Happy New Year, New Game, New Players (Finished: Dojango/Mictlan Wins!)

[dojango]

Originally Posted by Excist

I still wonder how the game would have gone if the first battle against the zmeys and mages on patrol had my divine bless as I had planned...a good clash with my main northern army will at least give me some closure in that regard

I'm not certain it would have made much of a differnce; given that I had something like 7 zmeys and a some demons and jaguars. You killed most of the jags and demons, but only one of the zmeys. Under GoH and with a lyco amulet, each zmey has something like 400 hp, regen, and fights to the death. Even if you had won the battle, I still had hordes of demons and vampires ready to attack.

I didn't have the eye, I had a bunch of the weirder artifacts, but none of the mega-boosters or hammers.

[Excist]

Well, losing half of your zmeys would have slowed down your raiding pretty considerably, and if I had won that battle with the divine bless + battlefield spells, then I likely would have kept winning at least a couple of more with the combination.

I never was able to rebuild and have the gem resupply for battlefield spells cast with penetration after that point.

My best guess is that it could have gone either way and at the very least it would have turned into a much more tightly contested fight (perhaps contested enough to allow Helheim to get in the mix).

30% blood discount gives you a hefty advantage with the amount of stuff you can summon, but even when being outnumbered 3 to 1 at the end and without the battlefield spells fatiguing your guys my sacreds killed 1/3 of your units and most of your demons on the frontline had close to 100 fatigue even without the fatigue inducing spells (flying is fatiguing), so with the divine bless on there is a good chance your army would have fatigued out before they were able to kill more than half one of my armies.

I was also producing 30 giants/turn and a Grendelkin every other turn and could have kept that production up if I didn't blunder my southern main army.

[dojango]

yeah, I wonder what Helheim would have done. he was obviously waiting for us to destroy each other, but would he have sided with the winner or loser of the war?