First turn played and sent.

Dark Elves Day 2.

Today first scouts left caves. There is much work to do.

Looking around outside the darkness of the caves I start to see the world unfurl before me. I'm not sure where to go next, perhaps I'll ask directions at this town nearby.

Dark Elves Day 3.

Captured a pile of resourses and received a choice from two very useful structures. I wish I could get them both...

Obtained a nearby town, looking around for more towns.

Dark Elves Day 4.

It seems that all neighbour towns are of good races. That will slow my expansion.

I took a shadow demon own today. My iron maden had been swallowed by the harvester and I just barely saved her by killing it before she was completely digested. I'll be here awhile while the town converts.

Dark Elves Day 6.

Two more towns spoted by scouts... Both are inhabited by halfings

Clearly I started on the wrong side of the board. I could use some halfling villages. Instead I'm fighting over ownership of a furnace.

Dark Elves Day 8.

In the central area an enemy glade runner is capturing structures already... My executioneer claimed one of relays. Elves have one already, they do not need both.

Migration is going in several towns. Meanwhile I have no gold to produce new troops - migrating cities do not pay any taxes...

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My glad runner skillfully avoided capture, and for now I'm content to leave the relay in the hands of my enemy. Other issues draw my attention at the moment.

Dark Elves Day 9.

One migration finished, another started... Life flows.

My attack force has fallen to an earth elemental and a few of his friends. I have a new hero coming up, but this will be more than a bit of a setback.

Dark Elves Day 10.

While glade runner again escaped our hunters, his new friend sheriff did not. My hero himself attacked him and slayed without any problems.

Dark Elves Day 11.

Glade runner left his forest and camped just on the highway! He was immediatly captured. Now I will have a nice pleasure torturing him...

Dark Elves Day 14.

Scouts keep capturing elven watchtowers and mills, but not a single good elf was spoted since the capture of glade runner. Either they are hiding among trees, preparing ambush, or simply runing away in terror

*pretends not to be running in terror*

Dark Elves Day 15.

My brave swordsman endure an attack of unicorn and keeps scouting enemy territory. In another region my hero is slowly moving through deep forests. May be tommorow he will reach something...

I've converted one orc town, and am working on converting the next one.

Dark Elves Day 16.

Defeated an elven swordsman in the north. In other places keep capturing different stuff...

Still working on converting the gobling town.

Starting to retake those items in the center board which i had lost before. We'll see how long I hold them this time.

Dark Elves Day 18.

Recaptured the nearest relay and killed a unicorn in process.I don't think elves will be able to defend the center.

Hmmm. Big scary spider queens. Time to turn around.

Dark Elves Day 19.

Recaptured a watchtower in cetral area, will recapture another relay tommorow. Meanwhile my sneaking group may cause some mischief in elven territory... Or die trying.

Dark Elves Day 20.

My force caused even more mischief then I hoped: two towns were stolen from elves. Now I'll have a nice time selling structures in them.

Meanwhile enemy hero and iron maiden were spoted in the north. Well, while they are lurking there I can have my pleasure in the central region. Time to kill and torture...

It seems, as is my habbit, to send the units to the wrong place at the wrong time. At least I have rescued one town from the clutches of my enemy.

Dark Elves Day 22.

Enemy recaptured all stolen towns, but one of my spies (or more then one ) is still alive and watching.

Meanwhile a central tigran citadel was captured by my forces. Losses were quite low for such a garrison.

I've hunted down the last known spy. Though who knows how many unknown ones remain.

I also exterminated a loose spider, butI see more troops approaching me than I care for.

Dark Elves Day 23.

Time to capture border cities once and for all. My best hero himself leads the invasion forces. Darkness is coming.

Second smaller invasion force is approaching the northern region. Draconian village here should belong to dark elves.

Its not looking good in mudville. After a truly silly attempt to take out a spider queen, it is looking as if I'm going to have to pull back.

Dark Elves Day 24.

Frostling village was captured by my forces in the central region, and army started march into heart of elven kingdom. Will see if elves have enough forces to stop me.

In the north an abandoned village of draconians and surrounding watchtowers were captured.

In the south region my traveling second hero captured a watchtower that allowed elves to see my moves for long time. They won't see anything anymore.

Consolidation of forces is continuing at a very rapid pace, though possibly not rapid enough. We'll see what happens when we meet.

Dark Elves Days 25 & 26.

During these days a big group of elven forces was defeated and one more town captured. Enemy hero with iron maiden tried to escape, but was not fast enough. Now he is dead too. It seems that forces of light do not posses the power to stop or even slow down advance of darkness.

Yeah, its looking an awful lot like the ofrces of light are in deep deep trouble.

Dark Elves Day 27.

One more town captured from elves - this time near the entrance to thier wizards cave. In two days Elves will become history.

Dark Elves Day 28.

My main forces entered the dungeon of elven wizard. But the defense - 2 fairy dragons - is quite powerful, more strong then I thought. Still not strong enough to stop me. Next turn will be last unless a miracle occur.

In another place last elven hero captured a nomad village, but was poorly wounded in battle. My executioneer was passing by and he stoped to kill said hero. Nomad village was captured too.

Game is over. The capital of elves was captured.

Thanks for playing Hiranu. I owe you a rematch.

And I'd like to hear your opinion about map.

Thanks for the game. Do you want to post the results to the ladder or shall I? And I'd be more than happy to take you up on that rematch.

The map was good on the whole. I liked the feel of meeting in the middle, while still there were plenty of things to explore around the sides. If there were ways to slow th two sides meeting it would aid my playstyle, but probably not anyone elses. I like the feel of give and take thta was there (however briefly) before I started my decent.

If it were me, probably I cut down on the number of wizard's towers to make it a little harder to track what the other person is doing. And some people might think the board was cluttered, though I certainly liked it that way.

I have not much time now, so I will be happy if you post the results.

About rematch - we can play the same map (with new starting races/wizards and with swaped starting lockations) or play another map of your choice. If you prefer first variant, post you prefered starting conditions and I'll set up the new game.

And I'll think about watchtowers. If I edit the map I'll send you new version before starting game.

I think a redo of the same map would be fun. This time though I think I'd like to play humans with air magic and explorer.

I'll set up the game tommorow. I'll take tigrans with Fire magic and conqueror.

Will we exchange starting positions?

If you want. I don't think it matters,s ince most of the cities are randomly generated, and otherwise the map is inherenlty symetrical.

Rematch game started with new settings and exchanged starting lockations. I've started a new thread for it.