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07-25-2025, 01:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-25-2025, 01:21 AM by Lord Garth.)
Ladies and Lords of Alamaze, come forth!!
The 2025 Alamaze Championship has been completed! The Mightiest Masters of Military Maneuvers and Machiavellian arts have competed and completed their Contest of Champions!
All the world has watched with bated breath as these twelve kings grappled to the end. Songs have been sung! Wagers have been made! Hearts have been broken! And now comes the moment you've all been waiting for.
Yes. It's time to crown our Newest First Runner Up Alamaze Champion!
Congratulations Glowmane! .......Our brand new 2025 First Runner up Alamaze Champion!!
... there he is ... Mr Alamaze ...
Yes, Glowmane will receive the Tiara, Sash and Bouquet. All the sigils of of this prestigious office. As well as the praise and adoration of countless fans. His life will undoubtedly change. New responsibilities will be huge. But those are concerns for another day. For now, Enjoy your moment and congratulations again to Glowmane!
I'd also like to congratulate all the other contestants in this grueling contest including whoever won. We know you all did your best and hope to see you next time when the world faces off again to challenge for First Runner up Alamaze Chapion!
Thank you and good night
Lord Garth
2x First Runner Up Alamaze Champion 2022-2025 ( no longer reigning)
Victory By Rex Is The Ancient Ones Kingdom!
Game End Status Points
Place Kingdom Player Results-35 Grand Total
1 AN Runigruth 57,516 77,559
2 FO Glowamane 36,472 58,929
3 IL Wynand 31,191 48,392
4 DA Mauler 27,106 43,613
5 NE CosmicWizard17 21,946 35,236
6 RD Thudargh 17,030 33,764
7 DU Lord Garth 14,960 29,651
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07-25-2025, 09:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-25-2025, 09:03 PM by Ruingurth.)
The dawn is obscured by rain. It is a new age and the kingdom of the Ancient Ones rise in Zamora. there is a new world to tame and new foes to conquer. My neighbors are the deadly Deathknights in Krynn, the High Elves in the sword coast and the mighty Giants in Mythgar. Beyond these borders are the devilish Demon Prince in Zanthia, the Druids in Pellinor and the ever hungry Red Dragon in the Untamed Lands. I do not worry about the rest of the map as of yet.
I start out with the locations of three artifacts, two of which are within my range. Narsil is in Zanthia just one hex south of my starting town and there is an alter in the Sword Coast. I spend the autumn searching my region and raising a few wizards I move onto Narsil with my 2nd group after I raize my wizard there to a 3 and transfer the newly acquired Valyrian Steel into the group. Retrieving Narsil proves quite costly as both of leaders are killed. Zamora is secured in the Late Autumn as I arrange a rendezvous in the Sword coast to add an new Leader to the 2ND. The hex chosen happens to hold another artifact (the Crown of Anzu). I quickly start claiming artifact from my region and the surrounding regions as well, by the end of the first full summer I have assembled a slew of artifacts including the Stone of all minds! And I also free a level 3 Wizard and he joins my Kingdom! At this time violence has already broken out through the relm two of my immediate neighbors are involved if struggles as the Demon Prince VRS Deathknights and the Giants VRS the Druid! I have avoided an early war and begin to Build my domain. The only issue us that the Elf has found my capital so I must deal with him. The Elf has his capital in the sea of Sorrows guarded by a Army group of 16 brigades, 14 of them Elven armed with Mithril weapons and armor! A mighty group indeed. The elf has been raising his seapower in the Sorrows to over 20 Fleets!
As fate has it I have been also raising my fleets. I start to infiltrate the Sword Coast with my Princes and raise my RR to Friendly then I strike. I force him to lose control of the sword coast in one turn then move on him military on the same turn! I gain control of the sword coast in the Late Spring of 1203 and on that same turn the Mighty 1EL with close to 20 brigades sails from the capital and is met by my equally as large fleet! 28 Elven Fleets VRS 35 AN fleets. Unfortunately for the elf the mizerly king did not spend any gold to enhance his fleets while I did! (I guess he spent his money on Mithril) my fully enhanced fleets decimated the elven force destroying 15 fleets while I only lost 2! The sea of sorrows also lived up to its name that day as only a division of elven troops made it to shore! After that thr elf retreated back into the deep forests of the world and were not seen in this age again!
By this time the Giant was defeated by the Druid and the Deathknights and the Demon Prince were destroying each others kingdoms in Zanthia and Krynn. When the Druid went to take Mythgar as his spoils of war after taking out the Giant he was met by the Red Dragon fresh from defeating the Sacred Order in Nyvaria. I took advantage of this situation by pivoting out of the Sword Coast into Mythgar. My councils quickly established friendship with the people of that region while denigrating both the Druid and the Red (with the help of the staff of Disdain). I traded pop centers with the Red until I deduced where he would send his big group next. In the late Autumn of 1203 a battle was fought in the plains of Mythgar between the 1AN and the 1RD. The 1AN was assisted by a patrol of high level AN Wizards who rendered the RD Wizards useless. The battle between 30 brigades in the AN group and 25 in the RD group was decided by the AN Wizards. The RD retreated with over 35% casualties while the AN suffered 15% Both the Red Dragon and Druid were reduced to hostile in Mythgar. I placed a SO with the Staff of disdain to keep the RD hostile in the region.
The Red then moved into Pellinor to concentrate on the Druid and I was left alone in the region. Around this time the Deathknights defeated the Demon Princes, and in doing so destroyed all of the pop centers in Zanthia while Krynn was reduced to only 1 city 1 foun and 4 villages. As it turned out it was a pyrrhic victory for the deathknights as they shortly followed the Demon Prince into obscurity. that left me with total control of three regions. I also had an advantage of a buffer zone to my north as no emissaries could move into the Sword Coast or Zamoria directly! They would need to hop thru Pellinor and risk being captured there.
I put into motion a plan to bring peace to the realm. With help from artifacts acquired throughout the contest in unusually sightings and plundered from the Elf I moved on Krynn( controlled by the IL) While the IL moved on me in Zamora. I teleported into Krynn with three brigades and took control quickly. The IL moved onto Python Cove with a huge army, but this was anticipated. I had left a brigade on Python Cove and cast Ancient Intervention to prevent its capture. The next season I moved on Stormgate and the IL moved onto my old capital ( I had moved it to the sea at the old Elf Capital). I had enough to take Stormgate and even tho the IL took my old capital and had most of the villages in Zamoeia I was increasing the census in the remaining popcenters. REX was declared and the Contest was over!
Victory is declared by the sleeping Dragon Ruingruth
Two time Champion of Alamaze
2024 IL
2025 AN
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Ruingruth
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As my first order I shall rename the Sea of Sorrows to the Sea of Mithril as it has been washing up upon its shores.
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