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[Wookie Panz]

Victory By Lion's Share Is The Cimmerians Kingdom!
                           Game End Status Points

        Place Kingdom    Player                Results-40  Grand Total

          1     CI     Wookie Panz               46,944      76,253
          2     AN     Acererak                  34,407      54,767
          3     RD     Brek                      24,650      49,218
          4     DU     DuPont                    23,537      43,588
          5     PI     Runigruth                 22,467      40,137
          6     SA     Pine Needle               17,692      32,546
          7     RA     CosmicWizard17             7,600      18,825

This was a bash em blood bath with military kingdoms pretty much staying the course.   My CI started in Diamond and the plan from the start was to go after Darkover.  Alatar TBW was there and he picked TY to counter CI.  It was a good choice and when I attacked him on turn 7 he was well prepared.  Winter was nearly over and we fought for a nearly a year before winter rolled around again and the CI winter advantage was the death of him.
Acereak had been pecking at me with his AN so he made himself the next target.  Over time I took every pc he held except his sea city.  His hidden capital fell and stayed in CI hands with a legendary castle for the rest of the game.  Ace played a solid game using domes and AN intervention in key areas and I never did control his starting area, Crown Coast.
Our battles had spilled over into Triumvia, which had been fought over by many kingdoms.  SA had his capital there and though I had left him alone he still jumped into the fray so I was fighting both Pine and Ace the later part of the game.  I had planned to move my forces to the SA sea capital with it's legendary castle and take it on the last turn but clever Pine surprised me with storms at sea and moved on MY CAPITAL instead.  He was too beat up to take it and lost about 60% 
A bit of frosting on the cake was killing an AN counsel on the final turn using the AN dagger, + 30%

CI was lots of fun to play with 5 groups, great naval and military strength and decent companions.  Even the agent corps was good with a 17 doing serious damage - I had 26 prisoners but Ace escaped with a prince and l 12 agent on the last turn.  The only thing I missed was magic and I never had higher than a p5 with weak spell list
Thanks everyone for a fun game.  Good challenge from ACE and it looks like fine games from Brekk with Rd and Pine with SA.  They have their own stories to tell and I look foward to hearing them. 

Prisoners:                 Rank              Name                  Kingdom         Area       Points

                King              Azog                  Tyrant           FQ        1000
                Princess          Blessed Margaret      Sacred Order     FQ         800
                Prince            Darius                Ancient Ones     FQ         800
                Prince            Gorgol                Tyrant           FQ         800
                Prince            Porf the Sly          Druid            FQ         800
                Prince            Snaga                 Tyrant           FQ         800
                Duke              Tiberian              Tyrant           FQ         600
                Count             Lux Hoardstealer      Red Dragon       FQ         400
                Count             Raganian Boarface     Tyrant           FQ         400
                Baroness          Erwin                 Druid            FQ         300
                Baron             Francis the Inspired  Sacred Order     FQ         300
                Baron             Grishnakh             Tyrant           FQ         300
                Baron             Rio Amtaris           Red Dragon       FQ         300
                Baron             Sandros the Scarred   Sacred Order     FQ         300
                Baron             Wormtong              Tyrant           FQ         300
                Baron             Zaka Usha             Tyrant           FQ         300
                Governor          Sir Xanix of Bay      Sacred Order     FQ         200
                Agent 12          Falcon                Tyrant           FQ         180
                Agent 9           Sabre                 Ancient Ones     FQ         135
                Agent 6           Calexar               Tyrant           FQ          90
                Agent 6           Scorpion              Tyrant           FQ          90
                Agent 5           Elusive               Sacred Order     FQ          75
                Agent 4           Shagrat               Tyrant           FQ          60
                Agent 2           Sword of Truth        Sacred Order     FQ          30

Here are the starting kingdoms:
         AN    The Crown Islands(1)    The Secret Servants of the Ancient Ones        Acererak
         TY    Darkover(2)             The Evil Reign of the Tyrant of Gor            AlatarTBW
         CI    The Diamond Coast(3)    The Cimmerian Nation from the North            Wookie Panz
         RD    Krynn(4)                The Reign of Terror of the Red Dragons         Brek
         GN    Triumvia(5)             The Golden Principality of the Gnomes          Drogo
         IL    Zanthia(6)              The Sphere of the Illusionist                  Windstar
         DE    Nyvaria(7)              The Seven Hells of the Demon Princes           Yellowbeard
         DU    The Sword Coast(8)      The Domain of the Great Druid                  DuPont
         SA    Pellinor(9)             The Theocracy of the Sacred Order of Knights   Pine Needle
         PI    Zamora(10)              The Pirates of Avalon and Beyond               Runigruth
         AM    Mythgar(11)             The Realm of the Amazon Matriarchy             Strongwill
         RA    The Untamed Lands(12)   The Iron Province of the Rangers               CosmicWizard17

[Pine Needle]

I took the SA for the challenge. Peaked about turn 10 with two regions (I think) but then DE came down on me like a ton of bricks. I was able to take out the GN in Triumvia and relocated my capital to a sea town there, and really just barely hung on for the rest of the game.

My main group bottomed out at 55 moral, but went up to 80 or so by the end. DE seemed to have a good chance to win, and I continued my guerilla campaign against him, but pretty much fought everyone that came into Triumvia to go after my meager holdings- AN, CI, RD, DU. I think the only groups I ran into but didn't fight were the Rangers. The sea capital and 5 priestesses were handy, as I built it up pretty good with lesser angels. Another life save is no one went after a sea village I had adjacent to Azure so that was 18k gold per turn that was absolutely essential.

My main group had the gem and my secondary ones the flying stallions, so I could move around a lot.

Great game by CI. As he said, on turn 40 I sea stormed tempest anticipating someone going after my capital, and I went after him. I had a power 5 (boosted with a ring) and chose storm at sea instead of regional protect. I wanted that prisoner list A) to knock out Wookie, and B) to set a points record for SA. Someone (we think AN) blinding lighted Triumvia on 39 and that 10% morale likely was the difference as my group bounced against the CI legendary capital, and there was much rejoicing (by Wookie).

Senior keeps the points title with SA by less than 1000 points. Darn.

Everything has been said about the SA. I look forward to their new chapter.

[Wookie Panz]

I took the SA for the challenge. Peaked about turn 10 with two regions (I think) but then DE came down on me like a ton of bricks. I was able to take out the GN in Triumvia and relocated my capital to a sea town there, and really just barely hung on for the rest of the game.

My main group bottomed out at 55 moral, but went up to 80 or so by the end. DE seemed to have a good chance to win, and I continued my guerilla campaign against him, but pretty much fought everyone that came into Triumvia to go after my meager holdings- AN, CI, RD, DU. I think the only groups I ran into but didn't fight were the Rangers. The sea capital and 5 priestesses were handy, as I built it up pretty good with lesser angels. Another life save is no one went after a sea village I had adjacent to Azure so that was 18k gold per turn that was absolutely essential.

My main group had the gem and my secondary ones the flying stallions, so I could move around a lot.

Great game by CI. As he said, on turn 40 I sea stormed tempest anticipating someone going after my capital, and I went after him. I had a power 5 (boosted with a ring) and chose storm at sea instead of regional protect. I wanted that prisoner list A) to knock out Wookie, and B) to set a points record for SA. Someone (we think AN) blinding lighted Triumvia on 39 and that 10% morale likely was the difference as my group bounced against the CI legendary capital, and there was much rejoicing (by Wookie).

Senior keeps the points title with SA by less than 1000 points. Darn.

Everything has been said about the SA. I look forward to their new chapter.

Nice write up and a very strong performance by SA.  You are a new legend.

[Senior Tactician]

Wow Wookie, first win by the Cimmerians, congratz, and a nice writeup as always.