Niefel AAR: "...Some Say In Ice"

[Bossemanden]

Damn shame you lost the second battle of Himalayas.
Ice vs. Ice = Seatrolls it seems

[ February 28, 2004, 11:22: Message edited by: Bossemanden ]

[CharonJr]

VERY nice writing

That sentence in Latin intrigued me "Deus et natura nihil faciunt frustra!", but since my Latin is fairly rusted I can only guess about the meaning here, is it something like "God and nature do nothing without reason" ?

CharonJr

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by Arryn:
Peter, your writing just gets better and better. Nicely done. And I like the touch you added to the pic by labelling the elephants as "food". LOL

Thanks.

Strictly speaking, just about everything except for the Sea Trolls counts as food, but there is good eating on those mammoths!

Originally posted by Bossemanden:

Damn shame you lost the second battle of Himalayas.
Ice vs. Ice = Seatrolls it seems

You can say that again. I have really come to appreciate Sea Trolls. Amphibious, regenerating, tough, do not consume supplies - and their Sea Kings even produce a water gem per turn, just enough to summon an extra Sea Troll. Since I only use water gems for Clams of Pearls (and I have a quite decent astral gem income by now, thank you very much ) and summoning Sea Kings (three at this time, more to come), it is easy to see why the form the bulk of my forces at the moment.

Caelum's use of them caught me completely by surprise and unprepared. I mean, I had fought them in more than 30 battles over the Last two years, and I had only ever seen flying troops and the usual light infantry used. Being hit by a force based around four Sea Kings and their retinues (60 Sea Trolls!), more Sea Trolls than I had ever gathered in one army before, backed up by those damnable mammoths (capable of trampling Jotuns!) and more mages and priests than you can count on two hands... Was nothing short of an unmitigated disaster.

Those happen - the important thing is to put them behind you, regroup, and return with a vengeance.

As always, once you know the AI force-composition that you need to defeat, it is fairly easy to take countermeasures - and I had been piling up those astral gems faster than I could burn them anyhow, having no dedicated Acasric Record mage yet

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by CharonJr:
VERY nice writing

Thanks. I aim to please.

That sentence in Latin intrigued me "Deus et natura nihil faciunt frustra!", but since my Latin is fairly rusted I can only guess about the meaning here, is it something like "God and nature do nothing without reason" ?

Not quite. "God and nature do nothing in vain" is more like it. (The interpretation I use, at any rate) A joking self-reference to how the would-be God Peter Magus must have felt after the Second Battle of the Himalayas. While others might claim that that campaign was a complete failure, he, with his optimism, will instead take the long view that despite being a temporary setback, it has taught him valuable information about his enemy that he will use for its eventual defeat.

[ February 28, 2004, 12:10: Message edited by: Peter Ebbesen ]

[Arryn]

Originally posted by CharonJr:
That sentence in Latin intrigued me "Deus et natura nihil faciunt frustra!", but since my Latin is fairly rusted I can only guess about the meaning here, is it something like "God and nature do nothing without reason" ?

"God and nature are not without reason/purpose."

-or-

"God and nature do not create without reason."

-or-

"God and nature do not create in vain."

It can also translate to: "Even God did not come into existence without purpose."

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen:
Strictly speaking, just about everything except for the Sea Trolls counts as food

You're playing a Son of Niefel. *I'm* the one playing the Wyrm ...

You're supposed to *sacrifice* the midgets, not *eat* them. Damn overgrown frigid cannibal!

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by Arryn:

You're supposed to *sacrifice* the midgets, not *eat* them. Damn overgrown frigid cannibal!

How can eating midgets count as cannibalism? It is hardly as if it is eating people. Only the Rimtursar and Niefels count as true people, the Jotuns only barely get in as honourary people. All others are non-people, and, as such, potential food.