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Post by sparrowhawk on May 25, 2004 13:36:16 GMT
Yes, but I quite deliberately tried NOT to play a mass-all-armies-together strategy. Which cost me dear at the keep incident. After that I had to wait for reinforcements, and I attacked the Mus' troops using only 2/3 of my armies, so not completely sledgehammer-like!
So, can I have at least, oh let's say, 34 seconds worth of glory?
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Post by celebaglar on May 25, 2004 15:52:52 GMT
You can have 15. Anything more would be excessive.
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Post by celebaglar on May 26, 2004 13:11:12 GMT
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Post by celebaglar on May 26, 2004 13:30:13 GMT
Not any more. So, come on, how many lords did you lose?
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Post by sparrowhawk on May 27, 2004 8:06:20 GMT
Damn, I thought that i'd saved the html so that I could extract the dead lords. can't find it so must have forgotten. however, I did take this resume of my LIVE lords on the day I attacked shimeril the first time, so you can work it out from that. In that battle, I lost Lorgrim, and also Valethor (who may not be listed as he was 0R/0W just outside, and I decided to throw him in just to take out a few extra troops). I also had the following still alive: Morkin (getting troops at Moon), Rachel (having just picked up ~1000 men at Ithrorn she was nearing Kumar to pick up another ~300), Kumar who was in Thrall, about 1 day away form the battle with ~300 men (had just picked them up @ Marakith), Plainsman with ~700 men I think on the plains of blood (he was very annoyed that he didn't make the finale!), Morgallis with ~700 on his way down from Kor. I did not recruit Fawkrin. So in all, I think that I lost ~15-17 lords. Is that about right? You have to admit, it's more fun having a profligate enemy!
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Post by sparrowhawk on May 27, 2004 8:08:07 GMT
Forgot to post the resume! Here it is (actually, it seems to be of the day AFTER I first attacked):
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Post by sparrowhawk on May 27, 2004 8:19:04 GMT
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Post by celebaglar on May 27, 2004 11:14:08 GMT
Interesting to see that we didn't fool you for one minute. Shame, that. I did think you were excessively cautious, specially at the end there. Your numbers gave you a virtually decisive advantage, yet you seemed to worry a great deal about what we might do. Still, to each his own. I started in the Mountains of Odrark. Initially I thought I was SW of the Keep of Odrark, a disastrous place to start for a Free lord, but then I realised I was west of the keep instead, so I could reach Brith without crossing the mountains. Unfortunately, J-Y beat me to Gorgrath, AND to Shadows and Torkren. Somehow I managed to get Gard and Kathryn, but because J-Y controlled everything north of them by then they had to cross into southern Brith, then into Rorath as it looked as if my small force at Shimeril would have to retreat east towards Dawn before I could reinforce it. By the time they reached Rorath, Gard and Kathy were so wasted they had to risk the lake, and luck wasn't on their side. It took four or five days to get them moving again. By then my feint eastwards had allowed me to add Marakith plus Blood from the east, but that was still only about six lords. Shimeril died early, before the alliance was struck, so that didn't help. With less than 10 armies in total, I was never anything more than a makeweight in this encounter. I could have got to Corleth, Rorthron and Torkren ahead of J-Y (maybe Shadows too), but then I would have missed out on Marakith and maybe even Blood too.
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Post by sparrowhawk on May 27, 2004 11:42:39 GMT
Yes, very cautious, but if I'd lost this one I'd have never heard the end of it. As you say, the game was a forgone conclusion, but it was fun playing against an alliance.
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