Jens…
We thank you for that vote of confidence in our play. We got lucky in a few areas and “guessed” correctly as to what y’all were planning and were able to counter some of those actions, especially in Eoplex area and in Rhudaur. The artifacts being in the NW also played into our hands as well…
I for one have enjoyed this game also…
Are y’all up for the rematch?
Tony H.
Cardolan/Dwarves - gm11
Yeah…yeah…! Rematch for those willing in the 1 Week Game! High Speed Revenge! Ya gotta do it!
Well damn I wish I wouldn’t’ve wasted so much time yesterday devising my Eoplex blocking moves for the upcoming turn… <g>
You guys were a worthy opponent; much more so than we gave you credit for here on the forum. Your next wave from Mordor would have probably washed over the Eoplex, but I understand your decision if you’ve lost 3 nations already.
If you don’t mind, please have Thomas copy me on an official concession email to Clint so we don’t have to waste any more time on turn preparation.
As we said at the outset, we would like to switch sides and rematch. Please let us know ASAP.
Drew
BS was knocked out by sell/buy mistake very early. QA was mostly your doing (with a little help from us), WK was my own faullt in conjunction with a very poor economic situation. The team synergy didnt work optimal for all kinds of reasons. Rematch may be in danger as the team needs a break.
Who played HA? nicely done down there. As has been said earlier, we think you guys are a good team and the competition was intense. We got lucky that you didn’t guess why we abandoned Ithil. A blown bridge or two could have foiled a lot of our QA assault. If you guys want a rematch, we’re up for it as Drew indicated. If you’d like a delay, perhaps we can all jump into the 1-week game and when that is over, we could do the rematch??? anyway, it was fun. I really appreciate you conceding once you’ve decided the game is won by the other side. Thank you. You guys are worthy opponents.
We’d be interested to know who played what nations and I am sure we’d reciprocate. I played NG & CO.
Dave
Jens Christian (HA) and myself just signed up for the 1 week
[sniff]
I love you guys…!
Bummer about the BS…that’s one of the difficulties of playing the DS, a market manip mistake is more likely to eliminate the nation than any thing the opposing team does. We were curious about the disappearing BS army on T4…but really didn’t put it together until later.
If you would be so kind as to run the possibility of a rematch thru your team mates and let us know soonest so we can start advertising for new opponents otherwise.
I guess it’s really more accurate to say that we really won more because of unfortunate (unlucky) mistakes on y’alls part than actual stellar play on ours…
I think we can wait a week or so to hear back from y’all…but if you could get back sooner than that we’d appreciate it…
later
tony h.
Jens beenfeldt I played Fireking and your opening moves robbed me from a lot fights. suddenly there´s a long way to the front:). Instead it gave me time to grow fat and “wealthy” from my camps and what my agents stole.
I´m planning on joining up in a two week game, just to get that experience.
later
jens
I was the unfortunate BS player that managed to bancrupt the BS in turn 4. I sold the wrong product and that made my tax rise to 108%.
Bye bye backup capital, bye bye Akhorahil with curses at 58 grrrrr…
You feel like **** when that kind of stuff happens. This is the 2. time I have bancrupted a nation like that (1st time was the QA in a face to face game in cardiff)
I was really looking forward to playing the BS, so it sucked big time.
Thranduil was bored. He had his long blonde hair combed several times already and ran out of things to do. He turned to inspecting his carefully manicured fingernails for a third time, when he was interrupted by a herald who hurried past his guards and kneeled down before him.
“Pray tell, what is so important to disturb my, um…, tactical considerations?”
“Mylord, there has been word from our allies”
“Indeed? What allies are you referring to?”
The herald looked confused. “Well mylord, those nations that support our assault on Dol Guldur: the Woodmen, the Eothraim and the Dwarves.”
“We are allied with the Dwarves? How did that happen?”
The herald showed first signs of resignation, but his face lightened up when another elf stepped up to the makeshift throne, Aralas, adjudant and military counselor.
“Ahem, if I may take the liberty to advise you in this matter, mylord?”
Thranduil just waved his hand in tediousness.
“Speak up, good elf, what are the news of our allies?”
“The messengers say that there are signs of the enemy surrendering, white flags have been seen on the battlements of Dol Guldur, and similar news come in from other parts of Middle Earth”
Thranduil chuckled “I should very much doubt that there is any white cloth left in that disgusting hole of filth”
Aralas managed to ignore him “That is excellent news, it seems we have won the war!”
“How disappointing” Thranduil complained “what will we do now if the battle is cancelled? The whole world seems to have conspired to bore me to death”
Aralas leaned towards his king and whispered “Your lordship should consider the lives our elven warriors, who now can return home safely”
“Right, of course, especially with regard to the fact that we are a dying race…” Thranduil whispered back “by the way, under the given circumstances I always wondered how it should be possible for us to muster thousands of troops…”
There was silence, Aralas stared at the ceiling.
“Well, indeed”, Thranduil spoke up “much bloodshed has been prevented, some of which is more, some less fortunate”
The herald brightened up “Good one mylord, a pity about all that wretched orcs which get away alive now”
“Orcs? Well originally I was referring to the dw-“
“I am sure none of Saurons abominations will cause any more harm” Aralas interrupted quickly. “any more news from our allies?”
The herald nodded “they request your army and the war machines to march up in front of Dol Guldur, to show our strength.”
“Tell them we will come. You may leave now”
“Bloody hell” Thranduil cursed as soon as the herald had left. “Everything is nicely prepared, we even had leaf-shaped hair clips for every soldier, and then the blasted villains call the whole thing off! And what’s worse, I am invited to tea with treebeard next week and have to tell him we have chopped down all those trees for the war machines in vain. How many would that be?”
“Er…about 25.000 mylord!”
“My goodness, that’s a whole forest. How am I to explain that to him?”
Aralas shrugged. “I am sure your lordship will master this situation in your own, um, distinctive manner”
“Probably, my faithful Aralas, probably. One more thing before you leave”
“Yes mylord?”
“Can you obtain for me a mumak?”
“A mumak mylord?”
“Yes, one of those big, large-eared animals with pointy teeth from far south”
“I know what a mumak is mylord, they come from haradwaith. As it seems, our corsair allies will soon be in control of the whole area, so maybe I could get one. The question is what do you want it for?”
“Well it’s Legolas. The boy was visiting auntie Galadriel last month and had a peek into her mirror, though I forbade him to. Now he is rambling about his role in history, practicing archery everyday and says he needs a mumak for training reasons. You know me, I got a soft spot for the child. “
“I’ll see what I can do. Now I will tell the good news to our elves, if you allow me to.”
“Yes, don’t let me detain you…. Ah! Servants! I think I broke a nail!!”
ROFL.
well done Bernd. I really liked the Mumak part. I’ll make sure the CO ship you one… 
Nice Job Bernd,
Tim
Bummer dude. That’s one of the risks when playing DS is that the economies are so small, there is not enough of a tax base to make up for that type of error. The FP can make that sort of mistake and only get away with a modest tax increase if any…
I always sweat my market orders (especially when buying), as you hear time and again about similar circumstances such as yours…you could blame your team mates for not catching the error, that’s what I’d do :D…okay mayb not.
Our fearless leader Drew did a good job of checking our orders and catching stuff like that. Usually it was armies marching the wrong way, or characters going to the wrong hex, joining the wrong army etc. It helps if you have someone on the team looking out for you. My brother Tim checks my army movements (for critical moves) every time now ever since I moved East with the Dragon Lord army that was going to be taking down the Sinda City at 2514 (which is west of our capital). I of course overcame that uhhhh, tactical misdirection and instead smashed the Eothraim MT at 2912. Which may have been a better team move…
Ah well, don’t beat yourself up to much. Everyone makes mistakes. We’ll see ya down the road in another game.
Good luck
Tony Huiatt
Cardo/Dwarves - gm 11
With the DS agents killing my characters and stealing my gold to keep me from getting them renamed, I had plenty of time on my hands for planning. <sigh> It’s kinda boring filling out orders for seven characters when all your friends have 15…