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Voting closed: May 27, 2023, 04:40:22 am

[Horizon]

Just been a bit busy haha, I'll get my orders through today.

[Horizon]

Tentative Orders (TURN: 14)
- Send the Wolf Crystal back to Blockhoven.
- (3 armies) Build a Fort at B2 (-5 wood), henceforth named Fort Howling.
- (5 armies) take the ship with Whiptide Sail back to Castle Aubade.
- Pending some agreements to be made between the neighboring lord's and ladies.

Spoiler: Sol, Inheritor of Swearing (click to show/hide)

Sol, Son of Gloronisits and Hero of Swearing
Background: Hero
Castle Name: Castle Aubade
Castle Location: A5
Border Colour: Gold
Army: 10/10
Defence: 14/14
Wood Production/Inv: +1 (4)
Stone Production/Inv: +0 (2)
Recruitment: 0
Gold: 24
Income: 1
Debt: 0
2 Boats, 1 Ship

Features:
- Defenses:
   • Tower: +4/4 defence, increase maximum army size by +1
(can be bought up to four times)
- Resources:
   • Coppicing Grove: +1 wood production.
- Knowledge:
   • Shipyard: -2 wood required for making ships. Boats hold +1 army.
Forts:

Artefacts:
  - Speculator's Rod (A scout scouting an empty hill that they own, has 25% chance to discover a quarry. They instead find a mine if the hill is adjacent to a mountain. The same tile cannot be scouted in this way more than once per turn.)

  - Shield of Earth (the army wielding this is considered to have +1 defence at the start of every combat, as if they were siege defenders)

  - Whiptide Sail (one boat or ship can travel twice as far.)

Equipment: None
Special Units: None

[Criptfeind]

You do not need to send your armies or your ship back as an explicit action.

Armies don't really exist on the map, outside of certain specific situations involving sieges (and even then, not really).

Armies can simply take actions anywhere that you have access, with access being defined by borders, with ships being able to give access across water.

At this point though, owning B2, you no longer need a boat to draw access to and from it, the boat is now simply a resource you can use elsewhere if you wish, and your armies can be expanding from B2 or A5 without the use of a boat.

[Elephant Parade]

Dolton the Drunk is a late arrival to the contest. An incorrigible alcoholic, he was out on one of his drunken voyages when he ran the ship aground on the north coast of Thornland. Heading inland with his men, he found a castle staffed by the runaway servants of an ex-competitor. What fortune! Surely God intended for him to join—and win!

Spoiler: Character Creation (click to show/hide)

Marquess Dolton
Background: Armorer
Castle Name:
Castle Location: F5
Initial Features: Mustering Yard (+1 recruitment), Marketplace (+1 gold/turn), Tower (+3/+3 DEF, +1 army cap)
Border Color: Nausea Green

Spoiler: Dolton the Drunk (Post-Inheritance) (click to show/hide)

Marquess Dolton
Castle: Castle Bacchus [F5: Mustering Yard (+1 recruit)/Marketplace (+1 g./tn.), Tower (+3 def., +1 army cap)]
Border Colour: Nausea Green or Wine Pink
Army: 11/11
Defence: 13/13
Wood Production: 0
Recruitment: 1
Gold: 4
Wood: 11
Stone: 3
Income: 2
Debt: 0
Forts: n/a
Artefacts: None
Equipment: Siege Engine x2
Special Units: None

Income
+1 soldier (already capped)
+2 Gold (-> 6)

Orders:
- March G6 (7 soldiers)
- Scout E5 -> D5 -> D4
- Scout G5 -> H5 -> I5
- Scout F4 -> G4 -> H4

[notquitethere]

TURN 14 REPORT

Spoiler: Count Sol (click to show/hide)

Fort Howling was built.

Spoiler: Marchioness Aywen Ayes - The Oak and Ash (click to show/hide)

March 2 armies and a cat to M7:
The enemy hides behind their walls (1 wall strength).
Your armies attack (with one bog cat) (5, 7 and 3), damaging the walls (1) and breaking through into the fort, defeating one of the enemies (Thornish holdout).
The enemy attacks back (7), killing one of your armies.
Your armies attack (with one bog cat) (3 and 4), with no enemy units defeated.
The enemy attacks back (5), with none of your units defeated.
Your armies attack (with one bog cat) (5 and , defeating one of the enemies (Thornish holdout).
All enemies are defeated and the hill is absorbed into your county. The cat transforms the hill into marshland.
From the Thornish holdouts you take one gold.
Your total losses: one.

March 6 armies and a wolf on O13: Your armies attack (with one wolf) (7, 3, 4, 5, 6, 2 and , defeating four of the enemies (Squelsh barbarian, Squelsh barbarian, Squelsh barbarian and Squelsh barbarian).

The enemy attacks back (5), with none of your units defeated.
Your armies attack (with one wolf) (9, 6, 5, 9, 8, 9 and 5), defeating one of the enemies (Squelsh barbarian).
All enemies are defeated and the forest is absorbed into your county.

March 2 armies and a wolf to K7: Your armies attack (with one wolf) (7, 8 and 7), defeating one of the enemies (Thornish holdout).
All enemies are defeated and the forest is absorbed into your county.
No gold was found on the Thornish holdouts.

March 2 armies and a wolf on M15:
Your armies attack (with one wolf) (5, 4 and 6), defeating one of the enemies (wisp).

The enemy attacks back (4 and 5), with none of your units defeated.
Your armies attack (with one wolf) (4, 4 and 4), with no enemy units defeated.
The enemy attacks back (1 and 6), killing one of your armies.
Your armies attack (with one wolf) (2 and 7), defeating one of the enemies (wisp).
The enemy attacks back (7), killing a wolf. You take too many casualties and your force retreats.
 Your total losses: one army, one wolf.

March 1 army on J7: The undefended forest is absorbed into the county.

Send scout with Sundering claw to make a tunnel between L6 and L7. If possible scout L6-L5-K5: A mountain path is sundered, but no dragon comes. You scout through the first land, discovering an unusual site. Hogland Hollow - Forest. Inhabited by 3d6 Boar (12). While it is unconquered, at the end of any turn when there is less than 10 boars in this forest, 1d4 more boar will appear. Your scout withdraws to safety.

Send a scout with 10 gold to the sacred grove: The Squelsh are appeased.

Spoiler: Marquess Ambrosio Vulk (click to show/hide)

Scout R7-S7-T7: You scout through the first land, discovering a hill. On the hard scrabble bluffs they find a gold mine and they also find three wisps.
Your scout withdraws to safety.

Send scout on ship to T13: You scout through the first land, discovering a hill. On the rugged down they find a quarry and they also find two wisps.
Your scout withdraws to safety.

Scout T11-T10-TT9: Your scout discovers Hero's Tor - Hill Fort (Steep Path: Siege Engines cannot assail this hill) (9/9). An ageing Squelsh Champion (counts as two units, +1 to its attacks) with the Bloody Standard (+1 all attack rolls) sits in retirement in this fort, with his retinue of 6 Squelsh Barbarians, and two pet wisps. Your scout withdraws to safety.

March 1 army on Q5: You take the undefended village, despite the moat. The current moot is thwarted... for now.

March 5 armies and 4 skeletons with last femur to R11: Your armies attack (with four skeletons) (2, 4, 6, 3, 8, 2, 6, 9 and 4), defeating four of the enemies (Squelsh barbarian, Squelsh barbarian, Squelsh barbarian and Squelsh barbarian).
The last femur raises two skeleton warriors!

The enemy attacks back (2, 5 and 6), killing one of your armies. The Last Femur fails to raise anyone.

Your armies attack (with six skeletons) (9, 4, 2, 6, 4, 9, 9, 5, 2 and 7), defeating three of the enemies (Squelsh barbarian, Squelsh barbarian and Squelsh barbarian).
The last femur raises one skeleton warrior!
All enemies are defeated and the marshland is absorbed into your county.
Total losses: 1.

March 4 armies and 3 skeletons with to S12: Your armies attack (with three skeletons) (5, 4, 3, 6, 4, 9 and 2), defeating three of the enemies (Squelsh barbarian, Squelsh barbarian and Squelsh barbarian).
The enemy attacks back (6, 5 and 9), killing one of your armies, and killing one skeleton.
Your armies attack (with two skeletons) (8, 5, 9, 3 and 6), defeating three of the enemies (Squelsh barbarian, Squelsh barbarian and Squelsh barbarian).
All enemies are defeated and the forest is absorbed into your county.
Your total losses: One army, one skeleton.

March 1 armies and 2 skeletons to S13: Your armies attack (with two skeletons) (8, 5 and 2), defeating two of the enemies (Squelsh barbarian and Squelsh barbarian).
All enemies are defeated and the forest is absorbed into your county.

March 1 armies and 3 skeletons to T12: Your armies attack (with three skeletons) (4, 3, 2 and 5), defeating one of the enemies (Squelsh barbarian).

The enemy attacks back (8 and 7), killing two skeletons.
You take too many losses and withdraw.
Your total losses: two skeletons.

March 6 armies and 5 skeletons and 1 cat with cat sack to N7: Your armies attack (with one bog cat) (with five skeletons) (1, 2, 2, 2, 0, 3, 1, 2, 4, 3, 5 and 0), defeating one of the enemies (bog cat).

The enemy attacks back (7, 2, 0, 5 and 1), killing one of your armies.
Your armies attack (with one bog cat) (with five skeletons) (2, 0, 6, 2, 7, 7, 2, 0, 3, 6 and 6), defeating five of the enemies (bog cat, bog cat, bog cat, bog cat and bog cat).

All enemies are defeated and Taghairn cave is absorbed into your county. The area doesn't turn into marshland. All bog cats defeated are captured into the cat sack...
Your total losses: one.

Send scout to F12 and sacrifice 10 gold: Squelsh appeased.

Send scout to Alkabrian Outpost and gift the Pellucid Orb to king Alkabar: +18 Victory points, -1 unit and Pellucid Orb

Spoiler: Marquess Gerald Wright - Castle Wright (click to show/hide)

Marquess Wright chokes on a particularly tough scrap of boar meat and dies. His treasury and staff join his successor at Castle Bacchus.

Castle Wright falls into ruin: 3d6 damage [5], and a bog cat and a dragon take up residence in the empty halls.

Fort Tailor (J14) is taken over by monsters. A dragon, three wisps and five wolves move in.

Fort Shepard (K11) is taken over by Thornish holdouts (1).

Fort Bowyer (K13) is taken over by Thornish holdouts (2).

Fort Mason (L15) is taken over by the Squelsh (3)

The rest of the lands fall to uncertainty.

Spoiler: Bockhoven - Bockelstein (click to show/hide)

Attack the Selkie Court at A11 with:
* 1 ship with 1 army, the rhuddy cape, 5 siege engines and 9 wolves
* 1 boat with 2 armies and 1 wolf
* 10 armies and a ship from FitzHarbort
The enemy hides behind their walls (31 wall strength).
The enemy hides behind their walls (31 wall strength).

Your armies attack (one wearing the Rhuddy Cape) (with ten wolves) (7, 12, 6, 8, 9, 9, 6, 11, 8, 11, 12, 8, 6, 7, 5, 6, 10, 6, 11, 11, 5, 8, 11, 11 and 7), damaging the walls (10) defeating all eight Seals.
The Selkie Queen (protected by her keep) attacks (4), with none of your units defeated. The Selkie Queen curses Fitzharbort and Bockhoven. While she lives they both get -1 income, -1 recruitment, -1 wood production, -1 stone production, to a minimum of 0 each. A siege begins.

March at C14 with 3 armies: Your armies attack (3, 0 and 4), with no enemy units defeated.
The enemy attacks back (9), killing one of your armies.
Your armies attack (5 and 3), defeating one of the enemies (bog cat).
All enemies are defeated and the marshland is absorbed into your county. You pick up 3 gold.
Your total losses: one.

March at D15 with 3 armies: >p 3
Your armies attack (6, 4 and 0), defeating one of the enemies (bog cat).
All enemies are defeated and the forest is absorbed into your county.
March at D10 with 1 army

Scout B8 with 1 army: You scout through the first land, discovering a marshland. In the murky mire they find four rampaging boar, and the two wolves.
Your scout withdraws to safety.

Scout A15 with 1 army: You scout through the first land, discovering a hill. On the steep down they find a Thornish Fort with two Thornish holdouts defending, and walls at 7/7 strength.
Your scout withdraws to safety.

Scout E15 with 1 army: You scout through the first land, discovering a village. The townlet is defended by three Squelsh barbarians.
Your scout withdraws to safety.

Spoiler: Prince Mackial FitzHarbort (click to show/hide)

10 armies in Bockhoven's Ship sail in support of Bockhoven's assault on the Selkie Court (see Bockhoven)

3 armies march on G9: Your armies attack (8, 3 and , defeating one of the enemies (Squelsh barbarian).
All enemies are defeated and the village is absorbed into your county.

5 armies march on J8: The boar and boar attack first (7, 7, 5 and 2), killing two of your armies.
Your armies attack (8, 7 and 4), defeating two of the enemies (boar and boar).
All enemies are defeated and the hill is absorbed into your county. Nothing new loearned from hill report.
 Your total losses: two.

1 Army sacrifices 10 Gold at the Grove - The Squelsh are appeased.

Spoiler: Marquess Dolton of Castle Bacchus (click to show/hide)

Castle founded in F5.

- March G6 (7 soldiers): Seven armies march into a unusual site beyond the border. Cave of the Night Scream - Lair with two tanglebats (if there are any tanglebats at the start of combat, and no side has defence, a new tanglebat will spawn for each living opposing unit). - When the Cave is first discovered (by research, scout, hill report, marching etc) it screams, unsettling the whole Hedge. Every fully revealed lair (including player owned and the Cave itself) generates one tanglebat. Thereafter, there's a 1/3 chance at the start of each enemy phase that the cave will scream again. It can be stopped by walling up the cave (10 stone) or sacrificing 20 units to appease the bats within. One of the Tanglebats here wields the Black Claw (+3 dice rolled). The lair has a hoard of 2d6 gold [2].
Your armies attack (8, 2, 1, 6, 7, 8 and 7), defeating five of the enemies (tanglebat, tanglebat, tanglebat, tanglebat and tanglebat).
The enemy attacks back (3, 1, 6, 2, 1, 7, 4, 4, 7), killing three of your armies.
Your armies attack (6, 1, 6, and , defeating three of the enemies (tanglebat, tanglebat and tanglebat).
The enemy attacks back (6, 6, 8, 4, 5), killing three of your armies.
You take too many losses and withdraw.
Total losses: six. Six cats join the hag at K6.

- Scout E5 -> D5 -> D4: You scout through the first land, discovering a forest. In the thick copse they find a Thornish Fort currently empty, with the walls at 4/7 strength. In the ruins the scout finds and takes the Verbian Tusk (summons 1d2-1 Rampaging Boars to your side at the start of each combat. Boars don't count towards your maximum army-size.). You scout through the second land, discovering an unusual site. Puffin Prongs - Hill. High up on each of the twin spires 2 random artefacts can be found (though what each one is unknown before making the steps). Making ladders and steps to get them will cost 4 wood each. Guarding Puffin Prongs is the Fullflood Dragon and the Neapflood Dragon, who will always try to be together and won't stray while the other lives. (Site only appears on a coast or water tile.) Your scout withdraws to safety.

Scout G5 -> H5 -> I5: You scout through the first land, discovering a marshland. In the muddy mire they find two wolves.
Your scout withdraws to safety.

Scout F4 -> G4 -> H4: You scout through the first land, discovering a village. The dwellings is defended by one Squelsh barbarian.
Your scout withdraws to safety.

Spoiler: The Night Scream (click to show/hide)

The Cave of the Night Scream screams. (See Dolton above.) One Tanglebat appears in every fully revealed lair.

Undefended lairs are retaken by the bats. Free standing lairs gain a bat.

B2: Your forces are behind defences (4 wall strength).
A tanglebat attacks first ( killing one of your armies.
Your armies attack (7 and 3), defeating the tanglebat!
Your total losses: one.

K9, Hog's Landing:
17 more tanglebats spawn to match the Squelsh barbarians, and all 18 attack (4, 7, 7, 5, 4, 8, 6, 9, 4, 7, 9, 4, 5, 9, 6, 6, 2 and 4), defeating ten of the Squelsh barbarians.
The Squelsh barbarians attacks back (2, 6, 9, 8, 8, 2 and 7), killing five tanglebats.
The tanglebats attack (8, 3, 4, 8, 2, 3, 8, 3, 5, 2, 5, 4 and 5), defeating three Squelsh barbarians.
The Squelsh barbarians attacks back (3, 4, 8, and 4) killing one tanglebat.
The tanglebats attack (3, 7, 9, 2, 2, 4, 4, 3, 6, 5, 5 and 2), defeating three of the Squelsh barbarians, Squelsh barbarian, Squelsh barbarian and Squelsh barbarian).
The Squelsh barbarian attacks back (, killing one of the tanglebats.
The tanglebats attack (2, 3, 6, 7, 6, 6, 5, 8, 6, 7 and 9), defeating the last Squelsh barbarian.

Spoiler: Enemy Phase (click to show/hide)

For letting a friendly cat come to harm, Granny Longtooth curses Marchioness Aywen Ayes. While she lives Ayes gets -1 income, -1 recruitment, -1 wood production, -1 stone production, to a minimum of 0 each.

- [M6] The dawn Dragon doesn't wander

- Reprisals:
--[Vulk 0%] The Squelsh are quiet... for now.
--[FitzHarbort 0%] The Squelsh are quiet... for now.
--[Ayes 0%] The Squelsh are quiet... for now.
--[Bockhoven 0%] The Squelsh are quiet... for now.
--[Sol 0%]
--[Dolton 0%]

There are Thornish forts so the Lodestone doesn't trigger. [A15], [K11], [K13] grow in size. [J6] Grows in size and the soldiers march on K7, with Perfidy's Horn! The wolf turns hostile!
The Thornish holdout, Thornish holdout, Thornish holdout and Thornish holdout attack first (6, 4, 2 and , killing one of your armies, and the wolf.
Your armies attack (5), defeating one of the enemies (Thornish holdout).
The enemy attacks back (3, 7 and , killing one of your armies. Your armies have been defeated.
Your total losses: two armies and wolf. The Thornish all withdraw to their fort.

The Cave of the Night Scream is quiet.
- [A7] No new monsters come.
- [B9] No new monsters come.
- [D12] No new monsters come.
- [G6] Cave of the Night Scream: No new monsters come.
- [G11] No new monsters come.
- [J14] No new monsters come.
- [K9] Joining the lair is a dragon.
- [L2] Puzzle Dungeon: No new monsters come.
- [L10] Fort: No new monsters come.
- [P12] Joining the lair is a bog cat.
- [S3] Giant's Toe: No new monsters come.

The boar of Hoglands Hollow stream through the new cleft in the mountain, and attack the newly taken fort of M7 (guarded by 1 unit and 1 cat). The boar x12 attack first, twice (2, 3, 5, 5, 1, 6, 4, 4, 1, 7, 7 and 4, 7, 2, 0, 1, 2, 1, 6, 7, 1, 6, 4 and 6), killing a cat and one army. The fort is lost!
Total losses: one cat, one army.

The Hag and nine cats (see Dolton) from K6 attack Fort Juniper at J9:
Your forces are behind defences (4 wall strength).
The bog cat, bog cat, bog cat, bog cat, bog cat, bog cat, bog cat, bog cat, bog cat and bog hag attack first (8, 3, 5, 4, 2, 1, 1, 1, 6 and 3), damaging the walls (2) killing one regular unit.
Your armies attack (2 and 4), with no enemy units defeated.  Your total losses: one. A siege begins with ten of the enemy forces camped outside the walls! The hag curses Prince FitzHarbort! While she lives the Prince gets -1 income, -1 recruitment, -1 wood production, -1 stone production, to a minimum of 0 each.

The 11 tanglebats and one dragon from K9 march on the Sundered Spire!
The dragon attacks first: (7, 9, 7, 6 and 5), damaging the walls (4), killing the sole defender and taking the castle.

1d4 [4] boar settle in Hoglands Hollow.

A new moot is founded in T3 by 2d2 [2] Squelsh barbarians, plus the three Squelsh barbarians already there.

TURN 15
Research

Prince Mackial FitzHarbort learns in E2 is the Boarskin Coat (when you attack boars, they don't get first attack, they get two attacks on their first counterattack)

Marquess Ambrosio Vulk learns in M5 is White-Tusk's Hollow - Forest. Inhabited by White-Tusk (counts as 4 boar), 6 boar and 2 grand tusks (counts as 2 boar). White Tusk wields the Black Trotter if it hasn't been found elsewhere, otherwise he wields a random artefact.

Spoiler: Known Artefact List (click to show/hide)

In the world
A11 is Cragman's Spike (a scout may pass through mountains)
A11 is Thornish Lodestone (while this remains in the Hedge, whenever no Thornish fort is on the map, another fort is revealed in a sector usually far from the owner of this artefact (most distant of two rolls)
B1 is the Black Trotter (Cursed item: cannot be destroyed, sacrificed, gifted or traded. Whoever defeats an army wielding Black Trotter will gain the Black Trotter.) (One unit attacks first twice at the start of each combat, but each time they kill a unit somewhere a boar will turn into a grand tusk- a giant pig that counts as 2 boar. If no boar are currently on the map, the next X boar to appear will all be grand tusks, where X is the number of units killed by the Trotter.)
G6 is Black Claw (Cursed item: cannot be destroyed, sacrificed, gifted or traded. Whoever defeats an army wielding Black Claw will gain the Black Claw.) (+4 dice rolled when attacking, every time someone is killed by a force wielding the claw, the nearest square with a bog cat gains another cat. If there are none, a bog cat will appear in the nearest empty square.)
G10 is Bitter Brew  (The set of armies this is equipped to never retreats from losses.)
H4 is the Black Lance (Cursed item: cannot be destroyed, sacrificed, gifted or traded. Whoever defeats an army wielding the Black Lance will gain the Black Lance.) (You never attack first in combats, but on your first attack all your attackers will attack three times. The turn after slaying someone with the lance, Dragons will preferentially fly one square in your direction when flying to a new home. When this first discovered, place the Dawn Dragon on M6 (the Dawn Dragon counts for 15 armies)).
H5 is Siege Workshop Plans (The owner of this can build a Siege Workshop as a feature (spending 10 stone as normal). Siege Workshop: You can build these two alternative types of seige engine: 1. Battering Ram: destroy walls on a 4+ for one round (or 3+ or 2+ if you spend 2 or 4 more wood). 2. Giant Trebuchet: destroy 1d4 defence before the attack begins. You may spend 1-3 stone in ammunition to add 1-3 d4s to this.) Doesn't count towards anathema count.
I5 is the Shimmering Coin (+2 on rolls that determine gold amounts)
J4 is Wellspring Staff (the Wellspring Staff may be cast into marshland by a unit to turn it into a lake (spilling out into all adjacent tiles - units can drown this way without proper precautions). If the staff is recovered (by boat etc) in subsequent turns, the lake remains.)
J6 - Perfidy's Horn (Monster units controlled by a human unit in the vicinity will become hostile third parties, turning on everyone.)
M3 is the Rock Ring (With a scout, raise up a mountain wall between any two tiles. You must own at least one of the tiles to do this.)
N6 is the Juniper Cape (a scout isn't stopped by monsters)
Q8 is the Crimson Drum (attack first when defending)
R6 are the Saint's Knuckles (take -1 when rolling on the monster table (usually less dangerous results))

Held by Lords

Dolton: Verbian Tusk (summons 1d2-1 Rampaging Boars to your side at the start of each combat. Boars don't count towards your maximum army-size.)

Ayes: Sundering Claw (assign a scout to crack open a permanent path through any adjacent mountain. 25% chance to call a hostile dragon to the location)

Bockhoven: Golden Net (A scout carrying this across water has a 25% chance of rolling on the treasure table)

the Rhuddy Cape (the unit this is assigned to is now considered a giant)

The Wolf Crystal (wolves encountered will join the army instead (they still all run away when injured)

Vulk: the Last Femur! (1/4 chance of each dead unit being resurrected to your side as a skeleton warrior when they die)

Cat Sack (defeated Bog Cats are put in the Cat Sack instead of being killed if the Cat Sack is held by the winning force. These cats are owned but unfriendly, and any number can be released by an army in any combat, or let loose by a scout in any tile.)

Sol: the Speculator's Rod (a scout scouting an empty hill that they own, has 25% chance to discover a quarry. They instead find a mine if the hill is adjacent to a mountain. The same tile cannot be scouted in this way more than once per turn.)

The Shield of Earth (the army wielding this is considered to have +1 defence at the start of every combat, as if they were siege defenders)

Whiptide Sail (one boat or ship can travel twice as far.)

Prince FitzHarbort: Ascupart's Bane (unit has +2 dice vs giants).

Marrowfat Shield (whichever unit is given the shield will be last to be attacked in any combat. Sacred to the Squelsh, any non-Squelsh who takes the Shield gains +30 reprisal chance and +60 if they destroy, sacrifice or otherwise remove the Shield from the county.)

Sent to the King:
Hunter's Stand (Archers in the army this is attached to only die on 5s if no other units remain)

Marrowfat Throne (when owned by someone of Squelsh heritage, one Squelsh defector will join your cause at the start of each turn (+1 army production) and adjacent Squelsh armies will join your attacks on non-Squelsh; when owned by an Alkabrian or other, +30 reprisal chance, +100 reprisal chance if destroyed.)

Pellucid Orb (+1 to scout travel distance)

Spoiler: Known Unique Sites (click to show/hide)

A11 is the Selkie Court (Castle with Keep, Moat x 3!) 21/31 defence - The Selkie Queen lives in the Selkie Court. She is a hag protected by 8 royal seals (who act identically to bog cats but with water instead of marshes). In her vault, she has a treasure of 20 gold and two random artefacts (which may be used in defence). The court only appears on coast or water tiles.)

C8 is the Crimson Tower (Keep/Tower/Bloodforge) Defence 17/17,  - Dai the Bloodsinger has a Bloodforge in which 3 armies may be sacrificed to create a new artefact (and become anathema to all).

D5 is the Puffin Prongs - Hill. High up on each of the twin spires 2 random artefacts can be found (though what each one is unknown before making the steps). Making ladders and steps to get them will cost 4 wood each. Guarding Puffin Prongs is the Fullflood Dragon and the Neapflood Dragon, who will always try to be together and won't stray while the other lives. (Site only appears on a coast or water tile.)

E7 and K1 are the Walking Stone Circles - A pair of sites. They are considered adjacent: units can walk from one to the other across the map. Each is initially defended by three giants. They will let anyone pass through both tiles unharmed in a turn as if they were owned by the traveller, for 1 gold per unit passing (if they do so, they won't join a monster march). Gold accumulates on the first stone circle passed through. Enemies always find the gold for it.

E10 is an unknown lair.

F11 is Lake Sorrow.

F12 is The Grove of Tusks - Holy place of the Squelsh - This is a forest. Whoever owns this has a +50% chance of being attacked each turn by Squelsh, who will target the Grove. Special Action: a scout can be sent to the grove to make a sacrificial offering (worth 10 gold) to make peace with the Squelsh, setting their chance to reprisals to 0. This only works for people who don't own the Grove.

G6 is the Cave of the Night Scream - Lair with two tanglebats (if there are any tanglebats at the start of combat, a new tanglebat will spawn for each opposing living unit, before any summoning artefacts are used) - When the Cave is first discovered (by research, scout, hill report, marching etc) it screams, unsettling the whole Hedge. Every fully revealed lair (including player owned and the Cave itself) generates one tanglebat. Thereafter, there's a 1/3 chance at the start of each enemy phase that the cave will scream again. It can be stopped by walling up the cave (10 stone) or sacrificing 20 units to appease the bats within.

G10 is Wolfhaven Woods - Forest. Spiritual home of wolf kind. Inhabited by 10d4 wolves (25). These wolves will only flee if less than 10 remain. Any wolves that would otherwise be loyal to a non-wolf, are loyal to the wolves in these woods. Wolves in this forest will never march on anywhere.

H10 is Owl Woods - Forest. Originally guarded by the Dusk Dragon (the Dusk Dragon counts for 10 armies) and seven wisps. The dragon holds Ascupart's Bane (unit has +2 dice vs giants).

K14 is Castle Wright (Features: Coppicing Grove, Mustering Yard, Marketplace, Keep, Barracks) 8/13 defence.

L6 is Hogland Hollow - Forest. Inhabited by 3d6 Boar. While it is unconquered, at the end of any turn when there is less than 10 boars in this forest, 1d4 more boar will appear. Your scout withdraws to safety.

M8 is The Hirsute Sage's Hut (while independent, scouts that pass through the hut will ignore the first set of enemies they come across while scouting after visiting the hut. The sage leaves if his home becomes occupied.)

N7 is Taghairn Cave - Owned by Cuthbert Catsbane, a Bloodsinger who wields the Cat Sack if it hasn't appeared elsewhere. Has a limited kind of Bloodforge in which three cats may be sacrificed to create a new artefact. You would first have to find a way of gaining the cats.

O8 is The Hag Market. Marshland. Protected by 9 bog hags and 27 bog cats. Scouts can be sent to the market to buy bog cats (4 gold each) and otherwise may pass through without being attacked. Half the money spent here remains as possible loot. Friendly bog cats have +1 attack in marshland, and while you have a cat, they give -1 (non-cumulative) to enemy attack rolls. Cats cannot be sent to scout, and they cannot be send to attack or patrol by themselves. Monsters won't march from this location."

Q9 is Granny Longtooth's Hut - Marshland. 4/4 defence while Granny Longtooth lives here. Granny Longtooth is a Bog Hag protected by 15 Bog Cats. Monsters won't normally march from this location, but Granny Longtooth will curse anyone who has sacrificed cats or who has let a friendly cat come to harm. (While she lives: -1 income, -1 recruitment, -1 wood production, -1 stone production, to a minimum of 0 each.)

R3 is The Castle of Bryn the Brawn (Keep/Tower/Tower) Defence 21/21, occupied by Bryn, a giant, and his family, three more giants. The adjacent squares are also within his domain. Bryn will wage war to retake any squares adjacent to his castle, always accompanied in battle by 1d6 wolves.

R10 is the Scout Hut - Initially abandoned and inhabited by a family of 6 boar. Up to three armies can be assigned to the Hut as if it were a fort and they don't count towards your army cap. These armies can scout so long at they begin scouting from a tile adjacent to the hut. Spend 3 wood to dismantle and reassemble the hut on an empty tile you own.

T3 is The Moot - Village with 2d2 (2+1=3) Squelsh Barbarians and a moat (6/6 defense). It is the neutral meeting place of rival Squelsh bands. At the start of each enemy turn, each tile with a Squelsh Barbarian has a 25% chance of sending someone to the Moot. The first Squelsh reprisal each turn will be joined by whomever is in the Moot. If the Moot is conquered, a new Moot (with a new moat) will appear in the most populous Squelsh-held village at the start of the next player turn, or if there are no such villages, it may appear in future tile generation (from scouting, research etc.).

T11 is Hero's Tor - Hill Fort (Steep Path: Siege Engines cannot assail this hill) (9/9). An ageing Squelsh Champion (counts as two units, +1 to its attacks) with the Bloody Standard (+1 all attack rolls) sits in retirement in this fort, with his retinue of 6 Squelsh Barbarians, and two pet wisps.

Notes

- What a hell of a turn! Everything was relatively normal until the new player accidentally triggered one of the big end-game threats.
- This turn was complicated, check the enemy phase carefully to see if you lost troops outside of your main turn.
- Tanglebats are nasty, multiplying in number in combat. But they have at least three weaknesses that can be exploited.
- The Night Scream can happen again, so you might want to block it off if you can.
- Otherwise, any lair can be sealed off with ten stone. But first you have to capture it and hold it a turn.
- There are a lot of places that will spawn enemies, so make sure to whack-a-mole as many of them as you can. The difficulty just ramped up massively, but I'm sure you're all up to the challenge!

[Criptfeind]

Wow.

I understand why the thorns were unable to fully conquer the hedge.

Also, 4 curses applied this turn I think? Hot digity damn, witches stepping up, although most of the curses won't survive for long.

Doing a quick once though the turn. Don't see anything wrong with my stuff I think.

But should the tanglebat that attacked B2 have summoned 3 more tanglebats to help it siege, or is that a defensive only ability?

Also, when you loose max army size, what happens to the units you have above that size?

Edit: Does the moot moat count as a fort as far as me garrisoning units, and shouldn't it have relocated? (I think to B10) I see it relocated to t3, nvm.

[notquitethere]

But should the tanglebat that attacked B2 have summoned 3 more tanglebats to help it siege, or is that a defensive only ability?

Tanglebats don't get more bats if there are any defensive walls in the way, as in sieges. That is one of their weaknesses.

Also, when you loose max army size, what happens to the units you have above that size?

I'll be nice and say Lords still have the excess units, they just can't generate replacements while at cap. (This is how it works when you lose your last castle, after all.)

Edit: Does the moot moat count as a fort as far as me garrisoning units, and shouldn't it have relocated? (I think to B10)

It did relocate, to T3, but the old moat is still there. It doesn't count as a fort, but any units patrolling there get the benefit of the moat, as would any fort built there.

[Criptfeind]

Lets see... Three weaknesses huh? Sorta wanta play the guessing game of finding them out, if that's one of them, is the second that cats can destroy lairs to permanently keep them from spawning without us having to pay 10 stone?

Can't think of a third off the top of my head. Is it something we can figure out from the game text for sure? Or something hidden like their inability to multiple during sieges?

Edit: Whoops, found probably a mistake, I think I should have only gotten 16 vp for the orb, it's the third sacrificed artifact thus far.

[notquitethere]

It's not hidden. The siege thing shouldn't have been hidden, I'd just missed that bit of info in their description (I've updated it now).

Edit: Whoops, found probably a mistake, I think I should have only gotten 16 vp for the orb, it's the third sacrificed artifact thus far.

My mistake! Yeah, the stand, the throne then the orb. You're right that should be 16vp.

And the cat thing is potentially a good idea, but it wasn't one of the things I was thinking of.

[Criptfeind]

Skeletons don't spawn bats?

Edit: and in battle summoned units.

Ignore how dumb I am for taking this long to notice those two things. 

[notquitethere]

That's it! Now with those puzzle pieces in place, I'm sure it'll be a doddle.

[Criptfeind]

Indeed, I guess not even that hard if I send my skeletons around to help take out out the caves, assuming I can trade them like any other commodity.

The sleeper terrifying end game boss though I think is hoglands hallow. Boars are fucking scary, constantly spewing out boar attacks is terrifying.

[notquitethere]

Also, I now have a channel on the forum games discord if anyone wants to discuss things more rapidly. I'll still be using the forum for anything important.

[Quarque]

The Selkie Court still has 31/31 hits in the unique site list.

Also, according to the battle report we only dealt 10 damage to the walls, but I think it should be 17? We went in with a total of 23 units +2 from the cape and every hit was a 5+, so after killing 8 seals there was 17 damage left to be absorbed by walls.

[Elephant Parade]

Oh god why