I was on D:6 as a Djinni Summoner. This characters life had been fruitful, and I had about six ring, two amulets, lots of heal wounds and cure potions. I find Eustachio, who quickly out summons me, so I teleport away, only to appear next to Dowan and Duvessa. I teleport yet again to find myself near Prince Ribbit.I am now out of teleport spells and healing potions, so I put up a fog scroll to buy some time. At this point I had maybe 6 health, and I was running away, I get zapped by an electric eel, killing me.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
Nothing dooms a run quite like an abundance of good fortune early on.
For myself, I defeated the Orcs occupying Elensefar quite handily; for some reason they decided to focus on the trio of loyal Merfolk I had put into their moat, so I was able to occupy the gatehouses without conflict and then swept my force of Elvish archers and Horsemen into the city. The main Orc host took heavy damage, and attempted to flee into the moat, where they were easily defeated. The city's thieves guild joined me and proved worth their weight in gold, working in two man teams to annihilate the few remaining Orc defenders.
Unfortunately, I still had to deal with their reinforcing Undead army, who managed to seize the north half of the city while my troops were still wounded and vulnerable. I was able to take the keep and bring in a force of mages to pound the skeletons to dust, but once I got the Undead bottled up in their start cave I couldn't break their lines, since they fight better at night, my mages fight worse at night, and the insides of caves are
always night. Ultimately took one risk too many trying to put a hole in their line, and they put a big ol' gap in
mine. K-whatsisface, the leader whose death is an autofail ended up catching an arrow to the face when he tried to rally the troops but missed on every attack, thus preventing the meatshields from getting between him and the undead horde.
Battle for Wesnoth. I'm playing it as a roguelike, so no reloading saves, and if I lose then I have to attempt at least two other campaigns before going back to the one I failed on. I've only beaten one campaign this way so far, but this mission was as far as I'd ever made it in the main campaign!
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