Jaguar - finished, Szumo declared winner

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

i'd happily do so, but I don't know how.

Bah... The only commander I lost was my pretender. Everyone of my oracles survived to fight another day. If I was just a little further forward, I would have taken out more than a quarter of his leaders, with massive Blade Winds. Unfortunately, my oracles were already all the way to the front. And some overlooked and not yet understood fatigue and get math meant each only got off 2 Blade winds, instead of four each, as I planned. I think 16 would have been devestating, but even with a late Earthpower and 2 gems apiece, Reinvig boots, I wasn't able to pull it off.

I was so close... I can't use that tactic again in this game, esp w/o a laboratory. But I came close to making it work, though it was certainly risky with all those assassin spells. Sigh... it was fun to play, but saddening in that I can't experiment in endless variation and replay the same battle with different orders, learning much.

[Szumo]

Well, your pretender dying was a bit of bad luck indeed - she was hit twice by Gifts from Heaven (meteors).
I was watching the replay and was very concerned when the Blade Winds started to fall amongst my mages.

There is no way of saving battle replays that i know - except using Fraps or similar which is not really practical due to file size.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

I'm considering saving this turn file, putting it in a password protected zip, uploading it as an attachment, then revealing the password later, so people can watch it directly. It might reveal unfortunate information about my forces, hence the delay. Now if I could mod my turn file to just display the battle, and remove the most sensitive information... While its not the brightest idea to reveal my situation, I'm not to worried about it, given I'm already at war with R'lyeh, and my neighbor Pythium is at war with Man. The informations only really dangerous if the war with R'lyeh continues at a stalemate. If I win, the additional land changes my position greatly, if I lose, well, it goes without saying.

What I could have done differently, part one, untested, speculation. - Getting closer approach
Earthpower-> Attack (once) -> Blade Wind
By scripting Blade Wind first, I hoped to take out your Star Children right away - they are hardly well armored or as damage absorbent as my Oracles. I could have gotten more casts in by earthing first, though I'm surprised I wasn't able to get in all four. I presume that spellcasting encumbrance is taken into account after gem discounts.

I'd rushed the cast in the hope to BW you before you got communions AND ethereal form up, since most earth spells are mundane. But that was a waste as I didn't quite have the range to reach you anyway, and ended up exhausted anyways.

My pretender probably would have survived if I had set her as fire support. 26 paralysis is a bit much for even MR 22 to handle, and gift of heavens would had that much more range deviation to deal with.

I also probably would have seen benefits from Sermon of Courage or Fanaticism. Certainly, enough of my troops ran off, though with the limited review time I didn't figure out why they ran, but was focusing on the star children, then my pretender. I was disappointed to see those 'Legions of Steel cast by the AI... at that point they were a bit late to the game.

[Starshine_Monarch]

Why don't you send it like maybe 5 or 6 turns later? That way it wouldn't matter if we knew where your forces were half a year ago.

[sum1lost]

I must say that man has a whole lot of indy knights raiding his provinces. Scales like that, you don't need legionnaires pouring down from the north.

But, like I said, the nation of pythium is goodhearted.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Sure... Sounds good, Starshine Monarch. Anybody else willing to save a turn to share later?

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

You know you've lost a battle when the results read regular units lost , -25.