Who is crowing? From your posts it sounds like this game is an afterthought for you. Make no mistake, you are up against a rough crowd. Losing Dol Goldur by turn four was not in my plans, but you have accomplished no more than any other freep team. I am thoroughly unimpressed by the freep strategy. The Dragon lord is not going away. And the curse sqaud is not just killing commanders, it is eleiminating entire armies. Now that is worth the while. The freeps start with the advantage, if not pressed by turn ten the tide shifts. Again, I am not impressed. Be ready for the tide to turn.
Facts remain the same though Goblin Gate falls this turn, there is nothing you can do to prevent it. Your capital fell last turn there was nothing you could do to prevent it either. Sure you can extract revenge, kill a commander perhaps an army but your days of having major population centers in Mirkwood are numbered. Your allies will be giving you handouts of population centers I am sure, to keep you alive, and in the game, but you are being forcibly relocated and you are powerless to stop that.
Sorry if that makes you testy. Still it is no reason for you to get upset and personal.
Sorry. Didn't mean to get "personal". Did you take something "personally"? Anyway, I meant no malice. You seem all too ready to point out our losses though. please allow me to mention some of our gains. Despite your earlier posts, Bain, his army, and his artifacts was a big loss. Amroth and his navy are worth mentioning. Eliminating the Eo starting cav at 3120 is a point for us. Getting to ALL the big arties will be nice soon. Remeber, it is only turn four. It takes time to get arties into the game. You are quite right that I am powerless to stop the loss of my major towns in mirkwood. But you are sadly mistaken if you think that will be permanent. And by the by, my teammates are not suporting me. I am doing well enough on my own thank you.
Sorry for the delay in response. I have trouble posting. Most of the time after trying to submit a post it just kicks me back to the loggin page, and I lose evereything I wrote.
Hey, I thought we were keeping a character tally! Oh well, no matter. The important thing about Bain getting cursed, all the big arties going DS and the impending SARS death of Argeleb is it makes it hard to create a dragon killer. I notice two of my wyrm friends have appearred already. WK and Rhudar are about to go on the dragon infused offensive!
Jim
ps sorry about the double post, I did not think the first one went through! oops.
Have to agree with you that our keeping up in the body count will be difficult with you holding RoW, Curufin and shortly Collohwesta. We were not handed a very balanced opening set of skills by our game master. With no artifact locating spells to start with and you having at least 3 mages with access to at least one Spirit Mastery spell more likely 4 with a couple of them having more than just the entry level spell. That is hard to compete with. Still you guys didn’t stick around to pick up Bain’s artifacts which would have hurt us even more in the long run than losing Bain himself.
We will have to stop the bleeding somehow to survive, but we are working the problem and the game has a long way to go.
Is that where #10 went? I do indeed have all the others, but oddly the 900 order did not net that particular artifact. Now I know why. I will have to go through all the trouble of killing another freep to get it now I guess.
Once again, I try to post on this board. Let’s see if it works this time.
Well, let’s see . . .
I’ll bet Amroth wishes he had kept his little elfin mouth shut, how about you? Several hundred waterlogged pointy-eared treehuggers are wishing the same as they march (not float) back to their greenland homes.
Seems like Mahrcared and his pony-floggers ran into a little unpleasant weather on the way to the gates of Mordor. Amazing what a difference a little rain and frost can make in the outcome of a horse race, huh?
Soon all of the hosts of Mordor will be issuing from its gates like ants from an anthill. (You know, one of those things I said I’d be staking freeps out on). All is NOT well, men of the west! Every day our hosts grow stronger. Every day the Anduin looks a little bit narrower. If we just had some boats, we’d be drinking in Minas Anor already! Crap! I wish I had some boats!
