Game 230

Oh how much more punishment can the Free People endure? Losing an entire curse squad must have hurt. I’m still alive and well and expect to see the end of this game. Can’t say the same for the Free nations though. Looks like some are going to crumbling soon.

  • Ben
    White Wizard

Crumbs, I remember you making this sort of statement months ago, and still ALL the Free nations are still alive and kicking.
I’m uncertain that we will win this one, but I guarantee you still have a long way to go before that happens.

Of course, I could be completely wrong and my post next week will be congratulating you on your victory as my MT’s are reduced to ash and the corpses of my characters feed insects and rodents at the bottom of a ditch…

If anything, Brendan, it has CERTAINLY been entertaining. Next time, let’s be on the same side and work things out together. :slight_smile:

As for all the Free Nations being alive, I imagine that you’ve got a bunch on respirators. The Northmen, Sinda, and Rohan all come to mind. And two more capitals are about to fall this turn, and you guys really can’t do much to stop them.

Gondor, Woodmen are up next. I’ll make sure to pay a visit to Northern Mirkwood and say ‘Hi.’ :slight_smile:

  • Ben
    White Wizard

Well alright then, maybe some of our nations are’nt so much ‘alive and kicking’ but ‘possibly twitching’ but lets face it some of the DS were pretty much in a coma from word go :slight_smile:

If it were’nt fer you darned neutrals and yer crazy dog we would have gotten away with it to!

Brendon. I agree with you 100% some of us were in a coma from the word go. But, this game has been very interesting. Probably a few more momentum switches than I have normally seen. Who knows, right now I feel like we have the edge, but what could happen next turn.

After all, I can admit, catching your fledgeling curse/sickness company was lucky. 98 pts… Soooo close. But, thanks for returning Tinky back to its rightful owners. (Along with a few parting gifts from Cirdin. Hurray! Now all my navy can move through open seas as if they were coastal waters.

Your friend,
Ji

Wait a minute… I am landlocked! This thing is useless. I wonder if I can throw it at someone…

Why do I get the feeling that someone is looking for The Ring…

  • Ben
    White Wizard

As the minions of Sauron swept the land searching for their Dark Master’s Ring of Power, little did they know that one of the Free Peoples’ mightiest heroes had already found it…

Legolas held his hand up to the light. The gold ring sparkled and glinted like a sparkly, glinty thing. It was a tight fit, and Legolas liked nothing more than a tight ring.
Sniffing, he took the ring off. It was just too plain, he preferred big sparkly gems and bright diamonds, and the odd writing that oftimes appeared gave him the same annoying headache he got whenever he sprayed too much perfume in his room without the window open.
Still, he thought he’d keep it on for another day, chances are it might grow on him…

In Barad-Dur, the Dark Lord of Mordor stirred. He could feel the Ring, and could feel that a new master had claimed it. What passed as fear for him gripped him as he touched the mind of this new Lord of the Rings and he recoiled at the utter gayness that he found there, for this new master was no King, he was a Queen…

You don’t have The One Ring, I know that…

  • Ben
    White Wizard

Hey! Legolas is a bad elf woth a bow!

Misled as he is about which side he is on.

By the way Daemaca took me forever to track down and kill. Twice I caught her and then missed my chance to send her to the long goodnight. Heh heh third times a charm…

BS

Regular agent nation. filled with useless mages

Bah, Legolas is a faerie, and so is his buddy, Lindal…

  • Ben
    White Wizard

Well, if they are both faeries then you big, butch Nazgul should’nt be too worried about them and can let them live. Right?

Tharudan, DEAD… Galadriel, DEAD… Morgul, STILL STANDING… Half your Curse Squad - DEAD… You’re lucky I didn’t get Elenruth as well.

You guys got some of us as well, but I think I’ll claim a BIG victory this turn… :slight_smile: Oh, and how is Rohan doing? I see you guys are running around trying to recapture the pop centers I’ve taken.

  • Ben
    White Wizard

Uh-oh!
Early reports say Dol Guldur was taken. (in a mere 25 turns.)
We shall see. I can’t imagine a Middle-Earth without a Dragon Lord.

-Krazy Khamul

Well, I have to admit we are hurting after another turn of top Free characters being murdered and cursed. But we did get a few of you aswell and Dol Guldur is ours at long, long last and I believe that a shipment of Khand gold turned up on the doorstep.

Freawul was burnt to the ground which hopefully hurt the IK, but you guys took Caras Galdhon again, which hurt me (gits).

Looks as though both sides might be hunting for that Ring now…

And the news is coming in fast now. Ji Indur dead aswell. Can’t imagine its that great a loss to you as half of Mordor’s population seem to have an agent rank in the upper 70’s, but it made us feel better :slight_smile:

Goldschlager, try to imagine Middle Earth without the Cloud Lord…
:stuck_out_tongue:
I’m sorry to announce the early departure from this game of Ji Indur… the worst thing is that he wasn’t killed by a first age elven warrior or a powerful sorceror but by an old fashioned rocker :smiley:

And Ben, did you really believe that the Hornburg was Rohan capital?? How far were you from the truth!!!

Last but not least, please thanks your friend, the Khand Easterling, of the gentle gift he sent us… I only hope that the life of any DS nation didn’t depend of those money
:smiley:

Anestepone, alive and kicking

MY my my is Anborn feeling ok? I called his house but got no answer? Hope he isnt ill.

heh heh heh

:stuck_out_tongue:

Roberto, I’m glad you’re still in the game, however I do know that you guys are running out of major towns. I’ve got more than enough to keep me going.

  • Ben
    White Wizard

Hi ben, I’m also very happy to know that you’re doing well…
anyway I tink you’re wrong again: this turn YOU lost 2 major towns while we lost just one…
maths is not an opinion :rolleyes:

Shrug Yeah, we lost some Major Towns, so what? We’ve got more than enough down south.

However you lost Galadriel, Tharudan, Ecthelion, Golasgil, and a whole slew of other characters. Oh, and Bugrug is still alive and well, thank you. Yeah, we lost Ji, but the other 12 agents the Cloud Lord has running around more than makes up for it.

Oh, and looks like South Gondor isn’t going to be around much longer.

  • Ben
    White Wizard