Aurorarcher has a tough row to hoe

[Aurorarcher]

Contact with all players now. Dave offered OBs, I accepted. He's the city leader, with smaller cities but all very profitable. 20 cities. No time to post all the pics right now but you'll get some.




Notice jale also giving Ellimist OBs...

From Glance section I learn something more:
- Apparently Jale declared war on Dave earlier, but now they have Iron for Iron deal, that is peace for sure. Maybe even working together.
- Dave was the one to declare war on Ellimist. Interesting. Ellimist has war weariness of 5 so apparently something was killed, but not very much.

I am about to destroy Hyborem.







Killed Hyborem twice + all champs/longbows. Some axes + manes left.

When I ended the turn I figured what I should do. I'll bring my fresh adepts and feed them some xp from all those Manes. There are 16 (!) of them in the city, and I don't think the AI uses them very smartly... Making adepts faster to mages would be handy.

[Aurorarcher]

Dave's power took a clear drop on T109-T110. Elli has war weariness of 130 now while Dave has about 70. So both sides killed bunch of stuff.

I'm moving stack of Cultists towards Ellimist.

[Aurorarcher]

Dave lost 4 cities on T112 after losing the border city T111. That's probably dead Lanun very very soon. I'm sure those Commando Chariots are burning everything...

Damn, reacted too slow on this. I fired my WS, I have almost 40 Cultists. Moving pretty much all west. Dave got Optics for his WS, just don't use it on wrong time to kill all my units... That'd suck pretty bad .

Maybe all is not lost but it's not looking good. I tried to Tsunami Ellimist's Death node but no luck.

[Aurorarcher]

Ellimist killed my Cultist with a Galley. I wasn't paying enough attention and he forted his way into the lake.

Dave is folding like a cheap tent. He is pretty much gone now. Jale has a large army too, if we could work together, maybe there's a chance...

It was a mistake to declare on Ellimist so early. Now he pretty much knows I'm coming for him with a stack of Cultists + some adepts/mages. No surprise is possible due to him having floating eyes. I have mine as well now too, which is handy. I believe his east is still quite empty but I know more when T114 comes. I have a chance to take his most eastern city next turn (if it doesn't have over 6 units).

But not much else I can do, if we don't all dogpile on Ellimist the game is lost.

... and then Dreylin signs OBs with the game leader...

[Aurorarcher]

Ellimist is playing so well.

I knew he had Harlequins around but I had no idea how effectively he could use them . And that he had so many of them. Let's just say I have no army anymore at this point... And he razed like 4 of TBS's cities while also killing all my Cultists. Basically with just Elephants (and awesome strategy of course). Very very annoying Illusion Elephants!




He landed some elephants, maybe even just 2 or 3, then he used Harlequins to make all of our units to attack his stack... I have no idea how he did it so effectively. It's +40% resisted spell, not sure how many Harlequins he had. Then landed some mages, some spectres to take almost unguarded cities...

But it worked anyway.

I think I'm ready to wave the white flag when others feel the same. I don't mind playing on if jale or others find this fun still.

[DaveV]

Dave got Optics for his WS, just don't use it on wrong time to kill all my units... That'd suck pretty bad .

Yeah, I was well aware that my WS would hurt my friends much more than my enemy, which is why I didn't cast it.