Meando, Day 1

Rock īn Roll!

Julioch - Day 1

Ah...the petty human and my darker brethern threaten me! Me, the high mage of the Elves. The elven army is moving out to the east and the west to expand the empire and restore it to its former glory.

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Meando, Day 2

Spreading out...

Mustering new troops and trying not to make the same mistakes I made while playing my darker side.

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Meando, Day 3

Some really rotten luck in TC. Still won, but oooohhh the price...

Meando, Day 4

Marching on...

Julioch - Day 5

Just moving along.
Explored the ruins where the tomb of a great dark-elf slayer was supposed to be....but found the area infested with creatures of the dark....cleaned them out.

Tomorrow will deal the first blow to that Neuman sod!.

But I have spied his troops moving along the other side towards my main city. Have to build up my defenses soon or be slaughtered, I fear.
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Meando,Day 5

Fighting the indies and preparing for Neuman...

Dealt the blow that I promised I would. But made a bad choice of some production resources that I captured.

Elsewhere, my other troops also suffered tellingly at the hands of Neuman.

Tomorrow shall be a better day hopefully as my troops are in a pretty bad shape.

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Meando, Day 6

Everything seemed so easy plaing lesser elves... I sure miss the "Healing Spell". Lack thereof makes serious wounds a serious issue, and not a mere nuisance...

Well, healing spell is good but its better only after u have researched atleast Casting Specialist I...otherwise no mana for anything else.

Anyways, captured a life node and some production resources...looks far more promising now...but Neuman's troops are still threatening my borders.
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MEando, Day 7

Today I made two (hopefully) wise decisions...

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Meando, Day 8

Biding my time, working dark magics...

Welcome back Ellumesh!

Just pottering along on one front...the front line is getting beefed up with another hero and a couple of iron maidens....boy! do I love this Healing spell!

Meanwhile, Neuman's forces are advancing on the other front and have already taken one of my watchtowers.
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Meando, Day 9

We mourn the death of Dreīd Nought, who died from an (supposedly) impossible Magic Bolt shot by a certain witch that dodged three webbings. May she rot in hell, next to that Knight who took 17 damage points in a single blow...one short of perishment. Of course slashes two and three missed wildly!

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Explored a magic vault after defeating a Kharagh with virtually no hits taken (I love the druids too!)
Moving troops' direction a little to strengthen my other front.

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Meando, Day 10

With those battles won and lost, Iīm moving to further targets...

Julioch - Day 11

Ah! Another fruitful day of exploration. My troops found some treasure being hoarded by a bunch of pirates - some gold and a very ancient ring left behind by Moses, a veritable artifact indeed. Tomorrow, we will move forward for our first thrust on Neuman. Unfortunately, we do not have enough resources to produce additional troops. Maybe we have to start looking out for them too.

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Meando, Day 11

Wandering through the woods and slowly recovering from the many battles, things donīt look so gloomy anymore!

Nothing done today except some reorganisation of my frontline stacks.

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Generated a restart...aow2 crashed to the desktop.

Meando, Days 12&13

Moving into position for greater deeds. Hit the trigger of a Death Storm trap on the march, toasting some elfies

Thanks to a couple of death storms, almost all my crops are gone and my treasury, already in the red was poised to go into the negative.
Thankfully, my summoning skills and heroes saved it in the nick of time.
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Meando, Day 14

The time is near to hurt Alfred once again...

In the night my frontline troops had gained a lot of experience - three minotaurs, a glutton and a kharagh - all without the loss or reduction in hp of a single unit.

But have sighted a grave threat to my main city. Neuman has moved two formidable stacks just a couple of days away from my main town. Hoping to distract them with the aid of three druids positioned to take over one of Neuman's own towns....hope the ploy works.

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Meando, Day 15

Things are beginning to look brighter. Though not for Neuman!

Julioch - Day 16

Captured a town from Neuman today with the help of my three druids. And lo! two moles joined me. I was extrmely pleased to get such good reinforcements.
Will Neuman's attacking army divert to take care of this new takeover?
Meanwhile, we have plans for crushing the assault troops in another two days.

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Meando Day 16

More poking Neuman. Wonder where his troops are... hopefully busy kicking lesser elves in the far south!

Today, Julioch was forced to retreat from the advancing troops of that Neuman fiend. We will have to hunt down this horde if we are to survive.
Meanwhile captured another human town and discovered something quite startling. The AI is short of money. It could not even produce a halberdier. It showed insufficient gold. Perhaps the attacking horde will rebel.

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Meando, Day 17

Whoa, there they are...just a litlle out of reach. Drawing up more troops, I wonder whether Neuman will attack my superior forces overnight, flee...or hold his ground.

My starting town captured by Neuman today but he made a grave mistake of splitting his troops. A stack of 2 scouts and his hero, Mad Man (perhaps thats why he couldn't think straight??) was placed just outside his town.
My stack of two nymphs and 5 archers killed all three and obtained a valuable artifact which can be used by Sil Germain. The nymphs and two archers perished in the attempt but it was justified.

Reinforcements are coming from the west to retake the town from Neuman's dirty hands.

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Meando, Day 18

It seems that Alfred is indeed busy elsewhere...the troops guarding the bridge have fled and now stand watch at Neumanīs tower. Such defences cannot be overcome...yet!

Meando, Day 19

Exploring the chinks in Neumanīs armour... I surely gave him a headache today!

Julioch - Days 18.19

We have inflicted some injury upon Neuman ourselves!
Captured a town of his, made the world a better place by sending two of his units to the place where they belong - below the earth.

Tomorrow, we will hopefully regain the lost town of ours.

Our pirates are also scouting out the seas since we have espied land nearby and it is a good way to get into Meandor's backyard.

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Julioch - Day 20

Today we tried to take back our town from that wretched Neuman....and failed. Lost my three druids and 2 moles to Neuman's 4 cavalry and a swordsman. Just a cavalry left standing and the city is up in rebellion.
We have also spotted an intruder coming south from Meandor's capital. A northern glow. We will have to attend to that.
My pirates have come upon new lands that seem to hold good possibilities.

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Meando, Day 20

Yesterdays attack seems to have scared Neuman badly... hea has made the ultimate blunder! Also, dear Al seems to lack the funds to maintain his army, and morale is sagging. With a little luck, Iīll be able to buy some troops off should his forces disintegrate

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Meando, Day 21

Contact! The lesser elves are sending their human allies in the form of several Swashbucklers across the sea...

Meanwhile, Neuman is slowly withdrawing. Good Riddance, and cause a little trouble down south, Al!

Julioch - Day 22

Ah..thought that fool Meando will attack my able pirates and allow me the joy of seeing his unit being slaughtered but he has not.

Neuman's forces seem to be on the retreat on this front too though a Northern Glow is making its way towards one of my human towns.

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Meando, Day 22

Make that one less pirate, Julioch! Soon you will be following Neuman in his flight south...

Meando, Day 24 (for real, I looked it up this time!)

Both sides are contesting the seas, and are sending swashbucklers out to meet the enemy, sabers drawn and pistols ready...