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Took my troops out in trepidation....

Elves day 1

We advance and move out. We wonder where the attacks will come in the night.

Dark Elves.

We clear out some structure or other, and pinch some items. We see some targets, but heed warnings to go in force.

Elves day 2

Wandering monsters do more damage than expected and none of the nearby cities will be purchased. This does not bode well for us, we regroup and prepare for the Orc invasion.

Dark Elves Day 3

No action as, worried by reports of terrible times, we group our meagre forces together ready for attack. Hopefully, tomorrow we will be able to do some attacking. We can't do any buying because even if we had the cash, noone wants to sell!

Elves day 3

The Orcs have invaded, buying up nearby towns and increasing their numbers. Our archers fail to hit their marks and are badly wounded but we will prevail. We prepare for the strong hero to move too close to us and we will pounce on him.

A disasterous turn for the dark elves. No sign of any orc invasion, which may indicate we are being TOO careful, but we attack a dwarf 3 hex, and succeed in losing a hero. Everything went badly, including 3 failed seductions in a row. And we end up with a 3 hex that needs migrating!

Elves day 4

We're not sure what we're doing, all we know is that we're not efficient with our moves and everyone is out of position. We attempt to gather our troops to combat the evil hero that is gobbling up resources and towns in our homeland.

Elves day 5

We position our troops (once again) to battle the Orcs, so far nothing much of good is happening

Dark Elves

Our moves have been very efficient..... because we can't move! Being committed to migrating a 3 hex we cannot afford any troops to go off on their own, which leaves the halfling unicorn free to rifle through our porperty. Our gold situation is therefore dire!

And now we see orcs on the horizon! Not sure we can survive all this.

Elves day 6

We manage small victories against the orcs, penniless and short on troops we hope to build up our defenses.

Things continue to look bleak, but if we survive one more day finances will improve.

Elves day 7

Small skirmishes with the Orcs, there will be more battles with them tomorrow, 2 large stacks are approaching and I don't think I'm prepared.

Dark Elves Day 8

At last! Now we can try and oust the orcs from a 2 hex, although the halflings threaten our flank. Gold should now start flowing in.

Elves day 8

We mourn great and terrible losses in the night. The orcs are everywhere and we are falling before them. We consolidate our forces for what will soon be a final battle. Hopefully we can deal with the invading group before their reinforcements of 6 ballistas/catapults arrive

Dark Elves Day 9

The dang orcs reinforce their 2 hex with 4 troops including 2 shredder bolts. But the odds are acceptable and we take them out with the loss of one archer. Now we track back to deal with the halflings. Things are looking up, although we expect there are orcs over the horizon.

Elves day 9

We had great success against one Orc conquered city in our homeland. They were busy upgrading it so we took the money and ran. Why run? 2 Halfling heroes with a strong stack were within striking distance, elsewhere an Orc beetle, troll and other troops are coming straight for us We must pick the battles or else all will be lost.

Dark Elves Day 10

A scout goes forward into orc territory, and our meagre main force rushes towards halflings. Tomorrow, a couple of archers will be added to our army.

We survive!

Elves day 11

The Orc invasion comes like a tidal wave. What shall we do?

We have one plan that may give us a little bit of time.

Dark Elves Day 11

We can see no less than 26 halfling units strung out in 4 stacks. Fortunately, mainly low level units, although there are a bunch of ballistas, a giant and a fairy in there, apart from the ranger that is acting solo. We hope to soon have a complete stack of units with which we may be able to do something.

Elves day 11

Our secret mission unfolds itself. 2 Halfling heroes approach with a mighty army of frogs We approach and quickly kill the frogs however we are not quick enough to hide from the magic of the heroes. Bolts of ice are launched and kill our cleric. Another archer falls to the frogs. Chain lightening fails to stun the hero, entangle is gone with the cleric, 2 failed attempts by our nymph and our plan fails

We retreat and hope to try something new tomorrow. Oh, I can't forget the Orcs, 25 or more are storming through the homeland.

Dark elves Day 12

We now have 9 units grouped at a tower. We might be able to mass some more. But the halflings have split two large groups of units off which is good because we can deal with them one at a time. They still have 17 units sitting in a 3 hex though, apart from what we can't see just beyond. Oh yes, orcs......

Elves day 12

We attempt another plan of ours but it fails miserably. We may try another route again in the morning but things do not look good for us.

Dark Elves Day 13

Tirlas joins! And allows us to get rid of two halflings before joing our main band. Who then fight two glorious battles agains more halflings. In the first, our 11 troops engage 8 including a level 7 hero. They all fall swiftly except the hero, who we then find is Sondra who won't get seduced, so she dies. We lose an archer.

In the second, we can only bring 9 troops including one hero but there is less opposotion although a giant puts our hero out of striking play due to his first boulder. But lightning strikes work well, and now we have an unruly silver medal giant!

Things are looking up.

Elves day 13

We press on trying to stay alive. If we can survive 2 more days we may have a chance to last even longer. We shall see.

Dark Elves Day 14

Things are quite perilous. We fight one battle and lose our giant, but are quite happy with the result - another hero killed. But we decide not to take on the other stack brimming with ballistas. Our hero is badly wounded and if they attack in the night we may be done for.

Elves day 14

We continue to evade all the orcs and halflings around us. I'm sure we'll be attacked in the night, the only question is will we survive. If all goes well on our next turn we may be in a position to survive then we can start thinking about killing our enemy.

Dark Elves Day 15

We survive the night then try and attack a unicorn and 3 ballistas. We misjudge their range after killing the unicorn and one ballista kills one hero, the other just misses on killing our second and the third takes out an archer. Thoroughly disheartened, we retreat. Although we may may as well have died in a blaze of glory, because now we don't have the troops to do anything much.

Elves day 15

It pleases us greatly to hear of the troubles of our evil cousins however, our troubles are just as great

We lose more troops, a giant attacks in the night. Ballistas and catapults too. The Orcs and Halflings are everywhere. We continue to fight and hide but we fear we cannot last much longer. We do gain a key site to securing our future but many troops are headed this way.