I added 12 hours to the clock, but I should have my turn in tonight!
dfs
1726
Congratulations Lego. I saw the summary and haven’t had the heart to look at the replay. Once I saw my mind hunters getting picked off I figured the battle was not going to end well, that was a horrible misread on my part.
It was a worthy battle.
Thankful, I had a few Astral Mages to protect that particular group. Hopefully, I can scatter a few more around, just to make life interesting for you.
Still, you have that very impressive army in the cave now. I wonder if they are starving or not.
dfs
1728
That “very impressive army” is mage free and simply a gambit to delay your entry into dragon pointe for another turn. I was more than willing to sacrifice it in exchange for a better shot at getting that throne fortified. RNG didn’t go in my favor there.
What a horribly serious miscalculation on my part. Looking at the previous turn’s battle I thought your force was astral free which is why I went all in on the mind hunts. Either I missed a unit or two or the RNG didn’t break my way again in resolving spell order or there is something else I just don’t understand about turn resolution.
Rigor Mortis and Heat from Hell burned through my guys awfully quickly. There is nothing left up my sleeves. You’ll have trouble taking my forts, but at this point I think it’s a two horse race and I’m not one of the horses left.
You still have a powerful Gem Income though, which worries me a lot. And some powerful Fire and Air Mages! But yeah, I realized that I needed to knock you out, and it meant knocking my own guys out! But I did get lucky with the Astral Mage in the area. That was a good send!
But, if you notice that battle, you Mass Enslave got some very surprising units! I’m still annoyed by that!
On the other hand, the other player has Fairy Queens, a bunch of Treemen and Golems. I don’t see how I can fair well against those guys, and Multiple Air Queens and Water Queens. Those are scary.
dfs
1730
You couldn’t let me fortify that throne just like I wasn’t about to let you fortify there either. I don’t know that I’m knocked out, but I’m no longer really relevant either.
That is all true. But you still have those darn Angels flying around!
And you’re mind hunting was more effective than it should have been!
dfs
1732
One angel left. I invested a lot to try and fortify that throne.
Who hasn’t?
I don’t know what I can do the hold it, but I have some ideas.
dfs
1734
The guards were pretty sure this was Flippy and not her sister Flop, but nobody could really tell the Ice Drakes apart. She and a lone angel were the only surviving units from the massacre at Dragon Pointe. All the rugged Principes were gone. The Legatas were wiped out. So many Arch-Theurgs in addition to the ones feebleminded back at the Cathedral.
Flippy was all that was left. The cost in gems was unfathomable.
The battle was so expensive it had broken the nation. The only thought left, like a burning coal in the pit of everyone’s stomach, was how to hurt Machaka the most. How best to kill what could not die.
pyrhic
1735
Is it warm there in the bed that you made yourself?
He still controls more territory then anyone else, and has a substantial Gem income, so I’m not dropping my guard anytime soon.
I have to honest though, that Master Enslave stuff is bull, but with undead thugs, I always equip everyone with anti magic items, and hope for the best.
But you still have that beastly Archangel running around. I’m waiting to see what you can do with Fire 4!
dfs
1737
Absolutely. I don’t know that I would have fared any better back on turn 30. He had mages in the field as artillery support way sooner than I did. I’ll stand by the decisions I made. Leggo’s played a good game. All I can do now is inflict as much pain as possible.
pyrhic
1738
Startled at the stillness broken
by reply so aptly spoken,
“Doubtless,” said I,
"what it utters is its only stock and store "
Caught from some unhappy master
whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and followed faster
till his songs one burden bore
Till the dirges of his Hope
that melancholy burden bore
Add 12 hours to the clock. Let me know if you need more. I will get mine in soon!
An interesting turn. I see that @wahoo is trying to cut off @dfs from possible avenues into my territory, which is helpful. Easier to fight one person at a time, that.
Not much else to report this turn though.
This game keeps on giving! I can’t believe you tackled my global. That is just mean!
Well, hopefully the turn was as interesting for you as it was for me, but I wonder what the next global will be and who will put it up.
wahoo
1742
My apologies for having to postpone this turn a few times. I’m digging out from the holidays and this turn is very, very tough. I have to figure out how to deal with some nasty forces that popped up. I think this game will be resolved in the next 5 turns or so. Machaka has an extremely strong invasion force one against pythium and one against me. If Machaka wins both the big fights, he wins. If he splits, then there’s a good chance for the winner. If Machaka loses both, I think that ends Machaka’s chance of winning.
You say that, but if I lose, it’s not Machak that loses, it’s Phaeacia that wins. You have those large armies in the middle of my empire, one close to taking a throne castle of mine. You have 4 Queens in key locations around the inner section of my Empire.
You have 3 thrones under your control, and the one that isn’t claimed isn’t a far off one. It’s the one next to your capital.
And your armies are beastly, as you have been waiting for Pythium and I to stop fighting before moving in. I am curious about what your Drakainia will try to do when backed up by that huge army of yours.
dfs
1744
For the foreseeable future all Pythia can do is try and protect our thrones. If Machaka is that concerned about Phoenicia feel free to ignore me for the next 12 turns. Of course I will have to reclaim some of the land that I recently lost near Senextro, but that wouldn’t effect the quarrel between the two of you.
