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Game #1310

keika vs  novograd


Match Details

Played:2021-03-12
Amount of Humans:2
Kind of game:   PBEM
Game-value: 47
Result Player Classes Races Team Points Extra Points Missed Points Quitter Rate
1 keikaSorcererDraconians11100here
2 novogradRogueOrcs2-110-20here
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Published on Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:02:15 +0100

Written by Hiliadan

You still have quite explosive games, finished by turn 23, even with v1.23, normal speed, and medium map...

Well done keika!


Published on Fri, 12 Mar 2021 13:36:17 +0100

Played on medium map, normal research, PBEM 1.30

Was not a really good start, quite empty resp, very few ok places for forts, only one ground way, didn’t find UG entrance near.
Bad starting army - only crushers, no hatchlings and so no evolves, found outpost neighbour late and got just another crusher as a quest reward.
Expensive apprentices, produced only two of them for 200 gold each.

So the only idea I had was to build a floating stack with my leader, phantasms and apprentices and rush/harras novo to stop his expansion.

In the middle of the game the situation became more or less ok. I vassalized naga dwelling and got two guardians, took a dungeon, a couple of high level sites and with units bought from the inn opened two more ways to explore.
Mana income still was an issue and I was able to support very few summons. I decided to play roulette and summoned a fantastic creature and it was a watcher.

My stacks were in the middle of the map on turn 18 when I noticed a built road. It was Novo’s secondary stack with bards and some converted units.
To minimize losses, I decided to attack only with one medaled stack with 100% spirit protection. It was 6 vs 8 battle, but from stacks position it was clear that 2 units will attack alone and die.



It was a chance for me to raze Novo’s potentially undefended cities and so I went to do that.
Chasing his retreating units, I took inn on the way and with new units killed a few more his units.
In the next few turns I razed fort and empty city and was ready to attack his throne.

At the same time with leader stack and second hero stacks I was clearing sites to earn gold to maintain my army.

With the second necromant hero I got level 9 and started ghoulify units. I was quite lucky and with inflict curse and despair I was able to convert a few very good t3 units.
I wanted to try to take the wizard tower, but then noticed that some sites were cleared on the near island and next turn the wizard tower was taken as well.
I didn’t see his stack except for one fey, but it was obvious for me that it is a very strong floating/swimming stack.
This stack could make a lot of trouble for me and counter attack my cities and so I even started selling my cities and was thinking about plundering them in the next couple of turns.
It didn’t happen though, because Novo made a big mistake and for some reason his stack attacked and killed some of my minor units (but lost fey however) when I tried to regroup and pull back, but doing that he gave me an opportunity to counter attack him.


On the same turn I captured his throne with secondary stack and 2 more stacks were in 1 turn to assist.



Overall I am not really happy with my game, because I underestimated defender strength a few times and played very risky battles on edge. Probably it helped me to win this game due to faster exploration, but potentially could hurt a lot as well.

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