The most important aspect Of my arrival in this game … Has been stability of the WK to weather whatever the FP have thrown my my… to Keep many Pc’s garrisoned and prevent some nations from being pure character nations… These effects cannot be measured in terms of WK victory points…
But if your really interested in my skill as a player I suggest you stick around and play the next game where I start a game… Or just look closely when allaince or some recent gunboats finish up…
Strategic thinking goes well beyond a nations victory totals… In this game If i finish above 5 on the DS side I will be shocked… The fact I have played every turn on the brink of elmination since I took this over says I do have some skill… To be able to keep paying for Murazor alone is well worth this teams time to keep WK in game… To be able to give FP a major distraction by your assesment is alot a fun for me… That’s why we play the game to have Fun!
Team Simpson has not played badly… I’m just simply always a step ahead of them!
Well I see Argeleb is still not dead. In fact Argeleb captured the Ashdurbuk Zalg in battle with Durkarian’s army at Mount Gundabad. Now the Witch King has lost both the defending army and the means to recruit another as Dukarian was killed this turn. Plus what 40 turns of character development? Yes the Ring Of Impersonation has been lost, at least for awhile. That does not tell the whole story though does it? The Free lost Elladan to a curse squad of 3 mages, that means 200 points of mage strength were used to kill him and in the process Orduclax died as did Sangak. In fact from what I know it appears that the DS took out four characters this turn and honestly some of them were valuable starting characters but the free took out five that I know of and some pretty big names too, Ashdurbuk Zalg, Durkarian, Drurgandra, and Orduclax. From what I have heard the Free stole more gold than they lost as well. The market is low and winter is here. The armies that the DS are fielding at the gates are getting smaller and smaller, only Aivnec and Lamthanc saved them from two crushing defeats this turn and correct me if I am wrong Gixx but didn’t the armies those two dragons were serving with get destroyed in the process? Still looks like a grinding match that the Free appear to be winning from what I can see.
I notice no one is talking about the Free armies at large inside Mordor. With agents as far away as Nor Dum and Mount Gundabad this could be a bad thing for the DS. Now Terry I notice your bombastic claims have settled down to something more realistic, so I will let you off this turn. I know it was not a good one for you. Losing those characters and the army had to hurt. If not for the agent help sent to you this turn could have been a complete disaster in the north. However I will chide you a bit as you promised the death of Argeleb this turn. I guess the chance to pick up a juicey agent artifact was just too good to pass up.
Oh darn its winter coming up is it ,being dead I did not notice.
As I polish my gold coated skulls and wonder what to do with the stuff besides letting you steal so much of it. Maybe thats being to generous and you dont appreciate it enough. But we have enough as your gold stealing agents must be telling you.
Still your right its time to put a stop to that and someone is in for a very nasty shock this go indeed.
Now why field a large army when you have so many troops to kill and a dragon does the job for us just as well.
I am still perplexed who had the idea single commanders in charge of huge armies was a great idea for completing a job and not just nibbling.
The good side has had is best shot at victory the game is in flux and after the start you had you should have done better.
Now its an intersting moment as if you dont pull your socks up the game will slip form you.
Look hard and you will see defeat is still an option for you.
Oh and why talk about a small dead army in Mordor its had its day it just doies not know it yet.
Someone will be having some serious gloating after this is done
Not gloating Frank, this game is obviously not close to being over. The Free lost some good characters this turn. Elladan will not be easy to replace, but you did not get his artifact and Orduclax had two on him. I heard someone killed an agent at Mount Gundabad and did get Ring of Impersonation, but still that agent will be easier to replace than Durkarian who died there.
Yes you are right having all that splendid cavalry with no back up commander was a bit optomistic. However since you know how many troops were there, I think you can understand that the troops replacement process is still going strong. Can you kill the troops in Mordor? Well I hope so, it is supposed to be your stronghold after all. The question to be answered is how much mischief do they do before you catch them. If it is very much it could be bad for some of your nations who already are losing so much to thefts.
I think you hold a qualitative edge in agents and have a couple of Curse Squads, but those are so manpower intensive. The game can go either way, but I do think the Free are still winning at this point. The DS have made a good comeback and turned what was a route into a hard fought game, so hats off to you guys.
As for surprises; I think that is a two way street. How many agents at the gates have nothing to do this turn? How was Orduclax’s team affected by his sudden demise?
Well there is a battle going on in the east. The West however shows no DS Icons on any map. Mirkwood has the raiding force off Sarn Goriwing. At the gates to Mordor perhaps a new plan is needed, this one is costing too many troops and gives your side the advantage of interior lines. The FP have two armies at large inside Mordor now and the ability to send more; true they are not huge armies but big enough to snuff villages and towns and that could be problem for your mortal minions. What will be interesting at game end is the total body count. This is beginning to remind me of games in the old days that went on for dozens of turns and had body counts for the Cloud Lord like over a hundred assassinations. I don’t think any one nation will do that in this game but a lot of characters have died.
It’s pig, put lipstick on a pig. I am ashamed of you; plagerizing Joseph Biden, couldn’t you have done better than that. I posted before all the results were in. Yes you did indeed out kill the FP this turn. What was it six to four? So at turn 19 you are able to kill more characters with your agents than the Free agents can kill of yours. What a surprise. I know that games don’t usually enter this territory concerning length of games has dropped a lot, but correct me if I am wrong. Shouldn’t the DS be killing more characters by assassination and curses by turn 20? After all you have the Cloud Lord with his bonus to assassination. No Gixx you will have to do better.
The FP agents once again stole over twenty thousand gold more gold from your side than you were able to steal from them. With production rates dropping it is hard to make up that kind of net loss. I can tell just looking at the results of the FP that your side is having to make some hard decisions. Do you send more gold to the Ice King or the Fire King. We know the Quiet Avenger sent gold to the Ice King a short while ago, was it enough, was it as much as he was expecting? The Witch King lost a couple of pretty valuable characters. If he is to be able to continue his defiant delaying action he will need more troops. Does he have the gold to recruit characters and armies or will he need more from the team? Do you do a buyout to inflate a sectory of the market? Well that takes considerable gold in itself doesn’t it. Tough decisions to make but that is why you have the mantle of the captaincy isn’t it?
I have given your team some praise over their comeback. You were getting spanked until you brought Frank on board. Terry has played a competent replacement player’s role in holding the Witch King position together after it was incompetently played early on. The game is competetive but I can add and I see an overall improvement in the victory points for the FP. Since that is relative I can only assume that means a weakening somewhere of the victory points for the DS. Frank pointed out a strategic error that let a huge army go to waste. Yes that was costly and it caused an abherrant drop in that nations points or the lean of the scale would have been even more favorable to the FP.
Yes you can hang your hat on the superior agents, but I am reminded of a WWII comment about quality versus quantity. A German General talking about the superiority of the Panther tank over its American adversary the Sherman is reported to have said. The Panther can defeat ten times its number of Shermans, the problem is the Americans bring eleven. It is good to see you so full of fight. Your team has given Team Simpson a real fight that will go on for some time. In the end however from my seat in the stands, Team Simpson still is winning the game. That my friend is how you make a silk purse out of a pigs ear.
Speaking from my Vast expierence in these games… you claim the FP are winning… How are you going to hold Rhovonian with no armies? where Is the NM support… How about WM support… better yet where Is cardolan or arthedain… Sinda? Still trying to get WK under control in Mirkwood? Why is WK even a factor at all. WK from when I got it should be a character nation stuck inside Mordor!
My play has only been competent… that’s rich coming from you… It makes it all the easier to defeat your Team this game and the Next… you ever play a nation this many turns this late in the game… Every turn nearl obn brink of elimination yet still damaging the Oppositions Tax base… Killing way more troops than you have… Give me a break… you couldn’t recognize good strategy if it bit your buttocks! :bash:
You just keep thinking I’m a noob and all talk… But the proof has been in the turn reports since I started… But if I’m only competent as a player… what does it say about your team when They cannot finish a Player that has been on the ropes this Long! They are experts?
let me sell you guys a Clue… the longer I stay in angmar and Mirkwood area your chances of winning become less and less… Every turn! That’s not speculation is pure fact! Another Fact is Now Mordor is secure DS agents can Now kill all those worthless coms garrisoning recruiting bases… Camping capitols with your Big Name Coms all dead means lesser agents Kills the Coms… Our big agents Kill off all your remaining Names! Oh Btw … where’s FP curse squad? where’s those Powerful noldo mages? Simply where’s the Beef!
Brad one More thing since i took this position over… The only transfers of Pc’s to my Nation has been FP pc’s… becuase I told my teamates I didn’t need them back on my very first turn… Becuase Nobody on team simpson has any real expierence with me as a Player… You guys have simply played to many Gunboats and Grudge Games to know there are Really Good players out there in Indie Games!
You just can’t help yourself can you? It is sad really, the Free stop over on their way to Rhun and what happens? Well we already know don’t we, Asdurbuk captured Durkarian killed, the defenders of Mount Gundabad dead. No one to hire a new army now Argeleb simply can issue siege orders and you lose the income from Mount Gundabad and you are not able to even hire an army there even if you have a commander to do it. They slapped you around so bad I don’t know if I should call you Suzie. Oh yes they did kill Kaisa and get the Ring of Impersonation. Didn’t you lose two artifacts to get that one though? Also in the spirit of honesty did you kill Kaisa; or did someone else do it for you. Here I gave you a compliment and you don’t even stop to realize it. You simply start winding up to spin out of control again. On second thought maybe not Suzie, maybe the Whirling Dervish suits you better. You cannot stand much more success like you had last turn; you and I both know it.
Why aren’t the Sinda and Woodmen in Rhovannion? I don’t know, ask them. Just guessing it may be because they feel that they have more important things to do. Don’t your allies tell you anything? The Long Rider is making a fight of it in the east, and the Long Rider is winning at the moment. My hat is off to the Long Rider. The east however is not all that close to you so while the Long Rider is getting stronger I don’t see any evidence that it is helping you become stronger. Could be the Sinda are getting ready to join the push on Mordor, or maybe they are there already. The same could be said of the Woodmen. Do you even know where the Woodmen armies are, or are you just stumbling around in Mirkwood with Dancu? Yes it is getting easier to figure out who your commanders are. If your predecessor was as big a loser as you say then he probably did not name all that many new commanders to keep his pipeline fed. If this is the case there are not that many other names you have to choose from are there? In fact I guess you’re right, I must be blinded by your brilliance. Refresh my memory, what have you taken that you could hold onto? Maybe the DS did not give you any population centers but one thing is certain, the Dragon Lord gave you Sarn Goriwing. Without it you would not be a factor at all in Mirkwood would you. No once again you would be shut up in Mount Gundabad.
You know Terry, I have played this game probably at least as long as you have. I have played in open games against some of the better names. Lewis Morton (RIP), Laurence Tilley, Gixxer, I haven’t been on the winning side everygame, nor have I had the high score in most of the games, but I am always there at the end. Well, not always I took over a standby Eothraim nation and did not survive. However I know good individual players when I watch them. You may be more impressive when you have more to work with, however in watching the boards I notice that you have a tendency to bankrupt your nations. That kind of error is simple failure to pay attention to detail, in order for you to be considered a good strategist let alone a brilliant one you will have to work on that aspect of your game.
Well Susie the Whirling Dervish enjoy two more weeks of sitting in the cage that is Mount Gundabad. Hopefully more of that help you don’t need is on its way. If help isn’t coming for you it could be a bleak Christmas.
Once again your assesment of my playing skill is going to get you and your grudge team Trashed… If Gixxer really thought I was that much of a laibilty would he have invited me in the First place… As for my name you need to go back way back to find my roots in this game…
As for your ratings and winning percentages mean nothing to me other than more fun when I trash you in game while your playing!
Take the bankrupting of my nations to heart… I suck economically… I can’t use agents… don’t know what emmy’s are for… have simplistic and wildly chaotic army movements … All my success has come from playing noobs or dropped out positions… yea that’s it… I’m a pushover… But once again why can’t your expert friends with your expert advice Finish ME! Seems your all talk… My acations In game speak for themselves… Is why Argeleb sits on my capitol looking stupid and can’t do squat!
Strategy tip send emmy’s to 2305 Please. I’m growing tired of playing against ametures pretending to be good on grudge teams!:bash:
Brad let me make this clear… your a noob to me… your stupidity it believing the only way I can survive is to have my teamates transfer pc’s to me speaks volumes of your noobish mind for strategy… The truth is I asked them to take the Only pc transfered to WK before i arrived… becuase I going to take FP pc’s as I have. Camp right in the Middle of Teams Simpsons stronghold which I have Done!
Attack FP from every level of the Game which I have also done… The reason WM have No armies is I destroyed them! But you looking from the outside can’t see that… You can’t see that 2405 is not WM’s any more becuase I threatened it away with 500 troops… Oh yeah noobie luck lmao! Argeleb took it right back true as a Village that was once Wm’s
Now I will capture the Sinda town… why becuase I want the Sinda to get the Loyalty Hit! Noobish in your book! but once again what will the FP get it at IF they can take it back! IF! becuase i believe I can keep everything I take and Hold it…
Now maybe if your so good! you should put up or shutup! becuase I playing and your watching the game! Just another stupid fan making stupid comments about a game your not even playing!
