I guess this is it. Thousands of Woodmen crawling all over me like some kind of fungus, Argeleb and his hordes clawing their way up the hill fearlessly to my capital, armies of Dwarves swirling at my feet like… well… a bunch of Dwarves swirling. Metaphore. Always my weak suit.
Anyway, I guess this is curtains for the ol’ Witch King. 18 glorious turns of battling my way out of a paper bag all for naught. You know Sauron’s gonna cut off my eyelids and dunk me in the lava of Mt Doom for this don’t you? Have you ever seen the motivational posters the guy hangs in his office? Yeeeech!
Of course we did steal the Mantle of Doriath this turn and recruit a bunch more dragons. Oh, and there’s all those characters who keep ‘disappearing’ every turn. It’s gettin hard to tell who’ll be around in two weeks anymore. Right Ulfacs? Ulfacs?.. Hello? Anyone? Bueller? Gosh that’s weird. He was just here a minute ago.
Anyway, I was thinking it seems like somehow magically, getting all the agent artifacts is gonna help us win the game afterall. At least I hope so. Because I really, really like my eyelids where they are, you know?
We are at present taking a vote to see if we will continue. My vote and 2 others so far, is to throw in the towel. That is 4 nations. I have thought it to be over for several turns now. My previous post that claimed military superiority was a bluff that I had hoped would by time. It didn’t.
The lost of the stealth artifact was the final demoralizing act for me. If/when this game ends, I would be interested to know the rank of Borhan. I thought I had a good agent trap going there. My agent was guarded by a 49 agent with a 27 stealth and I guessed that even with a plus 15 agent artifact, she could stop him. Congratulations to the Dog Lord. He was the most aggressive of any DS and takes a licking and just keeps coming. I would play on his team anytime.
Long Rider: Speaking of agent traps, you made a comment concerning the Sinda showing troop strength before advancing to a pop center. This was another failed agent trap. After your agent “followed army” on a dwarf character and assassinated him. It was my fondest hope that you would do the same with the Sinda army. Just because it failed, does not mean it was not a good idea.
It may be that we go a couple of more turns. ( but I doubt it) Some of us may wish to see how some things play out. I will let you know by post one way or the other. As for me, I am eager to get into another game as the Dwarves. This was my first time playing them and I loved it. However, I have a couple of things I would have done differently in retrospect. I need to see how that goes.
Does that mean it’s too late for me to join the FP team then?
Seriously, thanks for the post Jim. If you guys do drop I’ll understand why. I’m happy to share PDF’s once the game is over, and I’m sure some of my allies will be as well. You’re the only player on the FP team that has made this game interesting for us.
We certainly could have played better, but as things stand now the game really is quite one-sided.
We only had 1 newbie – the CL – and we picked up his position when he quit. I think you had the harder up-hill battle from the start, so hats off to you for dragging your team this far.
Er, helmets off that is. We’ll all be wearing our helmets in the mean time if you don’t mind. Can’t trust a Dwarf who consorts with Elves and talks about posting ruses eh.
As for Borhan, let’s say for now, he’s somewhere slightly north of 30 points.
Jim, good game. But its pretty over at this point.
Be happy to share pdfs and some insight after your allies give up. Though we pretty well already know what you guys have been up to throughout the game.
Once we see a concession I’ll send you an invite to our Yahoo site, just deleted turns 1-3 as we were running out of space but I have those saved on disk if you realy want them. Would appreciate access to your turns as well if possible. Send me your email address to lewismorton99@ticali.co.uk
As of this post, eight players have conceded the game. One has not sent a note to us, confirming his intent to concede (Though he is/was one of our players with the best communication skills) and one nation has conceded that the game is lost, but has said he will play as long as one other nation wishes to continue.
I believe both nations will call it quits, but I am not waiting to find out. I sent my notification to Clint today.
Long Rider: Sorry, but I have deleted my turns and the only information I required has been given to me by the Dog Lord and he was given in return the challenge rank of Elrond when they had their duel.
