Sophistry - (Finished) Winner DrPraetorious!

[Rytek]

So close, So close....

Caelum masses an army featuring 40+ casters. They all just sit back behind their mammomths and archers and spam summon air power, thunderstrike. One of their eagle kings is holding a staff of storms.

First fight I tried to evict him i attack with my army and 20 casters. I get up flaming arrows, wind guide, ive got guys spamming thunder ward everywhere. spamming terror on his mammoths backed by soul slays. 30 river demons hold the center while 150 warriors of the 5 elements hold the flanks. Thing is, I re-equipp 4 of my commanders which resets their orders to defend. They are leading the 200 composite archers and 100 heavy infantry and they are a no-show for the fight. awww damn it was sooo close but my losses are too great and my forces retreat.

I lose 20 commanders, all my river demons, half my wo5e and almost all of the chaff, 5-10 of which are celestial masters. He loses every mammoth. 1 caster. ouch. not a good exchange.

So, I have this bright idea. I equip an air queen with about 14 air gems, horror helm, rime hauberk, ring of regen, amulet of reinvigoration,charcoal shield,flame brand and I wind ride into his province. I teleport along my pretender as the tank and put her in front of the air queen.
The air queen scripts summon storm power, and the lightning storm spell (forget name) mist form,air shield, attack. My pretender buffs with ehthereal,luck,breath of winter.

Now, what normally has been happening (I tested a few times with my pretender) is that all of the air casters default to casting summoning phantom wolves because of the lightning /cold immunities. I was going to sit back and let the phantom wolves wash over me while the lightning storm did its work.

It worked like a charm accept one thing. He added in a group 20 or so of Storm warriors that can fly during a storm. they land on top of the 2 SC's. then some arrows fly which kills about 1/3 of them. they attack and actually do damage to the air queen who is at 50 fatigue after casting the lightning storm.Ahh no, magical ice weapons! After their round the 2 scs attack and knock the group down to about 7 left. Despite their losses, mounuting fatigue from the 2 frost auras and the horror helm they stay and attack 1 more round. blam, dead air queen!! After that the storm warriors were killed/routed by my pretender, but the damage was done. no more lightning storm. Of course then the plan works perfectly. the phantom wolves pile up around the pretender, the combat moves to 50 turns and she routs and dies.

Damn those Storm warriors!

Caelum, I hope you enjoy the gear they were wearing.

[Rytek]

And oh, can I bring my pretender back from the dead as a mummy because she is in the hall of fame?

[Velusion]

Well Yomi's time has come. I'm hoping to quicken the pace of my defeat by Neifelheim (who is going to creame me).

So I'll stick around enough to burn down the countryside and scorch the earth. You guys better start working on some sort of an alliance against him though

I have a lot of artifacts I'm going to give away to those people who have been helpful to me.

[Sensori]

Oh, like me? ... Oh wait, I'm dead! Sorry! ;p

Had to!

[Jazzepi]

Sensori said:
Oh, like me? ... Oh wait, I'm dead! Sorry! ;p

Had to!

No, not like you at all. The distinction was between randomly distributing gems/items/gold to other people, and giving it out to allies.

Jazzepi

[Sensori]

Jazzepi said:
No, not like you at all. The distinction was between randomly distributing gems/items/gold to other people, and giving it out to allies.

Jazzepi

Velusion said:
I have a lot of artifacts I'm going to give away to those people who have been helpful to me.

Nuff said.

[DrPraetorious]

Hey, I'm a friendly giant. I only attacked Yomi because Abyssia pulled through on his diplomacy (with whom I had positive diplomatic relations way back in the yonder years.)

Anyway, look at the research graphs. Sure, I'm all big and scary and I'm giants, but if you spend all your resources attacking me, you'll miss the real threat from people with some late game punch.

That said, I'm always open to negotiations and would love to have allies . I'm willing to be very generous and reasonable since I really, really don't want to be ganged up on .

[Velusion]

A delay has been requested to let the new EA Agartha player (Baalz) get up to speed.

Someone might need to remind me to turn the clock back to 48 hours after this host

[Baalz]

I'm taking my turn now, no need for a delay. I've got zip on info other than what I can see looking at the map. I wouldn't ordinarily ask, but lacking any context if any of the people with armies on my border are planning to immediately attack me it would be sporting to give me the heads up that relations are hostile. Outside of that I'll assume neutral relations at this point, other than Abyssia who appears to be halfway down my gullet.

[DrPraetorious]

Actually, I'm going to gone over the weekend, so could we delay the hosting-after-this-one by 24 hrs? Were we on a 24 hr timer before (I thought it was 48)? I just put in a turn but may not be able to take my next turn on time .

Sorry for any invonvenience,
DrPraetorious