Buddy/Ignore List
09-30-2013, 08:33 PM
So another game comes to a close. Congrats to the SO for his victory. Here is the perspective of the Gnomes as to how the game played out in the southeast corner of the map.
I started by making an alliance with the UN to split Runnimede. I also put out feelers to the DE about working together. At first he was receptive, but then told me he'd gotten drawn into another alliance, so I left it alone. I should have realized that meant he was part of a group that would be targeting me, but I was focused elsewhere. I also paid the RD off to leave the region and concentrate on my enemy, the DW. This worked out well – his destruction of the DW over the next few turns boosted my influence well above 20.
I took Cradia and then the region early on and also got on the HC. I felt fairly happy about things and started to move north into Torvale, where the AN and TR were both being quite ineffective and I landed outside the TR capital with every intention of taking it.
That was the turn my luck turned against me, though, as I faced a combined attack of the BL, SO and DE. The DE and SO conspired to sneak Cradia out from under me just as I was trying to make it my capital and the BL moved after my pop centers. I really was screwed at that point – the UN turned out to be uncommunicative and the RD was too far away. Anybody else who might have been able to help was also tied up or committed to not attack the SO/DE/BL alliance. Thrown fully on the defensive, I still had a lot of cards in my deck – my high influence and decent wizards and troops.
I lost my troops on a vain attempt to break the BL siege of my capital – I figured that since the BL troops are mediocre, I would be able to kill enough of them to do it, but I forgot that Gnomes are just that much worse – I would have lost them eventually, I'm sure, but I might have used them to cause more headaches. My goal at that point was simple – tie the BL down in Runnimede and prevent him from obtaining a victory. I had luck, both good and bad – it took me more turns than I'd hoped to get my capital safe into the sea. But I never stopped fighting, even though the BL sent some polite suggestions that I might enjoy another game more. He was slowly wearing me down, but I tied up his king for about half the game, keeping my regional reaction down and he had to keep most of his troops in the region to play whack-a-gnome as I'd flip towns and villages away from him.
It was a fun game – I had only 1 village at the end, though I was going to get the other water based town the next turn. I had hoped by keeping him nailed to my region, somebody would take advantage of his vulnerability in the Southern Sands, but nobody did. Even though the SO stole my city from me in a most nefarious way (and I'll never, ever, ever forgive him!), I was pleased to see he won. I had made a deal with him to trade for the Ring of Spells and he'd sent me a pile of gold to fund me for the next few turns in exchange. Just as well the game ended – somebody (I assume the BL) stole it in the last turn, so I wouldn't have been able to hand it over anyway! Good game to all – particularly the SO, DE and BL for such a good fight.
I started by making an alliance with the UN to split Runnimede. I also put out feelers to the DE about working together. At first he was receptive, but then told me he'd gotten drawn into another alliance, so I left it alone. I should have realized that meant he was part of a group that would be targeting me, but I was focused elsewhere. I also paid the RD off to leave the region and concentrate on my enemy, the DW. This worked out well – his destruction of the DW over the next few turns boosted my influence well above 20.
I took Cradia and then the region early on and also got on the HC. I felt fairly happy about things and started to move north into Torvale, where the AN and TR were both being quite ineffective and I landed outside the TR capital with every intention of taking it.
That was the turn my luck turned against me, though, as I faced a combined attack of the BL, SO and DE. The DE and SO conspired to sneak Cradia out from under me just as I was trying to make it my capital and the BL moved after my pop centers. I really was screwed at that point – the UN turned out to be uncommunicative and the RD was too far away. Anybody else who might have been able to help was also tied up or committed to not attack the SO/DE/BL alliance. Thrown fully on the defensive, I still had a lot of cards in my deck – my high influence and decent wizards and troops.
I lost my troops on a vain attempt to break the BL siege of my capital – I figured that since the BL troops are mediocre, I would be able to kill enough of them to do it, but I forgot that Gnomes are just that much worse – I would have lost them eventually, I'm sure, but I might have used them to cause more headaches. My goal at that point was simple – tie the BL down in Runnimede and prevent him from obtaining a victory. I had luck, both good and bad – it took me more turns than I'd hoped to get my capital safe into the sea. But I never stopped fighting, even though the BL sent some polite suggestions that I might enjoy another game more. He was slowly wearing me down, but I tied up his king for about half the game, keeping my regional reaction down and he had to keep most of his troops in the region to play whack-a-gnome as I'd flip towns and villages away from him.
It was a fun game – I had only 1 village at the end, though I was going to get the other water based town the next turn. I had hoped by keeping him nailed to my region, somebody would take advantage of his vulnerability in the Southern Sands, but nobody did. Even though the SO stole my city from me in a most nefarious way (and I'll never, ever, ever forgive him!), I was pleased to see he won. I had made a deal with him to trade for the Ring of Spells and he'd sent me a pile of gold to fund me for the next few turns in exchange. Just as well the game ended – somebody (I assume the BL) stole it in the last turn, so I wouldn't have been able to hand it over anyway! Good game to all – particularly the SO, DE and BL for such a good fight.