-this looks like it will be a really exciting battle! Can't wait to read the logs...

I am packing stuff since days, since I am moving my home on Saturday from Munich to Augsburg, although I have the comp on til Friday, I wont be able to play before I move.
My internet connection should be bakc on the 2nd of May, and then I should be able to play at good speed again.
Sorry for the inconveniences, Troy - but this gives you a lot of time to think about your first move
Looking forward to this game from my new home and have a good time in between!

If you agree to it, please sign up the game for the WL too, Troy!

Game started!!

Untill the 2nd of may, it is..

Wish you all the best with the moving, Waterfly!

*joins Falagar*

All the luck to you guys and do watch it in the underground

Hey Falagar, you gonna share that popcorn?

Here we are... I'm back online again
You can make your move Troy - good luck!

Wizard Ladder too, ok?

Good thing you weren't ready midapril; I've now gotten a chance to study the map and do a couple of sparring rounds. Let's hope they helped me....

I will play this game from two bases, my flat and my parents home(I'm a student and play soccer for a club in my hometown, so I will be at my parents house during weekends, for the most part.) I will inform you in advance when my restarts will come. Tuesday will give me my first, as I'm back at my flat then.

Ged day 1

Captured a powernode and grabbed me some cash (....and forgot to passwordprotect my turn, so don't you peek now...)

TS

Good luck, Waterfly!

Ladder is fine with me.

The game is ON!

[This message has been edited by Troy Locker (edited 05-02-2003 @ 07:18 AM).]

... glued to my seat (sorry, don't have any animation for this)

Outlier out ...

Troy has gotten good but easy practice rounds using me as a punching bag. I am bruised and bleeding from the ordeal..
Good luck kiddo.

Nice!

Sooner than expected! Guess the moving moved quick, eh?

Good luck, both of you!

God King: Day 1
Eager to finally start the game the King of Gods made a somewhat risky move and was hurt by the resistance...
should be a tough game anyway

Ged day 2

Secret....

TS

not yet received...

Turn resent.

The secret from day two is that I still haven't lost any lives. I'm trying to work fast, I think I have to against a fast player like Waterfly(seems he wins all his games before day 10).I'm doing my best to avoid that being overwhelmed at an early stage. Progress is good for the moment. I just can't tell what I have done today......

God King: Day 2
turn sent - only secret stuff done, story later

Ged day 3

My brave comrades accomplished their goals today too without losses. Very brave indeed

TS

Day 3: God King
We notice that the enemy wizards halo extends now into our realm. Troy must have captured the human town and the resource heap - building another tower for himself! Without losses

Starts chanting and praying....

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Ged day 4

Well, I can't say that you are mistaken, Waterfly, but today we had a quiet day, with some minor setbacks......unfortunately.

TS

Day 4: God King
We need more setbacks

Cleaning up the home base..

Ged Day 5

Still no losses......progress is slow at the moment.

TS

I will produce a restart next round due to changing 'puter, and I will produce another one on friday of the same reason.

Troy

Day 5: God King
Still no contact with the enemy - should be soon though...
ts

Ged day 6

A day of bad manuevering.......
Let's hope I don't get punished for it........too hard

TS

Day 6: God King
Sadly enough we couldnt punish anything - but keep up offering chances

Ged day 7

A lot better manuevering today.........

No big sign of the enemy....yet

TS

Day 7: God King
The God King drags along and tries hard to be out of sight - yet

Ged day 8

Well, The God King has certainly been spotted now.......alone in his tower, vulnerable......
What shall mr. God King do now, that pressure has been put upon him?

TS

wanna see it! wanna see it!

Day 8: God King
We worked frantically to make up our Day 1 blunder where I lost a cavallery and my hero on Day 1. Without the healing shower spell the attack had been risky but it should have worked out ok, if not the last 2 shots from the human witch eliminated the last 6 health points from the hero

I had to wait till Day 6 for a substitute hero, so I hoped Troy would give me more time to recover.... but he didnt.

Today we were forced to takea huge risk, since a very strong army captured a watchtower on our island sitting behind walls and waterwalking units also made the supporting navy strong.
Approaching with our strongest troops we discovered even 2 hidden lurkers adding to our difficulties.

Nonetheless, we threw the dice and send our hero on towards the Ged the Wizard who is behind these schemes. The hero destroyed the transport ship on his way and managed to kill the a swashbuckler and sent Ged into Oblivion/Void with the help of 6 combat spells and the backing of God.
Thus the supporting waterwalkers where taken out the equation and the rest of our navy (Galley, silver Elder, swashbuckler and cavallery attacked the Galley, 2 swashbuckler and 2 lurker.
There were victorious, the Elder even with full health, the Galley deeply wounded.

The rest of Troys army, is still sitting in the tower (2 silver cavallery, Hero 3rd lv, Elder, 2 crossbowmen,1 silv. berserker), has to use waterwalking if they want to capture our capitol quick, but he still has a lot of options to harm us.
We still have some options too though, especially if the enemy capitol is empty now

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I have to run now, but I will come back and tell you all what happened later.....

Day 9: God King
Ged tried to corner my hero with his own and a cavallery, but after selling the extra wizard tower , Jafsar slipped away, still deeply wounded at 3 health, while the bullish Asra blocked the healing house.
But we own an extra speed from a nice item - which was the reason it took us so long to show up at the watchtower.
Our main force including Elder and Wizard attacked the remaining 5 units at the watchtower and prevailed, loosing 3 crossbowmen though. Its great news the dangerous Elder and the other cavallery are gone and we are one swashbuckler ahead now.

Our own Elder should give us a slight edge, now that the original sides are taken again - and we should have more money (from selling the tower).
Now give the Gods enough time to do their work, please Troy

But then, the strongest hero is still Troys warrior....

PS: for the record - there was a restart on Troys turn, which he explained inline to me.

[This message has been edited by waterfly (edited 05-07-2003 @ 01:42 PM).]

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I didnt comment on this before, since I hoped you would be more defensive because of that belief, actually I never won before turn 10 - look for Tekk if you want to see one aggressive "blizz".
I rather try to make sure any early advance from the enemy can just be countered while I am seeking to blizz my economy against the indies.

*smack*smack* Some final!!

Would have given a lot of money for seeing how this looks like on the field!

Yeah, I sometimes wish there would be an 'observer' function with the game for matches like this.

GOGOGO Waterfly! *cheer*

*steals some popcorn from Swolte*

Go Troy go!

What do you think of the map guys?

Ged day 9 & 10

I woke up and the world was turned upside down. When I went to bed last night everything looked great, and I couldn't see how Waterfly possibly could get out of the terrible mess he was in; outnumbered and outstrenghtened....in his own land. He had to pull the best stunt ever to get out of it (I didn't even see it as a possibility), and he did. When he saw that I had frog-backup for my fleet (which was in range of both his towns) he knew he had to remove the waterwalking enchantments from my cavalry and berserker to win the battle. His only chance to do that was to send my wiz to the void........His brave 1st lvl herostarted for the shore on my humanisland, blindfolded, well knowing that this was very likely to be a suicide-mission. When he got to the gates of the town where my wiz was resting his physical form with a swashbuckler on watch, he simply attacked. Slaying them both and standing there alive with ONE hitpoint left. My swashbuckler caught fire in the first round of course, he hit only with one out of two shots with his gun and was killed with only two spells. DAMN! My wiz fought like a wuzz, but so did WF's hero, so that's ok. With me in the void it was no problem for God Kings navalforces to take out my fleet after that. And my army stood alone and helpless back on the wrong side of the sea.....My hero and a fellow cavalry swam out and sunk WF's wounded galley and went for "our" human island, abandoning the rest of our army. They paid for that with their lives the next night......Now we have recaptured our humantown, but things really look grim. WF's has the initiative in every way now...........

TS

*suspense music plays..*

I didnt comment on this before, since I hoped you would be more defensive because of that belief, actually I never won before turn 10 - look for Tekk if you want to see one aggressive "blizz".

Jeez thanks! I think... I had never won before turn ten, until my last three matches. It is very hard. It was during my matches with Castanieda that I got a day-five victory. However, it would have taken two more turns for a complete win. You do not see many victories declared turn ten and below.

On another note, I am forced to agree on the aggressive part. It is a strength and weakness. I am trying to mellow out, before someone kills me royally (Maybe I won't change... ).

I hope to come back and play some games soon with you all, especially Swolte, Troy, Waterfly, Kris, and all those with sweet high ladder points. One player to find them and in the darkness bind them. Too bad, there is a last alliance between vets and newbies thwarting me.

It looks like this game will be tough. Good luck all! Better you guys than me.

Wow, looks like this game may be coming to a nail-biting ending soon ... and an appearance by TZ as well. Still glued to my seat. Could someone please pass me the popcorn ...

Outlier out ...

Troy showed me the situation yesterday and I was convinced he had it in the bag. There was NO way Waterfly could have something up his sleeve - which he didn't. And now I can't imagine the terror Troy must have felt when he opened the next turn and studied the events of Waterfly's turn. Oh, the humanity

This was not even a theoretical outcome...

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