Game 61--Gunboat Wrap-up

General
#1

Greetings all,

I’ve recieved the official notice from Harley, this one is for the record books.

I just wanted to follow up and thank my allies for the support in our victory. South Gondor had a critical push at just the right time, the Eothraim was there in the fight all the way. In the North, the stumpies and my Duns seemed to be tag-teaming all the time. I knew things were looking up when the SInda and Northmen showed up in the passes and I started getting product from the Woodmen, HA!

In any case, good game all,

Mike Bateman
Northern Gondor/Dunland

#2

Well played the Free.

I played the WK & the Dark L’s. Mike i would of liked to see your face when you had your SGo turn back a few turns ago :wink: Your huge army went poof! I had a curse duo up and running right away and had a third mage join them once he had trained up. I think my agents (Tormog & Carrog) were having fun though i doubt Arth/Dw/Duns thought so, in the end though the WK went bankrupt last turn after fighting off most of the Free attacks - i was recruiting dragons at two to a penny :slight_smile: The DkL’s were in a pretty good shape, 3 MT’s & multiple dragons about to join armies etc.

Many thanks to the DS for support.

Ian
WK/DkL’s

#3

Fire King/Quiet Avenger checking in.

My apologies to the DS team. I entered a bad order on the turn the FK capital was taken, causing me to go bankrupt instead of bouncing to 60 percent tax rate.

The FP had a well coordinated attack on the Western Pass. NGo and Dun cav combined to hit early. SGo joined in the fun too. FK kept them at bay for a good many turns with the small army/better terrain step down. FK had tons of camps and with running at a 39% tax rate had tons of gold to send to QA, WK and DrL, and did not miss a turn of max recruitment.

FK had a great economy going, and I’m still kicking myself over the bad order. I planned on losing my cap, and had chars at the back up to sell the ness. goods, but 320’ed instead of 325’ed.

Special thanks to the Dk Lt.'s for saving me for a few more turns with his dragon army.

Between QA and FK, I had 6 agents stealing and killing in Arth, Dun and Cardolon. QA was holding its own militarily. QA just could not bring down the capital harbour no matter how many times it was attempted, allowing a large Harad Navy to get on and take the cap. Despite the loss of FK, and the cap. QA was still making it and surviving on steals from the FP.

Two turns ago, none of my steals went off. As such, last turn I was bankrupt no matter what. I bought as much product as I could, shipped it to my allies, and attempted to land my characters there too. By this point, there were already 5 dead DS, and not much hope. On my final turn, at least I took out a few Cardy characters with assassinations.

Thanks all for the experience. Again, sorry to my teamates for my screw-up, and most of well played FP.

Michael

#4

That was a quick game… I picked up Arthedain/WM on Turn 9. Spent 2 turns naming characters (I did not have many to begin with), and started sending armies at WK and emmies/agents south. Knew that this game was close to be over when I was landing on 5-6 popcentres a turn to ID them for steals, and they were all held by allies.

Wade

#5

Anyone want to swap files? If so email me at ianetchells2003@yahoo.co.uk

Ian
WK/DkL’s

#6

Part of the quick descent of the DS team was dog/bs being SS on T3,4,5. I took over position on T10 and with zero development for both nations, immediate camping success was needed to ensure Dog’s survival. It did not happen on T10, so I transferred the dogs MT’s and artys to BS and pushed BS taxes to 90% while laying a few camps. BS bribed some of the Dog’s characters and finally afforded a cav army at 3624, along w/recovering Gurthang, but all intel showed Freeps inside Mordor, so I’m happy to be out of this game. The original player actually started off nicely, but those 3 SS turns really hurt the positions and it appeared on T6,7,8,9 he was playing catch up and defense. That’s how it goes sometimes.

Dan Cosby

#7

So it was Wade sending me timeber then?

Aye, NG got to pound it on alone in the pass most of the game, had one strong push on the Fire capital that got dragon ate–then SG showed with the full monty and Barad Ungol took the hit. I wondered what it must have been like as the fire King, Gondors tandemned the position without much help from the other DS (ok Blind and Dark Louie helped a little).

Hey, what did happen to the Cloud starting army? I kept expecting that force but it never arrived

Mike, North Gondor/Duns

#8

CL start army went to morrannon, good job looking at he SS for the dog!

NONE of my agents came in with stealth!

I focussed killers against harad to start but bearing in mind none had stealth it was only late in the game when I had more than Ji as a stone cold killer.

Late game when it was clear mordor was under pressure I moved all killers back and took out the SG 10,000 troop army and assorted NG armies but obvioulsy we were dead for many turns before then.