Eskild has beaten me. his Dragons was stronger than my t4 undead Units. He has won without Problems the endbattles. First rrrokie tried to beat me with a first rush, but i have see him and was prepared. After his attacked to me failed, eskild has beaten him. I had a non-Aggression to eskild and kwibus and decided to give the win of the winner. But eskild wanted some end battles, so i have attacked him. And it was clear, i had less chances more.
Yeh that was my suicide squad. I knew they would lose
You just killed my strong leader stack a turn before it and at that point I knew from now on I would only be able to defend.Â
I should learn to keep on fighting and not lose morale so fast. I still had 2 decent stacks near my capital as well. 5 stacks fighting behind city walls vs your stacks might actually give a different result, but instead of trying to stay alive (Considering I had 4 stacks in the UG moving toward you) I gave up, only because you killed my leader with his T4's with gold medals because I didn't scout. I lost morale, because I knew that if I had played it right I could have smashed 6 stacks into your 3 stacks and this time also with 2 strong stacks instead of no-medal stacks.
Another game I also gave up way too quickly after an big mistake I made, while in another game I dealt such a blow to my opponent. Instead of him throwing the towel his rogue stacks are making my life miserable. Allthough I almost got him now it was a hard fought war were I lost a lot and this ofcourse will give me problems facing my next war. Atleast I should have the courtesy to do that as well toward the other players playing.Â
It's also a lack of experience in a game like this online. I lack inventivity and ideas about what to do.Â
I found one of the screens from the deciding turns during the brief war between Kwibus and I. This was probably just after his leader walked into my (not so planned) trap, when he aimed for an all out attack as I was in reach of his capitol.
With my poor showing in this match, I have recognized that my aggressive rush and making every city vassal all over the map tactics do not do well in free for all games. After my rush of Markymark failed, Eskild and Kwibus picked off many of my vassal towns. Their archdruid armies had fully evolved animals, many of which were champions. I made a grave error when I accidentally had my dragon vassal join me. It was a misclick and I had no way to defend the town, which was pretty close to Eskild's capitol.Â
Eskild defeated me with ease. I felt as though he was the best player this game and deserved to win.Â
Deserved winner. I fought him after he beat rrrroookkiee. Not directly, but he fought a war while I was just building. Despite that he still beat me. I had the forces, but lacked the strategy/tactics.
Thanks for a really fun game - of course it´s most fun to win and as I´m currently losing a lot, this one is warming a bit. To the report (prepare for a wall of text...):
Anyhow, I wanted to try out the elven archdruid once again. Actually my game wen´t bad in the beginning, lost my leader at least twice, but kept my secondary theocrat hero alive. First player I met was Firak (Marky´s necromancer) and got offered an informal non-aggresion pact that I happily agreed to as he seemed far from me and in the underground, which we don´t like - being elves. More or less the same thing happened when I met Kwibus, which was an encounter, waving to each other, across a stream of rabbles that was below my capitol and blocked the way to his lands.
This led my focus on Rrrrookie undisturbed. He was doing pretty good at the time, had taken the dragon dwelling, which was really close to my lands, and as I had spotted some nice stacks of his with shadow stalkers and some charmed units I had to be very wary and assemble my troops the right way before attacking him in order not be ambushed. This happened some turns later, where I found his strong stacks and had the advantage of a fire shrine, which made many of my units able to get at the shadow stalkers and beat his main force. I tried moving quickly from there and could strike at him from two UG entrances, one in the east and one south of the dragon dwelling not many turns later.
The turning point of the game came 5-10 turns later during the cold war between the remaining 3 players, where Kwibus initiated the assault by breaking peace in a slightly unfair battle (including two horned gods) where my rogue hero and many good units were killed as they were preparing for a random clearing of a sphinx temple that I was too greedy just to give him the rewards from. As I reckoned his troops to be stronger than mine, I had to launch an all out attack in order not be overwhelmed.
As my shaman production had started, and as I had some of these and hunters defending my two main cities, I was able to make a quick strike across the water on his eternal city (guarded by 10 mystics) some turns later as the band of shamans and hunters could join forces with my secondary AD hero and her companions emerging from the UG.
As Kwibus wrote he, at that time, was marching for the former lands of rrrookie in the underground, and as I had several high mobility troops on the surface arctic region in the SE part of the map, which were clearing the last epic and legendary sites, I decided to go ashore from east to west with many good troops including my leader and the theocrat (which was of course flying a mount at that time) and red dragons, which was ready at kind of the right moment.
At the same time I had scorched earth researched and could cast in on this eternal city and the attention I drew from the east led Kwibus to move his leader into a not thoroughly planned ambush there, while a warlord of his wen´t up with the remainder of the capital defense to take the eternal city back, and discovered the mean spell, which he couldn´t or merely failed to disjunct.
The rest corresponds to what Marky reported. I was granted the win, but wanted to play the game through. We had some large battles, where horned gods, a converted/charmed chtonic guarding and king shock serpent made the difference together with the units I could pull off of Kwibus former empire.
Looking at the stats we were really tight. destruction magic is very powerful and it was a nice move, but my economy was still good enough to sustain my army. Biggest reason you beat me is that I completely messed up regarding tactics. I had 4 stacks somewhere underground... going for rrrrroookies former lands. Why? Pointless really. They should've been moving directly to your homelands.
Then I decided to move my leader stack toward a captured town without scouting first. Revealing 3 of your main stacks which ofcourse destroyed my leader. All this while I had 6 stacks around my capital. Such a dumb move and not the first time I lost a game because of crappy scouting....
I was too aggressive towards markymark in the beginning and ended up being spread too thin going into the mid-game. I figured markymark was a dwarf player and had lost a town to neutrals early in the game when some lost souls attacked me and were linked to his dwarf town across the map so I decided to travel across the underground to him. After that attack failed I was simply too far behind the archdruid players.Â
I have joined, however I won´t be able to take my first turn before monday morning Denmark time... I hope you won´t kick me for this reason of course.
I´m away from 17.30 today to 24.00 sunday midnight.
I have the itch to play more PBEM and no one is making a game! So I am creating another. As before I want a 4 player FFA. I would like the settings to be as follows (they are open for discussion).Â
Random map: Continents and Underground Defender strength from NORMAL to STRONGÂ Maximum Heroes: 3 Max Level: 30Â Beacon Victory: None Seal Victory: None
Eskild
vs
MARKYMARK
vs
Kwibus
vs
rrrrookie
Written by Kwibus
You just killed my strong leader stack a turn before it and at that point I knew from now on I would only be able to defend.Â
I should learn to keep on fighting and not lose morale so fast. I still had 2 decent stacks near my capital as well. 5 stacks fighting behind city walls vs your stacks might actually give a different result, but instead of trying to stay alive (Considering I had 4 stacks in the UG moving toward you) I gave up, only because you killed my leader with his T4's with gold medals because I didn't scout.
I lost morale, because I knew that if I had played it right I could have smashed 6 stacks into your 3 stacks and this time also with 2 strong stacks instead of no-medal stacks.
Another game I also gave up way too quickly after an big mistake I made, while in another game I dealt such a blow to my opponent. Instead of him throwing the towel his rogue stacks are making my life miserable. Allthough I almost got him now it was a hard fought war were I lost a lot and this ofcourse will give me problems facing my next war. Atleast I should have the courtesy to do that as well toward the other players playing.Â
It's also a lack of experience in a game like this online. I lack inventivity and ideas about what to do.Â
Written by Hiliadan
Extra screenshot
Written by Hiliadan
Confirmed by rrrrookie
Eskild defeated me with ease. I felt as though he was the best player this game and deserved to win.Â
Written by Kwibus
You know... I never even considered looking up if you cast scorched earth to dispel it.
duh!
Confirmed by Kwibus
Deserved winner. I fought him after he beat rrrroookkiee. Not directly, but he fought a war while I was just building.
Despite that he still beat me. I had the forces, but lacked the strategy/tactics.
Confirmed by Eskild
Thanks for a really fun game - of course it´s most fun to win and as I´m currently losing a lot, this one is warming a bit. To the report (prepare for a wall of text...):
Anyhow, I wanted to try out the elven archdruid once again. Actually my game wen´t bad in the beginning, lost my leader at least twice, but kept my secondary theocrat hero alive. First player I met was Firak (Marky´s necromancer) and got offered an informal non-aggresion pact that I happily agreed to as he seemed far from me and in the underground, which we don´t like - being elves. More or less the same thing happened when I met Kwibus, which was an encounter, waving to each other, across a stream of rabbles that was below my capitol and blocked the way to his lands.
This led my focus on Rrrrookie undisturbed. He was doing pretty good at the time, had taken the dragon dwelling, which was really close to my lands, and as I had spotted some nice stacks of his with shadow stalkers and some charmed units I had to be very wary and assemble my troops the right way before attacking him in order not be ambushed. This happened some turns later, where I found his strong stacks and had the advantage of a fire shrine, which made many of my units able to get at the shadow stalkers and beat his main force. I tried moving quickly from there and could strike at him from two UG entrances, one in the east and one south of the dragon dwelling not many turns later.
The turning point of the game came 5-10 turns later during the cold war between the remaining 3 players, where Kwibus initiated the assault by breaking peace in a slightly unfair battle (including two horned gods) where my rogue hero and many good units were killed as they were preparing for a random clearing of a sphinx temple that I was too greedy just to give him the rewards from. As I reckoned his troops to be stronger than mine, I had to launch an all out attack in order not be overwhelmed.
As my shaman production had started, and as I had some of these and hunters defending my two main cities, I was able to make a quick strike across the water on his eternal city (guarded by 10 mystics) some turns later as the band of shamans and hunters could join forces with my secondary AD hero and her companions emerging from the UG.
As Kwibus wrote he, at that time, was marching for the former lands of rrrookie in the underground, and as I had several high mobility troops on the surface arctic region in the SE part of the map, which were clearing the last epic and legendary sites, I decided to go ashore from east to west with many good troops including my leader and the theocrat (which was of course flying a mount at that time) and red dragons, which was ready at kind of the right moment.
At the same time I had scorched earth researched and could cast in on this eternal city and the attention I drew from the east led Kwibus to move his leader into a not thoroughly planned ambush there, while a warlord of his wen´t up with the remainder of the capital defense to take the eternal city back, and discovered the mean spell, which he couldn´t or merely failed to disjunct.
The rest corresponds to what Marky reported. I was granted the win, but wanted to play the game through. We had some large battles, where horned gods, a converted/charmed chtonic guarding and king shock serpent made the difference together with the units I could pull off of Kwibus former empire.
246 | Age of Wonders 3
246 | Age of Wonders 3
First rrrokie tried to beat me with a first rush, but i have see him and was prepared. After his attacked to me failed, eskild has beaten him.
I had a non-Aggression to eskild and kwibus and decided to give the win of the winner.
But eskild wanted some end battles, so i have attacked him.
And it was clear, i had less chances more.
Still ongoing
Looking at the stats we were really tight. destruction magic is very powerful and it was a nice move, but my economy was still good enough to sustain my army.Â
Biggest reason you beat me is that I completely messed up regarding tactics. I had 4 stacks somewhere underground... going for rrrrroookies former lands. Why? Pointless really. They should've been moving directly to your homelands.
Then I decided to move my leader stack toward a captured town without scouting first. Revealing 3 of your main stacks which ofcourse destroyed my leader. All this while I had 6 stacks around my capital. Such a dumb move and not the first time I lost a game because of crappy scouting....
gg all!
I thought all you had was a phoney war vs Markymark and never a serious one. Guess I was wrong about a thing or 2....Â
but eskild had used this Advantage, not i. Just not wanted a 2vs1 at end.
Now i have freedom with Kwibus and Eskild, and i do not want attack someone. What we make?
I am going to be out of town this weekend and will not be able to process my turn until Sunday.
So it's kind of hard to get an best order with me in the game.
Excellent
I have joined, however I won´t be able to take my first turn before monday morning Denmark time...
I hope you won´t kick me for this reason of course
I´m away from 17.30 today to 24.00 sunday midnight.
Cheers, Eskild.
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The game name is rookie bowl
Password: halflingattack
Please let me know if you have any issues getting into the game or with the settings.
I say we go in this order: rrrrookie, Kwibus, Eskild, MARKYMARK
So this is a rookie game right?Â
oh wait..
the rrrrookie bowl
I have the itch to play more PBEM and no one is making a game! So I am creating another. As before I want a 4 player FFA. I would like the settings to be as follows (they are open for discussion).Â
Random map: Continents and Underground
Defender strength from NORMAL to STRONGÂ
Maximum Heroes: 3
Max Level: 30Â
Beacon Victory: None
Seal Victory: None
Other items will be left as default.Â
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Information the rrrrookie bowl
Information the rrrrookie bowl
Two things I forgot to add:
Mapsize medium (with underground)
Number of starting towns = normal.Â
Information the rrrrookie bowl