now i haven’t seen all my allies reports yet, but from a personal point of view that was damn entertaining:D
Hey! Gondor the Gimp have you got anybody left out there for me to kill?
The:cool: Cloud
I’m NOT DEAD Yet!
There’s a few Gondorians left out here.
Nice to see Maugarath bit it this turn.
NG the few the proud the hiding 
we mourn the lose of our Brother Maugrath, but we must expect such loses in our war of liberation.
If it means Middle-Earth is freed from the elven conspiracy all the sooner, then our Lord Sauron will trade the life of one of his chosen for those of 7 freep lap dogs.
How long can you sustain such loses?
And the lose of Maugrath was expected so i’m still a Happy Cloud:p
Dear, oh dear…just when the freeps needed a morale boosting turn to convince themselves that they could at least hold back the red tide of the darks servants…they go and get slaughtered 11 characters to 1. And that 1 was after the late lamented cloud lord agent, MAUGRATH, offed yet another of their number…
So what happened in middle-earth this turn?
[1]The Freeps persisted with the big bludgeon approach through the ruined passes of morannon. They cntinue to hurl troops and commanders at the pass in the hope of some long lasting success. On t43, a White Wizard army under KAHREB and backed-up by WYATAN destroyed a small army of the Dark Lts at 3222. Later both commanders were cursed and assassinated respectively and 1000HC went up in smoke!
[2] At Morannons Ruins the remaining core of decent Freep agents gathered. MAUGRATH lurked in the shadows choosing his victim carefully, before assassinating the sinda "agent" MALANTUR. Unfortunately he was shot down as he fled. [3]At Minas Tirith, two unlucky Northern Gondor commanders were left behind because they had failed to recognise that it would fall to the dark side. ONE EYE and GROG were both assassinated. [4]At 2622, which fell to the curse-emmy attack of the darks, a small Riders of Rohan had tried to prevent this. ARAHAD [the army comm] tried a cheeky PC on ROZILAN, and failed. This left only his subordinate URUITE to meet his death by curse squad and allow the North Gondor MT to be flipped. [5]Things were scarcely any better elsewhere; at 4013 a dwarven City/Tower and the scene of much dark bloodhsed early in the game, there was only dwarven bloodshed: GIMLI the army commander and agent of significant skill was assassinated. His back-up TLACU was assassinated. Just for fun a passing dwarven emmy ABLISH was chibbed too! [6]But it gets worse...at 4118 1000 well clad dwarven pony riders were obliterated by over 2000HC from BOTH the Long Rider and Khand and these armies marched to arrive upon the unguarded City/Tower at 4013 and the unguarded MT/Fort at 4014. The darks have so many troops in reserve that they can comfortably capture, hold and garrison them for forrays into Mirkwood or north of the river!!! [7]At 4421, an attacking [ie oblvious] force of dwarves was wiped out by a Fire King army. [8]The dwarves somehow snuck an army to the Khand MT at 4324, but have been met by an elite cavalry army of easterlings and will soon be neutralised...perhaps they should have defended their homelands? [9]Such as the village at 3605 on which another Khandian HC army can look to capture for the cause! [10]Corsairland will soon return to normal with Corsairs squeezing out the remaining few SG troops. His situation is stablised and the Gondorians dont have the talent to take anything more than a village now. Perhaps he too should look to his own homeland?
[11]Let me think of something positive to say about the freeps…?..?..er
, they do have a LOT of troops at the ruins of carach angren. But that is a LOOOOOONNNNNNGGGG way from Barad-Dur as they should know by now. Let`s see if they can get there?
[12]
SCOREBOARD:
FREEP NATIONS [still 12!]:
203 dead characters, 3 M-I-A.
DARK NATIONS: [9 nations]:
101 dead characters, 2 M-I-A.
“Support Your Local Poet”
David Murray.
THE LONG RIDER
What interests me most from all this, is how Maugrath knew which character to assassinate.
Of all the potential targets, he picks one pretty innocuous mark.
Sure seems a bit uncanny.
As to the rest of war. Congrats on killing a bunch of Army Commanders. More Coming to a theater near you very soon.
We are far from done. You will have to earn it, my Dark Nemesis.
There will be no giving up til the last Free Nation Falls.
And as of late, oh yeah, that’s right WE ARE ALL STILL HERE!
NG the Unconquered!
"What interests me most from all this, is how Maugrath knew which character to assassinate.
Of all the potential targets, he picks one pretty innocuous mark. "
–It`s as i told you before, you have unscrupulous moles inside your organisation. Knowledge is power
THE LONG RIDER
as my esteemed colleague has said, Knowledge is Power.
Now if only our intelligence network had been in place earlier we would have rid Middle Earth of Gondor and those damn elves by now.
Still better late than never, wouldn’t you agree?
The Cloud Lord
"As to the rest of war. Congrats on killing a bunch of Army Commanders. More Coming to a theater near you very soon. "
interesting observation and by and large true. Here’s a few thoughts on this
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the barrel as far as free agents goes is empty. Hard killing what doesn’t exist. Did point this out to you many moons ago
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how many mages you guys got? better question is of course how many mage ARTIFACTS you got need these to get the 100% certainty on a kill. How is Glorfindel, Encalion & Gilrean curse effectiveness - say 66%? maybe?
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emissaries tricky little guys we have had a few successes in the bushwhacking stakes but these guys are hard to pin down
So yes we have been knocking over a lot of army commanders recently just like we said we’d been doing once we got through with your other characters. The other classes they either don’t exist, not worth it, or there off hiding.
Now your main source of “pressure” these days are armies (finding out the hard way just how hard Mordor is to attack geography is a bitch!). These attacks take time, can be seen coming and worst of all (at least from your point of view) are hard to redirect.
We on the other hand posses the ability to switch attacks from one end of ME to the other. We also have the muscle to go with these attacks.
Consider your own position, two turns was all it took to remove NG from Gondor. Sure you got a backup off map somewhere and doubtless you will continue to receive them as and when required. But what happens when its not just one nation on the run not two not three but four or five?
The free position in Rhun was safe 2/3 turns back now its a mess. Recruiting sites gone, characters disappearing faster than you can say boo, rampaging DS armies with nothing to oppose them except paltry city fortifications.
What would happen to the WW position (just as an example) if as we are killing 3/4 characters in the field we are already in 2119 with another death squad? Imagine you guys have 4 commanders ready willing and able to replace the fallen commanders and what happens these guys up and die on you too. That hurts, thats 8/9/10 characters in ONE turn. That really does hurt. What can you do?
a) pray
b) stay away from your capitals (becomes a matter of time then)
c) stay in your capitals and hope that next turn its the useless WM who gets “visited”
d) defend your capitals (with what? with what I ask you)
Let me leave you with this comforting thought. Last turn you lost two characters to curses that means we have six cursers minimum. However ARAHAD went and got hinself killed in a PC before we could curse him. That would give us nine cursers. How far away is the fourth squad and could it that a fifth has already taken shape. Imagine that boys 5 curse squads option a) sounds good pray. Pray we will be merciful…
A&A
Keep amusing yourself.
You have to come get us. And you know the depth of our economies.
Yep, we’re gonna be here and let you run here, there and everywhere.
And when you least expect it. We will be stronger than before.
For the record, we expect no quarter and will give none. You will have to destroy each one of us completely.
Good Luck,
NG
And yeah we’ll be seeing ya at count 500 who knows maybe we’ll get the record for most casualties ever in a game.
We`ll continue to cull the stupid and hunt down those that are a genuine threat to our superiority! Speaking of which, glad to see you are still alive! Who else would we taunt? The others seem to have fallen by the wayside for some reason? Perhaps the effects of demoralisation? THEODEN used to be so vocal and self-confident, he even took it upon himself to run another nation [into the ground] and orchestrate your doomed tactic of ploughinh through morannon. where is his voice now? Where is Macman? Off playing another game…
THE LONG RIDER
ps; can you guess our next move?
Murmur
you do make an interesting point with NG dead and out of the game who would we get to pick on? Depressing really no-one to wind up no-one to annoy no-one who cares…
do you think we should change our plans and take out one of the silent players (everyone except NG that would be)? Rangers haven’t done much in this game perhaps its time he felt the heat?
A&A (simply trying to keep the game thread alive)
I personally favour the Dunlendings or White Wizard for their disloyalty and incompetence, respectively. But, which one? We could take either of their capitals in a fortnight. Which do the freeplings rush to protect without the support of decent agents or competent cursers?
Murmur, The Long Rider