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[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Part 12 is up

[Endymion]

For reference: Scootaloo's army(the one marauding through your southern lands) that disappeared had used Agartha's OP spell, paths through the deep, in order to move back to my lands as I had seen Niefelheim's army about to move on me. Also, garrisoned (I.E. those troops in the top) will fight in battles so long as there is a commander present, and the PD commander counts. Although they stay inside a fort.

There is actually a whole lot of me using that spell in this war-- any time you see my army pause for a turn or dilly dally attacking unimportant provinces instead of important ones it tends to be them waiting for reinforcements to come in. That is why you see my army attack above Tien Chi on turn 30 and then attack the capital for good on 31-- there were troops warping in during that turn to reinforce the assault. (Also, IIRC, I was hung up for 1 turn to reach a research goal that I deployed during the assault)

As I think I've already mentioned a dozen times before-- the most powerful asset of Agartha is using paths through the deep to cut supply-lines and reinforce my army. A great illustration of this is the fact that during this video you can basically see all the troops I owned-- there was nothing but mages back home researching. And since you had a lot of your resources tied up in both the amphib army and in province defense-- if all else was equal I was bringing more stuff to the fight.

Also, I think you skipped over one of the more interesting battles, or maybe it was on turn 27.... but there was one battle coming in where you deployed fire arrows, but the archers were on fire archers so you didn't get to see much of what they would have done to my giants aside from maybe a round or two of fire. The battle was a bit of a beating, but it had a tiny glimmer of hope that could have saved you if you had noticed it-- Had you preserved one of your F3 guys from that fire site in your capital and recruited a ton of archers set to fire largest with fire arrows it could have done massive damage. The spells I laid down in the capital assault were almost more about killing the 60+ flaming arrow archers that I feared than the reality of what it did kill.

[gman8181]

Is Pangea / Thbt still playing?  Hate to suggest it but maybe set him to AI?

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Part 13 is up

Also I will shoot a PM off at Thbt and see what comes of it.

[gman8181]

Shift click on a unit at the recruitment screen to buy 10 of them.  Might save you some time in the future.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   My god, you are a savior. I wish I had known that a while ago. I definitely need to record another round at some point just so I can add all this stuff I have learned after the fact.

[gman8181]

If you do make another video, you should include more of the battles that occur later on in the game.  Especially the major ones like the one that happened at your capital.

That stuff is incredibly educational for everyone.  It gives a huge opportunity to learn what works against what nations, what weaknesses each nation has and what could have been done by a player that wasn't done.

My biggest mistake was probably not using enough evocation and storm devils.  My second biggest mistake was poor use of the spell hellpower (don't use it without bodyguards around your mage or it'll be eaten by horrors before it can cast).  Oh and my third was forgetting that if one mage carries blood slaves into battle, any blood mage can use them (that really screwed with my scripting).

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

The final part, Part 15, is up now

[Darkwind3]

Apologies for bothering you all so close to the end of your round, but Round 10 is in need of some subs. I'll let myself take care of the details:

For those of you not in Round 10 (which is everyone but Karlito) - Round 10 needs two subs. I'll make this short; round 10 is an MA game, currently in turn 75, so squarely in the late game. It's a vanilla game, so no Zmeys or whatever.

Ermor has an S9 bless (for those shadow vestals) and is currently under attack from three different nations on two different sides of its empire (though some sort of clever diplomacy might be possible I guess). Your army is about three times larger than that of any human players. To be honest, Ermor is in decline, though it might be possible to pull it around. I'm really only asking because Ermor has a lot of tools that need a human player to be used properly.

Eriu has an E9N6 bless. They're currently only at war with one human player (and R'lyeh, who is about to go AI). I don't really know much about Eriu's capabilities. To be honest, Eriu's player basically coasted by on Thunderstrike spam and the occasional Sidhe Lord thug. I don't know what they have researched or what they can do, or their gem situation. you have one big army (that I can see) with your pretender, plus probably a crapload of Sidhe Lords scattered to the wind. Your position is probably not bad, but I don't know.

We also need someone to set R'lyeh to AI, since I'd rather not do it myself (due to the cheaty nature of looking at someone else's turn as another player), which will only take a moment.

Feel free to post in the thread or PM me if you want to take a look at either nation and decide whether they're for you or generously donate 60 seconds of your time to turn R'lyeh AI.

Also, it looks like this game has been afflicted with the dreaded Battle Replay Bug. Illwinter has fixed at least one cause of the bug (the entry for the 20th).

[Kebooo]

I had a dream that everyone but me forgot about this game, allowing me to comeback and win. I had hordes of an elite, zombie giant clan that rallied to my cause. Except instead of the game, it was more like real life. Ah, dreams...

[gman8181]

Sounds better than most of my dreams.

I'm mildly surprised Endy has yet to kill us off yet.  I don't even think Pangea is playing anymore.  Maybe take that Elemental Queen to my capital and kill my pretender already so I feel like I can finally surrender.

[Kebooo]

He's had a couple stales. My rag tag band of low level summons is now invading former T'ien Chi territory. I'm going AI one way or another once round 14 begins.

[gman8181]

Alright, I killed an elemental queen even though my mages once more refused to follow scripting (Decay instead of orb lighting? )

Still lost my pretender though and I'm ready to call it quits.

What about you Kebooo?

[Karlito]

Orb lighting has a pretty low range, so it's likely that they had no valid targets to cast on.

[gman8181]

I expected as much in the beginning of the battle but it was a supercombatant outfitted for melee combat so I figured after a few rounds of fighting it would get nice and close to my mages so they could cast orb lightning.

It did get close to my mages... very close... but no orb lightning.  I set 3 guys for orb lightning and 2 guys for the thunder spell.  I didn't see anyone cast that either.

Anyway I do recall Endy saying there was a problem with the battle replays, so maybe I'm not actually seeing things the way they happened.

Either way, I'm glad to say I continued the fight to the end of my nation.  I think it's time to go AI.