We had never tried Muzzy's Rivers 2, and I really wanted to try it out. I love water and I was kinda getting sick of FOC... So we all got the pud and started off.
What is different about this pud is it is ALL sea. Foc is mostly sea, but you can survive without it. You don't even need a shipyard to win on HSC :) But on Rivers 2, it's win the sea or DIE.
I got top Right. Gotcha was below me, Warp was below him, and Flanker at the bottom right. LrdSchroeder was Top left, Werm next, Isildur below him.
I was humans of course, Gotcha and Silver were human and Warp orc. The rest of them were all human too I believe. Warp is like the only one, besides Nate that still goes Orc on Sea :)
This had to be one of the coolest naval battle games I've ever played. I got up 2 shipyards and started pumping Juggs like crazy. Warp couldn't find his oil. I had 3 tankers and a rig done before he finally found his. He took some oil spot a screen or so away from his island. haha. I sent all my first few Juggs down to FlankerX. Warp and Silver sent some too. We got into some Jugg fights and didn't do so great. So I said send all the Juggs to above warp's Island. Silver sent his Jugg. Warp sent 1 or 2. Gotcha sent 2. I waited until I had 6 level 3 Juggs. During this time, they were beating the heck out of Silverwolf. He was off the sea because the enemy fleet was all over him. Werm invaded Silver with 6 Grunts. He kept sending over Grunts and then Lrd got his tower. That left him dead :)
We went left, over to Silver's with all our Juggs and utterly destroyed the enemy fleet. Lrd came down with a second wave (He is one of the best Jugg pumpers out their) I took out that wave too. During this time Gotcha invaded FlankerX and killed ALL his peons. Flanker was able to get 4 or so towers up and saved his town barely :) Someone started attacking us with Subs. Warp got the flier out and using attack ground and Warp's flyer we beat off the subs.
I then took the island left of me. Set the hall up right on the sea. I sent 4 or so Grunts over to protect it and threw up a tower. haha. I then took some more peons and set up a mill on the island below that one and started chopping. Once the wood started rolling in, I went level 4 and 5 Juggs. My rig blew and I noticed they were looking for oil too. I sent down my Juggs to attack FlankerX. While I was down there, Warp got attacked. By the time I got up there with my Juggs I didn't see much. I went over to Silverwolf's Island and Took out 3-4 of Lrd's Juggs. He was TRYING to get oil at Silver's place but I quickly put an end to that. Flanker started attacking Warp. I sent down my Juggs and bailed them out. Man I forgot how powerful level 5 Juggs are. About 4 of my ships that game survived 2 hits and had like 10 hit points a piece or so.
I got up to Keep and got a Inventor and Stables. During this time I sent down My Juggs and got Isildur's shipyard and foundry. Warp set up camp on Silver's old Island. Silver was out of the game at this time. Lrd got his only peon that survived the first attack. Gotcha took out Isildur and I believe FlankersX second island. Gotcha then set up on it and another island. At this time I had a fleet of 4 or so Subs, about 8 or more level 5 Juggs.
Isildur surrendered. I'm not sure exactly what happened to him. Gotcha got his 2nd and I think he might have got invaded at his main. Werm Surrendered too. That left Flanker and Lrd. Lrd and Flanker were both pretty much stuff on their islands. FlankerX had a transport, but I had server ships locked on it.
I went castle and Mages. But I had the damn unit limit most the game. That game was glittering prizes for me pretty much. The only thing that was ever stopping me was having too much stuff. Gotcha invaded Flanker and took him down. He got off a few peons and landed on a little island with nothing on it. I used a Jugg to pick him off. Elimination, muhahaha.
Lrd had quite a nice camp going. He had lots of towers. He had flyers. He had a bunch of mages with slow and more. I sent in a sapper, and he slowed it and beat the heck out of it with Mages. It was pretty funny. We wondered where Lrd was getting all that money. We found he had a little island left of his main. Warp got it with Lusted Ogres and I invaded just a little too late to enjoy in the fun. I kept trying to make Gryphons but I had the stupid unit limit. I had Warp kill 4 of my footman and I killed some peons to make some Mages and a Gryphon. At this time I had 10 or more Mages with everything but flame shield and Poly.
Warp invaded Lrd with Ogres. Lrd slowed them all and beat the heck out of them with towers and everything. It was really funny. I decided to pull some cool tricks. Lrd kept Blizzarding everyone's ships and flyers, so while he was doing this, I did this to him:
I planted an Invisible Gryphon over his mages in the midst of his towers and everything. Look at his Mage casting Blizzards on the ships totally unaware. I then popped out of invis and attacked the Mage. The old man ran around the corner and I think Gotcha killed him. hahaha. The towers took my Gryphon but who cares. The laugh value was worth it. I then Blizzard Lrd's towers on one side. I got in the transport thinking there might be more left. But Gotcha had landed on the other side of the Island with 6 Mages.
Silverwolf was concerned the game wasn't being Documented properly :)
The aftermath of that above blizzard Picture.
Gotcha then Launched a MEGA blzzard on Lrd's castle killing it pretty damn quick, faster than I could hit screen shot :) Warp ran in with his Lusters.
My mages finally made it over. Lrd's town was gone in a minute or less. But they made it for the group picture at least :)
Check out Gotcha and I. Even. We are like twins. Warp was a bit behind us :) Silverwolf, got killed but who needs Silverwolf when you got the Andrews boys. This was a great game. I don't think the other side did that bad. It was a great battle.
