Age of Wonders - Shadow Magic email game
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Name: Five Alive

Southern: Necking, Death Wizard of the Undead
Mimo: Mariner, Water Wizard of the Halflings
Bookwyrm: Carry On, Death Wizard of the Orcs
Vitek: Cosmos Wizard of the Archons
Catermune: Cosmos Wizard of the Tigrans

Normal ettiquette rules, maximum 2 heroes, surrender off.

Activity expectation: Play turns within 48 hours from receiving them. If you are unable to play your turn within 48 hours you should post in the relevant topic in advance. Writing turn logs is optional but you should always post a "turn sent" when you have played your turn so we know who's turn it is.



Necking, Day 1

We see no immediate targets which would be a painless victory, so we set out to cast our net wider.

Halflings, Day 1

Unlike our neighbors in this small land for small people, we look for the biggest enemy around and charge right at them. Everyone in the Halfling empire knows that "the bigger they are, the harder they fall!"

Hopefully David shows up to help us in our battle. (Technically his name is Bonaparte which is quite a good name for our diminutive hero. We'll find out if the RNG gods are supportive of our all out taunting assault tomorrow.)

TS

ooc: No Orcs for me?!?!?! How will I ever survive without my usual Doom Bats? :-)

Orcs, Day 1

Squish puny dragons. Put puny orcs to work digging shiny rocks.

OOC: What are the standard spells not to use? Just the various "X Mastery", or domain spells, or particular summons, or what?

No spell is off limits unless the map creator or game set up person says otherwise. However, the mastery spells are way too damn powerful so they should probably be considered off limits (imho).

A common one disallowed by map creators are call hero since it can summon a Level 20 hero that totally overpowers the scenario. I've actually never cast the spell, even when playing solo... You can summon whatever you want. It takes so damn long to research and then summon a good unit that it's tough to get something super overpowered. Even Gold Dragons which rock take so damn long that you might be better off with quicker castings.

Hm, fairly small map. I think it won't be long before we meet others.

We are archons but we are apparently good at death magic and first thing map wanted us to research was spell very useful to us, unholy darkness. We switched for now but we'll keep it in mind.

We would like to have Bonaparte as hero. Ours is called L.O.. :-/

Turn sent.

Tigrans, Day 1

My starting town started off with very little so it will take some time to build up my army. At least there are several mines within reach.

Turn sent.

Necking

We made some more zombies.

Halflings, Day 12

It's a good thing that the big dude didn't get more than one chance to trample Napoleon. Taking 12 damage from a single attack is rough... Especially since it might be a while till we get a chance to heal up.

TS

Cheater.

Oops. I got dazzled and amazed that there was a player with the name Necking. I couldn't stop giggling after seeing that. In my house, it ain't zombies we make after Necking.

Carry On, Day 2

Hate nymphs. At least FU2 wasn't permanently seduced. -.-

Question: how should I send the map, after mistakenly hitting cancel after ending my turn? I'm not sure I can reproduce that last battle. :S

Manually send the .ASG file from your "Email In" folder to Vitek.

Btw, re: Nymphs - Incredible unit if you can get one on your side. Being able to permanently charm units is a great way to quickly build an army on a small map like this. Vitek kicked everyone's butts a few games ago on a small map when he had a couple of Nymphs to begin.

TS.

Sadly, the Nymph wasn't interested in joining me.

Fuck YOu Too?

Now I am labeled as cheater for this.
Not fair. :-)


Duh, vampires have regeneration.
It's not smart to suicide against them.

Turn sent.

Tigrans, Day 2

After a third battle my small army is getting a little bruised. I wonder if there is any healing around.

Turn sent.