We get surprised by a lone hero on the map we hadn't seen when checking in the editor. Soon, he is not alone!

The main mob go wandering off in search of resources.

Our hero and troops explore a ruined castle and take 2 medicore items. Elsewhere we bought the services a lightly defended human city.

Income is a bit of a problem, but we capture a one hex human city and some resources are on the horizon, so things should start to look up.

During the night, 4 wolves attack - but are easily slaughtered. The day was one of resting and recovering from wounds. We are joyful that we have not yet lost any of our brave troops, but many are sorely injured and need some time to rest and recuperate. Our gold reserves did increase with the recovery of 50 gold and the capture of a mine.

We find our way back to our heartlands.

Also, we find some gold, that enables us to buy some nice people.

Now we look for battles so we can get wounded too!

Sadly, our yeti get a bit big-headed and attempted to take on 4 pengiuns himself. His loss is hard for us to accept so early in our attempt to take these lands...

Oh for a yeti to waste, or some gold, or both. We park outside a nice city whilst the inhabitants throw demands over the walls demanding exhorbitant sums to join us!

Our scouts range far and wide, trying to get some sense of the strange teleportals and their interlocking network.

Elsewhere, our kingdom is slowly growing as we add a builders guild and a mana node...slow but steady.

Gimme gold, more gold! So much to spend it on and so little to spend. We have to kill a few highmen to gain one more city.

Nayferac and his human allies fought a long hard battle in which he nearly died and some of his allies did fall. In the end, the prison guards were killed and a salamander and Lidiax were freed. Lidiax's ability to cast spells was immediately put to use and will be a great benefit as Nayferac has yet to master that ability!

Not much action - but much searching out of cities and weighing up options. Wish we could find a prison or something.

Nayferac and Lidiax had a quiet day as they rested and moved towards some (hopefully) unguarded mines.

Much busier today. We buy a nice 4 hex, find some gold and capture a 2 hex. Our main strike force captures a shipyard (or builders guild, memory is failing) and our hero has just enough movement to park on a monster lair..... then thinks he will be a little nosy and go in all on his own. Careful exploration nearly comes a cropper, as he is fired upon by a musketeer, and after charging forward to kill it, encounters a cavalier! Fortunately, it is despatched with no problems and the remaining 6 units pose no real threat, so some nice items are now put to good use!

Lidiax continues on without Nayferac for a guild. He almost dies as well, but manages to escape with his life!

Wish we had heros to waste. Our two do OK though, one gains 2 levels (must have missed one!) and the other takes on 3 druids and 2 priests on a life node, aided only by a couple of priests and a unicorn. The hero suffers all sorts of indignities such as entanglement and stunning but soaks up the pressure whilst the unicorn gets all the xp. And now we have a life node!

And we spot a dungeon! Only about a week to get there.

Not much action, but what there is is disastrous. We lose 4 units to 2 charlatans.

Overall, a good turn - our goal of turning the world to snow shall be realized!

A busier turn, although not as busy as the frostlings appear to be - no sign of them on the map as yet, though.

Our hero captures a nice human 3 hex, whilst a dwarf uses his mountain skills to accept the services of a city with two giants. who go on to take a power node off 4 spirit puppets. Other troops on the move.

Overall, only 1 battle fought (and a small one at that). Quiet...to quiet!

Big battle in a crypt, which had to be refought due to unexplained aow crash. It goes quite well, in that our unicorn gained valuable xp, our hero gained some xp and a surfeit of ranged weapons, and our army gained a powerful unhappy unit!

Another hero kills a couple of riders and waits for scouts to catch up, of which we lost too many overnight.

Various other expansion activities and one minor battle carried out by other troops.

We spy frostlings! Well, only one actually.

Lidiax, meanwhile, managed to dominate two nice units and they start on their mission to bring ruin to the Elves!

Very worried by all this frostling domination. Our hero with domination is so weak we cant' afford to let him use it on any powerful units, even if we found any!

At least we have now spied out several targets for investigation, including one prison. But they are so far away!

With the Azarcs and Orcs strong on our borders...things are starting to look a bit bleak.

Jealous of the Frostlings getting all the action. All we have is indies killing scouts overnight and our troops picking up the pieces during the day.

We did notice the casting of earth mastery - mainly because we are in posession of an earth node, and now a nice earth elemental!

Elsewhere, we lost 2 yetis in an attempt to clear another prison...sooooo close to getting the prisoners free and perhaps strengthening that front...now it seems we will have to wait quite a while there...that is okay, lots of fronts to contend with!

Still very worried about falling behind in the expansion schedule. At least we have now spotted some orcs to fight. And two giants and an archer clear out a prison containing some azrac nasties and a couple of spiders without much damage, releasing some very nice prisoners.

Edirr Darkblade changed his mind and now moves to a different location with a new and most likely very foolish plan...we shall see in about 3 days!

Some action - but not enough, not enough!

Disaster!

Overnight we get action of the wrong kind, i.e. the kind in which a powerful stack turns up out of the blue and kills all your main attack stack, including hero.

And in a depressed state, we play a dungeon battle badly and lose a hero.

Not good.

We are doomed! If reports coming from the Frostlings of all their kinky domination are correct. Not that we don't mind a bit of domination. Just that a) we have not met any units worth dominating, except for a bone horror and b) we now do not posess a dominator.

Managed to kill an orc warlord this turn, and that's about it.