1 vs many (or 1) Scott Moyes

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#161

Scott,

First off my turns are in to ME now for them to run turn 11. Good Luck!

Second, I enjoyed your summary/response to me. Keep it up. Next game when you are taking me down you can still have some fun in this same way. I do not mind it as I know it is all in good fun. I am not very good at it myself for whatever reason (I guess all mine is in numbers being an accountant and all).

Anyways, good luck and may the NW keep its blocking steak alive :slight_smile:

John

#162

Scott,

Just looked at my turn 11 during lunch and the Map and it looks like a good turn for the Evils!

–Market:

  1. Most everything at 1 and MI low and MO at 3. I thought after I tried last turn to buyout MI you would have assumed I would sell it all. So I bought the 109 you sold to counter my buyout and than you dump another 100 MI on the market to mess it up again. Not good. Looks like I need to take new approach here.
  2. Gold steals are making up for some of this :slight_smile:

–NW (Rhu/WK Lands)

  1. Destroyed wave 2 of Arth’s attack using my friendly Dragon.
  2. Duns move next to 1910 with their 4300 troops after destroying 1000 Rhu troops. Duns now face 2 Rhu armies. Hope I have a dragon in one of these armies :slight_smile:
  3. Lost challenge and related command/weapon artys to NE 400 troop army. Thought I could get lucky on 50/50 challenge and move my 400 army back into pop to recruit this turn….opps you won and got my artys.
  4. Won challenge of your #2 agent “Gildor”. My char had the +15 bonus to challenge :slight_smile:
  5. You remaining agent, Elladan, than decided to kill my commander that took out Gildor. Elladan, where are you now?
  6. WM army of 2400 at Goblin Gate had their army commander cursed…hehe! Did he have a backup commander? Now where did the curse squad go?
  7. The 1000 troops of DW I issued Stand order and blocked his advance…for a turn…
  8. Card’s 6000 troops moved next to Rhu capital at 1908 and they now face 2 armies of the WK. Cards will win battle but will I do enough damage to stop him from taking Rhu capital if he makes it there?

Summary: Looks like all my blocks worked this turn so no loss of pops for WK/Rhu. But not sure how I can keep this up much longer as most my troops will be eaten up this turn and there are troops coming at me from everywhere.

–Mirkwood/Greenwood:

  1. Took out NM army of 1200 at EO capital with agent but my agent taking down Fort to tower did not work. Now not sure if I can take 3012 or not? My DrkL army took out incoming NM troops (thanks dragon for your help) but now faces a 1500 strong SE army. Now if only my dragon stayed with me 
  2. WM/FK battle at 2917 seems that both sides got knocked out.
  3. DrkL new army headed to Eoplex from 3116. Will help some.

Summary: Still a long way from me making a big dent here but at least it looks like I will be able to hold onto part of Eoplex for now.

–Rhun Area:

  1. BS handly took down SE army at 4217.
  2. DW surprise me with an army showing up at 4013 so not sure it will fall this turn. Need to do my calculations. Did take down the fort to tower so that will help.
  3. Took down last of 2 bridges at 3612. Your DW army just made it across :frowning:
  4. Missed on kill of SE army commander with CL agent…#@#$%

Summary: This DW army will just delay me a turn, I think, from taking the last standing Good pop in the area.

–Mordor:

  1. Took out NG’s army at 3020 with DogL army (Dragon help again :-))
  2. No activity other then NG’s build up at his 2 cities.

Summary: Waiting for an assult on 3024 via bridges up and navy landing.

–Harad area

  1. South Harad is fully controlled with no real of threat around.
  2. North Harad the battle is on with IK/FK taking town at 2731 but looks like Harad showed up with army of 2000 to take it back.
  3. Good work done at Harad’s capital - challenged an emmy to death and killed an army commander with agent there.
  4. Took out Harad army at 2732 with agent…nice
  5. SG army makes its way back to 2632 but now faces the might of QA and Corsair navies….how many troops do I have here?
  6. 2630 has an army icon on it so that should be about 600 troops as the icon showed up last turn.

Summary: With agents and challenges working their magic North Harad will be mine soon enough with out NG/SG additional help.

Slowly the dark clouds are coming to cover ME

That is about it. Let me know your thoughts on the turn.

John

#163

John,

My thoughts on the turn? :stab: This pretty much says what my initial thoughts are. I’ll post later after I digest more. This also says what I think :bash:

#164

:frowning: :frowning: It’s over:( :frowning:

The bad guys have won, they spanked the good guys and since most of my new characters were of the female type, they also spanked the good girls. Blown bridges and blown opportunities were the downfall of the free, along with stellar play by John.

Kudos to John, but I will get you next time.

#165

Scott,

Thank you. It was a very fun game that I believe was won by:
– my focus on the NW with the blocks and
–not trying to expand to fast around Mordor that would open the door for attack.

The Market was a bear all game and almost cost me the FK (taxes 88%) and Rhu (taxes 84%), great job here by you. This also caused me not to hire my full range of characters as I did not have the gold (made this up by kidnapping your characters :slight_smile: and steals the last few turns with some of my best non-CL agents in their 60’s.

Artifacts was a big plus for me also as it seemed I was able to steal a few good ones right out from under your characters.

Now to see if you can do the same to me when we flip sides :slight_smile:

Scott, when the next game gets going start another thread. I await the next challange.

Great Fun!

John

P.S. If anyone needs to reach the free characters they willbe working in the Mines of Moria to get the rest of the MI that you seemed to have each time I tried to buyout MI :slight_smile:

#166

Final map for those that want to see. Scott and I now have a rematch where we switch sides and Scott will start that thread once we get our turns.
John