Game #109 - Steel Game

[Cipher]

PC control happens as a result of direct actions on the PC, or regional control. PC ownership field is updated as part of the action.

150/170/171 before 273/283 330 after

[HeadHoncho]

Yes, I'm not so much talking about the regional control aspect, I know that goes toward the end of the turn. But before this forum exchange, I just didn't know that the census numbers for the denigrate calculation are figured based on LAST turn's regional control numbers (as opposed to, say, dynamically during the turn).

So this is helpful info which I think is capable of being inferred, but I didn't see it explicitly in the rules.

[Jumbie]

ENEMY/ALLY THE ANCIENT ONES CONSUL HAS DECLARED THE TROLL KING HIS ALLY!
ENEMY/ALLY THE DEMON PRINCES KING HAS DECLARED THE GNOME KING HIS SWORN ENEMY!
ENEMY/ALLY THE GIANT KING HAS DECLARED THE TROLL KING HIS SWORN ENEMY!
ENEMY/ALLY THE GIANT KING HAS DECLARED THE ANCIENT ONES CONSUL HIS SWORN ENEMY!
ENEMY/ALLY THE TROLL KING HAS DECLARED THE GIANT KING HIS SWORN ENEMY!
ENEMY/ALLY THE TROLL KING HAS DECLARED THE WARLOCK KING HIS SWORN ENEMY!


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Well, that escalated quickly.

[kevindusi]

Yet another person that doesn't like the Gnome.

[HeadHoncho]

I feel greatly aggrieved that both AN and TR have declared me an enemy, while I have sent them only hearts and flowers.

I need to add Mokkaron's new avatar to my profile...

[Rusher]

We love the Gnome people.

We have been greeted as liberators and with much wretched singing from the Gnomish women and children.

Yet another person that doesn't like the Gnome.

[Lord Thanatos]

ENEMY/ALLY THE ANCIENT ONES CONSUL HAS DECLARED THE TROLL KING HIS ALLY!
ENEMY/ALLY THE DEMON PRINCES KING HAS DECLARED THE GNOME KING HIS SWORN ENEMY!
ENEMY/ALLY THE GIANT KING HAS DECLARED THE TROLL KING HIS SWORN ENEMY!
ENEMY/ALLY THE GIANT KING HAS DECLARED THE ANCIENT ONES CONSUL HIS SWORN ENEMY!
ENEMY/ALLY THE TROLL KING HAS DECLARED THE GIANT KING HIS SWORN ENEMY!
ENEMY/ALLY THE TROLL KING HAS DECLARED THE WARLOCK KING HIS SWORN ENEMY!
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Well, that escalated quickly.

AN and GI go to war (do you hear the deep, booming drums?) . . .

Thank god for Ogres to absorb losses from a Wall of Flame. How should one calculate anticipated losses from a Wall of flame before sending so many braves souls to hell?

How will I know when Wizard Slayer, well, slays a wizard?
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AT THE FIRST LIGHT OF DAWN WITH A MIGHTY BATTLE YELL THE 1ST GIANT FULL ARMY ADVANCED UPON THE ADVANCING LINES OF THE 1ST ANCIENT ONES BRIGADES UNDER MARSHAL I. AMONG THE GIANT TROOPS WERE BRIGADES OF OGRES, WHICH NOW LEAPED AHEAD TO THE FIRST RANKS! AS THE ATTACKERS SWEPT OVER THE GREEN FIELDS THE FIRST MISSILES SANG OUT.
DUE TO THE FACT THAT THEIR NATION HAS MADE THE GIANT KNOWN AS HOSTILE TO THEIR KINGDOM, THE ANCIENT ONES TROOPS WERE VISIBLY ENERGIZED AND HAD THEIR MORALE RAISED AS THEY PREPARED TO BATTLE THEIR DECLARED ENEMY!

AS THE MOST IMPORTANT GROUP OF THEIR KINGDOM THE TROOPS ARE VISIBLY EMBOLDENED BY THE PRESENCE OF THE FIRST GIANT'S BANNER!
AS THE MOST IMPORTANT GROUP OF THEIR PEOPLE THE TROOPS ARE NOTICEABLY INVIGORATED BY BEING UNDER THE FIRST ANCIENT ONES'S COLORS!

BOTH THE GIANT BOULDER HURLING TROOPS AND THE COOLLY FFECTIVE ARCHERS OF THE ANCIENT OF THE ANCIENT ONES FORCE CAUSED HEAVY CASUALTIES TO THEIR OPPONENTS LINES. THE GIANT POWER-3 WIZARD SLOWLY SPOKE IN AN ARCANE LANGUAGE, GESTURES BUILDING TO A CRESCENDO. WITH AWE-INSPIRING PRECISION HE LAUNCHED MANY KILLING ILLUSIONS AND WAVES OF DEADLY COLD INTO THE HEART OF THE ENEMY FORCE. THE GIANT POWER-3.0 WIZARD BEGAN SORCEROUS INCANTATIONS IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE. HIS MAGIC CAUSED ILLUSIONARY SOUNDS AND SIGHTS TO CONFUSE HIS FOES AND CONFOUND THEIR COMMANDERS: CHAOS REIGNED AND THEY WOULD BE UNABLE TO ORDER A RETREAT SHOULD IT BE NEEDED. THE GIANT (ADEPT) CAST NO SPELLS TO AID HIS FORCE IN THIS BATTLE. THE GIANT (ADEPT) TOOK A POSITION NEAR THE REAR AWAY FROM THE MAIN FIGHTING.

THE ANCIENT ONES POWER-3 WIZARD MADE A SERIES OF INTRICATE GESTURES. WITH AWE-INSPIRING PRECISION HE LAUNCHED MANY MINOR PHANTASMS AND MAGICAL BOLTS INTO THE HEART OF THE ENEMY FORCE. THE ANCIENT ONES POWER-3 WIZARD WHILE SEEMINGLY DETACHED FROM ALL ELSE, SEEMED TO DRAW WITHIN HIMSELF AND BEGAN TO INCANT. AN EXPANSIVE WALL OF FLAMING FIRE APPEARED
SEPARATING THE TWO FORCES. YET THE FEARLESS ENEMY WHILE ACCEPTING TERRIBLE LOSSES, CROSSED THROUGH IT! THE ANCIENT ONES POWER-3 WIZARD BEGAN SORCEROUS INCANTATIONS IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE. IN RAPID SUCCESSION WERE CAST MANY MINOR PHANTASMS AND MAGICAL BOLTS INTO THE RANKS OF THE ENEMY. THE ANCIENT ONES POWER-3 WIZARD THREW BACK HIS HOOD AND GESTURED IN AN ANIMATED FASHION. WHILE INVISIBLE, HIS SORCERY SENT LETHAL
SONIC BLASTS DIRECTLY INTO ENEMY FORMATIONS WITH IMPRESSIVE EFFECT. THE ANCIENT ONES POWER-1 WIZARD WHILE SEEMINGLY DETACHED FROM ALL ELSE, SEEMED TO DRAW WITHIN HIMSELF AND BEGAN TO INCANT. HE THEN CREATED A POWERFUL WARDING, WHICH WOULD PROTECT THE HEROES AND WIZARDS OF HIS FORCE FROM THE BLACK MAGICS OF ANY OPPOSING SPELLCASTERS.

AT THIS MOMENT IN THE COMBAT, LOSSES SUFFERED BY THE 1ST ANCIENT ONES HAD EXCEEDED THE ORIGINAL THRESHOLD PLANNED. AS A RETREAT WAS ATTEMPTED, THE FIELD SIGNALLERS OF THE 1ST ANCIENT ONES ASSIGNED THE DUTIES OF RELAYING WITHDRAWAL INSTRUCTIONS WERE INFURIATED AS THE EFFECTS OF THE ENEMY'S CHAOS MAGIC PREVENTED THEIR TROOPS FROM RETREATING AS HOPED. TO THEIR CREDIT, THE 1ST ANCIENT ONES FORCES CONTINUED TO FIGHT AS TRAINED. EACH FORCES MAGES CLAIMED LIGHT DAMAGE.

HOISTING ALOFT THE ULTIMATE HORROR OF THE WORLD'S MAGICIANS GIANT GENERAL STRODE FORWARD TO LEAD HIS TROOPS. IN FULL VIEW OF ALL THE COMBATIVE FORCES WIZARD SLAYER INITIATED IT'S FULL PURPOSE AND TREPIDATION SANK INTO THE WILL OF THE ANCIENT ONES SPELLCASTERS WHILE INTENSIFYING THE CONVICTION OF ALL OUR SOLDIERS.

NOW MARSHAL I BECKONED THE ANCIENT ONES VARIOUS SILHOUETTES OF THEIR MULTI-RACIAL CAVALRY DOWN UPON THE GIANT LINES.

EACH FORCE WAS WELL SUITED TO THE FLAT GRASSLANDS, ON WHICH THE BATTLE WAS WAGED. NOW THE TIME HAD COME FOR THE MAIN BODY OF EACH FORCE TO CLASH. THE ANCIENT ONES FORCE INFLICTED LIGHT LOSSES TO THEIR FOES, WHILE THE GIANT HUGE AND TERRIFYING SOLDIERS INFLICTED TREMENDOUS DAMAGE TO THE ANCIENT ONES LINES. THE BATTLE HAD FAVORED THE GIANT AND THEIR FORCE SEEMED TO WEAR DOWN THEIR ENEMY.

SADLY, AS THE OMENS OF THE DAY FORETOLD, THE ANCIENT ONES GROUP COULD NOT EXTRICATE THEMSELVES FROM THE DIRE MOMENT: THEY WERE DESTROYED. GIANT LOSSES WERE PUT AT 2000 CREATURES. GIANT HEROES FOUGHT BRAVELY. ALL GIANT LEADERS SURVIVED THE BATTLE. THE GIANT WIZARDS SURVIVED THE FRAY. THE INTENSITY OF THE GIANT VICTORY INSPIRED THE ASSEMBLY OF VICTORIOUS TROOPS TO EARSPLITTING CRIES OF TRIUMPH AND INCREASED THEIR MORALE!




WHEN THE SUN HAD RISEN TO ITS HIGHEST POINT WITH A MIGHTY BATTLE YELL THE 1ST GIANT ARMY WEARY AND WOUNDED FROM AN EARLIER CONFLICT ADVANCED UPON THE STILL ENCAMPED AND STARTLED FORCE OF THE 3RD ANCIENT ONES BRIGADE COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN II. AMONG THE GIANT TROOPS WERE BRIGADES OF OGRES, WHICH NOW LEAPED AHEAD TO THE FIRST RANKS! AS THE ATTACKERS SWEPT OVER THE ROLLING PLAINS THE FIRST MISSILES SANG OUT.

AS THEIR LIEGE HAD MADE THE GIANT AN ENEMY OF THEIR KINGDOM, THE ANCIENT ONES TROOPS WERE INVIGORATED AND BENEFITED FROM HEIGHTENED MORALE AS THEY PREPARED TO BATTLE THEIR DECLARED ENEMY!

AS THE MOST IMPORTANT GROUP OF THEIR NATION THE FORCES ARE VISIBLY HEARTENED BY THE PRESENCE OF THE FIRST GIANT'S BANNER!
THE GIANT BOULDER HURLING TROOPS DEALT OUT DEVASTATING LOSSES TO THEIR FOES. THE GIANT POWER-3 WIZARD SLOWLY SPOKE IN AN ARCANE LANGUAGE, GESTURES BUILDING TO A CRESCENDO. WITH AWE-INSPIRING PRECISION HE LAUNCHED MANY PHANTASMAL FORCES AND DEADLY PYROTECHNICS INTO THE RANKS OF THE ENEMY. THE GIANT (ADEPT) SUMMONED NO NOTICEABLE MAGIC DURING THE FRAY. THE GIANT (ADEPT) CAST NO SPELLS TO AID HIS FORCE IN THIS BATTLE.

SEEMINGLY DISAPPOINTED BY THE ABSENCE OF ENEMY SPELLCASTERS WIZARD SLAYER ENABLED GIANT GENERAL I TO REINFORCE THE WILL OF HIS TROOPS.

ANCIENT ONES CASUALTIES HAD NOW EXCEEDED ACCEPTABLE LEVELS IN THE JUDGEMENT OF CAPTAIN II SO HE ORDERED THE RETREAT BE SOUNDED. SADLY, AS THE OMENS OF THE DAY FORETOLD, THE ANCIENT ONES GROUP COULD NOT EXTRICATE THEMSELVES FROM THE DIRE MOMENT: THEY WERE DESTROYED.

GIANT CASULTIES WERE PUT AT LESS THAN TWO SCORE CREATURES. GIANT HEROES BATTLED COURAGEOUSLY. ALL GIANT LEADERS SURVIVED THE BATTLE. THE GIANT WIZARDS SURVIVED THE FRAY. THE CONVINCING COMPLETENESS OF THE GIANT GROUP'S VICTORY HAS NOTABLY INCREASED MORALE.




GENERAL COMMANDED HIS 1ST GIANT ARMY TO ADVANCE UPON THE VILLAGE. SCOUTS HAD REPORTED EARLIER THAT OLDTOWN RELIED ON A LOW HARDWOOD WALL, GAPPED IN MANY PLACES, TO PROTECT ITS DEFENDERS. AS THE GIANT FORCE DREW NEAR ITS TARGET, THE CONFLICT BEGAN. THE LINES OF THE ATTACKERS WERE SOMEWHAT RAGGED AND MANY OF ITS TROOPS WOUNDED OR FATIGUED FROM MORE THAN ONE RECENT CONFRONTATION. AMONG THE GIANT TROOPS WERE BRIGADES OF OGRES, WHICH NOW RACED TO THE FRONT LINES! EARLY IN THE BATTLE, DEFENDING ARCHERS WERE TOO FEW TO CONCERN THE DETERMINED ATTACKERS.

THE BLACK ROBED GIANT WIZARDS DISMOUNTED BARELY BEYOND THE
RANGE OF DEFENDING BOWMEN AND BEGAN AN ELABORATE SPELL. THE GIANT POWER-3 WIZARD CAST A SERIES OF MINOR ASSAULTS: SOME LIGHTING, FIRE, AND SONIC BLASTS WHICH DISRUPTED THE OPPOSING TROOPS. THE GIANT (ADEPT) TRIED TO AVOID AS BEST ABLE THE ENEMY'S ATTACKS. THE GIANT (ADEPT) TRIED TO AVOID AS BEST ABLE THE ENEMY'S ATTACKS.

UNABLE TO LOCATE A CHALLENGING SPELLCASTER GIANT GENERAL TIRIKIA CONTENTED HIMSELF WITH WIZARD SLAYER'S ABILITY TO ASSIST HIS MEN'S FIGHTING CAPACITY.

IT READILY BECAME APPARENT THAT THE DEFENDING TROOPS WERE OF TYPICAL QUALITY FOR THE REGION. DEFENSE OF THE OUTER WALL WAS INTENSE AND AFTER SEVERAL HOURS NO BREECH HAD OCCURRED. THE GIANT FORCE WAS OVERWHELMING AND QUICKLY BREACHED THE WALL AND FORCED A HASTY SURRENDER FROM THE ASTOUNDED (AND FRIGHTENED) DEFENDERS.

THE GIANT BANNER NOW WAVES PROUDLY IN OLDTOWN! GIANT LOSSES WERE ESTIMATED AT LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED CREATURES. GIANT LEADERS FOUGHT BRAVELY. ALL GIANT LEADERS SURVIVED THE BATTLE. THE GIANT WIZARDS SURVIVED THE FRAY. THE TROOPS ARE ANXIOUS FOR FURTHER GLORY: MORALE IS UP.

[HeadHoncho]

Wow. Gotta hate losing two P3s and a P1. Glad I'm on your side, LT!

[Telrandir]

The Lord of Beards invites any that might trade coin, relic, or war banner to contact us regarding the assembly of lost treasures from our Hall of Lords. Axes, Armor, and Jewels: all those once touched by Dwarven hands are sought, and those that bring such wonders shall themselves know long-lasting friendship and riches wrought from our considerable mines.

Firmly,

First Beard of the Talking Mountains

[kevindusi]

The Darkelves are pleased to announce they have survived the harsh winters of our swamps, and are looking forward to emerging from our three-month cocoon like the beautiful butterflies that we are. A quick look around shows that while we have come forth a nicer, gentler race than we were before our hibernation... our "nicer" cousins have been declaring enemies right and left? I suppose you can't hide from your true colors forever, Malabeth...

We hereby would like to heartily cheer for the success of the TR and AN efforts. Now to go make some long-overdue sandwiches for our troops...