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revenant2 · #1 July 6th, 2012, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by mattyburn7

You rock Parone!

Rev: I hope those 2 armies get to clash. Strategically its lost, but some mega-battles should be fun. I'm going to send out all my armies and let them fight until they are dead or deserted!

Bone Daddy's minions smell delicious brains up North and are rushing as fast as their rotten legs will take them.

revenant2 · #2 July 7th, 2012, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by mattyburn7

You rock Parone!

Rev: I hope those 2 armies get to clash. Strategically its lost, but some mega-battles should be fun. I'm going to send out all my armies and let them fight until they are dead or deserted!

Your main army has almost 70 astral mages and a mix 10 decked out Zmeys and Bane Lords with a couple of construction 8 items for good measure. I'm sure it would be loads of fun for you if we attacked this force, but it would be suicide on our part.

Same thing with Atlantis who has a couple of big armies to the South, one of which has been been carefully designed to cast Undead Mastery using an elaborate communion with lots of penetration items.

Sorry fellas, Bone Daddy might be undead, but he's not crazy. We're going to let you guys chase around our armies for awhile until they bleed out some more and we can gather enough forces to crush you.

This won't be very much fun for you guys because your armies will succumb to desertion and disease (waves of leprosy headed your way BTW) while I send lots of little armies to raid your rear areas and assassinate your commanders with Manifestation, Earth Attacks, and seeing arrows. I have big evocation spells coming online soon, too, which will just compound your misery.

If all the remaining players concede then I'd be happy to throw everything I have in waves of suicide attacks and test various tactics, but until then, I'm playing this thing like I can still lose it, which means I'll be as merciless and cunning as I can be.

Russian_Comrade · #3 July 7th, 2012, 12:24 PM

Confusion's working on undead chaff? Interesting.

mattyburn7 · #4 July 9th, 2012, 08:30 AM

do what you need to do. There isn't a snowballs chance of winning this regadless. Even if all your armies suddenly disappeared. Between the globals that are cast, your massive gem income and the rituals you could cast. Our armies are toast. I ended my siege of Marignon to face you in battle and that has allowed him to chip away also. If we fight some battles, great. If not, I'll watch my forces bleed until its time to call it quits.

mattyburn7 · #5 July 9th, 2012, 04:53 PM

Issues with work. I'm going to postpone 24 H

revenant2 · #6 July 15th, 2012, 04:35 AM

Everyone left in this game deserves a huge amount of credit for hanging in there so long against nearly impossible odds. I have a lot of respect for anyone that has a never say die attitude and sticks it out to the bitter end.

Matty/RC,

Both of you guys are currently marching into the heart of darkness. I can't imagine the hell your armies are going through now -- especially the Atlanteans who've been hit with waves of diseases, assassinations, blizzards, and assorted zombies falling from the sky.

Matty,

I think you're going to get that battle you asked for -- although it won't be for another turn. I want to test out a few tactics against your crazy-big communion, but I need to complete my research first.

parone · #7 July 15th, 2012, 07:11 AM

haha. shard went AI! i outlasted him after all. with a small assist from rev...

hey rev, is your AAR dead? i don't blame you if it is. just the turns must be sucking up hours. but i WAS really enjoying it. you really did end up with some early game problems, and came through them nicely.

revenant2 · #8 July 15th, 2012, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by parone

haha. shard went AI! i outlasted him after all. with a small assist from rev...

hey rev, is your AAR dead? i don't blame you if it is. just the turns must be sucking up hours. but i WAS really enjoying it. you really did end up with some early game problems, and came through them nicely.

It's definitely not dead, but I've had some time issues and probably won't get a chance to update it further until after this game is over.

I have been taking screen-shots and notes after each turn, but those last couple of turns -- one of which had 50+ battles -- are going to be pretty daunting to write-up with as much detail as the earlier turns.

mattyburn7 · #9 July 15th, 2012, 07:56 AM

The diseases were a real killer. I really wanted to go with smaller battle groups as opposed to 1 big army but unfortunately it got a little too busy too fast up north and I ended up consolidating into 1 big army....1 big diseased army now!!

revenant2 · #10 July 15th, 2012, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by mattyburn7

The diseases were a real killer. I really wanted to go with smaller battle groups as opposed to 1 big army but unfortunately it got a little too busy too fast up north and I ended up consolidating into 1 big army....1 big diseased army now!!

Leprosy is a real nasty spell: It causes a lot of long-term devastation that's not easily countered, and it's cheap to cast and easily attainable.

As far as I know, the only ways for most nations to remove disease are the Chalice, Faery Queen, or the Gift of Health, none of which are easily attainable and each have certain caveats.

I would have been using Leprosy even more against you, but the Sword of Aurgelmer (awesome artifact BTW) reduces it's effectiveness.

By the way, as Bogarus the ability to heal afflictions can be quite useful because it lets you develop mind hunters without as much worry about the effects of feeble mind