Version 3.08 Newbie game (finished)

[Cor2]

OH Nose! You killed mr. Harold! You bastard! (your not really, just a southpark joke)

[cupido2]

I killed someone? Haven't killed a commander of yours for around 10 turns.

[Cor2]

Harold, rest his soul, was an indy commander who was attacked by a succubus after having the fortitude of will to resist her temptations. He had a summer sword and a wine bag. Normally that wouldn't be such a loss but with the Astral corruption magic items are much harder to forge. so it was quite a loss for our nation. very sad.

I just thought it was funny , I mean his name is Harold. What a stupid name.

[cupido2]

Hey my real name is Harold! (no, it isn't)

It's time to say good bye. In 2 turns Huakar the Horrormarked will have lost his last worshippers.

[Cor2]

Truely? I just checked the live graph again I didn't think your dominion was so low. Those 200 gp temples pay off. Kind of anticlimatic though.

new link because its so far away now
http://valhalla.techno-mage.com/scor...p?game=Newbies

[cupido2]

Look at them. And you thought my dominion wasn't so low? Do you have any stealthy priests? In the last couple of turns your dominion spread at an alarming pace and from the beginning, when you conquered a province it turned almost immidetaly to your faith. Horrible.

Yeah, but I couldn't afford an epic end-battle at my homecastle anyway. It would be an anticlimax too.

Let me be the first to congratulate you for your victory in the Tartarian wars. Well fought. I had no chance. But I think you could have had this victory in October. I never was able to fight those Tartarian (not to talk of your air queen... why didn't you send here after me?) and was behind 10 to 20 turns since you entered the game. But it was big fun. The first game I made it in the finals.

[Cor2]

Ouch, you cast wish for armageddon I assume.


I have stealthy preists but I was not using them to preach covertly. I just make sure I have a temple in every one of my provinces. Even if it was razed I could afford it because i was not investing in troops. I couldn't put together normal armies because they would just get mass enslaved so I have tons of gold.

The Elemental Queens of Air were my emergency strike force. I would only use them if I could think of no other way out of a situation. If i had used them frequently and predictably you would have been able to counter them with anti- lightning or kill them (I already lost one to enslavement). If you had scripted a defensive force with lots of oppositions (or enslavements) and some penetration items it would have worked. But that never came up.

I didn't feel like I could have won in October. Maybe I overestimated your strength, but I think you over estimated mine. I had about 20 badass tartarians but you had the Arcane Nexus and had stolen my chalice which is key to any tartarian factory. You had me locked down. I could not produce magical troops without giving you gems and I could not feild normal armies because they would be enslaved. To make matters worse my highest astral caster was a level 3. The turn after you cast arcane nexus I tried to dispel it with all my astral gems, over 300 and failed. I assumed you were using those gems to crank out your own super combatants or at least counters to mine.

So went on the defensive for many rounds as you took my lands. I was slowly accumulating the gems I needed to empower someone high enough to cast arcane nexus, then i alchemized many of my gems to cast it and hoped. If you had cast it with 999 gems I was screwed. When I got the Nexus, that was the turning point from my point of view.