Greetings all Alligned Nations,
I am Scavenger, lead hearald and scalawag of the Land of Umbar. My Lord bids you all greetings. The court in Umbar is now open. The pirate fleets will prepare for war though we do not know which side we will join. Till such time, I look forward to hearing from all ambassadors to my court.
Scavenger
Corsairs 87
Eothraim signing in. Looking forward to a good game with a lot of action. Friends and allies :hug: can contact me at Spectre_07@yahoo.com and the enemy…well you have another thing coming!:bash:
Erik
Welcome, fellow nations.
The Easterlings will be playing a very strange game!
The future of Middle Earth will be determined through lore. We hold ourselves aloof to your petty squabbles. We will not declare for any side until our sages are satisfied, or someone violates our homeland.
One of our goals will be to research every artefact in the game. We will also be experimenting with the rules.
Our homeland is holy
We hold our homeland to be any hex within 2 hexes of any starting pop centre, unless it is nearer to someone else’s pop centre. So we hold 3814 and 3537 to be homeland, but 3436 and 3913 are not.
Any armies may pass through our homeland - but only if they have informed me first. Otherwise any attack, or placing a camp, means war!
Outside my homeland you can attack my armies and characters without consequence.
We are mercenaries
We will work for any side on contract. You could ask me for gold, or to challenge some character, or capture some pop centre. Our main ‘currency’ is casts of Research Artefact. For example, if you want a camp in my homeland, I’d probably ask you to research one artefact.
Contracts involving an attack will be published in advance to give the victim a chance to defend.
We will play to our victory conditions
This is the only unannounced attack we will ever do.
The One Ring
We may simply try for a One Ring victory when our sages are happy - our declaration would be merely for form’s sake!
Michael Grazebrook
Advisor to Ovatha
For email, use my name inserting @ and appending .com
Mercenaries?!
Sounds interesting!
What’s the price for an attack on the EOPLEX?
Have Fun!
Gixxx
Greetings to the Corsairs,
is it possible to contact the mighty leader of the Corsairs?
Have Fun!
Gixxx
The leader of the Corsairs can be reached at: John_Seals at yahoo.com (no spaces) I look forward to your envoys at my court.
I have but one question for the Free People of Middle Earth…
WHERE IS GONDOR?!? :bash:
You see I have one focus which is basically to raze the lands of the Gondor to the ground and enslave their people. :eek: A secondary objective is to make the Gondorian players hate each and everyone of their turns. 
I know you might think this isn’t going to happen :rolleyes: but try to be realistic and not whine too much as this is happening. 
Hey that avatar looks familiar.
I am wondering where that stinking Mutt Lord is hiding? I look forward to going toe to toe with him, just have a Dark Lieutenant town to get rid of first. Then…let the:stab::fork::bash:begin!!
The Bad Man has wandered out the the southern sands, drawing the tribes of Harad together to conquer and pillage. He sees the rich lands of the Free and the arcane wealth of the Dark, and knows that either way there is much to be won (and lost).
To the Master of the East and the Lord of Umbar,
I cannot speak for my brethren but can guarantee that none of my forces will cross into your lands with hostile intent. As one of the NiNe, I offer you any of my future land holdings in gOnDOr in addition to anything else my humble nation could provide. Simply pick your city and any artifacts currently located on the walking Free People dead and I will do my best to bring it into your possesion.
I ask only in return that you help to turn those pesky horses on the plains into dogfood, send those flower eaters to their homeland and enforce the ‘short people’ got no reason to live standard.
Not really much to ask. 
You can contact me at: JDScherrey@aol.com
One piece of business to handle before I address the DaRk SiDe.
As my way of saying thanks. :stab:My Dark Servant Brethren,
Time to speak up and go to wAR!
“The Bad Man” will find an angry Dendra!
Simply too many Freps-armies around the “Black gate”.-
… that’s always the same!
Ha,ha have Fun Keith!
Gixxx
Boring, boring, boring…Ren you are in for a bashing :bash: and some impaling :fork: not to mention being beaten to a pulp :slap: Finally we will even give you a wash :omg:
Tarondor
Well, I have no rich lands so I’m under no threat from the Bad Man, but I warn you Keith, lay a hand on my weaker cousins, you know, like Gondor, and the Bradeornilinglingeors will tear your nation to bitty by bitty shreds.
You’ve been warned.
Woodbrad of Bradwood
Hi Michael,
I’ve a whole host of RA information from previous games, i wonder how much it will cost me for you to turn Free right away?
Tarondor
Gixxxer, you slovenly Dog. Forget the Eoplex, I’m your real enemy.
Woodbrad of Bradwood
I plan the mission assuming no opposition. The cost is one Research Artefact per two character actions I use in carrying out the mission, plus some extras for the resources. The resource cost will change, clearly 1000 leather are worth quite a lot right now, so to wipe out the whole Eoplex would be extremely expensive. I may also take a very long time, as it would be difficult and I’d have to allow for the Free making a commission of a similar size at the same time.
To wipe out say the 4 starting Eo camps would be more reasonable - say, 10 researches. (1 downgrade, 4 moves, 4 attacks, 1 for resources). Payment should be at about the same rate as my actions are taken.
I think it would be best to offer a small commission, then a new one when the first mission is complete.
Since this would involve offensive action, I’d publish the contract before starting work to give the Eo a fair chance to defend.
Sinda can be contacted at thuiatt@hotmail.com
I will be contacting the neutrals by the end of the weekend.
It has been a while since I have played a game with neutrals.
tim huiatt
I believe I will ask your friends for safe passage through their territory so I can set fire to your woodland realm, destroy your wretched hovels and trample your people into the ground. Though the loss of your nation will be a bit of a setback for the Free cause, not having to listen to your mindless banter will be welcome relief for your allies…
That actually sounds like fun, we should try that out…Gondor? What say you? Let the feeble Haradwaith come and see what Real Men are capable of~!
Beorningalingeorn