Silent Seas AAR

[st.patrik]

Turn 34
I swear the death match was rigged! Somehow I got put in fighting Caelum first thing. I summoned my earth elemental, he summoned an air elemental. So far so good.



I blessed myself in preparation for the attack, he summoned another air elemental. Things still might have been alright had Carusara gone all the way to the rear before cutting across to attack, but instead he decided he would attack the air elementals. While he was on his way the Caelian summoned a third air elemental, and at that point Carusara's fate was well and truly sealed.



Here is the culprit - one of Caelums dirty Eagle Kings. Now I'm really mad.



After this T'ien Ch'i entered the arena against Caelum. I guess the Caelian (may his name never be uttered until he is dead) had used all his good gems on killing Carusara, so all he had left was small water elementals to buffet the noble that T'ien Ch'i sent in to the arena.



The noble managed to take out the elementals, and had a long duel with the Caelian, throwing magical attacks against each other, until in the end the noble from T'ien Ch'i lost his nerve and retreated from the field, which of course is a win for Caelum.

Vanheim did not send a representative.


I will be presenting the judges with an official complaint - I'm sure that they were bribed to allow the Caelian to attack me first, rather than after his strength was depleted!


Back home in Kailasa, Asamati took the last independant province around these parts, and now is heading home. I need to decide if it's going to be T'ien Ch'i I attack or Vanheim...tough decision.

[Nerfix]

Ouch! Caelum may have lost on the field but they won in the arena. That Eagle King sure looks nasty.

I would recommend Tien Chi. Unless Vanehim is losing really badly to them you might be able to break Tien's power.

[Sindai]

Yeah, how much of that is random picks? 7 magic plus 2 holy is pretty amazing.

[ioticus]

Are arena matches worthwhile now? What is the prize? Does the AI still send its pretenders foolishly into battle?

[DominionsFan]

ioticus said:
Are arena matches worthwhile now? What is the prize? Does the AI still send its pretenders foolishly into battle?

Hopefully the AI wont send his pretenders to the Arena in Doms 3...or if it is sending them to fight there, this can be easily "fixed" in a Doms 3. patch, so that the AI wont use pretenders in the Arena.... I mean it looks like an easy programming job to ban the AI pretenders from the Arena battles.

[st.patrik]

Turn 35
All peoples praise your god! Finally after almost three years of terrible struggle I am free to take my people to victory! Now the earth will shake and the peoples tremble, for I, Ghanivallika, have come.

sure I have blue skin - what of it?



My first act will be to summon a Kinnara - a ritual none of my mages were able to perform. Then we must plan for war. Asamati is already on his way back, and the Yakshini I recruited last turn has the skill to summon more like herself. I will start to build an army, and then we shall march!

[fahdiz]

st.patrik, many MANY thanks for this AAR. (Dunno if you remember me - you hosted the first MP Dom II game I ever played. ) Great writing, great use of screenshots, great information.

I can't wait for this game; I think I'll probably explode attempting to try out all the new races.

[st.patrik]

fahdiz said:
st.patrik, many MANY thanks for this AAR. (Dunno if you remember me - you hosted the first MP Dom II game I ever played. ) Great writing, great use of screenshots, great information.

I can't wait for this game; I think I'll probably explode attempting to try out all the new races.

Yeah I remember you! I didn't know you were still coming around these parts.
thanks for the compliments

[okiN]

Booyah! That's one tough-looking lady! I reckon the foe will be pretty helpless when you decide to take her out for walkies.

[Endoperez]

okiN said:
Booyah! That's one tough-looking lady! I reckon the foe will be pretty helpless when you decide to take her out for walkies.

Her Awe probably comes from Dominion 10. I think it's Lady of Love and not of Fortune that starts with Awe.

Also, the awesome defense value comes from Water 9 - it increases defense now that it doesn't allow a mage to go underwater. That also happens to make her special ability more important.