Hi,
Somebody mentioned the west/east mix up. Um well in the original game
five (mercifully years ago now) I spent some while building up a large
Dwarf army at Khazad-dum, 5000 hi in all. I even equipped as
much of it
as I could in bronze and steel *and* gave it food. It's purpose? To
march south and attack Morannon. So what did I do?Naturally I marched W, W, W instead of east. Sod it I
thought. Oh well,
Rhudaur's still neutral and hasn't been replying to messages sent
through the game. Three turn's later there was no Rhudaur, just an
anguished note saying "Why pick on me with such a big army?". Er, if
you're reading this, now you know!
In one game where I was Cardolan and a friend was N.Gondor we planned to
secure our backs from Dunland early on. Cardolan sent nothing north,
only sat and recruited. N.Gondor recruited as much as he could at
Imladris. Dunland didn't remove the bridge towards Cardolan and didn't
put up a camp/tower towards Gondor so after 3-4 turns we launched the
attack.
Dunland never knew what hit him... 
By the way, that army (led by Bain) never did die. It ended the game
(some 25 turns or so later) encamped on the Dwarven resort of
Barad-dur. Odd game though - the oddest thing that happened was
probably
the Noldo deliberately hiding the Cloud Lord capital.... Well, the
Easterlings had been attacking us all game (20-30 turns), then
suddenly did a 'volte
face' and decalred FP on 1900 VP's. Since we were close to winning, we
thought this a bit off - I believe there was a deal struck
with the DS, a sort of non-aggression pact. Both sides then attacked
the
Easterlings.
Oh dear, that little admission is going to ruffle some feathers
Why?
When playing Corsairs in one game, with Easterlings and Harad run by
friends, the DS pissed us off by letting Cloud Lord stealing some
artifacts that we found (RoW was one). The turn after we sent every
agent, emissary and high ranked challenge character into 3630 to make
Cloud Lord pay.
He returned the artifacts without a grumble and we turned DS. Fun game.
Both stories justifie actions towards a dumb-a**-player... DS, FP or
Neutral...
BTW, your story about the Easterlings was one of the tales I first heard
after starting to play ME, Colin.
All the best
RedEyeJoe
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