Humans get off to an average start. Could have been better, but no disasters.

A decent start for the Elves, no problems and a few small gains.

Our scout horseman meets two satyrs and gets charmed away. Our follow up force buys him out. In the battle, a satyr charms him again, but our charlatan charms him back. I guess he must be feeling a bit bemused at the moment!

Captured a builders guild and life node, didn't have anything overly fun happen though.

Desperately need to find some mana source.

Instead, found a castle ruin and fought OK, plus got some middling items.

Lost my ranger overnight to a pair of frogs, the two heroes accomapnying him took their revenge though.

Sent a horseman to parly with a city, but had to park him overnight outside the gates as it was too expensive. 3 frogs attacked him but fortunately the city guards helped out and he survived to buy the city somewhat cheaper today.

Beat some ladies of pain up in a dungeon and released some prisoners that more than make up for the loss of an important unit on the first turn.

At last a mana node is in sight. Let's hope the unit set to capture it does not get ambushed overnight.

Overthrew an elven city, and captured a few more minor structures. My two heroes are rather exposed to the Frostling forces though.

The Frostlings steal our starting 4 hex city...how mean, but I'll get them yet.

Have probably ventured a bit too far, but our heros are gaining xp. Damn mana node got pinched by the dark elves, so we still look for sources.

Killed some Frostlings with an altar of life. Also killed some Dark Elves with some newly bought Elves. Things aren't looking too bad, except for that Frostling hero sitting in our old 4 hexer.

Getting annoyed by the Frostlings now. Freed a Syron from a prison, now all I have to do is make sure it doesn't leave my side.

Dark elf interloper got killed by a spider queen - nice! Said queenie was very injured so my archer ventured out of his safe city and killed her.

Mana is at least on the up now.

Looks like we are heading for a showdown with the dwarves.

Killed one of the frostlings penguins. Tomorrow the first major battle against the Frostings will probably commence, the Elves are expecting an easy victory.

Aha, the Frostlings take a beating, took a three hex city from them and sent my old 4 hexer into warmode. Next turn it shall be mine again.

The war against the dwarves goes well, killed one of their heros and a stack and a half of support units, so that their 4 hex is now mine. They must have another hero somewhere but we can only see one other unit at present.

An exploratory penguin watches the elves commit murder and hopes their tame syron proves not so tame.

We start to plan a campaign against the dark elves.

The Frostlings have now been pushed out of the Elven lands. Being troubled by some small bands of Dark Elves as well now.

Humans.

Found a second dwarf hero. Not much, but he's on our side now! Still feel there's something stronger about. Expect to lose the dwarf 4 hex overnight and get it back again tomorrow.

Defeated a large group of Frostlings in their lands and starting to ous further South. Hopefully my Syron is well under control for now.

Getting bogged down a bit in dwarf land - their hero had an argument with his bodyguard and went off in a huff, now we have to catch him.

Expanding some more, taking a Dark Elven city far to the South of our main lands. Stuck in other places as we have no way to breach walls for now.

Humans.

Things go as planned in dwarfland - the marrauding hero is back on our side now. We seek those dwarf units we know about. Hopefully, the short stumpies will be out of the war soon.

Dark elves are causing som trouble, so now we move to dealt with them.

Not sure what to do about those nasty elves with their syron.

Defeated more Frostlings, there seem to be many many more though. One of my heroes is also rather exposed to a group of those Frostlings.

A fair amount of action v the dark elves, plus a mopping up force seeks dwarf remnants. There are several targets in sight, a guarded wizards tower, a water node and of course northern targets. But we have to choose one thing at a time.

More Orcs and Frostlings are killed, and another Syron joins our ranks.

TWO Syrons! Oh, great. One was bad enough. Still, we have our plans.

The dwarves seem to have gone farther north than we expected, presumably at the expense of the orcs.

Taking chunks out of the remaining Frostling forces as well as a level 10 Dark Elven hero.

Hey! That dark elf hero was mine. At least until he cleared off and I lost sight of him.

Instead, we fight an enormous battle for some treasure and lose all our cannon fodder and nearly all our hopes. But we escape by the skin of our teeth with the loot.

We continue to press north on the dwarves and west on the dark elves. We expect a lightning blast from the dark elves, but we will weather that storm.

Feeling rather secure now as the majority of the orcish forces seem to have been defeated. There are still a couple of Frostling heroes around but they won't cause much trouble to my heroes and spare Syron.

Watching our foes the elves going back and forth, and doing our best to harry them. Perhaps our lady of pain will make it into the frostie city that keeps changing hands before it puts up walls. Perhaps not.

It appears our lizard mercenaries hate lightning, well those that are left standing do, and have to postpone their slimy assault.