Time for a new thread 
How’s that new castle wokring out for you? Do you approve of our high quality workmanship? :rolleyes:
Between that and Angamaite running amok in the south… well our turn was most definitely less than ideal… heh though the game is definitely more fun with all the roller coaster ups and downs!
El Gringo
Executive Producer
Nastrytroll Films
(Coming soon to a theatre near you: “Erestor & Tharudan: The Lost S&M Tapes”)
Well, my personal favourite still is the huge Eothraim walking intact from Gothmog and two dragons. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “flee and live to fight another day”
That’s Trendorn the King of Cool for you.
Interested to see what happens now.
Symeon
Leader of the HorseLords
PS1:You really shouldn’t make fun of the Elves. Tharudan had apprentices you know…
PS2: Harut is a lucky SOB!
PS3: FK was even Luckier…
Heh…
Nice to hear from the Eothraim Mahcared is doing fine btw…
The NW is ugly…really ugly (for us haha). Damn you guys for that re-snag of the RoI. I thought I was in very much happy land. That wasn’t nice to ruin my good fortune.
Tharudan’s apprentices are just lucky I think 
They possess no real skill. We’ll see how ‘good’ they really are soon enough I think.
Haruth Ramam lucky SoB? HAH! I get the feeling you don’t have all the facts Maybe it was anticipation on our side? Try again…we don’t mind!!!
FK didn’t have luck…FK had dragons that you didn’t see. Sorry about your Commander though. Seems that one fell off the Walls.
We’ll check the tallies after this turn! I just wish the Ritual Character Terminations also kept track of Executed Hostages My numbers would be much higher heh.
If you want lucky…The Cardolan got lucky! Hallas and Imlach will be mine again (Maybe a few others too)
<<Tharudan’s apprentices are just lucky I think They possess no real skill. We’ll see how ‘good’ they really are soon enough I think. >>
I thought that Lhachglin already saw that.
1 assassination doesn’t prove anything
How about the dead agent that tried. How about the injured others that failed?
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nintelten
> snip…We’ll see how ‘good’ they really are soon enough I think.
Well, you said it…
> …Haruth Ramam lucky SoB? HAH! I get the feeling you don’t have all the facts Maybe it was anticipation on our side? Try again…we don’t mind!!!
Well Adumir is dead allright so no harm sharing a little secret. Adumir had almost 90 challenge (+25 in his challenge rank). I didn’t see a damage artie on Harout so that’s damn lucky if you ask me.
Wait a second, you don’t have him pamped up with a nice artie now, do you?.. Yamie!
> …FK didn’t have luck…FK had dragons that you didn’t see. Sorry about your Commander though. Seems that one fell off the Walls.
you are pushing the envelope with the dragons a bit. But you managed to anger NG, I’ll give you that.
good game everyone
Symeon
I’m a wanker!
Oi! I get the feeling I left the room while still logged in last week and one of my steadfast allies took advantage of the situation 
Heh… oh well ;p
Buhr Waldmarh obviously had a higher loyalty than we expected… Gothmog has no more chaff to bully around 
…And more interesting moves by your side in the northwest… I’m REALLY looking forward to exchanging mid-game information after this sucker is over, your army commanders move like drunken teenagers looking for a bush party… too many of our assassins keep ending up guarding location hah!
It almost feels like a new game has started this turn… a lot of fronts suddenly stabilized for both sides (or at least appear to, heh maybe they’re not as stable as they look).
I’ll let you in on our side’s secret weapon: we tell all our troops that if they don’t win every fight, we’re going to make them all watch re-runs of “Who’s the Boss” until they crap themselves in terror.
Good turn!
El Gringo,
Executive Producer
Nastrytroll Films
(Coming soon to a theatre near you: “Highlander 4: Duns in Drag”)
Good point about various fronts stabilising this turn. Let’s see who’s going to throw the next stone in the pond.
Also good point about the manner in which our commanders move. Very insightful, considering that the accuracy of your metaphor extends to what happens once they REACH the party.
I think we’ve faced more dragons in this game than we’ve seen in the last three put together.
I’m intrigued to see how your plans work out. I can tell you we have some decent ones to throw at you 
Game on!
Elendar of the Sinda,
Tharudan’s apprentice
It definitely is a very interesting game. I’ll fully admit you baffle me half the time with those army icons in the NW heh. That area seems to be the biggest area of contention at the moment.
Hoarmurath had a lucky guard it appears too heh.
As for our dragons…yeah. We’ve had a bunch. We’ve pulled a few lucky rabits feet with surviving a few of them as well. One of my poor Rhudaur emissaries I swear ran around for the longest time under 10 health.
So…what happened to Eodor? We seem to have found Eodor II somewhere I believe.
I will also say that this game its VERY hard to judge if you have had a good turn or a bad turn.
We burned the Eothraim capital as well as killed 7 characters yet it doesn’t feel like we got that far ahead atm
Keep up the good work. The unknown is definitely making this interesting.
Eoder, the king of the Northmen…Slaughtered by the Dark Lord Sauron at turn 1, during his army’s march from Esgaroth to the capital :(((
You shouldn’t have bothered sabotaging the bridge anyway;)
Ulma Rava,
The Lady of the Lake
Laugh so that is what that encounter was. The turn we blew the bridge we got the message that Eoder had an encounter and we were like woo stopped him with the bridge!
That makes 2 characters the goods have lost to Sauron this game? Man wish we could run into him… not that I mind you guys running into him hehe.
The Sinda have also lost a stealthy agent to Carach Caran and I can remember a few other heroes dying to beasts right and left… I’m telling you, we’re sticking with the military game this time round
Elendar of the Sinda
Eww Gotta love the surprises in the game though.
I personally haven’t lost a character to encounters (yet). I know we’ve lost a mage and an agent to encounters.
Last game we were in we lost Murazor to Leucarath 
We also have a directionally challenge Hoarmurath. Nothing like revealing that CAMP!!! Yes…that CAMP!!! hehe
How will the party shape up after next turn? Or 5-10 turns down the road? Oh…we shall see…we shall see 
More shall die before this is over!
P.S. I got a burning question that I need to ask… Why the PC on Erennis?
So how’s life treating you Sauronlings lately? We are losing characters right and left and I admit it is a bit unnerving, but you have still to shake us militarily. Looks like a stalemate at the moment but we do happily eat away at your camps and villages to keep us busy until the next tidal waves meet
Elendar of the Sinda,
Tharudan’s apprentice
Apparently, this week was ‘Middle Earth Nerf Dagger Week’… I wish someone had told us ahead of time though
…It will certainly be interesting to see how your latest strategy will work out; will the costs of hiring and maintaining small camp-killing armies cost more than our camp losses? I guess it will depend on your success rate heheh
Just out of curiosity (if you don’t mind me asking… feel free to tell me to bugger off heh), how many research/locate/locate trues did your side start with on Turn 0?
El Gringo,
Executive Producer
Nastrytroll Films
(Coming soon to a theatre near you: “Dead Elves in Heat II: Elladan’s Beorning Sex Diaries”)
Well, 5000 to name a commander and 5000 to hire.
…pff, even you can afford that.
Nice work with your agents at 1710 the previous turn. Pitty they didn’t kill the real armies though Still, it was a good try.
Feelling lonely at the Cardolan MTs now? A well we’ll send you some company soon. Stick around.
Since you asked:
Meriot: None
Elharian: None
Eribhen: RA
Cirdan: None
Elrond:None
Erestor:None
Glorfindel:None
Nimrodel:None
Ringlin:RA
Tharudan:None
Saerol:None
See a pattern there?
Our luck has been phenomenal in this game. I mean, the situation with Sauron is getting redicullus. He has killed more armies and characters than your agents.
Symeon
Leader of the HorseLords
We shall see how things go in the next couple turns
Seems we had a nice bad luck turn…but nothing we can’t recover from. Sorry to hear about all the deaths on your side. I’ll fully admit I like to see the death of Emissaries and Agents. Must have took the Dwarves a while to raise a 70+ one too
How are the Cardolan fairing over all? I get the feeling they are pretty character shy at the moment. What…say maybe 9ish characters left?
Its never lonely in the NW area
Tarondor was lucky to escape. He’ll have his day with the dagger soon enough.
As always…watch your back cause odds are pretty good eventually I’ll stick a dagger in it.
Wanna hear the best part of last turn? The Cloud Lord didn’t even score most of the kills. Basically I just took a suck pill and missed hehe We spread the wealth you might say.
Taking bets on the next victims I’ll be looking forward to the company in Cardolan area. Is it my birthday?
Heh, I just found this thread after returning to civilization, was commanding the dark armies from a really remote location for the past few months.
Sauron showed himself in Turn 1 at the bridge ? Hehe…I’ll have to give Din O extra credit for that bridge busting move.
FK lucky? yes perhaps, but sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. I’m still competing for the title of dragon lord!
Still learning…baffled and confused as always.
And so after a short lull in the action, everything is happening all over the place again. We did mourn for the loss of Cirdan and Bain, but it appears that you have also started losing men here and there. Hukor’s accident was satisfying after all the armies we have had disbanded…
Is it getting personal between me and the Ice King then? After I kidnapped Hukor there was this impressive triple challenge against my unarmed populace, sitting quietly and selling food to the caravans. Well, that’s what you get when your capital is hidden - no enemy characters show up on your pop centre reports. Nothing to be done about it But then, look what happened to Gaurhir and Gorthog… Should I brace for the retributions? Is it just the begining of a long vendetta?
Not that we miss any excitement here in Lorien. We expected a welcoming comittee at 3120 last turn but you let us down. Let’s see what you have in store for us in Morannon.
Rhovanion, Rhun, the Ithil Pass, the northwest and the south are all in flames again. Even the Iron hills get to see some action. I wonder what will be the body-count when the dust settles
Elendar