I just got the Email that the game has ended.
This was a great game. It went 41 turns and the FP conceded - they didn’t drop below the 3-1 ration.
I played the QA and Doug played the FK.
Who played what nations? Really curious to see who played what.
Hi,
i was Arthy and the Woodies.
I messed up bad five turns ago. I am sorry to my team… I was rolling. At one point the Woodies had 4 Mtowns. Then there was a character war at 2534. One that I lost badly in…so badly.
My woodies 48A/23 stealth, scout failed to see all but one of the DS. Missed the other seven or so agents. I was sick to myself for a few days, I emailed a rant and was very very pissed off. But hey its a game.
So I stayed and got slaughtered. :bash:
BUT over all a great game.
one that i will remember.
Whit-4/1
We wondered what happened there Whit. You had a suck roll and got burned. It happens - that’s the “luck” factor.
This has been, by far, the most enjoyable game of Middle Earth I’ve played since returning to the game. Kevin and I picked up the QA/FK combo after turn 1 processed. We had some very challenging situations with the Dunlendings and were “schooled” by Southern Gondor on how a tenacious player can keep fighting back. Several times we figured we had him in the bag and turned some attention to other threats only to have him prove he was not done yet. The WM/Arth and Noldo all showing up in the deep south at the same time left us wondering if it would all fall apart, but I think our agent assets exceeded what might be considered normal for that duo. Whit, I can only imagine how sick you felt after the showdown. We were very much worried how it would turn out and it went so lopsided in our favor I knew that whoever was reading those turn results would have to take it very hard.
As things turned out the FK probably some of the best agents in the game for much of it and the QA had better commanders than the FK.
I’d really like to know who all the other players were by position. I think it was very well played all around.
Where are the other FP?
I was playing the cardolan/Noldo combo.
I was rolling along nicely – problem was by the time I got around to getting a LA or LAT spell, all the Curse arties where taken by the evil – boy did that take me some time to finally get in the right spot to get one – had to sacrifice ringlin, but got away with arty 15. Things where rolling long nicely just like the woodman said till the Eothraim and Northmen went belly up at the same time – I kept sending armies out to take things around the sea of rhun, but Dog Lord armies kept popping up from the East – Dog Lord where did you have a pop over that way !!
Then on the turn the Sinda got knocked out – I was moving the cardolan emmy to give a MT to them but got bushwhacked by the QA – never seen one of his characters on the pop center or I think I would have won that battle with the agents I had with the arties I had and even scouted for character and didn’t see one character – that was real bad luck – not to mention on the Sinda capital I didn’t have one Blind sorc character show on the pop – but when did a scout for characters couldn’t believe all the mages there and not one was showing. Thats when I knew this game was over.
Seems as if my characters where showing like beacons and not one dark servants was showing on my own pops with decent loyalties. Did have a fun time – exspecially trying to track arties 135 and 15 for first 15 to 20 turns or so. Would like to know if the Noldo started with any LA or LAT spells – seems like last three games I started – one as the Noldo , not even a Research arty spell did I start with.
Well off to the next gunboat 
Mike
I burned a Mtown at 3306??? a bit late
Hi,
I played Cloud Lord and Rhudaur. Lost Rhudaur fairly early when I made a financial mistake. The Cloud Lord had fun and killed a few guys (kidnapped a bunch as well). But I felt limited in not having scouting or knowing where to find good targets.
I tried taking out South Gondor and got quite a few characters but after a while he stopped sending anyone to his capital and I never found out where what he had left was. Same with North Gondor later in the game. Was about to finish off the Dun’s starting pops when the game ended.
Do we have a list of who played what nations available now?
I gave the BS a 70 point agent to scout. He doubled the agent and the agent joined his company and scouted for him every turn. I would have liked have supplied you with a scout as well.
We had a couple of your agents doubled for awhile and kept up with your actions until you undoubled them.
We chased SG until finally taking his last MT/city. We also killed a bunch of his characters but eventually took him out through military action.
What happened to Sylar? I had him doubled and saw him kill a few of your characters then he went dark. We assumed you killed him?
By around turn 35 is was getting difficult to find FP targets.
Kevin
QA
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i played Ice king and long rider with the early demise of nm eo it was pretty easy going i found. Sinda played very well mumps must have some sort of body armour. will try and write a report soon.
well played all
paul
:hug:
Who played Southern Gondor?
Duns/NG here. Really enjoyed my first GB game espically skirmishing with Fire King early on not to mention razing Dog Lord capital. It was the Cloud Lord that really done for Duns in the end, sitting on his Capital immune to all attacks.
you should have let me know – CL tried that in Cardolan’s capital and it cost him two agents – one Erennis, if I remember right.
You did a really good job with the Duns. Some dice could have gone the other way back in mid-game when we took you on at Osgiliath and didn’t bring in everything we could have. I think the dice went our way and we came away with a draw that could have instead been a disaster for us (FK/QA). Fortunately for us, you also had the CL to worry about.
hi all that were in this game,
is anyone going to write up a game report? i think in some ways it should be mandatory as I think it is what makes this game so much fun seeing how other players think. like when you think you are about to knock a player out and all along he is reading your game.
anyway i will try to come up with something in the next couple of weeks (work gets in the way all the time)
game 10
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