Game 5849 Ended

[davekuyk]

Game 5849 was completed a few weeks ago:

1    AM    Ozymandius                46,291      82,330
2    NE    CosmicWizard17            36,825      59,964
3    AN    Mauler                    31,501      58,396
4    LY    Wynand                    24,200      48,187
5    RD    Milo007                  24,900      45,775

As the Amazons, I never had any direct conflict with the NE and AN. Instead, I fought the LY, RD, and HA for the bulk of the game. I kept getting close to five regions but then I'd be pushed back. I had trouble getting together a group to take a legendary castle (I did siege one), which made it tough as the HA had a legendary with a lot of census locked up in it. Perhaps between wizards and artifacts, I could have, but I didn't feel confident taking a 150k group up vs a 220k city.

I have to give credit to the RD and LY. They were tenacious and stayed in the fight to the end. I got the LY down to a handful of PCs, even captured his king, and came back and took the Untamed region from me later in the game. As for the RD, I spanked his groups and killed his leaders over and over, even pulled off a surprise invisible attack on one of his groups (but he did put a whooping on one of my groups on turn 40) and yet he kept coming back with more troops, keeping me from steamrolling to five regions. 

In the end, I controlled only a single region with substantial in three others and significant in the fifth. My emissary core took a beating, with only two princes and a duke remaining. I lost six emissaries to agents and military capture through the game. My status points came mainly from prisoners, many of which were LY (it seemed he had a prince factory), artifacts (somehow amassed 28), and my military, which consisted of six warlords, eleven elite brigades, and five wizards of p-6 or greater.

[Wynand]

Game 5849 was completed a few weeks ago:

1    AM    Ozymandius                46,291      82,330
2    NE    CosmicWizard17            36,825      59,964
3    AN    Mauler                    31,501      58,396
4    LY    Wynand                    24,200      48,187
5    RD    Milo007                  24,900      45,775

As the Amazons, I never had any direct conflict with the NE and AN. Instead, I fought the LY, RD, and HA for the bulk of the game. I kept getting close to five regions but then I'd be pushed back. I had trouble getting together a group to take a legendary castle (I did siege one), which made it tough as the HA had a legendary with a lot of census locked up in it. Perhaps between wizards and artifacts, I could have, but I didn't feel confident taking a 150k group up vs a 220k city.

I have to give credit to the RD and LY. They were tenacious and stayed in the fight to the end. I got the LY down to a handful of PCs, even captured his king, and came back and took the Untamed region from me later in the game. As for the RD, I spanked his groups and killed his leaders over and over, even pulled off a surprise invisible attack on one of his groups (but he did put a whooping on one of my groups on turn 40) and yet he kept coming back with more troops, keeping me from steamrolling to five regions. 

In the end, I controlled only a single region with substantial in three others and significant in the fifth. My emissary core took a beating, with only two princes and a duke remaining. I lost six emissaries to agents and military capture through the game. My status points came mainly from prisoners, many of which were LY (it seemed he had a prince factory), artifacts (somehow amassed 28), and my military, which consisted of six warlords, eleven elite brigades, and five wizards of p-6 or greater.

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This what a hard fought win, Ozzy.
I felt we were balanced at the beginning of the conflict and then you really started to pull away.
I had to bide my time as come up with a new purpose (as winning was clearly off the table); preventing your Rex!
I think you played the AM masterfully and was stunned by several of your moves throughout the game. Well done!