Tir na n'Og

[Jarkko]

I just took part in a game on a small random map as Tir na n'Og (with 5 land nations and 3 water nations). First time ever I played with them (althugh I've tried Eriu against the AI). They seemed to have very nice sacred troops and very nice thugs (bless, barkskin, mistform, resist lightning, attack x1, cast spells (counting on the AI to shockwave), so I took an imprisoned pretender (ie I didn't expect to see him in the game, as things get hectic on a small map ) with E9 W4 N4 and decent scales. I thought I would walz around as a king.

Well, I really did think so. Instead I got totally pwned (as they say in the world of MMO's).

First I got into a war with Yomi. Lost all my six thugs in first battle next to my capital. The freezing a-oni stunned my thugs, and they were then burned by the flamecasting troops. My prophet with the sacred troops were barely able to hold their own, but I decided to attack Yomi capital in the hopes of turning their main army from my capital. Alas, that did not happen.

In a desperate attempt to save my capital I recruited massed slingers from my second fort and recruited the elephant mercs. In a battle of massive losses (the elephants killed lots of Yomi when they rushed forwards, and they killed lots of Tirs when they rushed backwards...) I succeeded to push Yomi army out from my capital, but they were heading in with another one. It did look as I was toast.

Then Pangaea attacked and gave me the coup de grace. The minotaurs ran down my sacred army and put my second fort under siege (damn sneakers...). With no army and with forts about to fall I went AI.


Now, what did I do wrong? I wasn't double-teamed until I had already lost to Yomi basically, and I have to say I have not been that impressed with Yomi before. Surely Tir can't be worse than Yomi, so it must have something that I did totally wrong Also, what is the Tir weapon against tramplers?


EDIT: To clarify, Yomi and Pangaea were AI in this game.