Usual option to buy the Wizards Tower followed by mad rush for windmills. Gain two, lose one stack, but nothing to worry about at this stage.

Turn sent to Dan.

Captured our home base by force and also a couple of income generators. Our succubus flies off on a recruitment mission.

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Itīs nice to be important, but itīs more important to be nice.

Used the saint to good effect by resurrecting a treeman and keeping him alive! Captured one city and bought another, and captured a windmill. Lost a palladin on the way. Resources look like they won't be a problem right from Day 1, which is nice.

City and farm acquired without too many losses. I seem to have a blind centaur who has yet to hit anything - has to be one of the worst halfling units. Give me peasants and slingers anyday. Moving on to other easy targets.

ps remembered to email the turn on to Dan this time

[This message has been edited by MyTee (edited 05-31-2006 @ 05:45 PM).]

Bought the loyalty of one town and our main army captured another town by force. The bribed villagers of the first town helped us acquire a much needed magic node, and our main army also captured a furnace.

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Itīs nice to be important, but itīs more important to be nice.

Changed direction and captured a home of ships, co-opting a mad dwarf unit in the process. Immediately invested in a ship, so we can move around this odd terrain. So not much else.

After following advice from Unicorn, promptly manage to get both Eagle Riders killed. That wasn't the plan at all, but a couple of lucky hits from darters and an impaler saw my attempts to get them gold medals thwarted early.

Still, two farms and another city added but running out of units.

Captured a mine and a furnace.

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Itīs nice to be important, but itīs more important to be nice.

No losses, but running around in circles.

Two more farms, but think that's about it for now as we consolidate existing position.

Captured a magic node and a mine. Hoping to be able to capture another town tomorrow.

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Itīs nice to be important, but itīs more important to be nice.

Took a windmill and magic node with no losses. In fact, added one of those magic sprite thingies to the army. Tomorrow will see an interesting shipwreck battle.

Another farm gained. Joining up with other force to take another city tomorrow.

Captured a farm and a water mill.

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Itīs nice to be important, but itīs more important to be nice.

Fought a shipwreck battle for a minor item, more importantly resurrected a nice unit. Held off on the next battle until tomorrow, as we feel another resurrection coming on, and it's not even Easter.

Captured city and watermill with no losses.

Could have captured two towns today, but one silly peasant with 2 hit points left managed to land a maximum damage strike on our succubus with 7 hit points, thus killing her. Only one town captured then, and a severe delay of our grand plans.

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Itīs nice to be important, but itīs more important to be nice.

Captured a node and a watermill, and now we have an amphibious force which tootles off in search of targets of opportunity. Whilst the main force begins the strike into the heartlands.

Must be slacking, didn't gain anything this turn, just movement.

Just a windmill captured today.

Captured a mine today.

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Itīs nice to be important, but itīs more important to be nice.

Captured a city and some useful production points gained - but at a disappointingly high cost. Should have researched a combat spell earlier!!

Captured one town by force and another one with gold. A death node was also captured.

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Itīs nice to be important, but itīs more important to be nice.

Captured a windmill and finally a nice city, plus added another minor unit to the army.

Two income structures gained.

Captured two new villages and two other sites as well. A fairly good day.

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Itīs nice to be important, but itīs more important to be nice.

Some setbacks. Trying to engineer the resurrection of an earth elemental and using my wiz as a shield from a minotaur, the blinking thing killed my wiz! At least we got the elemental. Then in a battle for a mine, we lost a unit that we shouldn't have done.

A good day here too. Two towns and two income structures. Clash with Yaka imminent.

Captured a magic node and also recaptured a city that rebelled during the night.

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Itīs nice to be important, but itīs more important to be nice.

Having difficulty getting out, what with mountains and rivers. Even more difficult after the loss of a flyer. More ships!

Gain a mine. Nothing much else happening...

Captured a forge today.

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Just one thought: I recently played this map against Unicorn77 and when he cast his mastery spell I was completely surprised by the awesome power of that spell. I know we didn't mention this before starting this game, but I would like to vote for a ban on the use of mastery spells, becasue of the extreme unbalance that spell causes. It feels like a race of time who gets to research and cast a mastery spell first, and I feel that takes away a lot of the fun. What do you think?

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Itīs nice to be important, but itīs more important to be nice.

Captured another city.

Happy to say "NO!" to mastery spells. Unfortunately, we will have to accept any cast by the ai.

I'm okay with the ban on mastery spells too.

Captured two more income structures - and Yaka inevitably declared war, but nothing on the horizon as yet...

Only troop movement today.

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Great, no mastery spells then.

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Itīs nice to be important, but itīs more important to be nice.

Captured a magic circle and bought a powerful assistant.

Stopped casting the mastery spell, and summoned a stack of gold dragons instead.......

..... would be nice!

Capturing windmill. Spending money. Laughing (nervously) at uni's joke about the dragons.

Captured a tigran city today. Dragons, where???

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Itīs nice to be important, but itīs more important to be nice.

Captured a windmill and a city. Gold is tight.