54 - Die All, Die Merrily

[Freiegeister]

Game: Die All, Die Merrily
Scenario: Lords of Midnight
Victory Condition: Regicide
Lord Hours at Recruitment mode: Same as recruiting lord
Lords can disband armies?: Yes
Impassable Mountains?: No

Freiegeister v Celebaglar

After two bloodless campaigns where victory was won without meeting face to face; it is now kill or be killed!

[Freiegeister]

Lord Marakith, out for a morning ride? You seem to have left your ontourage behind...

[Freiegeister]

Methinks the odds are stacked slightly in your favour.

I'll let you have Korkith again, but I'll have the Hand.

[celebaglar]

Freiegeister said:

Methinks the odds are stacked slightly in your favour.

Not sure how you worked that one out since you have both the southeast and northwest corners. I'd say the odds are in fact considerably stacked in your favour.

I'll fight on, though I don't there's any way I can win with the new rules.

[Freiegeister]

Celebaglar said:

Not sure how you worked that one out since you have both the southeast and northwest corners. I'd say the odds are in fact considerably stacked in your favour.

I think that was in reference to taking Korkith early in the game.

My recruitment drive did go rather well.

I'll fight on, though I don't there's any way I can win with the new rules.

[Freiegeister]

The battle is joined...

[celebaglar]

Indeed. You did well to give poor old Thimrath a bloody nose, but there's a price to pay for every victory.

Heck, I'm very seriously outnumbered, so I've got nothing to lose.

[Freiegeister]

Celebaglar said:

Indeed. You did well to give poor old Thimrath a bloody nose, but there's a price to pay for every victory.

There is.

Heck, I'm very seriously outnumbered, so I've got nothing to lose.

I estimate your numbers at between 35,000 and 38,000 in the Kor/Dreams area, with my own numbering around 37,000. Should be fairly even for the next few days.

Revise that, you have over 43,000.

[celebaglar]

Freiegeister said:

I estimate your numbers at between 35,000 and 38,000 in the Kor/Dreams area, with my own numbering around 37,000. Should be fairly even for the next few days.

Well, the title of this game seems inappropriate to the way your lords seem to survive unscathed, even if their men don't. I do believe that the last round of fighting resulted in almost 5:1 ratio of casualties in my favour.

However, I was referring to the situation overall, where you did better in recruiting than I did, and also have control of almost all the territory of Midnight. My only chance was to do something to start levelling the numbers, because waiting for you to come after me would have been suicide.

Revise that, you have over 43,000.

D'you know, I never counted them.

[Freiegeister]

Celebaglar said:

Well, the title of this game seems inappropriate to the way your lords seem to survive unscathed, even if their men don't. I do believe that the last round of fighting resulted in almost 5:1 ratio of casualties in my favour.

I had guessed it more like 10:1 unless you sustained additional losses from disease. I made the mistake of overloading a citadel by about 800 men and nearly lost 600 in one night.

But scratch Kumar and ul-Artath. They didn't manage to make it back to my main forces.

However, I was referring to the situation overall, where you did better in recruiting than I did, and also have control of almost all the territory of Midnight. My only chance was to do something to start levelling the numbers, because waiting for you to come after me would have been suicide.

I hold a lot of citadels but that's about it. You seem to have quite a few spies roaming at will. Hardy ones at that as well from the few I've tried to kill.

[sparrowhawk]

Check out the latest release (0.2 R7). I've added overall army size figures to vassals and strongholds pages.