[WH Fantasy Mod AAR] The Rise of Ind

[Lone Wolf]

A 600 kb PNG may be turned into a 100-150k jpeg without actually losing much.

This might be the real reason. My Civ4 stories, which use screenshots just as liberally, don't have such complaints, because they're jpg, but ScreenshotCaptor, which I use in Civ3, takes png's by default.

Edit: converted everything to JPG, now it's only circa 25 mb. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Lone Wolf]

The Dwarves advance.

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The Indic alchemists, unperturbed by the Dwarven advance, are starting to research Conservation, that allows us to build another Artefact.

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While another Artefact is finished.

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We start to turn the tide of the Dwarven war.

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And on the other side of the Indic empire, the plan of invading Estalia and razing her capital begins. The Estalian Dragons are fighting fiercely.

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After a big bloodbath, Sombra with all Spells stationed in it is captured. Estacrez is next.

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But then Indic generals realize that they have made a serious mistake. The Spells of Estacrez, moved there from other cities, are unable to reach Magritta - they're one radius point short. In their attempt to escape Akabar's wrath, the Indics capture Viscaya - but the barrage of Estalian spells destroys all Indic land troops. Strangely enough, the Estalians don't recapture Viscaya immediately, allowing Ind to evacuate all the Spells safely.

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Estalians sign Bretonnians with against us. However, their army, scared of our Giant Red Dragons, doesn't dare to enter our borders.

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But Estalian mages and beastmasters send their own Giant Dragons against our cities, taking the initiative in the war.

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[Lone Wolf]

The Estalians have signed the High Elves against us.

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Battles rage at the Western Front.

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The Bretonnians also advance in our territory. Let our Thousand Gods protect us.

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And it goes on.

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However, the Estalians are ready to sign peace, which we do. We actually have to pay for peace. It was a bad war for Ind.

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Soon we sign peace with the Bretonnians and the High Elves, which allows us to go on the offensive on the Dwarven Front:

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The High Elves treacherously invade our lands again.

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So we punish them by annexing a large part of their territory and then sign peace. They won't dare to attack us again.

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However, the Estalians control nine Artefacts, but we only control eight...

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[Lone Wolf]

We research the last technology necessary for victory

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We switch the Artefacts between cities of Mordheim and Mahaba - that way is faster.

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We also have the pleasure of delivering the final blow to the Dwarves.

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The Estalians have been stupidly refusing to research Laihtero for a long time. They've finally researched it, but they can't overtake us.

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And finally...

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