Elves day 1
The pride of our princess is at stake. Her beauty is far above any other race. The puny Halflings think nothing of insulting us. Beware, we will not put up with those insults for long.

We will unite the forces of good and vanquish the evil that threatens our land. Our Princess will stand triumphant. We hope the Halflings will see it our way or else we will bury them in their holes in the ground.

Today, we expand out and gather many towns under our control. A glorious start for our Princess.

(Ah yes, changed to this greeny color, it's better)

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Now I wonder how this will play when it 'doesn't matter' so much ... doesn't matter in that with my position on the ladder, one more loss won't make much difference

Halflings Day 1
We start off in a state of depression. Our spells will get us nowhere, our Lady Lucinda feels slighted and we feel the Elves have really gone too far this time.

We're looking round our small kingdom and wondering why people who would like to be friends with us ask for so much gold

Elves day 2

We march forward capturing more lands. We have captured the 3 towers and our field of vision is great. There are no evil things lurking only lots of indies to kill/bribe or even better, seduce! Onward.

Halflings Day 2
Further exploration - those we cannot afford, we conquer, losing rather more of our units than we would like. We don't have long enough legs to have reached all our towers yet ... but our champions are speeding bravely towards caves and crypts where treasures might be found. We hope they will be strong enough to overcome the guards that will be in the way.

Elves day 3

Cleared out a dungeon and got a couple nice artifacts. My troops are off to accomplish their missions. We're expanding out so we'll see what we can do. Income is a little tough but things are moving along nicely.

Halflings Day 3
More exploration, more losses. Our small legs have reached the towers guarding our lands at last so now at least we can see the evil ones' arrival.

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Elves day 4

More exploration, more town conquering, more wounded troops. We're short on money but our troops are expanding out rapidly. We'll see how things go as we prepare to attack some formidable troops.

Halflings Day 4
Another day of exploration with the few scouts we have left after the night's attacks. And wishing we had gold. And mana. And more units. We do know where the elves are, however ... even if they don't know where we are. Oh, and we met a human.

Elves day 5

Our troops continue to press forward. We see no signs of the halflings but we do spot a highman hero. He appears to be in quite a pickle. 2 small evil stacks are nearby, they are not strong stacks but the battle could be ugly. We hope our friends the highmen are victorious.

We move out onto the waters and establish a presence on a nearby island. More cities come under our control. All of these marvelous events boost the morale of our princess. She looks prettier than ever. We'll show those Halflings what true beauty is all about.

Halflings Day 5

We get our first sight of evil ones from under the ground. Our good Princess was badly hurt when taking on some of these evil creatures and has retreated for recuperation and healing.

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Elves day 6

We move and take another city and some farms. We spot the evil things moving about including Dezina, a lvl 19 DarkElf. We see some wounded evil troops and assume the highman hero fell in battle to them. Our forces are moving to defend against Dezina but we don't know which way she will turn, towards us or the highmen.

Halflings Day 6
As Remedy was finally researched, we decided to go and visit a dungeon in the hopes of finding new friends. Through very long battles in darkened passageways we struggled on as we felt that someone this heavily guarded must be important. Our efforts were rewarded and Black Eagle the Pirate King is now numbered among our friends.

In view of this, our heroes are racing back to our homeland, confident that the crypts, ziggerats and other treasure chests can be ours.

Evil ones are approaching on all sides. For now they appear to be low-level but we doubt that will last for long.

Elves day 7

Evil things emerge from the depths and will likely cause us problems. Dezina is coming closer to us and our troops pull back to form a larger group. We continue our advance on the penninsula and attmpts to establish control of our centerland. A big beetle and stack will decide if his next victim will be the elves or maybe the dwarves.

Halflings Day 7
The evil ones have mostly vanished so we continue with our explorations.

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Elves day 8

Dezina has fallen and left us a nice sword. She killed several valiant archers and swordsmen but in the end could not endure. Our other troops have rescued the elven maiden from a prison, she is very pleased to have been rescued and is eager to protect the pride of our most beatiful princess. We move on to our other objectives as we expand out.

Halflings Day 8

Another scout was lost overnight whilst Xarg the Grim (lvl 19) is on his way towards our lands. Our heroes are rather far away.

A ziggurat was stripped of its treasures. More gold and mana would make us even happier

Elves day 9

Another day of moving troops around preparing for more battles. Crondo at lvl 20 has appeared near the beetle and a wyvern has joined them. My troops are moving to prepare for the attack. It will not be pretty. No exciting battles but we do distribute lots of new attributes for our heroes after gaining a combined 5 levels. Our princess claimed 2 of them and now has Beauty IV, Charm III and Smile V. No one can claim beauty like hers.

Halflings Day 9
Well the gold situation has improved considerably. Sadly it is because of huge losses overnight.

Xarg has disappeared but we are chasing lvl 20 Zerina the Dark.

It's a shame the elf princess has to buy her attributes - our princess has them naturally.

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Elves day 10

The Goblins are afraid and run underground. We think they will return with more armies. 2 Dark Elf heroes are approaching too. We must attack and hurt them while we can. We clean out another treasure trove and really like the treasure we found.

We have seen what those halfpints call attributes, hairy feet, short and dumpy, Hah! That is nothing compared to our Beauty.

Halflings Day 10
Zerina has disappeared - they all run from the formidable Halfling heroes. A shame, as we could do with the experience ... so we are following her.

Lack of gold is causing all sorts of problems but hopefully it will eventually sort itself out.

Elves day 11

Killed more indie troops, moved my armies around and watched the evil do nothing important at all. Things are moving but slowly.

Halflings Day 11
We took a gamble which failed. Zerina is dead, but so is our king and another of our valiant heroes. Elsewhere things are going a little better, but not much.

Elves day 12

A glorious day for the forces of good. The highmen, dwarves and humans have decided to join us in our battle against evil. They also openly admit that our princess is by far the prettiest. That leaves only the Halflings and we can all see what is happening to them.

Halflings Day 12
Methinks the Dwarves and Humans are playing some kind of devious game as they are also allied to us.

We have an Undead Wraith creating havoc in our homeland. Our remaining heroes are racing back to deal with it before it causes any more problems. I'm not sure they can outrun Xarg though, so we could be hero-less by tomorrow.

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Elves day 13

We capture another indie town and more mana nodes. That will boost our research. Our frogs are out scouting new terrain and meeting with some good success. The dark elf hereos are running away, they will not fall into our trap.

Halflings Day 13
Xarg decided to turn towards the dwarves rather than our fleeing heroes.

Elves day 14

A glorious day for our heroes as they cleared out a couple dungeons and found some awesome treasure. My king will soon be equipped with a magic ring that allows him to fly. Add that to his high defense and attack, a nice bow that throws javelins and he will be ready to attack anything that opposes us. Right now that consists of evil things and Halflings.

Halflings Day 14
Some scouts were lost overnight to undead mummies. We, too, found our share of treasures although flying wasn't among them.

We found the wraith but unfortunately have a complete lack of enchanted weapons on that island atm. It will be rectified tomorrow. A beholder tried to take a dungeon single-handed and was succeeding until coming face to face with a bone horror. There followed a rapid retreat and a wait for reinforcements.

Elves day 15

Our flying hero kills several stacks of gobbos and clears out a nice dungeon getting even more treasure. It will be put to good use.

Our trap was set for the Dark Elves. Our Spellcaster with 6 archers and swordsman attacked 2 stacks of dark elves, each led by one of their heroes. A total of 14 spiders, swordsmen, catapults, fire sprites and other low level evil things. Magic spells were flying across the field as they could not withstand the onslaught of chain lightening and arrows. In the end the mighty ice-shards provided the death blow for the first hero. With all our magic gone and having lost 3 archers and swordsman it was up to our spellcaster to lay the final death blow on the last Dark Elf hero. They will bother us no more.

Halflings Day 15
The wraith is gone but we are being besieged by high level evil ones. Having only 2 heroes is a distinct disadvantage, however strong and levelled they are, as they can't be everywhere at once.