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[Acererak]

From the somewhat shaky Tower of the Red Mage

To NO & DE:

The campaign is definitely not going the way the Warlock would have liked. I have been caught somewhat by surprise by the behavior of changes in the game rules and over-confident of my groups ability to defend themselves against an enemy with a large number of very good wizards. In truth, I have never been engaged in a battle/campaign quite like this, so it is a learning experience. My constant dilemma is trying to figure which spells do what to who and in what order? I'm currently facing this array at OV:

         1LI      0     9   OV   General Vizisslak               Kazanor (Power-6)      
                                 NA                              NA                      
                                 NA                              NA                      

         2LI     17     9   OV   Warlord Cora Draco              Eklar (Power-6)        
                                 Lord Commander Eel Gosar        Greeneyes (Power-6)    
                                 Grand Marshal Slithermojo       Kiri Blackmind (Power-6)

         3LI      0     9   OV   NA                              Iceax (Power-5)        
                                 NA                              Zyd Confounder (Power-5)
                                 NA                              Nemrond (Power-3)      

         4LI      0     9   OV   Major General Ssil Zozzi        Maz the Firecast (Power-5)
                                 NA                              Sakana (Power-5)        
                                 NA                              Yellowskin (Power-5)    

My force is not as impressive.

I would ask for you to go after some of those wizards with agents, but the LI has been well defended with agents on counter-duty so far. I have suffered agent loss just try to do recons. Somehow I failed to acquire a scrying device for the first time in many games and have no low level wizards available to use a raven.

We'll see how it goes, but I won't be terribly surprised if after this turn I have zero wizards left and no army.

Red

(NO) I am still under NAP with the LI through turn 20 so my hands are tied. I am curious how the LI has so many mages though, if you start with 5 as an advantaged kingdom, you can get 2 via ESO. That's 7. Found a wandering Power 2? That's 8. Can't recruit adepts if you have more than 4. Makes no sense to me. Am I forgetting something.