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Turn 21 Two events in Ryd.   Marignon attacks and beats the indies, then we attack. The indies only kill a few Marignonian units but we don’t do much better and lose pretty badly. Let’s take a look.   The first engagement goes ok, we don’t melt to his sacred cavalry.  You can see they have a few minor blesses, air and fire. The crossbows hurt unfortunately.  We give a good account but they just have too many units. 90+ to our 40. If we had had 90 centaurs, I bet we would’ve won. In future battles, I will script a small squad of centaurs to attack archers cause those crossbowmen are vicious and our troops generally have small shields. Our commander survives but he’s just a lovely shambler. We’ll move him back and see what happens. Marignon sent us a message on IRC but it wasn’t exactly a declaration of war. Still, I don’t want to risk building a fort and losing it.  In the next battle, we take Pelagia’s last province fairly easily. Most of the casualties were mercs whose contract is up soon. Somehow they all ended up in front, weird huh?  Another army takes another indie province. This one is actually interesting because it has amber clan.  Their mages are actually more efficient researchers than anything I have and water 2 isn’t bad. I’ll be moving a mage here to build a lab and probably a temple. We do have some magic so cheapo researchers are good.  An event in blue waters. Pretty obviously means an indie force attacking us so I up the PD to deal with it. I actually do have an army there but it’s the stealthy army and I don’t want them slowed down or revealed.  Last event is telling us what we already know: Pelagia is defeated. Having no provinces will do that. Our sage can finally fulfill his life’s mission: to research. We also have a capricorn there to search, wastes usually have some magic sites. Sage may as well search too, just in case. Astral pearls are pretty valuable even if you don’t have astral mages. We’re also making more dudes for the war in most of our forts, stealthy armies are moving out. They will be in place when the NAP is up to quickly take some of Atlantis’ backyard. Join us next turn for a gift of blood money!
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Turn 22 Another turn, another chance for things to go wrong! Well that first event is pretty nice at least. Marignon has given us 1500 gold. I made a deal to vacate the throne I took for Marignon to take. There was no NAP along with it so I can still attack Marignon if I feel like it and a single point doesn’t really bring him that much closer to victory while 1500 is quite a lot of money. I’ll probably annoy him with sirens while I beat Atlantis and work up the armies to invade on land.   Asphodel takes a throne. 3 searches, no magic sites. Pretty lovely but oh well.  We can see the fight where Marignon took our throne province. It had 25 PD and 4 centaurs I forgot about so they actually did quite a bit of damage. Marignon didn’t send any knights and their regular infantry isn’t nearly as tough.   Our expansion went well but Atlantis finally took this indie province but he can’t expand any further without breaking our NAP.  A nice event, never gonna turn down free gold and our mercenaries left us. Maybe we will rehire them when we fight Atlantis.   Anyway, I am buying tons of units with all this gold. You can see here that Atlantis is prepping his armies. I kinda screwed up here, I wanted an army in the grandfather to move across Anphalia down to Atlantis’ territory but I lost track of turns and now it’s too late. I could’ve been able to cut him off but we still have our stealthy armies that should be able to do some damage before he knows it. Tune in next turn for the last calm turn before the storm! UW war part 2 coming soon!
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Sorry for the delayed update, I was traveling and forgot to upload the images to imgur or my laptop. Anyway, the LP is not, in fact, dead. Turn 23  Very few messages this turn.  We finally found another magic site, this one is quite good actually. Even with no astral, pearls are still useful for alchemizing and gold is always nice.  Poor peasant got turned into a lobster, but their loss is our gain! Our patrols got rid of some unrest, we’re just waiting at this point so not much else to do but patrol. For those with a keen memory, next turn is the end of our NAP with Atlantis. I'm sure Atlantis just wants to be buds and won't attack me right then, right? Right? Ok, troop movements.  We have multiple armies moving in on Devil’s Pond. His army is quite substantial, I’m actually not sure who will win this one. Here’s an example of my scripting. Water mages summon water power, shark attack and summon water elementals. Next turn we can summon big elementals.  Heavy infantry and centaurs go in front, attack closest to take the hits. The lighter centaurs are on attack rearmost to hopefully get in quick and kill their mages. We’ll see how this works out in practice.  Both stealthy armies are set to attack, both will move westward and hopefully meet little resistance.  Other armies are moving to defend my provinces, we will attack with them the turn after assuming nothing goes wrong. There is a 100 strong army that’s sitting sort of unopposed to my west but that province isn’t terribly important. Actually, looking at it it has a ton of income but whatever, we can send out an army to intercept next turn.  Most forts are building our high resource units since I can’t afford to build 200 light centaurs this turn. I’m really excited for this next turn, I don’t expect to win every battle but I do think we’ll come out on top for the most part. My units are quite good and I have mages ready to cast all kinds of fun stuff plus my pretender wading into the fray. Wish me luck! edit: hahahaha Join us next turn for UW War: Part Deux!
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Speleothing posted:I love the turn before the fight, it's always so hopeful. Turns out my optimism wasn't totally misplaced but rereading it now is kinda funny. Turn 24  Here we go! Lots of messages, lots of battles as you can see. Conjuration 5 completed, this gives us full water elementals although they take water 3.  Also gives us howl which is quite good but doesn’t work underwater.   Caelum capped a throne, a level 2 with good gem income. Failed magic site search.    Now for the battles, first one in the faraway sea. This was the scary army and I actually didn’t have any units to intercept so it just hit PD. The PD actually does pretty well, getting 23 kills. 5 shark knights too which are vicious as gently caress.  Next up, Ocean of our Lord. You can see from the set up we’re gonna win. I mean my pretender is here too but he may waste some gems.  Looks like just ice shield, no gem use.  Our units clean up, easy peasy. We only take 2 losses.  Devil’s Pond is next, just PD. No losses. Same in Dagor and Emerald Lake. Those two were my stealthy armies and they took both provinces with no casualties.  Gee, who do you think is going to win this one? The lobsters do a bit of damage but we knock off their riders and they trample a bit. All their prot doesn’t save them from spears with some strength behind them.  His war shamblers are on hold attack and are attacked by my cavalry set to attack rearmost. They’re tough and hit hard but our numbers make the difference.  We kill everything, losing 10 units. 8 of them are sea lions which I don’t give a poo poo about. Last battle, this one is in Mu. This is a tough army. War lobsters are loving vicious and unfortunately most of our troops here are the satyrs instead of the centaurs.  First contact, our centaurs do decent damage. Their tridents do 20 damage so when they connect, they hit hard.  We get them surrounded and knock a few riders off but that just means the lobster is free to trample around. They also attack randomly but there are way more targets in our army than his.  Our satyrs run for their lives like the babies they are. School of sharks is cast but doesn’t seem to do much. Our centaurs also take a lot of hits and losses and rout.  So they only lose 13 guys and we lose three times as much, our only loss with a real army so far. School of sharks kinda sucks, I’m just going to do water elementals from now on.    Two crappy events, one ok event.   The fight we lost in Mu had our fortress, which is being besieged. Ok, now for our counterpunch. All nearby armies are relieving Mu. Should be no problem even if the shark knight army helps out. Lobsters hit real hard but they have only 11 attack and even lower attack as lobsters so our centaurs do decently well against them. They still get trampled but you can’t win ‘em all. Nearly all of our water gems are gone, given away to our capricorns. Our sirens are still researching cause gently caress them and their water 2. On land, they’re a1w1, even more useless. At some point I get frozen heart and they might do something but they’re more useful researching for now. I’d really love some water sites battlesnek game. I’ve found 0 and the only reason I have any gems left at all is because I took Pelagia. At least Atlantis will give us some more gem income.  One other point of interest, Marignon has found a lizard shaman province. Lizard shamans are a huge advantage because they come with astral and are decently cheap, making them good slaves in a communion. I’m definitely going to have to attack Marignon sooner rather than later. I can see his scales though which are uh, interesting. 3 order, 1 production, 1 growth and 3 misfortune. 3 misfortune is something you rarely see because it unlocks some real bad events or so I am told. He has a huge income but he must be losing a bunch of money every turn to bad events. Join us next turn for more fights!
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Misfortune really sucks and I avoid it when I can. It should be fine for nations like Marverni or Sauromatia with cheapo fortune telling units though. Turn 25  Second turn at war, lots of messages.  Pissbitch (Marignon) claims the throne of fire, you can see it here. That one is quite good, I want it! Marignon has enough fire imo.  Battle in baptizer, just small PD, no losses.  Atlantis attacks us with a single commander for some reason. Surprise! he loses.  Our stealthy army takes a province, only a single loss.  Now the battle in Mu, which had a fort being sieged. Our forces.  Their forces. Not a ton of guys but each one is scary.  First clash, water elementals being summoned and some water strikes.Fortunately, they have just one mage. Their lobsters trample the poo poo out of us though, gently caress lobsters.  Some units routing.   Water elementals doing work. You can see we’ve lost a lot of guys, most of them are dead but some routed.  We win the battle but it went terribly. We lost twice as many guys thanks to the lobsters. My centaurs can’t deal with the trample at all and the lobsters only cost 50 gold so he can make quite a few. There are some things I can do however. Water elementals gently caress everything up so I’m going to start relying on them more. That means all units are on hold attack to give time for the water elementals to get to the front lines.  Our large army kills some PD and sieges the fort. Second sneaky army caps a province.   There’s that event that we prepared for but we actually lost the province. I guess 25 wasn’t enough PD?   After that, one bad event and one good event. I have no death gem income so this event is pretty good. However, I’m going to start summoning some death naiads once I hit conjuration 6 and they’ll start searching. If my pretender has time, he’ll search but I imagine he’ll be busy fighting Atlantis.  Now for troop movemnts. My sneaky armies continue capping back provinces. However you can see Atlantis turned his scary army around to chase us. That’s fine, we can always stay one step ahead of him and it’s only ever taking back his own provinces to begin with. A few small armies moving west to chase that big shark knight army, not a lot of units but a lot of mages and water elementals are amazing at this point. Our spies are moving around, we can see Asphodel, Marignon and Pan are both real big. Probably Pan or Marignon will be our next target but hopefully our scouting will lead us one way or another. Our army actually busted open the fort in one turn so we’ll storm it next turn. Free fort and hopefully a lab? Join us next turn for some juicy Atlantian provinces!
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How are u posted:You can't even see Asphodel on that map, I'm actually small and helpless and totally not a threat Good job being completely landlocked I guess.
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