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Wuh? he Bannor were the first civ to die. Stephanos decided to pay them a visit before he dropped by my empire. They didn't last 10 turns.
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oh, I didnt know Stephanie killed off the bannor, I thought it was Hyborem. But that makes more sense. Anyways, I had actually "killed" the Khazad like 10 turns after summoning Hyborem, but they had this thane of kilmorph running around the map for 30 turns or so XD
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ok its saturday game time get into hamachi FFHRP and lets get it on
Bill Bisco
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Alright, it's that time again. Join us today on Hamachi for a great game! We will have a game today! 
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Wow, we just had one of the best games ever. It started out as Luchurip, Amurites, Clan of Embers, Hippus, Calabim and Svartalfar. All throughout the game new people were joining. Svartalfar sccumbed to barbarians shortly into the game, and their capital was soon made into Archeron's city. Then I(The Luchurip) summoned Basium right before the Hippus founded Ashen Veil. We promptly went to war, which featured my favorite part of the game:
"Hippus have created Rosier the Fallen"
"Rosier the Fallen has been killed!"
On the same turn. Never underestimate an angel with a vengeance(and Raiders). I proceeded to wipe out the Hippus as Basium, but before I could eliminate them completely Hyborem was summoned. The Hippus took over Hyborem, then both Clan and Calabim joined his side and attacked me. Calabim zerged me with Soldiers of Kilmorph(Not the brightest idea) giving me a ton of angels. I wiped out the Calabim and was moving onto the Clan to help the Amurites, who were currently on my side, when they got Ritualists...
Well, the Ritualists drove my conquest to a halt. Seven Pines was used by the Luchurip, and I rushed to get Angels of Death. Taking Hyborem by surprise, I killed both Maredo and Hyborem(too bad he has immortality) with the Angels of Death but unfortunately lost Basium to an unlucky fight(99.5% odds...).
This was the turning point. My remaining army failed to capture the Clan capital, who turned their attention to the Amurites. The Amurites had no choice but to convert to Ashen Veil, and once thye joined Hyborem the game was decided. The Amurite Firebows are what really won the game for Hyborem, without them he would have had a much tougher time, or possibly I may have won instead. It was really close until the Amurites switched. Still, great game. Great game.
"Hippus have created Rosier the Fallen"
"Rosier the Fallen has been killed!"
On the same turn. Never underestimate an angel with a vengeance(and Raiders). I proceeded to wipe out the Hippus as Basium, but before I could eliminate them completely Hyborem was summoned. The Hippus took over Hyborem, then both Clan and Calabim joined his side and attacked me. Calabim zerged me with Soldiers of Kilmorph(Not the brightest idea) giving me a ton of angels. I wiped out the Calabim and was moving onto the Clan to help the Amurites, who were currently on my side, when they got Ritualists...
Well, the Ritualists drove my conquest to a halt. Seven Pines was used by the Luchurip, and I rushed to get Angels of Death. Taking Hyborem by surprise, I killed both Maredo and Hyborem(too bad he has immortality) with the Angels of Death but unfortunately lost Basium to an unlucky fight(99.5% odds...).
This was the turning point. My remaining army failed to capture the Clan capital, who turned their attention to the Amurites. The Amurites had no choice but to convert to Ashen Veil, and once thye joined Hyborem the game was decided. The Amurite Firebows are what really won the game for Hyborem, without them he would have had a much tougher time, or possibly I may have won instead. It was really close until the Amurites switched. Still, great game. Great game.
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No, my second city was became Archeron's city
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Really great game today! 
I joined mid-game as Rhoanna of the Hippus. My empire was completely devasted due to an ongoing war with Basium/Beeri Bawl. I had two holy cities: Octopus Overlords in Altheriol-ta-Mealthiel and Ashen Veil in Corrond Mor. But I was only left with Radonnor. Seeing a Basium-lead stack coming, I decided to flee eastward through Hyborem (whose player was the previous Hippus one, who summoned him). I got to a nice hill between his lands and Dain's where I settled Hopehill.
Then the game was mostly waiting. I hadn't much to do during the wars, being a little city state with few troops (but following AV). I noticed the Amurites going through my small territory with a huge stack of Firebows... They attacked Hyborem. Then there was peace, because the Orcs had taken Cevedes I guess.
Dain then contacted me and we planned the Hippus Reconquista. I had little to offer to help, two horse archers (one with Nightmare!) and two Diseased Corpses. With Firebows' help, I managed to take both Radonnor and Altheriol-ta-Mealthiel back. Corrond Mor was a much tougher fight because Basium gathered all (?) his troops in it. Then Blight striked and some of Hyborem's troops came... and then Corrond Mor was mine (Hyborem offered it to me).
There was then a short momentum; and then Dain tells me the Luchuirp cities are empty. I just took them all with two horse archers; their speed was a great asset!
Finally, the Amurites took Basium capital.
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It's nice to guess what would happen if the game played on. I'm currently owning way too many cities, having nearly all the west coast of the continent. A few more turns and I would be in economic trouble... Like disbanding units I don't have. But I'm running God King and Nationalism, not the best civics for big empires.
But with the Orcs, Hyborem and the Amurites, I think I wouldn't been able to hold them long
I joined mid-game as Rhoanna of the Hippus. My empire was completely devasted due to an ongoing war with Basium/Beeri Bawl. I had two holy cities: Octopus Overlords in Altheriol-ta-Mealthiel and Ashen Veil in Corrond Mor. But I was only left with Radonnor. Seeing a Basium-lead stack coming, I decided to flee eastward through Hyborem (whose player was the previous Hippus one, who summoned him). I got to a nice hill between his lands and Dain's where I settled Hopehill.
Then the game was mostly waiting. I hadn't much to do during the wars, being a little city state with few troops (but following AV). I noticed the Amurites going through my small territory with a huge stack of Firebows... They attacked Hyborem. Then there was peace, because the Orcs had taken Cevedes I guess.
Dain then contacted me and we planned the Hippus Reconquista. I had little to offer to help, two horse archers (one with Nightmare!) and two Diseased Corpses. With Firebows' help, I managed to take both Radonnor and Altheriol-ta-Mealthiel back. Corrond Mor was a much tougher fight because Basium gathered all (?) his troops in it. Then Blight striked and some of Hyborem's troops came... and then Corrond Mor was mine (Hyborem offered it to me).
There was then a short momentum; and then Dain tells me the Luchuirp cities are empty. I just took them all with two horse archers; their speed was a great asset!
Finally, the Amurites took Basium capital.
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It's nice to guess what would happen if the game played on. I'm currently owning way too many cities, having nearly all the west coast of the continent. A few more turns and I would be in economic trouble... Like disbanding units I don't have. But I'm running God King and Nationalism, not the best civics for big empires.
But with the Orcs, Hyborem and the Amurites, I think I wouldn't been able to hold them long
Here is my take upon what happend.
The Amurites rose to the world, as remnants of the Mighty blood ravens chapter. The Orc clan had the best starting position/capital in the game. Apparantly they took 4 turns to find it ... there was a Dragon bones as well as remnants of Patria.
The orcs were the tech leaders for most of the game, with me lagging behind at a close second. Later on, when the orcs were massing gigantic armies of axemen and ogres ... >< ... I was very briefly in the lead. My firebows came as early as I would allow them. I called them plasma bolters, of the Blood Raven chapter. I had very grand plans for my firebows, thinking them nearly invincible ... but I was taught a cruel lesson. The unending green tide of axemen were soon able to fight back my invasion after I had taken the Ardennes.
See, the Orcs and Amurites were seperated by the Desert of Ardathi to the south, the Forests of Ardennes to the north, and a sea in the middle. all fighting against the orcs took place in the Forests of Ardennes. First I took it over, and was headed towards an orcish core city, although the orcs kept taking back the ardennes, and When Rantine showed up, arriving from the western front to me (I was the eastern front) I had little choice but to fight to hold the edge of the Ardennes.
Later on, Hyborem had finally gotten Ritualists, and Basium had to retreat, I then made peace with the orcs as well, and amassed an enourmous army of firebows.
I then made a psuedo sneak attack against hyborem, having travelled my forces all the way south, through the proxy hippus outpost and the desert of Ardathi. // I will take a moment to explain. The hippus fled the scene with only a Settler and a HorseArcher. I quickly took them under my wing, and they settled on the other side of the Ardathi desert, as a sort of buffer state. The only problem was that they had no units, aside from one horse archer, and were in name tied to the Veil alliance.
So anyways, I attack with my giant assault of firebows, but in the end they were outmatched. eventualy the 20+ firebows were cut down to a withering 3 in number, while the Orcs decided to seize the opportunity and the green tide poured out of the Ardennes to take one of my 4 cities. I had only 2 core cities >< ... but this one was damn close to becoming a core city. So ... with hardly any defenders left, I was looking at defeding to the man with only my capital, leaving the rest to be taken effortlessly, or to join the Veil alliance and get my city back.
I then started the slow rebuilding of my armies, and sent a proxy army to aid the hippus, I marched them through Hyborems lands, aided by a Ritualist of Hyborem, and a Horse Archer + 2 diseased corpses from the veil hippus (their only units at the time, those 3 units). Opera was playing the remnants of the hippi people. At this time I was still officially at peace with Basium, and still getting Iron from the Luichurp. However I had a source of Iron outside my capital, so it wasn't that large of an impact. I eventually gathered 7 or 8 firebows near Radonnor, met up with the support squads of the various countries, and marched onwards. With my fireballs, and our surprise, we were able to quickly take back the first hippus city in stride. Then Basium sent some angels of death to harras us. Around this same time, I had 4-5 firebows sitting in the Orcish capital of Braduk, the location where the ogres and ritualists were able to hault the Angelic advance initially. I persuaded him to lend some Ogres to my cause, and together we were able to take back the Orc city currently known as "conforming city." My pincer attack worked, and the Alliance had to split their forces. truth be told, the splitting happend before Conforming city was taken. By the time conforming city was taken, The Allied forces (enemy) decided to set most of their forces in the Ashen Veil holy city. I had also, with hippi help, taken back the hippus capital. It was in the hippus capital, that my firebows and his diseased corpses/horsearchers fought off everything from Angels of Death, Catapults, Stonwardens, WoodGolems, and plenty ... plenty of angels. After the angelic assault was finally defeated, the last hippus city was taken by Hyborem, and generously gifted back to the hippus. Another regiment of Hyborem's was meanwhile to the northeast, taking over several Angel and Dwarven cities with the help of some of my firebows and some orcish Ogres. It was then that the last of the Allies was thoroughly defeated, and they had but a stack left in the Mercurian holy city. Opera horse rushed the undefended Luchuirp empire and it quickly fell. Mercurians were able to kill off the northern Hyborem regiment, but My firebows marched out of Aletheriol ta Malathiel and took their capital, with assistance from orcish Ogres. This was the final battle, and the end of the game.
I "won" the race to Berlin/Basium HQ/ROK holy city, while the hippus wiped out the dwarves.
I forgot to mention ... Rosier, Bambur, Mardero, Basium, and Hyborem all died
so the divine warriors had no traits for half of the final battles (when I was the "field marshal" of the western front)-my firebows and hawks were a decisive element, and I think I may have gotten the trophy for most angels of death killed
(4?) ... although Hyborem came at a close second. (3?)
Although with Malevolent designs, Hyborem had the most elite units, and the Orcs had the most powerful and most numerous shock troops in the game. I think at one time the Orc clansmen lost 30 ogres in a particular defense. Even if not all at one time, the Orcs lost 30 ogres during the Basium primetime period. Also, him losing Basium at 95+ odds was pretty bad for the Angelics. Later an ANgel of Death killed hyborem completely, while prior Basium had killed Hyborem's initial form.
It was pretty much when I had fallen to the dark side that Basium had died, so it was an all around turnaround for the Veil.
My lategame goals, for if the game continued, was to try and ally as many as possible against the orcs, and to try to form a virtual permanent alliance with the hippus. It would be really, really hard against warrens ogres, but thats exactly why I would want that kind of fight. Plus, the orcs had really been my true arch-rival throughout the whole game. Well, except for when I was leading them and the other Veil-ers into well earned victory against the Angels of Kilmorph Alliance.
The Amurites rose to the world, as remnants of the Mighty blood ravens chapter. The Orc clan had the best starting position/capital in the game. Apparantly they took 4 turns to find it ... there was a Dragon bones as well as remnants of Patria.
The orcs were the tech leaders for most of the game, with me lagging behind at a close second. Later on, when the orcs were massing gigantic armies of axemen and ogres ... >< ... I was very briefly in the lead. My firebows came as early as I would allow them. I called them plasma bolters, of the Blood Raven chapter. I had very grand plans for my firebows, thinking them nearly invincible ... but I was taught a cruel lesson. The unending green tide of axemen were soon able to fight back my invasion after I had taken the Ardennes.
See, the Orcs and Amurites were seperated by the Desert of Ardathi to the south, the Forests of Ardennes to the north, and a sea in the middle. all fighting against the orcs took place in the Forests of Ardennes. First I took it over, and was headed towards an orcish core city, although the orcs kept taking back the ardennes, and When Rantine showed up, arriving from the western front to me (I was the eastern front) I had little choice but to fight to hold the edge of the Ardennes.
Later on, Hyborem had finally gotten Ritualists, and Basium had to retreat, I then made peace with the orcs as well, and amassed an enourmous army of firebows.
I then made a psuedo sneak attack against hyborem, having travelled my forces all the way south, through the proxy hippus outpost and the desert of Ardathi. // I will take a moment to explain. The hippus fled the scene with only a Settler and a HorseArcher. I quickly took them under my wing, and they settled on the other side of the Ardathi desert, as a sort of buffer state. The only problem was that they had no units, aside from one horse archer, and were in name tied to the Veil alliance.
So anyways, I attack with my giant assault of firebows, but in the end they were outmatched. eventualy the 20+ firebows were cut down to a withering 3 in number, while the Orcs decided to seize the opportunity and the green tide poured out of the Ardennes to take one of my 4 cities. I had only 2 core cities >< ... but this one was damn close to becoming a core city. So ... with hardly any defenders left, I was looking at defeding to the man with only my capital, leaving the rest to be taken effortlessly, or to join the Veil alliance and get my city back.
I then started the slow rebuilding of my armies, and sent a proxy army to aid the hippus, I marched them through Hyborems lands, aided by a Ritualist of Hyborem, and a Horse Archer + 2 diseased corpses from the veil hippus (their only units at the time, those 3 units). Opera was playing the remnants of the hippi people. At this time I was still officially at peace with Basium, and still getting Iron from the Luichurp. However I had a source of Iron outside my capital, so it wasn't that large of an impact. I eventually gathered 7 or 8 firebows near Radonnor, met up with the support squads of the various countries, and marched onwards. With my fireballs, and our surprise, we were able to quickly take back the first hippus city in stride. Then Basium sent some angels of death to harras us. Around this same time, I had 4-5 firebows sitting in the Orcish capital of Braduk, the location where the ogres and ritualists were able to hault the Angelic advance initially. I persuaded him to lend some Ogres to my cause, and together we were able to take back the Orc city currently known as "conforming city." My pincer attack worked, and the Alliance had to split their forces. truth be told, the splitting happend before Conforming city was taken. By the time conforming city was taken, The Allied forces (enemy) decided to set most of their forces in the Ashen Veil holy city. I had also, with hippi help, taken back the hippus capital. It was in the hippus capital, that my firebows and his diseased corpses/horsearchers fought off everything from Angels of Death, Catapults, Stonwardens, WoodGolems, and plenty ... plenty of angels. After the angelic assault was finally defeated, the last hippus city was taken by Hyborem, and generously gifted back to the hippus. Another regiment of Hyborem's was meanwhile to the northeast, taking over several Angel and Dwarven cities with the help of some of my firebows and some orcish Ogres. It was then that the last of the Allies was thoroughly defeated, and they had but a stack left in the Mercurian holy city. Opera horse rushed the undefended Luchuirp empire and it quickly fell. Mercurians were able to kill off the northern Hyborem regiment, but My firebows marched out of Aletheriol ta Malathiel and took their capital, with assistance from orcish Ogres. This was the final battle, and the end of the game.
I "won" the race to Berlin/Basium HQ/ROK holy city, while the hippus wiped out the dwarves.
I forgot to mention ... Rosier, Bambur, Mardero, Basium, and Hyborem all died
so the divine warriors had no traits for half of the final battles (when I was the "field marshal" of the western front)-my firebows and hawks were a decisive element, and I think I may have gotten the trophy for most angels of death killed
(4?) ... although Hyborem came at a close second. (3?)Although with Malevolent designs, Hyborem had the most elite units, and the Orcs had the most powerful and most numerous shock troops in the game. I think at one time the Orc clansmen lost 30 ogres in a particular defense. Even if not all at one time, the Orcs lost 30 ogres during the Basium primetime period. Also, him losing Basium at 95+ odds was pretty bad for the Angelics. Later an ANgel of Death killed hyborem completely, while prior Basium had killed Hyborem's initial form.
It was pretty much when I had fallen to the dark side that Basium had died, so it was an all around turnaround for the Veil.
My lategame goals, for if the game continued, was to try and ally as many as possible against the orcs, and to try to form a virtual permanent alliance with the hippus. It would be really, really hard against warrens ogres, but thats exactly why I would want that kind of fight. Plus, the orcs had really been my true arch-rival throughout the whole game. Well, except for when I was leading them and the other Veil-ers into well earned victory against the Angels of Kilmorph Alliance.
Bill Bisco
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I played the game today starting as the Hippus and swtiched to Hyborem later.
I Lyssia (Rhoanna) of the Hippus began on Erebus with an excellent spot for beginning a new civilization. 2 Gold, bountiful Floodplains, and plenty of hills. Nearby was the Tomb of Succellus, the mystical Ydrassil, as well as a third excellent starting location. The only problem was this area had 4 barrows, of what I would later call the Dennis Lizardmen tribe.
Yes, these Dennis Lizards were such a Menace! I had developed technologies of Education, and Calendar, and Mining, but I could not use them! The Dennis Lizards came in droves. We lost our first worker to a Dennis Lizard; he obviously does not react well in simulataneous settings. In a turn-based game he might have had a chance to live. Losing him, set us back tremendously.
Eventually, we built up an army of able warriors, 6 I believe, and sat over every Dennis Lizardman Barrow. When the time was right (turn 50), we explored every barrow, hoping to destroy it. To our dismay, the Lizardmen were guarding an Ogre! Who very angrily came to our poor city, intent on destroying it!
We fortified the city with what troops we had, and meanwhile a Cultist came to teach us the way of the Overlords. Confident in this divine protection, we let out a Hippus Warcry, and the next turn the Ogre had been defeated, and the Hippus were saved!
However, all was not well...........The orcs lead by Captain Lghaard to the east were cheering on that Ogre, hoping that we would lose. They worshipped Bhaal, and were called the Bhaalites. To our west, used to lay the Svartalfar Empire who were destroyed by a Dennis Lizardman Assassin. Their former cities were taken over, and their former capital became home to a Red Dragon named Acheron.
There were a group of orcs loyal to Acheron and Bhalll whom I called the Bhallistae. As leader of my nation caught inbetween nations, and seeing General Lgaard's number of cities and power, I knew that this would be too much for me to handle, and that the only way for the Hippus to survive, would be to join with the Orcs, Adopt the Ashen Veil, and be on their side.
Unbeknownst to me, the Luchiurp were already planning their own scheme, summoning the tyrant Basium into the world. And soon enough, Basium had appeared, intent on destroying everything sacred to the Veil and those who worshipped it. I gave Basium a chance to return to his home but just like Arrogant Basium, he refused. Rosier shortly came to the Horsepeople's service, only to be cut down almost immediately after. The city he came to, was about to be overtaken, and I wished to spare Rosier the same fate. Unfortunately, he didn't move far enough away and Basium's ability to move quickly in enemy lands got the best of Rosier. A vengeful Horse Archer attempted to Defeat Basium once and for all, but lost with a 61% chance.
Meanwhile, the Infernal Pact was almost completed, and Lyssia would summon a being far more powerful than her that would extract vengeance on Basium. Hope was not lost for the Hippus, though, Lyssia had prepared a Savant, a Settler, and a Horsearcher to House her empire until such a time as she could retake her old cities.
I Lyssia (Rhoanna) of the Hippus began on Erebus with an excellent spot for beginning a new civilization. 2 Gold, bountiful Floodplains, and plenty of hills. Nearby was the Tomb of Succellus, the mystical Ydrassil, as well as a third excellent starting location. The only problem was this area had 4 barrows, of what I would later call the Dennis Lizardmen tribe.
Yes, these Dennis Lizards were such a Menace! I had developed technologies of Education, and Calendar, and Mining, but I could not use them! The Dennis Lizards came in droves. We lost our first worker to a Dennis Lizard; he obviously does not react well in simulataneous settings. In a turn-based game he might have had a chance to live. Losing him, set us back tremendously.
Eventually, we built up an army of able warriors, 6 I believe, and sat over every Dennis Lizardman Barrow. When the time was right (turn 50), we explored every barrow, hoping to destroy it. To our dismay, the Lizardmen were guarding an Ogre! Who very angrily came to our poor city, intent on destroying it!
We fortified the city with what troops we had, and meanwhile a Cultist came to teach us the way of the Overlords. Confident in this divine protection, we let out a Hippus Warcry, and the next turn the Ogre had been defeated, and the Hippus were saved!
However, all was not well...........The orcs lead by Captain Lghaard to the east were cheering on that Ogre, hoping that we would lose. They worshipped Bhaal, and were called the Bhaalites. To our west, used to lay the Svartalfar Empire who were destroyed by a Dennis Lizardman Assassin. Their former cities were taken over, and their former capital became home to a Red Dragon named Acheron.
There were a group of orcs loyal to Acheron and Bhalll whom I called the Bhallistae. As leader of my nation caught inbetween nations, and seeing General Lgaard's number of cities and power, I knew that this would be too much for me to handle, and that the only way for the Hippus to survive, would be to join with the Orcs, Adopt the Ashen Veil, and be on their side.
Unbeknownst to me, the Luchiurp were already planning their own scheme, summoning the tyrant Basium into the world. And soon enough, Basium had appeared, intent on destroying everything sacred to the Veil and those who worshipped it. I gave Basium a chance to return to his home but just like Arrogant Basium, he refused. Rosier shortly came to the Horsepeople's service, only to be cut down almost immediately after. The city he came to, was about to be overtaken, and I wished to spare Rosier the same fate. Unfortunately, he didn't move far enough away and Basium's ability to move quickly in enemy lands got the best of Rosier. A vengeful Horse Archer attempted to Defeat Basium once and for all, but lost with a 61% chance.
Meanwhile, the Infernal Pact was almost completed, and Lyssia would summon a being far more powerful than her that would extract vengeance on Basium. Hope was not lost for the Hippus, though, Lyssia had prepared a Savant, a Settler, and a Horsearcher to House her empire until such a time as she could retake her old cities.
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Man, you guys all had excellent starts compared to me. Floodplains? Supplies of gold? Yggdrassil/Patria? All I had was a single corn resource...
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I, Hyborem had been summoned to yet another world. This time my summoning was an act of desperation and Lyssia who had summoned me was in need of protection.
From what I had been told, I knew that the Basium/Luchirup alliance was strong. They had already eliminated the Calabim, and taken 3 Hippus cities. General Lghaard to the north was a quick ally, but the Amurites to the East were a problem, they worshipped the leaves, not the Veil, whereas that idiot Basium and the Luchiurp were West and Northwest of the Clan of Embers. I knew that we could not win a war on two fronts, and that I could not win a war at all with merely my beginning troops. I had to play slowly this time, and build my strength.
Lyssia needed a place to settle, and the perfect place was east of my lands, between me and Blood Ravens. He probably felt sorry for her, and allowed her to live. I was disappointed she did not immediately convert to veil in her new city, although it is understandable, as Blood Ravens could destroy her in an instant if he felt th need.
The first task was to assign one city to build the Heroic Epic, and the other City to build the Infernal Grimoire. By researching Priesthood, then Fanaticism, and letting the Grimoire teach us the ways of Malevolent Designs, we would be able to summon the mighty Mardero, Eidolons, and Beasts of Agares: Mighty troops that would ensure our victory.
Before Grimoire was completed, I tried to convince Blood Ravens to join our cause. I promised him mana, fame, and the ability to double his productive capacity. He did not accept immediately, and I reassured him there was no penalty for saying no, and there was not. I had told him "Let it be said a thousand and one times; I do not wish war with you"
But, the Amurites acted like Basium, quite arrogantly invading my lands with an army of Firebows. Unbeknownst to the Firebows, is that my army returned from defending the Orc lands to defend my capital in time to thwart the Firebow invasion. Fire doesn't hurt Demons as much as it does other races, and so the fireballs were not as effective as Blood Ravens had hoped. Also, on a whim, my imp had learned Slow from the Ice mana from the Lectum Frigis. It proved a highly advantageous spell. My Ritualists Burned the Firebows, while The Ice Prevented them from escaping. My remaining troops quickly picked off the injured Firebows, 1 by 1 by1.
Blood Ravens, seeing his doom, capitulated and accepted the Holy Veil into his cities. Soon, The Amurites, the Clan, the Infernal, (and the Hippus) began their assault on Basium and his allies. Beasts of Agares and Eidolons made some quick victories against Basium. Soon after though Angels of Death came whom I could not see, and my forces were in ruin. Hyborem and Mardero were quickly lost. I realized that during my tech advancement, building, and counter-attacking that I had neglected the recon line entirely. I very quickly researched Hunting, built a Hunting Lodge and a Hawk, and could finally fight back. I threw everything I had at several Angels of Death, and eliminated all those who destroyed my heroes.
After the Angel of Death threat was largely gone, the destruction of Basium and the Luchuirp was mostly a mop-up.
Let it be known that Hyborem was always true and Basium always false. It is he who started the war against the Hippus. It is he who invaded the clan city twice, and retreated back twice. Basium is a despicable coward, and was defeated rightfully so. Hyborem promised Hippus a return to their glory and the return of their former cities, and he granted it. Hyborem retook the Orc city from Basium and handed it back to General Lghaard peacefully.
So let it be known that if you wish to survive in Erebus, call forme. If you wish for protection, adopt the Holy Veil. If you wish to conquer your enemies, join me and together not even the arrogant Basium and his allies will be able to succeed.
From what I had been told, I knew that the Basium/Luchirup alliance was strong. They had already eliminated the Calabim, and taken 3 Hippus cities. General Lghaard to the north was a quick ally, but the Amurites to the East were a problem, they worshipped the leaves, not the Veil, whereas that idiot Basium and the Luchiurp were West and Northwest of the Clan of Embers. I knew that we could not win a war on two fronts, and that I could not win a war at all with merely my beginning troops. I had to play slowly this time, and build my strength.
Lyssia needed a place to settle, and the perfect place was east of my lands, between me and Blood Ravens. He probably felt sorry for her, and allowed her to live. I was disappointed she did not immediately convert to veil in her new city, although it is understandable, as Blood Ravens could destroy her in an instant if he felt th need.
The first task was to assign one city to build the Heroic Epic, and the other City to build the Infernal Grimoire. By researching Priesthood, then Fanaticism, and letting the Grimoire teach us the ways of Malevolent Designs, we would be able to summon the mighty Mardero, Eidolons, and Beasts of Agares: Mighty troops that would ensure our victory.
Before Grimoire was completed, I tried to convince Blood Ravens to join our cause. I promised him mana, fame, and the ability to double his productive capacity. He did not accept immediately, and I reassured him there was no penalty for saying no, and there was not. I had told him "Let it be said a thousand and one times; I do not wish war with you"
But, the Amurites acted like Basium, quite arrogantly invading my lands with an army of Firebows. Unbeknownst to the Firebows, is that my army returned from defending the Orc lands to defend my capital in time to thwart the Firebow invasion. Fire doesn't hurt Demons as much as it does other races, and so the fireballs were not as effective as Blood Ravens had hoped. Also, on a whim, my imp had learned Slow from the Ice mana from the Lectum Frigis. It proved a highly advantageous spell. My Ritualists Burned the Firebows, while The Ice Prevented them from escaping. My remaining troops quickly picked off the injured Firebows, 1 by 1 by1.
Blood Ravens, seeing his doom, capitulated and accepted the Holy Veil into his cities. Soon, The Amurites, the Clan, the Infernal, (and the Hippus) began their assault on Basium and his allies. Beasts of Agares and Eidolons made some quick victories against Basium. Soon after though Angels of Death came whom I could not see, and my forces were in ruin. Hyborem and Mardero were quickly lost. I realized that during my tech advancement, building, and counter-attacking that I had neglected the recon line entirely. I very quickly researched Hunting, built a Hunting Lodge and a Hawk, and could finally fight back. I threw everything I had at several Angels of Death, and eliminated all those who destroyed my heroes.
After the Angel of Death threat was largely gone, the destruction of Basium and the Luchuirp was mostly a mop-up.
Let it be known that Hyborem was always true and Basium always false. It is he who started the war against the Hippus. It is he who invaded the clan city twice, and retreated back twice. Basium is a despicable coward, and was defeated rightfully so. Hyborem promised Hippus a return to their glory and the return of their former cities, and he granted it. Hyborem retook the Orc city from Basium and handed it back to General Lghaard peacefully.
So let it be known that if you wish to survive in Erebus, call forme. If you wish for protection, adopt the Holy Veil. If you wish to conquer your enemies, join me and together not even the arrogant Basium and his allies will be able to succeed.
someperson
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I first started as the svats and joined later as the Luchiurp.
We of the svats started our nation at the Dennis Peninsula. We saw the wonderful cows,forests and wheat that Eues give us. Sending scouts off to the west only to find the horselords.Using the shadows in there favor the scouts explored most of Eredus. But the stuid and savage orcs found the mighty explorers and cut them down.We asssumed the dead bodies were eaten afterwond.
Our nation was growing. We had two mighty cities, a large amount of gold, every thing you could ask for.But a group of revangade warriors under Adora Nightshade destoried a temple of bhall even after the drawf warriors close by tried to stop them. The local golbins and lizardmen rallied at this and killed all nearby.They bloodlust would not die down, so they came down and attacked our nation.
We would not st down and die.We killed many golbins. But someperson moved all of the troops stationed at Gereth Minar to finish off the golbin piliagers. When a group of lizardmen were close by!Realizing what this person had done we rallied his surving troops and came up at the lizards!!Only to die. Many troops had charged through the forests only to be slaguthered by a veil of arrows.The lizardmen with suppies dwinding found salvation......In the form of Archeion. Then the lizardmen charged through the forest killing many defenders as they went. Moving our people out of Tharriss ,hoping to get pity from another nation. After reaching what we throught was a safe distance, we turned around and saw large amounts of smoke coming form the forests.But then the last of us were cut down by the lizards.
will do the drawf later
We of the svats started our nation at the Dennis Peninsula. We saw the wonderful cows,forests and wheat that Eues give us. Sending scouts off to the west only to find the horselords.Using the shadows in there favor the scouts explored most of Eredus. But the stuid and savage orcs found the mighty explorers and cut them down.We asssumed the dead bodies were eaten afterwond.
Our nation was growing. We had two mighty cities, a large amount of gold, every thing you could ask for.But a group of revangade warriors under Adora Nightshade destoried a temple of bhall even after the drawf warriors close by tried to stop them. The local golbins and lizardmen rallied at this and killed all nearby.They bloodlust would not die down, so they came down and attacked our nation.
We would not st down and die.We killed many golbins. But someperson moved all of the troops stationed at Gereth Minar to finish off the golbin piliagers. When a group of lizardmen were close by!Realizing what this person had done we rallied his surving troops and came up at the lizards!!Only to die. Many troops had charged through the forests only to be slaguthered by a veil of arrows.The lizardmen with suppies dwinding found salvation......In the form of Archeion. Then the lizardmen charged through the forest killing many defenders as they went. Moving our people out of Tharriss ,hoping to get pity from another nation. After reaching what we throught was a safe distance, we turned around and saw large amounts of smoke coming form the forests.But then the last of us were cut down by the lizards.
will do the drawf later
Lgaard
King
Oh, you weaklings of all races, Warlord Lgharrd will now tell you how it was.
Our tribe woke up in the forest. Some food around, but not fancy stuff to trade. Warlord said: ze humans and ze elves can rread, we can not. We need fancy stuff to trrade. Letz go!
It paid off. First we found fancy gems in the jungle. Gems are good, jungle is not. Warlord said: look what is therre, just afterr ze gems.
Then, we saw sheep and ruins of Patria. That was very good, but not fancy merchandise again. Then our scouts looked even further, and we found the Dragon Bones. That was terrific!
Braduk the Burning was settled on the hills near both The Remnants of Patria and The Dragon Bones. The rest was grassland/plains and desert (one of which floodland). The site was GREAT.
We were caught between Amurites from the east and Hippus from the West. Calabim on the NW. We explored most of the map thanks to wolf-riders.
Hippus border was full of lizardmen and skeletons, which calmed down the Horsemaster for long time.
There was the time for expansion, development, role-playing, until it become obvious that something stirs in the air. After building warrens we started to build an army. Hippus and Amurites did the same.
Warlord said to the Pale One: Do you like ze Hippus cities? Build an arrmy!. Do you know Amurites will attack you as soon as you start a war with Hippus? Vampire responded. Who do you think I am? Im ze warrlord, I know such things!
In fact I wanted to fight Amurites, not the Hippus. I was hoping that having vampire allies I can defend western front with a fewer units, and all the rest send to the east. I regretted elves were no more
Then, Basium arrived. The Luchuirp called for him. That was a surprise! Now the dwarves become a formidable player.
KEY MOMENT #1: Hippus convert to the Veil. Another surprise. Hippus at war with Basium! Fortunate thing! I seems there will be no war with the Hippus. To ensure this I declared war on Basium and dwarves. Pale One did the same. Great!
But
Both Hippus and Vampires were losing! And Amurites started to fireball my cities in the east. Grrr!
I wanted to give cover to Calabim refugees and resettle them somewhere, but they were killed in blitz krieg. Hippus managed to call for Hyboram, who settled south of me. Great! But the war was going badly: The east was on fire. Fireballs were everywhere. I lose a city, than regain it, and then the same repeated again and again.
In the west I lost a city to Basium. He was so strong! When he came for my capital first ogres arrived. He decided to come back for catapults. I made desperate counterattack. Lost dozens of axemen. Bloodshed. Infernal army arrived to help me, but then it had to go fight somewhere else. As I was AV that time, he received dozens of manes from dead orcish fighters. My forces were getting thinner, I thought I lost. Then
KEY MOMENT #2: PEACE!
Luchuirp used the power of The Seven Pines. I dont know what for, but that saved my life. I was left with 3 cities, but can build ogres, had iron, Statue of Titan, and warrens everywhere. My army was quickly rebuild. Ogres!
KEY MOMENT #3: War again!
Strangely Amurites declared on Hyboram. That was the spur of the moment, and the ogres landed in their northernmost city. Basium and Luchuirp declared on me. Another war started. This time the angelic army were even stronger, but so was mine. And after Amurite surrendered (I gave them their city back) they converted to AV and join our cause.
Bloodshed, bloodshed.
Tons of ogres died. Some others managed to kill both Bambur and Barnaxus in a single turn. Then Basium died attacking Braduk! Rantine killed by angel of death. One of the angels name was Angel of Bambur. He also died to the ogres. Hyboram died. Mardero died. Angels of death brought down Braduk to the size of 2 or 3. Hell.
KEY MOMENT #4 Counterattack and blight
Finally the combined army of demons, ogres and firebolters were able to strike back and regain Renegade Plains now called Conforming City. The Amurite and Hippus army on the other hand were striking southern front, and managed to recapture formerly Hippus cities. As soon as the front broke through, the victory of the AV become inevitable. Blight brought most cities to 1, and the world looked like hell. At last!
See: two great defenders of Braduk the Burning in the attachment.
Our tribe woke up in the forest. Some food around, but not fancy stuff to trade. Warlord said: ze humans and ze elves can rread, we can not. We need fancy stuff to trrade. Letz go!
It paid off. First we found fancy gems in the jungle. Gems are good, jungle is not. Warlord said: look what is therre, just afterr ze gems.
Then, we saw sheep and ruins of Patria. That was very good, but not fancy merchandise again. Then our scouts looked even further, and we found the Dragon Bones. That was terrific!
Braduk the Burning was settled on the hills near both The Remnants of Patria and The Dragon Bones. The rest was grassland/plains and desert (one of which floodland). The site was GREAT.
We were caught between Amurites from the east and Hippus from the West. Calabim on the NW. We explored most of the map thanks to wolf-riders.
Hippus border was full of lizardmen and skeletons, which calmed down the Horsemaster for long time.
There was the time for expansion, development, role-playing, until it become obvious that something stirs in the air. After building warrens we started to build an army. Hippus and Amurites did the same.
Warlord said to the Pale One: Do you like ze Hippus cities? Build an arrmy!. Do you know Amurites will attack you as soon as you start a war with Hippus? Vampire responded. Who do you think I am? Im ze warrlord, I know such things!
In fact I wanted to fight Amurites, not the Hippus. I was hoping that having vampire allies I can defend western front with a fewer units, and all the rest send to the east. I regretted elves were no more
Then, Basium arrived. The Luchuirp called for him. That was a surprise! Now the dwarves become a formidable player.
KEY MOMENT #1: Hippus convert to the Veil. Another surprise. Hippus at war with Basium! Fortunate thing! I seems there will be no war with the Hippus. To ensure this I declared war on Basium and dwarves. Pale One did the same. Great!
But
Both Hippus and Vampires were losing! And Amurites started to fireball my cities in the east. Grrr!
I wanted to give cover to Calabim refugees and resettle them somewhere, but they were killed in blitz krieg. Hippus managed to call for Hyboram, who settled south of me. Great! But the war was going badly: The east was on fire. Fireballs were everywhere. I lose a city, than regain it, and then the same repeated again and again.
In the west I lost a city to Basium. He was so strong! When he came for my capital first ogres arrived. He decided to come back for catapults. I made desperate counterattack. Lost dozens of axemen. Bloodshed. Infernal army arrived to help me, but then it had to go fight somewhere else. As I was AV that time, he received dozens of manes from dead orcish fighters. My forces were getting thinner, I thought I lost. Then
KEY MOMENT #2: PEACE!
Luchuirp used the power of The Seven Pines. I dont know what for, but that saved my life. I was left with 3 cities, but can build ogres, had iron, Statue of Titan, and warrens everywhere. My army was quickly rebuild. Ogres!
KEY MOMENT #3: War again!
Strangely Amurites declared on Hyboram. That was the spur of the moment, and the ogres landed in their northernmost city. Basium and Luchuirp declared on me. Another war started. This time the angelic army were even stronger, but so was mine. And after Amurite surrendered (I gave them their city back) they converted to AV and join our cause.
Bloodshed, bloodshed.
Tons of ogres died. Some others managed to kill both Bambur and Barnaxus in a single turn. Then Basium died attacking Braduk! Rantine killed by angel of death. One of the angels name was Angel of Bambur. He also died to the ogres. Hyboram died. Mardero died. Angels of death brought down Braduk to the size of 2 or 3. Hell.
KEY MOMENT #4 Counterattack and blight
Finally the combined army of demons, ogres and firebolters were able to strike back and regain Renegade Plains now called Conforming City. The Amurite and Hippus army on the other hand were striking southern front, and managed to recapture formerly Hippus cities. As soon as the front broke through, the victory of the AV become inevitable. Blight brought most cities to 1, and the world looked like hell. At last!
See: two great defenders of Braduk the Burning in the attachment.
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Onionsoilder
Reaver
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Now that I think about it, I think my big mistake was attacking the Clan instead of going straight for Hyborem. Despite the power graph I thought Hyborem was weaker, and from reading these post it appears that was in fact the case. Braduk looked wonderful with both Patria and Dragon Bones, but while they had a great defense they weren't much of a threat offensively...
Oh please.
Basium is stubborn, not suicidal. Besides, you retreated several times yourself, probably for the same reasons I did; your army was facing annihilation.
Bill Bisco said:
Oh please.
Basium is stubborn, not suicidal. Besides, you retreated several times yourself, probably for the same reasons I did; your army was facing annihilation.Bill Bisco
Callous Calling
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Now that I think about it, I think my big mistake was attacking the Clan instead of going straight for Hyborem. Despite the power graph I thought Hyborem was weaker, and from reading these post it appears that was in fact the case. Braduk looked wonderful with both Patria and Dragon Bones, but while they had a great defense they weren't much of a threat offensively...
Oh please.
Hey, you tell your side of the story, and I'll tell mine!
Hyborem retreated from defending the Orc City because he couldn't see the Angels of Death. The other time he retreated was to protect his own city from an Amurite invasion. That's different than sending a big stack into enemy territory then retreating because you realize that you can't beat a combined army.You might have succeeded by attacking Dis, you might not have. It would be quite plausible for some Orcs to come down and help defend there.
CygnusVismund
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stunning game it seems u had, too bad i wasnt in it.
like the AAR's, been some time since i saw an epic good vs evil slaughter
like the AAR's, been some time since i saw an epic good vs evil slaughter
arcticnightwolf
Emperor
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well ... i played as Calabim in that game ...
I spawned on forested place with no resources, so I ignored religions and went for agriculture and mining. I managed to build 3 cities, but then i have nowhere to expand. On west Luchuirp (later with Basium), on South Hippus and my East and North border was ocean. Because of this i wasn't able to build economy and i was technologically backward.
Well ... at this point i made crucial decision to join Clan [first mistake], so i started gathering my army ... (( bloodpets and Soldiers of Kilmorph[second mistake] )) Since it wasn't long ago Luchuirp build Merucian gate in his border city with me i could attack his city directly from my territory. Ok, now i know it's not good idea to attack with Soldiers of Kilmorph to Basium's capital.[third mistake] xDD ... Of course i didn't capture that city.After that i commited ritual suicide: disbanded my whole army - one reason was that i had screwed start, and second reason was that i was already tired. And that was also reason why i rejected Clan's offer for save by hiding one unit in his territory and thus surviving. (( since Full kill required option was on ))
Maybe I'll be luckier next saturday ..
I spawned on forested place with no resources, so I ignored religions and went for agriculture and mining. I managed to build 3 cities, but then i have nowhere to expand. On west Luchuirp (later with Basium), on South Hippus and my East and North border was ocean. Because of this i wasn't able to build economy and i was technologically backward.
Well ... at this point i made crucial decision to join Clan [first mistake], so i started gathering my army ... (( bloodpets and Soldiers of Kilmorph[second mistake] )) Since it wasn't long ago Luchuirp build Merucian gate in his border city with me i could attack his city directly from my territory. Ok, now i know it's not good idea to attack with Soldiers of Kilmorph to Basium's capital.[third mistake] xDD ... Of course i didn't capture that city.After that i commited ritual suicide: disbanded my whole army - one reason was that i had screwed start, and second reason was that i was already tired. And that was also reason why i rejected Clan's offer for save by hiding one unit in his territory and thus surviving. (( since Full kill required option was on ))
Maybe I'll be luckier next saturday ..
Onionsoilder
Reaver
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I don't think I'll go Basium next Saturday. I've been Basium the last three games, and I'm getting sort of bored with him. Granted, the Mercruians are my favorite conquest civilization, but I want to try something new. Whether that means I'll be Evil or stay Good next time remains to be seen(I'm still deciding). I might even not go with either side and just do what I feel like.
I did just realize another big mistake I made though. The reason I couldn't take the Clan city early on was the Ritualists. However, at that point, the Amuites were still my friends. If they used their Worldspell, the Ritualists wouldn't have been able to do anything! Ah well, I guess I'll just have to remember other people's worldspells next time...
I did just realize another big mistake I made though. The reason I couldn't take the Clan city early on was the Ritualists. However, at that point, the Amuites were still my friends. If they used their Worldspell, the Ritualists wouldn't have been able to do anything! Ah well, I guess I'll just have to remember other people's worldspells next time...
