[SPOILERS]- Crazy Keelyn is trippin’ Balz: Bobchillingworth of the Balseraphs

[DaveV]

Here's a quick shot to reassure Bob that I'm doing at least a few of the things he asked...



The Orcs decided to throw all their units at Coombe View. We actually killed one of the attackers, and some of the other ones are pretty beaten up.





After another round of skeleton spam, here's the faceoff for the Orcs' next turn:

[Bobchillingworth]

(Mad Cackling)



Oh my god it's actually working. My stupidly brutal plan is working


BWAHAHA... ahem. Of course, he can just walk around the city, or bring in more units.



Anyway, you're doing an awesome job with the defense. Very most certainly likely better than I would.

[Krill]

You know, we used to joke about the thousand warrior defense years ago in RaY, about how if you could throw in more warriors than the attacker could kill every turn, you'd be invincible.

I can't believe it's been proven to work.

And I like Mookie owes me fifty bucks.

[Hesmyrr]

Wow, defense is going better than I anticipated. Of course our opponents being the orcs, they're likely to move in with flood of warriors that negate great skeleton wall

In fact, I see we are outnumbered already (18 Orcs vs 16 Clowns) though most of them are hurt as you said. How many adepts do you have currently?

[Rowain]

In fact, I see we are outnumbered already (18 Orcs vs 16 Clowns)

I think you are slightly wrong. There are 15 puppets not only one in town= 30 clowns

[Krill]

Summoner...can only replace 1 puppet per adept per turn, so there would be a slow whittling away of numbers. Of course, each new adept equals two new summons...

[Bobchillingworth]

Lol, Iskender may be joining in soon too, on the wrong side:

8:10 PM me: sup iskender
Telesfor: hey
me: your NAP with the Clan ends in... five turns, maybe?
I don't actually know what turn we're on, heh
8:11 PM Telesfor: yes, on T130. it's 122 or 123
me: cool
I have no idea what your power is like
but
would you be able to invade them around then?
Telesfor: i've got priests of leaves
me: right now, they have their entire military commited vs. me (well, dave)
like, all of it
they have to
8:12 PM because of the insane skeleton spam I'm doing
Telesfor: i don't think i'll be able to invade them
me: hmm
most of their cities should be almost undefended
obviously this helps me a lot
that said, they're going for conquest
tredje was quite explicit about that
8:13 PM if I crumble and they're left with all four sons, plus my empire, plus what they got from sareln and founded themselves
you're basically doomed.
8:14 PM SL says he's ready to join the fight when his NAP runs out, but that isn't until t140, when I stand a good chance of being dead without help
Telesfor: that's gonna be a lot of land to defend
me: won't be too hard. they will have plenty of time to spam defenders with warrens if no one does anything
8:15 PM but yes they already have a lot of land to defend
and very little defending it
which is why now is a better time to act than once they have even more land and fewer people to fight
Telesfor: the clan will be difficult to bring down, that's true, but i'm afraid it's too late for me to aid you in this conflict
8:16 PM me: "too late"?
8:17 PM Telesfor: i've chosen sides
see the relations page. clan is giving me body mana
8:18 PM me: strange to ally with the "kill everyone" civ
am I getting a war dec from you too then soon? :P
Telesfor: a war dec, why not
8:19 PM me: haha

I don't even understand this. Oh well, whatever. Play a confused, aimless game & then get played for a fool in diplomacy, it's the Iskender way! Also the Bob way from PBEM 1, whatever stfu



I *might* have Civ access again tomorrow. I'll post here to let you know what's up, Dave. Might hold the turn even if I can play it, until I can get a good feel for what the hell I'm doing.

[DaveV]

Sorry guys - I didn't get the save until early this morning and I haven't had time to play it. It's my birthday today (woot), but that means I won't be able to play for about 14hrs as I'm off out after work...

Let me know whether I should play the save or if you will.

[Bobchillingworth]

Will do. I've got Civ installed fine, but FFH doesn't seem to be recognizing patch O at the moment.

[Bobchillingworth]

Okay, I think I got everything sorted & I'm back on track to take over the turn-playing duties again. Many, many thanks for covering for me!



If you have the time & inclination later, would you be able to show me, in text or preferably pictures, how you've been arranging the basic defense? My earlier jabs aside, you are a much better commander than I am, and I'd feel pretty stupid if I screwed up the whole defense as soon as I got my hands back on the game.