FFH ADV1: Tatan Does Not Succeed

[Tatan]

Since I DID play quite a fair a bit of this, I feel obligated to say something...

I actually have a fair bit of FFH experience [I started playing literally a couple of days before people started organizing FFH PBEM1], but my play in this game was total . I botched my early play, and the game never forgave me for it. I got unlucky with some lair results [not as unlucky as poor Amelia, but I still had more than a few lizards running around in my territory], and by the time I had finally managed to get up to four cities around Turn 100, 3 or 4 barb cities had popped up in a ring around me and began peppering me with stacks of like 5 warriors every 15 turns or so [for each city!]. I managed to clear out two of them, but I mismanaged my zone defense and let some barbs raze one of my core cities. I probably could have played out this one, but after that I kinda lost heart. Dark Elves also felt a bit weird to me for some reason, I guess I prefer playing as other races...

Anyway, what I saw of the map was pretty cool, but I just couldn't live with my early mistakes. Looks like I'll have to try out T-Hawk's new adventure; third time's the charm, amiright?

[haphazard1]

Sounds like some tough luck, Tatan.

I am an FFH2 noob, so I did not realize how fortunate I got with the barbs. Faced some threats, and a couple stacks of warriors from the one barb city which popped up next to Yggdrasil. But otherwise I expanded fast enough and scouted/fogbusted enough that nothing significant troubled me. Beginner's luck, I am thinking after reading reports like yours and Amelia's.

I must remember to build more military next game.