Game #1177 | 4x2 formal teams

In the meantime though, Hili's Leaderstack got killed:

Then Marcus came back to my North-western front on Surface:

I couldn´t defend the Heart of the Arctic and was sure he would raze it - but he didn´t.

The next turn Hili and me decided to attack him as my Units could all reach his army.

I got a crash after that fight, sent the Phalanx away which survived the 2nd fight.

But that didn´t made much difference as mar cus' main forces were defeated.

After that I moved to Marcus realm, and after a little siege, I finally took one vassal cities.

Marcus decided to attack in one final big battle I should have avoided to be honest.

Hili´s Age of Deception lead to Marcus Units desert sooner or later, but on the other hand, a Warlord leader should fight when he can and I had the Arctic Empire Buff (Inflict Chilling+Frostbite) + Garrison's Honor on my side.

After that it was game over for marcus and we only had to face the two other teams.

Maybe Hili wrotes something about them.

Marcus Leader-stack in the UG was another threat.

It turned out that he finally decided to send his Earth Elemental in UG - we were wondering whether he does attack me on Surface instead.

Hili warned me that his leader is a killing machine but I was confident that I could defeat him as Long as my Necro stack came back in time.

My team discussed what to do because my Realm was in danger:

Then, luckily he did a mistake as he killed a scout of me which I stupidly moved to much North and then couldn´t Escape - it wasn´t meant as a trap.

But it offered me the chance to attack Marcus splitted stacks:

In the end my Phalanx could kill his leader in a duel.

On the same turn, I could defeat two Manticores on surface which were supposed to support his engaging stacks I guess.

Turn 20: Jean was unlucky in the Sanctum and I was able to move my main stack to attack the damaged rest of his troops.

And then I could kill the rest of the Sanctum-defense:

Then Jean decided to forfeit the game in unseen manner ;P

So Marcus was on his own but with quite good infrastructure as Hili and I failed a bit in capturing/razing Jean´s former cities in UG.

We were Aware of facing an enemy with superior armes:

Hili and I were kind of lucky because, for some reason, Lightform´s Mighty main stack disapperaed from our eastern front a long time ago and never came back, so I could concentrate on Marcus 100%.

Our Scouting was good though so we saw his armies coming.

I moved many of my strongest Units on Surface to face Marcus troops before he could walk into mine or Hili's Realms, and big battles were only a matter of time:

A bit later, my Nagas were under danger, but time was on my side as I send reinforcements in form of Berserkeand Yetis:

I managed to reach his stack with most of my units. So the Outcome was very good. Devine Justicars helped as well:

But we were concerned about marcus having a mighty Earth ELemental

Yes I hope to post a report of this game later on, we still need to catch rickyroo's AI Leader (very soon hopefully) to see the score.

The videos of the crashes I had during the game:

- turn 37: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvbWAcP7kSg (first crash) + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gZ2reXQk-w (2nd crash) + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ9IDGy9g6M (2nd part)

- turn 48: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVjV7rk8haY (part 1) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wabW-wThkq4 (part 2, the actual turn)

+ the video of a big fight between gladis and marcus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpfJ5fRJBxU

And the turn I was allowed to replay because I had drowned my Leader by switching item:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MURXyuz3aYE

Good game which could've ended differently if Jean's wouldn't have lost a decisive Battle in a Forbidden Sanctum quite early in the game.

After Marcus's main stacks were defeated and Hili cast Age of Deception, the game was decided. Not sure wheter our enemies made a plan to defeat us, but I guess they didn't talk much A complete 5 vs 2 probably would have made the difference.

Maybe me, Hili or another will post a longer report later.

Our plan was:

- Hili goes for Age of Deception, not Stalker (I think he even didn´t researched/built Assassins

- Me, starting in UG, should settle on Surface and spread Arctic Empire, to buff Hili's Arctic Walking and Arctic concealed Frostlings.

- additionally, the idea was to defend his realm as he never built much Units but rushed our enemies (Ricky and Lightform)

Thanks for the Long game, guys!