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[Bluerobin]

Well, I stuck it out until I ran out of fish.

[Endymion]

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The prior few days had been full of odd surprises in the camp. Three of the mighty mages commanding the forces had gone missing. A sudden freezing chill had swept the camp as well, killing a few and leaving many in conditions far from perfect health. So while some didn't notice the ground getting damp and soggy, and some pretended that nothing was wrong, many waited on edge wondering what challenge wound soon be upon them.

The Pangaeas a short distance away in Gwelledun already knew. They had already seen what was heading towards Zemike when it had brilliantly breached the surface of the nearby sea and flown over them. But they had their own worries to deal with, as an army had marched out of the sea at the same time towards them to take Gwelledun.

Eventually the scouts of Zemike could see the shape on the horizon. The legendary flying ship, flying once more, but only barely. For the ancient ones had perverted the purpose of the once majestic ship-- not only by launching it from underwater but also by weighing it down to its limits with stones. Unweildy with all its weight of Earth, it could hardly stay airborne and barely cleared the tops of trees. Shuddering as it came back down towards the earth in Zemike, it all but crashed into the ground with a mighty squish; the ground having become quagmire as it had drawn nearer. Hastily, the commander of this ship disembarked-- the Queen of the Lake, whose power over the element of water had caused the land to allow such a crude landing. She was accompanied by 3 score naiad warriors, 4 score ancient boulder throwers, and several tons of pure elemental rock. Finally, three Ancient Oracles, equally bad fliers, swooped in to join her.

The reason for the camp's bad fortune was now obvious, and a battle was about to begin.

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In other news: Yay, battle arena time! I take it that the former champion has fallen since being crowned back on turn 9-- and I certainly expect the competition this time round to be more fierce than a kappa with leg-breaking aspirations.

[ThtblovesDF]

Glad to have had you, Bluerobin.

I also just really don't know about niefel, refusing several offers before and now that a battle was lost I get offers like "give me all my shit back and I'll let you run"

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Aha, something I honestly kinda expected, but still find myself sad about - welcome to your path to world domination Endymion, may it be littered with regrets. I'm gonna give it a good shot, but I have my doubts if I can hold my own against your well prepared backstab : )

[Kebooo]

I only made that offer out of good will toward gman's ardent efforts at convincing me to make peace. I have long ago accepted my chances as gone in the game and therefore all that was really left to me was some form of revenge. Besides, three provinces surrounding my fort was hardly asking for too much considering you're just going to lose it all to Agartha now.

[ThtblovesDF]

Hey shush you :/

I only need to hold one special province for one more turn, then I'd feel better... so hey, stack of 180 elite earth thingies, gtfo, ok?

Also, I feel like someone should show some pictures of the fight Endymion hints at in his last post;

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Basically I didn't have any gems for my pan-army leftover, seeing how the last fight lasted ages and I had to use them for some empowering.
Agartha mostly "lost" (big " ") because the earth elementals where all behind the stone throwers (which really can't be that easy to get in such numbers?), so they came into the fight a bit late. The cockatrice mob that rushed in at the start (Since unscripped after the last fight) actually did a great job at distrubing the formation a bit.

[gman8181]

Just thought I'd throw this out there but I've actually had a very enjoyable game with you guys and I definitely learned a lot.  Hopefully there will be another early age game some time soon so I can actually play Lanka right from the start instead of figuring most of it out half way through the game .

[Endymion]

I was under some major limitations when it came to deploying my troops for that battle. First off, I really did fill the flying ship-- it has a size limit on the troops you can bring on it, and I indeed hit it. Secondly, since all the troops had to be under one commander, I only had the 5 squad groups to set up orders to. The 'logic' behind my deployment was that I wanted the boulder throwers to go in first, fire off their 5 boulders, and then be backed up by the naiad warriors in order to hold the front line while the mages did stuff, and have the earth elementals come in last to do mop-up duty and pierce the remnants of the line. Tien Chi taught me awhile back that Earth Elementals do not tend to survive rushing into a wave of troops large enough that they are still heavily surrounded when the enemy's turn comes around-- so sending them in first would have been a waste. What I did not expect, and what I am still questioning the value of, is the fact that the earth elementals actually hugged the back of the line in such a way that it stopped my boulder throwers from being able to retreat-- many of them were routing but trapped for several rounds.

I guess if I had to script it all again I'd move most of my forces down a bit and then put the earth elementals top-mid with an attack rear command so that they'd participate but not by surrounded and destroyed in the center.

That cockatrace mob actually did more than just break up the line-- it ate a whole slew of boulders and it caused some friendly fire damage. My queen of lakes actually took 30 damage during that round from stray boulders hitting her-- nearly half her health. (which she, being the queen of lakes, instantly regened, but still it represented the most danger she was in for the entire battle)

I did of course expect that my side would rout. That was the whole reason behind the beach landing in what I now understand is the least populated province in the game-- I needed to give my army a place to retreat to or everything would have died from the rout.

[Kebooo]

Well, that was the first time I've ever entered an arena match. For some reason I didn't think I'd lose the commander for participating in it.

[gman8181]

And so finally the original arena champion has been vanquished.  His outrageous number of acquired afflictions are almost comparable to that of Niefel's god .

[ThtblovesDF]

Oh god what

Earth Elemental vs Pan - Pan Casts invrunability at some point, making the earth elemental not do anything to it. So for 50 turns the elemental PUSHES the pan around (0 dmg). Benny hill theme.mp3


I can't do my turn right now, but I look forward to endymons reaction.

[Endymion]

Well in the end the pan routed, which is a kill in assassination scenarios, so whatev. And I don't think it was 50 turns. Seemed more like 20-ish before the morale checks won it for the EE.

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Hmm, I seem to have had 16 random events this turn. Boar boar locusts boar locusts boar..... Oh, and smallsea revolted. Ya know, I don't think that province has ever been held by a single nation for more than 4 turns in the past 30 or so.

I blame Karlito's misfortune scales.

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Princess Mi Amore Cadenza has won the arena and gained a spiffy new hat. Woo! I'm a tad disapointed that Tien Chi decided not to have a little fun and throw his pretender in for S&Gs.

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It is likely now obvious that my forces in Gwelledun spent last turn waiting for something. While they waited they patrolled. Thus the province is now completely free from brigands and such-- unrest is down to 0 and the population is down to 70. My troops there outnumber the civilians.

[Karlito]

I blame Karlito's misfortune scales.

Those still hanging around?

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   No its probably mine. I have 3 in luck and that gets turned around for enemy nations. Oh and the land which was mine is just wallowing in my domain.

[Endymion]

Its just a cheesy reference to when I blamed the first hit of monster boars you took on your scales.

[ThtblovesDF]

For lack of astral nations (and income), I think that Endymions massive gem income will carry it out for him, since with every turn it becomes more unlikly that we can dismiss it and his advantage grows - might even be able to drive him off the land, but the massive income and the lock down on the watery domain will be the end of us - I will of course stay to fight it out.