Gotcha and I went in early on Gar. We did some damage. The delay was getting just awful. Keester sent all he had against me. I had my peons all walled in with 2 barracks on the outside. My plan was that I would build a lumber mill and get a tower up quick to kill those grunts. But the delay was just so bad, my guys wouldn't do a thing. I sent some guys up to Keester's town. He had a tower by his peons. The delay was so bad that my grunts would charge the tower even though I told them not to. Then they ran away. It was so lame. My guys were outta control. Then Keester and Gar dropped. DOH!
So we went back. We had the game saved but we hadn't saved it in a long time. So we started all over. This time the game went different. Gotcha and I decided to go in even earlier on Gar since he knew we were coming. I got my second barracks up quicker. I got the lumber mill up for the tower. I kept sending everything I had against Gar. So did Gotcha.
The game went different this time. I hate that crap but oh well.
Keester attacked me a bit earlier this time. He had a lot of grunts and he was a high level, but I took them out with my tower. Also, I was making more grunts. After a lot of attacks Gar started to go DOWN. He was able to hold off a lot of attacks but we wore him down. A lot of Gotcha's Grunts went down to Peons. Gar tried to put up towers but Gotcha and I took them down.
I saw some of Gar's peons leaving. So I sent 4 grunts to watch all the mines. I sent one to red. I sent the rest to blue and aqua.
I sent a peon off and built my blacksmith in the top middle of the map, in the middle of nowhere. It was funny. Gotcha found it. He goes "There is someone's blacksmith here!" I go yeah mine! After the blacksmith was done, I built a tower by purple's mine. I then was about to build my 2nd hall. I had told Gotcha like 2 times that I was taking purple. So he shows up there anyway. I quickly put my hall up. I wasn't going to let Gotcha snag it.
Well sometime around then, Keester sent up a bunch of footman to help Gar out, but we took them down easily. Like I said my Grunts were checking the mines. I found Gar's peons at blue's spot I think. I killed them. Some got a way and wandered into my new town at purple. The tower got one I think. One was able to get past the tower and hid in the corner. I sent up a grunt to kill it.
I knew that Keester(White) was going to get another Hall. I had purple and Red watched. Gotcha had a town set up at aqua so that left Blue free. I knew Keester was there. I went to Stronghold and got Ogres. Gotcha wanted to work on Keester's town, so we sent everything against him. I went in and started taking the towers out with my Ogres. He kept building them. I started attacking his Lumber mill. I got it down to a sliver but he kept attacking me, so I had to go fight. I came back and finished off the lumber mill.
Since I knew Keester must be at blue, I sent some guys over there. I found a whole town going. I didn't think he would have that much but he did. He was upgrading to Keep. Keester sent some footmen and started attacking Gotcha's 2nd town. I sent over some grunts and he either killed Keester's guys before I got there, or I killed them. I forget. So I sent bunch of Ogres over to Keester's 2nd town. I took it down. I then went back and started working on Keester's main town.
It was pretty much a mop up operation. Gar was down to like one lumber mill and a peon. Keester didn't even have Knights. I had a bunch of Grunts and Ogres. Gotcha had footmen, Rangers and Knights.
Around that time, Gar and Keester decided to surrender. Gotcha and I were not done yet so after they surrendered, we stayed in the game and finished off their stuff. We always finish off everyone's stuff. The game feels more complete that way. A surrender is not satisfactory. We also took most of these pictures :)
That game was so fun. It was quite a challenge!
Here is a picture of how I walled in. That is how you do it.
2 barracks on the outside and a tower inside. You can see by the stumps
how I was walled in. The trees are now gone in this picture but you
should be able to see what I did. This protected my peons enough
to keep me in the game strong. I had no troops to protect my town, but
walled in with a tower, I didn't need any.
This and the next
picture are so cool. It's Gotcha killing Gar's last peon. That
is SOOOOOOO Funny. Look at the poor guy die
All he wanted to do was chop some lumber
:(
Look at the poor peon's bones :(
We moved in and finished off the mill.
The last of Gar's once Great Civilization falls to the Orc and Human
Alliance.
Here are the stats. The gold and lumber is a bit high for Gotcha and
I because we played quite a while after the left. As you can see,
Keester got almost as much gold as we did.