The Haunted Forest: Mardoc puts the Sidar to the test.

[Mardoc]

And the scout survival plan pays off!


Err..hopefully.

From chat, apparently Bob's been having bad luck, got a 'Powerful enemy', while Selrahc's gotten a GEng. So here's hoping Sidar are OP

[Thoth]

GE is nice.

Here's hoping for some more good luck on the huts.

[Mardoc]

Hut gave 24 gold. Nice, but not quite what I was hoping for .

Also - now's the risky time, I count 5 incoming barbs and the archer hasn't yet levelled.



OTOH - I'm half tempted to go for just warrior spam, no infra!

[Thoth]

Hut gave 24 gold. Nice, but not quite what I was hoping for .

Also - now's the risky time, I count 5 incoming barbs and the archer hasn't yet levelled.



OTOH - I'm half tempted to go for just warrior spam, no infra!

We'll be alright in the cap, we'll have a chance to level up to C1 before that second wave arrives.

Please tell me you microed the cities after that screenshot and before hitting end of turn. Getting Myst a turn earlier is huge.

[Mardoc]

Fixed the tile micro - unfortunately the Goblin prevents me from shaving the turn off Mysticism like I'd planned.



And I'm half thinking this hut should wait until Mysticism is in, Murphy says we'll get it from the hut with 3 beakers left to go. But nah, not worth the paranoia, just move on to find the next hut.

[Thoth]

Agreed on waiting until after Myst for the hut. The scout can look around to the SW for a turn or two then go back to pop it.

If the RNG offers us a tech lets give it the chance to give us an expensive one like Philo or KotE.

[Mardoc]

And...32 gold this time. And yet another hut found. We might not need to turn off tech, even with God King

I just saw your post, I'll save this new hut for after Mysti.

Also an oddity - why are the barbs just standing there?

[Thoth]

Gold is good.

That's a nice looking slush fund we're building up there.

No idea what's up with that warrior.

[Mardoc]

Mysticism in. Next turn is big, a hut and a double revolt.

[Mardoc]

In foreign news, Serdoa reports having popped a lair for an Assasin + 2 wolfriders - and Selrahc reports the barb swarm killing off one of his starting archers, likely to take one of his original cities in fact.

Meanwhile Bob, of all people, is bitching about the map. Apparently Serdoa and Selrahc started with Gold and Incense available to them, and this is a travesty. I kinda thought it was what we ordered - 4 passable sites, not balanced beyond that. And I thought Bob was the one who pushed hardest for that!

Oh well, what can you do? Play on, I guess.