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[Aezeal]

Personally I wonder why I keep loosing so much troops every time.. I'm loosing much more troops each battle than I expected. But soon my mages will be even better (Jomon beware ) since I just researched storm power and I think I will just have to keep on buying troops to replace losses.

PS Arco how much PD was that.. it killed 40 of my troops because I didn't expect it to be there but there where LOADS of troops, must have cost you a fortune???

Bladewind is nasty I lost my bladewinder and haven't gotten a new one yet

My research is indeed due to sages and I have upkeep problems as you mention Zenzei HTF do you know the upkeep of troops? currently I can't train much troops if I train 2 mages and a sage.. then again.. 2 mages a turn are reasonably powerfull atm and can each kill dozens of troops with only little protection and I don't think my upkeep is more than 40% of total income btw

[Wazooking]

I thought that communion might help the mind duel, so I had it scripted first. Either way, it would help after I won the mind duel. I was pretty much thinking the same thing for power of the spheres. If I lost the mind duel, I would totally lose anyways.

As for the dust to dust question, when I look back at the replay, it looks like you are on the order of 35 squares away depending on how it calculates diagonals.

I am not sure what a reverse communion was, but without the PoD, my troops were good enough to mop up.

Mictlan is the front runner. After having faces major armies from 3 nations, I know what the current situation is. Disease Demons are a very good deal on a low gem map.

[Aezeal]

Too many early fights, and a few mistakes have made my game go downwards from the start, I was also a bit cornered in , not so much indies before encountering the rest of you.

Arco and Jomon could send large parts of their armies against me, not to mention pythium who's starting fight with me (for no good reason, just like arco) cost me a lot of army early on... hydra's are just not easy to kill

[James243]

Hmm... 50 province defense? Cost me about 1000 but figured it might hold the province. It saved me when you attacked previously. And the manual says you can't have enough of it. So my pretender came back... Minus a magic level in each school. Are there items or something that can boost it back up? And doesn't the loss of levels argue against rainbow pretenders? A pretender highly skilled in one path suffers less than a rainbow right?

[Aezeal]

hmm lol that makes me happy.. it would have sucked to loose 1000 gold of skinshifters to 25 PD which would have cost only 250 or something. That much PD is hardly ever worth it, though your PD IS rather nice.

Your Pretender is back... I'd keep him away from me right now though,manticore steak is now legendary amongst the skinshifters

Indeed rainbow pretenders suffer more from dying.. but generally you shouldn't let your pretender die at all
you can empower him back or you could use boosters just like normal.

My suggestion though would be to give me that castle you have (it was MY province originally remember) and then NAP me and focus on Marignon. Fighting 2 wars is never good.

[James243]

Hmm... Manticore steak... Actually my whole pretender design was simply what they suggested in the manual. Next time around I'd do my own thing. And sorry but I can't give you that province. And strictly speaking it belonged to some poor independent in the first place. And it has a huge pd so even if I have it to you you'd suffer a lot. But as I'm sure you can see I just don't have the resources to attack you for quite a while. Happy to kick back for a bit right now...

[Aezeal]

As you saw PD dies from thunderstrike really really fast.. and with storm power all galdermen can do thunderstrike

Boom, Boom, boom... let's just say I wouldn't defend the castle any further