Seemed like a good turn, more of the same pretty much and nothing really unexpected.
All those armies massed out in front of the north gate are daunting…oh…maybe we’ll send them some ents to play with. 
The mighty Nazgul Uvatha strode down the deck of his imposing warship The DLS (Dark Lord’s Ship) Capsize, lent over the rail peering out to the horizon.:arr: “Hmm… Arch " he mumbled to himself, the distant white sails of the Northman fleet were visible only to his undead vision. A small orc, (his loyal Batorc, Lickspittle) to his side looks up, “My Dread Overlord, you said something?”
" Arch”… he says again pointing to the horizon… Arch Urggghhhhh Bluurrrrrrck" as a noisome mess was hurled over the side of the vessel.:eek: “Damned boats, the Undead were never made to travel in … Yrrrrchhhh grrrruuuuulshhhh Brrrriiiilllll… boats!” says Uvatha as more of the green, brown slime is egected overboard. “I did not know that the Undead could get sea sick my Dread Overlord!”
enquired Lickspittle. " They don’t, it’s just me. It’s why Lord Sauron put me on the Island. He gets a kick out of seeing me suffer, I’m sure!" Says Uvatha as his deathly white skin takes on a pale green tinge. “They are here Lickspittle, run up the flags.” " Yes My Dread Overlordshipness." says Lickspittle as he snaps a smart salute and lopes off quickly to the Focsal looking the part in his Shirley Temple sailor suit, his little cap set at a jaunty angle between his pointed ears. In Short order a series of flags are run up to the Yardarm. “Lord Sauron expects all Dark Servants to do their duty” 
say the flags as a cheer goes up throughout the fleet. A short while later the white sails of the Northman fleet are clearly visible to all, foam at the prows of these ships as they speed towards the waiting Fleet of Uvatha. “This is no way for a Nazgul to fight!” complains Uvatha standing unsteadily on weak knees, his undead sinues struggling in their need to adjust to the rocking of the ship. “Let alone and Orc my Lord!” pipes in Lickspittle, “They seem to be getting between us and the shore my Dread Admiralship!” says Lickspittle, nervously looking at the majestic ships of the Northmen fleet. " Between us and the shore!.. the land… OHHH MY DEMONS WE ARE CUT OFF!" :eek:Thunders Uvatha sprinting to the Focsal he swats the small Orc at the helm to one side rendering him unconscious, grabbing the wheel and turning immediately towards the shoreline and the blocking Northman fleet. " My Dread Grand Admiralness, what are you doing?" screams a terrified Lickspittle. “You are turning towards them…there are more of them than us… a lot more than us!!!” Uvatha says nothing, his rippling arms grabbing the helm in a death grip, his undead pale gaze locked on the Northman fleet… or was it the distant shoreline behind them. The mighty DLS Capsize thunders towards the closest of the Northman ships, foam spraying from it’s prow as it hungrily hurls itself on it’s startled prey. “A brilliant plan my Dread Grand Admiralness, they would never have expected this!” shrieks a jubilant Lickspittle as he jumps for joy as the Prow of the DLS Capsize strikes the Northman ship dead amidships, breaking her back in a cacophony of rending and splintering timber, mingled with the screams of now mangled and drowning seamen, as the ship is split in twain. Both battered sections bobbing like corks in a basin before rapidly slipping beneath the surface.:woot: Several other ships have followed their masters lead and the Northman fleet is thrown into disarray. " We are going to win it! Die you scurvy dogs" howls a delirious Lickspittle" as two more of the Northmen ships slip beneath the waves. “Groogle” grunts a non seeing Uvatha, his pale otherworldly eyes locked on a distant point in front… a point that was rapidly approaching. A point that was begining to look less and less like a point and more like a rocky headland. “My Dread Lord … the battle, your ships?” enquires a now confused Lickspittle. “Groogle” grunts Uvatha his gaze unwavering, his course straight as a shot arrow, an arrow shot at a distant rocky headland. His fleet now behind him bereft of his stunning early leadership is slowly but surely ground down by superior numbers, the last Dark servant ship burning to the waterline as the depleted Northman fleet now belatedly turns to give chase to the now distant fleeing Uvatha.“Hold this course” orders Uvatha to the still dazed Orc who has just regained consciousness. “Yyyes My Lord” stammers the Dazed orc, as he struggles to hold the helm straight. “Urghhh” yelps Lickspittle as Uvatha picks him up with one powerful arm and drags him to the prow of the boat. He drops Lickspittle and throws his arms out wide and howls at the sky" Whhoooo hoooo I’m king of the World" :woot:as the boat rushes towards the now rapidly approaching rocky headland. " A shudder runs through the DLS Capsize as her hull begins to grind itself on the submerged rocks. With a terrific crack the mast snaps at its base and crashed back onto the unsuspecting orc at the helm, flattening him like a pancake. The DLS Capsize runs forwards onto the rocks, sections of her hull ripped apart, untill with a convulsing lurch she comes to a halt at the edge of the headland. Uvatha picks up the terrified Lickspittle and with a well aimed lob lands him at the top of the headland before jumping up with a couple of powerful springs to the headland himself. With a rending scream the remnants of the Capsize slip back into the water and true to her name, turns turtle before being smashed to pieces on the teeth like rocks below. Uvatha kneeling kisses the dirt. “Land…unholy land. I will never get on a boat again!!! You know Lickspittle I realised just as they got between us and the shore that I can’t swim. Be buggered if I was going to hang round and let them sink me!” 
Stamping his feet on the ground he surveyed the surroundings" Ahh I feel better already" A stammering blinking dazed Lickspittle stands groggily to his feet. “Yes your Dread Generalship. What now my Lord?” enquires Lickspittle rapidly regaining his composure. He quickly removes his Shirley Temple sailor suit and slips quickly into some green fatigues with a black beret. Uvatha watches the tattered remnants of the once proud Nothmen fleet as they limp around the headland. “Come on Lickspittle let’s go see how Drurgy gets along with this lot when they get to shore. :bash: Hurry man or there wont be any left!” " Any left to fight my Dread General?" asks Lickspittle quizzically. " No not fight you fool," snarls Uvatha " There will be none left to eat. All that sea air has gotten me hungry, come on!" They both lope off towards the distant town, smoke already rising from the distant buildings.
Apologies for the length!!!
Regards Herman :hug:
What???
No news? No daring reports of dastradly deeds?
Okay was a kind of boring turn, but come on. There got to be something you can say about it.
Like, how do you like the FP Icon at the Mordor back door
More to come…
I hope
Ahh come on after the massive spiel I gave last turn. :eek: Come on you guys can post for a bit. By the way Barlin was delicious!!!
Regards Herman
We are still waiting for bad results for the free nations. We feel like it is bragging when we have nothing but positive things to report each turn. As soon as we see something that doesn’t go our way, we will post to let you know. I have not seen all the turns yet, but so far we like what we see, again.
later,
Lord of Northern Gondor
Shrug, I’ve kinda given up on this thread…I was trying to get you guys to post but gave up.
Lots of interesting rumors coming out of Goblin Gate eh?
Hello All
This is my first message in this thread and hopefully it won’t be my last. I’ve only had the ability to post for myself recently.
GG has been a tail of woe of us DS. Ji killed, Tharudan survivng, Bain threatening it and dragons far more friendly to FP than DS.
Our only recent success has been in Harad, but it’s hard to recount the sole good battle you had while the war proceeds so badly.
Any we’ve got a few good tricks left, so prepare for some pain real soon
Mike Johncock
Dragonless Lord
Gawd you are going to hate us if we actually get anything to gloat over!! We won’t stop reminding you about it. That is if we can actually get our collective SH!TE together and achieve something to gloat over.
Regards Herman
Oh come now…you guys have made some very nice plays so far this game.
Your early upgrade and assassinate at Goblin Gate went well.
Your Dk lts. push into the middle of the map lately went well.
You destroyed the Corsairs capital.
The WK has managed to recruit tons of dragons. (although given so few pops I think that’s some portion of raw luck)
We’ve screwed up plenty too…and some of your mistakes wouldn’t have been so painful if we hadn’t been positioned to take advantage of them.
Well could you screw up a bit more and drop the ball when trying to punish us? Looks like the team may have finally turned the corner. The people relocating are now at their destinations, althoughone of our guys is still waiting for Telecom to get his land line on. He should be back online sometime in 2008… The other emergencies have finaly been put to rest and we are now not so distracted. You should see a decided lift in our outputs… Hopefully!
Ok, so the Ice King is trying to kidnap his own guys now? That was a funny rumor.
Tons of interesting things going on now. Let’s see…
-The DS have managed to put together a “stern language” squad…not quite a curse squad. 
-Markets are looking really flat…money is going to be tight.
-We’re going to do a ton of damage to you guys this turn…Harad sure likes to leave armies off his low loyalty pops eh?
-Not much DS stuff left anywhere northwest of Morannon after this turn…really happy about that…
-Some nuisance in mirkwood (good job by the dragon lord by the way…<tips hat>)
-Lots of pop upgrades by the DS…those have had some mixed results for the DS this game.
Oh well, that was a fine turn…lots of surprises and turns yet to come no doubt.
Good job stealing this turn guys…sadly we stole before you instead of after you…maybe this turn eh?
Brutal turn for you guys on the pop center front though…lots and lots of camps getting trashed along with the loss of a couple MT’s…some towns, villages etc. I love capturing the camps you have taken out in the open…the loyalty hits are small but they add up.
Hey I got to take a town off the Northmen this turn!!! My third from him and all it has cost me is three really good camps. 
I think I would rather have my camps back!
Regards Herman
Herman, the camps are all yours, you just need to come and get them.
later,
tim
He can´t, to get bakc his camps he needs armies and he has none:)
They always meet my armies after a raid on my towns.
And Herman you might have taken 3 of my towns, but I will have them all back in one or two more turns. On the other hand I think I will stick with these nice camps you and the BS gave me.
Cheers,
Martin
Actually Aussie has 21 of the top 23 in the world, with king cobra coming in around 16-17. 19 of top 20 are locals :))
Considering this there are only a handful of deaths each year as most of the snakes only bite u if u piss them off.
Small scale brown snake is the baby. Found Northern territory and some hard to get to bits of queensland. Not real bid but the number one when it comes to venom toxiticity. Kills a couple a decade, usually reptile handlers.
I used to give the envenomation lectures for Sydney Uni. Box jellyfish prob most lethal little beastie on the planet. Another local
Adrian
Yawn…
I guess three towns from us might look quite good to you guys as you’ve not much passed double figures left of your own. But it isn’t much of a hit really. Since our economy is a good three times bigger than yours we don’t need to sweat the small stuff.
Instead we can pour it into deciding how best to exploit our advantage.
Cheers
Stuart
Yep payback time is comming… yep anytime now… won’t be long now…any moment… ahh hell! We are getting B!tchslapped. :eek:
Hi Herman
We’ve been anticipating this massive payback for a few, several, turns now and have loads of preparatory measures in place. If you wait much longer though it’s going to have to be ULTRAMASSIVE to affect the course of the game.
Now that we’ve Murazor plucked and stuffed for the festive platter we’re striving hard not to count all the other foul out there (one scawny nazgul does not the mouths of the multitudes feed). Still, it’s promotion, temporary of course, for the remainder of the nine.
Seriously though. It started badly for you guys and we’ve compounded your difficuluties by playing a strong game so far. Looking at the intel available to us avoiding compacency and keeping the pressure on should be enough.
Cheers
Stuart
Part of our cunning plan. Lull you into a false sence of security and then POW!:eek: Right where it hurts. :bash: We just have to locate the hurty hurty place?
Regards Herman