I was hanging around castle looking for some innocent victims, having changed my name to Vagabond, and I joined this game with Bart, Homer and JmstSquirt (or something). It was Plains of Snow, High resources, so it really looked like a newbie special. No one asked for ogre rules (disappointing - nothing like building 3 or 4 town halls straight away, knowing that you don't have to defend them until ogre time, by when you have more money than you know what to do with };), but Bart and Homer were both claiming to have bought the game within the last 2 days! so it was still pretty convincing. Take it easy on us! they said.
The game started, me (aqua) and J..Squirt (white) vs Bart (blue) and Homer (yellow). Assuming I was playing newbies, I planned to build town halls over both the top 2 mines as early as possible without really bothering to defend them. All went fairly well, and I had both halls up and running, totally undefended, by the time my mine ran out. No interference from anyone, good old newbies I thought. About this time, my alchemist finished and I got some flyers going. Not expecting either of my enemies to be any threat, I sent the first one over white to see how my teammate was doing. SHIT! There's yellow grunts and blue ogres all over the place, and streams of blue sappers scampering around blowing shit up. Newbies? Hmmm... the next 2 flyers go over the enemy bases and sure enough they've both got to fortress not long after me. Bought the game 2 days ago did you? Fast progress... Actually, the way my flyer was positioned over blue's base, it looked like it was in the middle of a huge city spanning both blue and red mines (oh fuck!), but in fact there was hardly anything out of the range of sight of the flyer.
So, scared shitless, I run all my grunts up to protect my mines, and start building extra barracks and churning out the fat boys. I put another flyer over blue's base and see about 4 or more alchemists (!) so I put up an extra one myself and send the ogres in to try to eliminate the threat. With the help of a few sappers taking out towers, I make it in and kill about 8 lots of sappers just sitting around in his base (whew) and quite a few of his ogres, cos I beat him to bloodlust. I think I got him just as he was building up a major assault for me... as a result I never really got attacked and my mines emptied without any sign of danger.
All this time I've been thinking my partner's being shitted on, and worrying about yellow, but by the time I overrun blue with ogres, dragons and deathknights and get down to yellow's base, there's nothing left except white palladins! It only remains to take out blue's annoying dragon roosts and clean up.
The stats look pretty convincing, full bars for me :). Anyway, I join kchat afterwards, and there's Vitor saying 'ok, who was vagabond?' HAHA! The other 2 never owned up, but Vitor reckoned that one of them (probably blue) must have been Azure, cos he popped in and out of kchat right after the game, without saying anything. I thought Homer might have been a real newbie, as he didn't do too well, but Vitor said that Homer had tried the taco trick on him earlier or something, I dunno.
I hope it was Azure, muahahahahah...
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Enrique
About Smurfing: It seems just about everyone on Kali reads these stories. I never imagined that that many people read the stories. It seems smurfing has become quite the rage on kali. I got into kchat the other day with about 10 of my friends ALL under fake names. Kinda funny.
Back to smurfing, It seems no one gets the point of smurfing. We invented smurfing because we had a hard time playing new or intermediate players because our names are too well known. They would go you are too good for me to play. So the point of smurfing is a really good player goes in a game under a fake name and beats up on someone that is less skilled. But the person they beat up on are supposed to believe that that the good player under the fake name sucks. Smurfing was originally a Stormreaver clan deal, Muzzy,Cadaver,Stormshadow,Vermeer, and Warp. But now on kchat and in war2 it seems everyone is a smurf. It's really messed. There are newbies out there or players with intermediate playing abilities playing as smurfs. BUT they arn't the very best at war2 so they end up playing people that are better then them and they end up getting beat up. Which makes no sense. Smurfing is Really good players beating up on crappier ones. So the point is, you better be one of the best if you go out smurfing or there really is no point. If you are going to lose, you might as well lose under your real name.
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Shlonglor