YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [7/24 players left]

[PriestyMan]

Mictlan has fallen at last. After many turns of holding up the walls of our forts we have finally succumbed.

we gain peace in knowing we killed many men in the defense of our cap incuding the great evil giant Balor

[WraithLord]

Would you care to give us a short recount of your heroic deeds?- Such that won't infringe on the anonymity of the remaining players?

Good game. Thanks for playing.

[PriestyMan]

Well i started out pretty good, started next to agartha, which as anyone knows, when you start next to them, you attack them, no matter who you are, you just do because they are agartha. But being a W9S9B4blessed mictlan made that easier. i broke their back easy enough, but took much to long to close the deal i'm afraid. then i got attacked by a really really bizzare Helheim. I dont think i ever would have thought someone would make masses of thugs equipped with 2h baneblades and champion skulls. while this wasnt particularly scary, helheim was much bigger than me and could wreck my economy. it was sorta touch and go, but then formoria decided to kill Helheim from the other side. There really wasnt any way my war-torn nation could hope to fight formoria's onslaught, so i decided to turtle in my forts and make it hard for him. by using cross-breeding and a couple hundred vampires, i held out for many many turns tying down a huge amount of troops. eventually formoria brought in around 900 men plus gate cleavers and stormed my fort. I did a decent amount of damage, like i said, killed Balor, but it wasnt enough to break formoria's morale.

[Squirrelloid]

Originally Posted by PriestyMan

Well i started out pretty good, started next to agartha, which as anyone knows, when you start next to them, you attack them, no matter who you are, you just do because they are agartha. But being a W9S9B4blessed mictlan made that easier. i broke their back easy enough, but took much to long to close the deal i'm afraid. then i got attacked by a really really bizzare Helheim. I dont think i ever would have thought someone would make masses of thugs equipped with 2h baneblades and champion skulls. while this wasnt particularly scary, helheim was much bigger than me and could wreck my economy. it was sorta touch and go, but then formoria decided to kill Helheim from the other side. There really wasnt any way my war-torn nation could hope to fight formoria's onslaught, so i decided to turtle in my forts and make it hard for him. by using cross-breeding and a couple hundred vampires, i held out for many many turns tying down a huge amount of troops. eventually formoria brought in around 900 men plus gate cleavers and stormed my fort. I did a decent amount of damage, like i said, killed Balor, but it wasnt enough to break formoria's morale.

Broke my back easy enough? How many hundred jag warriors did i kill? Seriously, I probably drained enough resources from you that you were unable to recover.

Turn 33 was way too late to attack. I was expecting to be dead by turn 20. I didn't even get attacked until well after that.

[WraithLord]

CBM 1.8 contains some improvements to Agartha. Possibly it will become more competitive and will no longer occupy the "must be attacked" slot.

[PriestyMan]

Originally Posted by Squirrelloid

Broke my back easy enough? How many hundred jag warriors did i kill? Seriously, I probably drained enough resources from you that you were unable to recover.

Turn 33 was way too late to attack. I was expecting to be dead by turn 20. I didn't even get attacked until well after that.

just loaded up my turn 33. at that point i owned everything but you cap, so i'm pretty sure that means i attacked before that turn.

[Squirrelloid]

Originally Posted by PriestyMan

just loaded up my turn 33. at that point i owned everything but you cap, so i'm pretty sure that means i attacked before that turn.

Huh, i recalled turn 33. Well, it was pretty late. Maybe turn 28. It was much later than i wouldve attacked in your shoes.

[WraithLord]

Another titan has fallen. Come forward please, you who have led mighty Atlantis thus far.

[Isokron]

Yes Atlantis has finally fallen. I started the game with an awake Wyrm with some extra magic to try to get some fast expansion as well as some later magic diversity. This sort of worked ok to begin with and I think I had an early lead in territory. When I ran into Rlyeh I thought I should try to attack him early before he got too much scary research for his Aboleths but unfortunately he was able to repel my attack and things looked grim. Then he and Oceania got into a war and I stood by on the sidelines thinking I would be able to kill of the victor. Unfortunately Oceania then suddenly collapsed before I was ready and my somewhat rushed attack again failed.

After that me and Rlyeh waged a more or less continuous war back and forth but as I had feared I couldn't really come up with an effective answer to his troops. This was of course not helped by my wyrm getting mindhunted and killed just as it was on its way back to base to start using those expensive paths I had bought for it. Well I mostly tried to use thugged out Basalt kings but I could never get enough of them and in the end Rlyeh just run me over.

Good game and well played whoever is Rlyeh, and good luck to all remaining players.

[WraithLord]

GG Isokron. Thank you for playing.
Oh and until this one is over you're still the reigning YARG champion