Undead, Day 93

OOC: Can't really complain at this point, but a stupid group of Abominations never missed with their entangles against my attacking forces. Seven tries with attack 12 against resistance 13. Seven successful hits. Good thing I have Elves I can count on to roll poorly :)

OOC2: I'll have another beer to make me feel better.

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Elves, Day 94

Ugh, that was stupid mistake. I feel sad.

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Shadow Demons, Day 94

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Undead, Day 94

Darkness seeps across the land. More humans have opened their city doors to us. Of course, first we show them a rain of Death to soften their hearts and armor, but the net result is similar to love.

We wonder when the Elves will develop the nerve to attack our Western city. Is this message enough to goad them? Who know. For now, they sit and watch the destruction unfold.

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Elves, Day 95

Sorry, guys, but this was just too annoying.

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I'll assume you were referring to the Domain of Darkness which is a little excessive with the nice new Wizard Tower 3 I just acquired recently. You know, the one protected by an awesome looking forcefield...

I might retaliate by dismissing your city spy spell, but I'm not hiding anything.

Okay fair enough if you wanted to resign, but as you can see from the scores - you were doing much better than I was. Although, somehow, I had the most gold out of everyone - not sure how. I have be honest though, I think it would have been fun to just fight it out. Also if we had held on to the end of February the game would have made its one year anniversary. Still 11 months is pretty good going. Well played everyone.

Yeah I was far from defeated but losing 2 towns to mimo without even killing single unit and then get my own domain covered in Domain of Darkness was too much for me. I really hate that spell. Btw. mimo, the city spy doesn't work against Domain of Darkness and I had to fly down each turn to hit your town with Divine Storm. This is one reason why I resigned I got angry because I though I will be able to cast 2 Divine Storms this turn and then attack your town, but I miscounted and right after I casted one and noticed I am not able to cast second, I surrendered.
I had some backup units (dragons, treemen and iron maidens) but against mimo's tide of darkness, defeat would be inevitable anyway and I would just suffer each turn more and more.
Honestly, I am not surprised I have better score than you, Dave, but against mimo it was useless.
Still, if I had less wine yesterday, I probably wouldn't do it. :-)


Btw. I am trying to recover my gaming disc today and won't be able to play anything until I get it working. Could take hours or days.

Yeah, the tide had turned in this game towards the axis of evil. I had an advantage in the underground since the two other players down there with me (Dwarves and Nomads) both were killed by independents so I had no competition for the spoils of growth.

It's a good thing too since the first 25 days of the winning chart is all green and I was doing very poorly. Looking at the structure chart, the Elves were maintaining a pretty big lead until almost day 50 when it looks like you hit a limit on your growth. (As I PM'd, you'd have done better killing the humans off and annexing their lands.)

Re: City Spy - Really? You couldn't see my units due to the Darkness? That sucks. Makes that spell pretty useless.

Re: Darkness - It is a really, really, really annoying spell for an enemy to cast. Fire Domain might be a close second though.

Re: Reserves - Yeah, I figured you were stockpiling since you had not attacked in quite awhile. I too was stockpiling and had four full stacks next to teleportation gates ready to respond. They included a couple of fully kitted Level 15 heroes...

Overall that was a fun game. Happy that my first ever AoW multiplayer game was a success! Now we all get to start saving money for the next edition of the game. Good luck fixing your drive. I went through that with my laptop a few weeks ago and used it as an excuse to upgrade to an SSD. Wow is all I can say about that switch.

Yeah, that's where I probably lost it. I wasn't sure what to do, I was toying with going into Shadow Realm or with killing Humans and then rejected both. If I just turned west as I did after this empty period, I would probably got all those west cities faster than mimo and he wouldn't be able to surprise my heroes.

Yeah, I was really gutted when I learnt it's useless.


My problem was I spent too much money to recover from your initial attack and although I tried to appear as I had no trouble, in reality I ended each turn with less than 100 gold and when I recruited heroes, I wasn't able to build dragons and when I was building dragons in 2 cities at once, I wasn't able to build anything else.

Yeah, I liked it as well. Although I lost, it was fun to play it. It would be better if more people survived longer, but this was quite unforgiving map.

Thanks, but my drive wasn't actually broken. It's my own fault that I am using virtual Extended Capacity Drive as storage for my games. It tends to suddenly disapper sometime and I have to reboot. I tried to finally solve it (because once it disappeared completely) and ended with not being able to make it reappear at all. So I had to use Recuva to locate them all, then recover them to another drive and then copy them back where they belong. And it broke a lot of games because it broke their paths and more than 200000 files from various games (at least 11) ended in one directory.