Alexander - PBEM Game - Running

[karnoza]

Thanks, everyone, for congratulations and very interesting game.

I entered this game on turn 11 when I was asked by my friend to sub for him. It was rather interesting to play within the given bounds but rather hard on the other hand, because we have different playstyle.
I was given an imprisoned 9w9d4f PoD, turmoil 3, sloth 3, luck 2, magic 1 dominion. Initial expansion was rather fast as my jaguars in hard and bloody battles managed to swallow nearest neighbours (Man and Utgard) and indies.
Later well developed blood economy (200-500 slaves/turn) compensated the lack of money for me and my weak English made me very cautious in diplomacy and hampered possible trade deals but that was even more interesting in the end.
Near turn 50 I managed to become the leader in territories and gems (and slaves, obviously) but a bit later the war with Tien-Ch'i (who was the leader in research and income and owned two powerful globals) began. I wasted 180 pearls trying to dispel FotA and later another 235 trying to dispel GoNB but with no luck as you could see.

As a result of this war, some parity was reached: attacker faced heavy battlefield spells on round one and usually lost. There were moments when it seemed to me that victory is near but Drake found a counter to all of my actions. Who knows, who long it would last if other nations didn't enter this war. I decided to get the VP's I lacked from the other nations and succeeded at last. I didn't manage to conquer any of the VP's of Tien-Ch'i except one I had luck to conquer on final turn.

I'd like to one more time thank everybody for the game and especially Pasha for great hosting. Meet you in the other games.