Game #573 | Rrrrookie bowl III

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I was trying to harass Tussell, hoping his leader was in the southeast corner. He was able to quickly and effectively put my attack down with eagle riders.


I played a poor game. My vassal was hostile and I lost a lot of good men storming the town

Hiliadan: Nothing special with the harassment besides hurting the dreadnaught´s economy. I caught rrrookie´s lands quite unguarded, so the crows and an eagle rider (can´t recall where I got that) could pose a threat and be within reach of the cities to cast incite revolt and rally of the populace. Moreover, as my economy was booming, these flying buggers could do a buy out at the inn near Verther-Gari taking that city by force before my main armies slowly clearing their way from south to north emerged at the capitol.

3 - no one's fault my skill level is just much lower than anbody else's

Really LOVE the summary by the way, well done, it's beautiful! (:

"I had harrassed with rally of the populace plus incite revolt with crows and a halfling eagle rider. "
What did you do precisely? It's interesting!

"and did not move very stealthy due to the champion yeti amongst the ranks"
LOL

Thanks for the report!
It somehow confirms we need to reduce all rewards from site in my opinion (see what I posted in the chat).

Well here goes - the long wall of text, which this game deserved as I had fun and it have transpired for quite some time.

Miracula, my leader in this game, a draconian rogue, creation adept, and with keeper of the peace mastery emerged in Slafi Hix to embark on her conquest for peace in the realm. My location was lucky in more than one regards as I quickly made contact with two settlements an elven town and a draconian outpost, to the east and northwest of my capitol respectively. Due to my positive relations with independent cities I managed to vassalize the elven town Lymene, which was by default fated as vassal or conquest of my elven archdruid neighbor of Lord Zytozid, which was localized in his capitol of Liarus in the eastern end of the south of the realm played in.



I scoured the brink of his realm clearing some good sites there with the fire-spitting buggers, flamers and elders, and some elven reinforcements while sending my leader and heroes in the NW direction at around the same time that the Ranger was kicked from the game for not taking his turns or responding to our messages. Luck was also a factor there as he was playing elven warlord and I thus gained more trust and racial happiness from the elves, thus boosting my income from Lymene, plus not much later I was able to vassalize another elven settlement, the outpost of Sur Carys.

Another piece of luck came from recruiting the good old tigran sorceror with the flying mount, which made movement with my rogue leader easier

From there on, I decided to split my heroes and went treasure hunting to the south with Miracula and her new sorceror companion in the thick stream of land east of Elindi, former capitol of the Ranger and eventually went with the pack of charmed troops, newly recruited assassins and dungeon recruits around my capitol and straigth north to assault Migas the draconian (more luck) dreadnaught that rrrookie was playing, and that I had harrassed with rally of the populace plus incite revolt with crows and a halfling eagle rider.

Around that time another hero (necromancer) had emerged, which was kept going by racial reinforcements - elders and raptors and an assassin to conquer the SW strip of land and to go underground and hunt for more treasure. So the fight was kept going on the surface with the conquering of rrrookies land - in the SW and the UG with a necromancer on the hunt and also hunting in the underground in the north I had a a theocrat hero, which managed to convert quite an impressive army among his way through the icy forest in the northwestern map and then in a straigth line east in the UG to conquer an independent goblin settlement as well as another goblin town, a vassal of Migas, the dreadnaught.

Biggest catch of the game, a ziggurat cleared efficiently with my necromancer hero and his underground party, with an undying wraith absorbing the damage:



718 gold and two pretty useful items...

With a lot of treasure hunters keeping the economy booming, I was able to start recruiting dedicated to good shadow stalkers, which meditated their way through the treacherous conquest of Zytozid´s land, which had turned into a haunted forest through a quite swift conquest of Tussell - Mini the Lich King. So that kind of made me anxious of when to expect that Tussell would initiate his attack against my troops as we now shared borders both in the south and the north, where Tussell inhabited the northeast. Surprisingly Mini offered me peace up there, but as his empire was now well spread out over all the eastern part of the surface I knew I had to refuse and attack him, where I felt the only way to do that was to form an alliance with Gnome P´istolle, dwarven sorceror and friends of dragons (he had vassalized the dragons both on the surface and in the underground) and that way initiate a war without being perceived as evil by my humble followers.

Quickly, I managed to annex the ghouled elven cities of Zytozid´s former living souls in the south while my leader and sorceror did some reckless assaults into the lands of the Lich King and did not move very stealthy due to the champion yeti amongst the ranks. Mini initiated an efficient battle sending my leader to the void and his pack to their graves. However, my other hero-led armies were still steamrolling their encounters and still upheld the healthy economy so more stalkers were recruited and when my leader was back from the void, she went for an uncleared dungeon moments before Migas emerged from a long absence (without a throne or any cities) in the UG in the far SW to meet his demise a single round before the end of the game as he had to deal with my leader, a lot of cheap´o elders (56 gold and 12 mana from racial governance) and the rescued dungeon adepts.



Around the same time, my good old tigran sorceror was ressurected at Liarkora and I had finally gone unharmed in and conquered two of the cities of the undead halfling king as he was preoccupied dealing with an invasion from the far northeast led by Gnome P´istolle. The game ended as the Lich King met his demise simultaneously as Migas in a cruel and close battle in Midshire, while Gnome at the same time surrendered.



The score in the end of the game:



I will probably add more screenshots - got plenty.

Confirmed by Skuns453Lirik902

To betray me?   How cruel this world is  I have no way to resist your large army which is located all over the map. Especially considering that all my positions were open to you and you could crush me in a jiffy  How cruel your plan was at all   

P.S. Our alliance was needed for me to unite against, as I thought, a more dangerous opponent in the person of Necro  Tussel is really good as Necro. But I still don't understand why you did this alliance? At that moment you already had great army and big opportunities. So you could crush me first 

Skuns and I ganged up on Tussell (Mini the Lich King). My silly excuse is that I was playing keeper of the peace master so I couldn´t declare war on Tussell in any other way (than forming an alliance) without upsetting my armies. Tussell was shadowborn master by the way.

I knew it was lame and had of course planned to betray Skuns after defeating Tussell, but it never came to that as Skuns surrendered after Tussell initiated the fight where his leader got killed by my dedicated to good stalkers and their company.

As mentioned I will make a thorough report sooner or later.

So who ganged on whom?

I think the whole teaming up thing is pretty lame in a 6 player FFA, but well played none the less. Shadow Stalkers are crazy strong when dark pact comes into play.

Match has been reported, please confirm!

Match has been reported, please confirm!

Yeah - you are right Skuns. Thanks for the nice game to all of you. I hope you did not feel the game got broken by the early exit of The Ranger or that I had a converted chtonic guardian among my ranks for sometime before Tussell wroke havoc on me in the first big fight between me and him.

I will make a more conclusive report later, but I don´t know if I will be able to reproduce every major event in this game.

Oops, game is over. Thanks for all for this good game 

Hi, friends. 
I have to say that I'm going to a vacation from 9 till 12 of June. So I will be unable to play my turns. I'll try to play as soon as I can. Sorry for possible delays 

Ok, no I meant that it's possible that you were doing several things at the same time, and you had copied another text earlier, unrelated to AoW3, and then when you tried to copy the text for AoW3, it failed and so when you pasted, it was the previous, long text, that was pasted.
That happened to me sometimes. I thought I had just copied a few words but actually, I had copied many many sentences from a previous copy. But ok, it doesn't seem to be the case here.

Wrong text?   You mean the text not in English? :whiteman No, it was the text only on English. And furthermore, I've copied this text from the same diplomacy screen of that turn, but I had to exit from diplomacy, because I forgot something, and didn't want write that text again.  I'm lazy man  

No, it was a small text message - just few words  I think it depends from PC - mainly from compatibility of videocard and RAM for AoW3 game

Is it possible your copied the wrong text and it was very long? I had crash before when trying to copy very long text to AoW3.

Hi, friends.
Today at the start of the session when I was trying to copy/paste text at the message diplomacy screen I had an appcrash.  And I don't have a screenshot of this crash  - I hurried to continue this session. Sorry for this. 

Looking forward to this game moving on soon! Hope you had a great holiday, Skuns.

Sounds good

Hi friends. 
I have to say that I'm going to a vacation from 30-th of April till 20-th of May. I'll try to do my best to play my turns as soon as I can. But some periods of time I'll be unavailable to play   If you can turn off the timer it would be great. But if not it's ok   
Happy weekends and holidays for this period 

I just had to click button "To end turn", seriously?!   It's very complicated task 

Hi there.

I did the silly thing (actually) in two games with updating mods before finishing my turn - either we wait the current turn out or revert turn order once.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Cheers.

Hi there. Please say when you are not able to take you turns, I think this game has stalled for quite some days now. Skuns´ what is up?

Just in time

I logged in and turned the timer off with 7 minutes to spare 

Sorry for the delay  I was a little busy with 8-th March holiday  Great thanks for the turning off the timer  But it was not so needing  I could skip one turn  

No problem. I will remove the turn timer. I will be out of town on the 23-26 anyway. 

Hi friends
I have to inform you that I will be on vacation from 22 till 26 of February. I'll try to play my turns as soon as I can but more likely that I will have no internet connection. 
If it's possible please turn off the turn timer. If not, it's okay 

Skuns literally completed his turn after I finished this message. Taking turn now.

I will take the timer off when I get home. 

Hi there. I hope skuns will make his turn soon as I´m one day away from a short trip from thursday 17:30 CET to monday morning CET. Perhaps you could disable the turn timer during that brief period if I do not make my turn before I leave from the gaming station.

Cheers.

Let me say that he is 1 missed turn away from getting the boot.

I understand your position  And I wouldn't be for kicking him out if he was responding by email in AoW3 or by messages at this site to describe his situation. I think such kind of communication is not too difficult for him. But he still keep silence for a long time. Is this not enough to make the right, although tough choices?   

I do not want to kick the ranger unless I have to. If it is okay with everyone I can reduce the turn timer to 1 day and we can see if he can complete his turns then. 

Hi, friends. It is unpleasant, but someone needs to ask this question 
Why we still didn't kick off THE RANGER from this session? He has not justified our trust. During the waiting of his next move, it spends our time wasted  

Yeah, mutually