "Is this a good time to enroll my child in a youth Frungy league?" you're not alone. Our reporter Greg Manslab investigates the sordid underside of youth Frungy; the details may suprise you. Story at 11.

[RamsHead]

A bloody month in the Abysian capital.

[Saarud]

Damn you Ramshead... I truly suck at this game or else I say you are no Newbie Ramshead... I choose to beleive the latter.

Sorry to destroy this game by being so sucky... next game I'm in I will ensure that everyone is not a milestone better than me. He has whopped me more in this game than I been whopped in my other games even though some of them are hosting experianced players.

Though all this whopping has given me alot of experiance that I will use in my future game, it also has made me realize that the game might not be for me. I want big armies slashing it out and not one man armies killing thousands of men. Hmm

Anyhow... very good playing Ramshead and ofcourse Potatoman aswell. Next time I think you are not eligable for a newbie game... ehh?

[Potatoman]

Ermor can counter SCs in many ways... Most of them involve battle magic.

MR saving throw spells like Paralyze, soul slay, Enslave Mind and opposition will eventually cause a SC to miss his save... then he's as good as dead.

Against undead SCs Dust to Dust does great damage and is unresistable. Shadow bolt automatically feebleminds people around where it strikes, which can mess SCs up. Another way to fight SCs is via thugs- tough characters geared up for maximum damage rather than survivability.

It might be too late (I don't know what happened in Abysia, no scout coverage there), but it can pay to basicly look through the dominions spell list with a specific purpose in mind (say, countering a King of Elemental Earth) and check which spells (even summons) can work for that goal.

[RamsHead]

Saarud, don't make me smack you! You are not a sucky player, and you didn't ruin the game by any means. I hope you learned that national troops, while good for expanding and the mid-game, are ineffective against a late-game SC. Potatoman already pointed out alot of the things one can do to counter SCs. Also, against large undead armies, astral, fire, and death magic are all useful. Very few, if any, undead are immune to fire, and fire has quite a few spells that damage a large area. Astral has a number of spells that do increased damage to undead. Death has access to dust to dust, a high damage, unresistable spell, and it's bigger, badder brother, wither bones.

Oh, and don't be discouraged about what happened at the capital. Kailasa gave me a good whoopin' after our big battle, as you probably saw. Oh course that was because I was out of gems. Also, I brought the hammer down on you really hard in our battle. Who would have thought that undead mastery, master enslave, antimagic, and will of the fates would be such a great combination.

[Saarud]

Yeah sorry about that... please don't smack me Ramshead. I was just abit angry with myself because it feels that I let Kailasa down. I feel like I am a lousy ally. Ofcourse I have learned alot from this game and will use that in future games, but that doesn't help me now... does it? Both you and Potatoman are very good players...