(made by Shaf)
We had a series of FOC victories, or should I say FOCing victories. :) We looked around and picked a team of what we thought would probably be an easy kill. Gotcha, Shlonglor, Warp, Shaf vs Tarquinn, FlankerX, Silverwolf (The War 2 Whore) and Wermacht. I was tired of FOC and Gotcha wouldn't play on any of the cool puds so I picked High Seas Combat.
Gotcha picked humans. I was quite pissed at that. I remember so many HSC games where Gotcha's Knights get killed by a bunch of lusted Ogres. But as I would later learn, I'm sure glad he picked humans :)
I had a plan. Man plan was to steal Red's oil. Last time I was at red, and Denbert was where I was, at yellow, he stole my oil and I was screwed. Red is already on the sea, but to not be able to go sea too, equals dead for him. RED=DEAD is the common phrase for War2. I figured, Warp, Shaf, and I would go juggs, Gotcha was heading straight up to mages. Even if all 4 of them went Juggs, Red would be out, because he would have no oil, Blue would be out because he would have no trees, because everyone knows, blue has no trees on his island. That would leave 3 vs 2 on Juggs. We knew whoever was at purple (it turned out to be werm) would go all land and sapper into Shaf and kill him. Shaf's hall was on the sea, so he HAD to go juggs, yet he was sure to go down to purple's sapper in. We knew Shaf was out no matter what.
I was making plenty of jokes about Shaf's coming doom :)
Well we got rolling. My strategy involved some dirty stuff. I went two farms then built my mill. As soon as my mill was done, I built my yard. I didn't have enough farms for a tanker so I made decision....
In this game, Warp, Gotcha and I were all within listening distance. We also had an audience across the hall watching Gotcha play. So I started my acting.... In the big games, I like to do some voice acting during the game.... So I yell:
"I'm afraid, one of my peons must make the ultimate sacrifice for the good of the others. Sometimes the innoncent must be sacraficed... The good of the many out weigh the few or the one"
I then murdered one of my peons. Warp looked over at my monitor and said: "Man Shlonglor is doing some weird stuff." Well, that left me with about 8 used and I trained a tanker and peon at the same time. I got the tanker out. I ran as fast as I could ot the oil spot. It was free. YES! I told Warp and Gotcha, I stole his oil. They were like: YEAH! :) I was putting up the rig just as Shaf and everyone else on the team was saying Shipyard. hahah. I had a rig going before anyone even had a yard up. I made a 2nd tanker and went over to see Tarquinn's yard. It was still building. I couldn't help but laugh. Take a look at Tarquinn discovering that his oil was stolen :)
Well I thought we had them, but then Tarquin hopped a peon over and made a barracks on my shore. I didn't have a barracks or anything because I did that super water rush. I quickly got an unwalled in guard tower up outside my town. I walked over to his barracks and started buliding walls around it. I was trying to build a little wall around where the footmen was going to pop out. I figured that if I could wall the footmen in it could save me some time. It was a brilliant strategic move. BUT, one of the peons got stuck where the footmen was supposed to pop out. Doh. It woulda worked good too. The footmen would have had to break the wall down delaying him enough for me to pop some Grunts. I had 2 peons repairing my barracks. He then built a guard tower outside his barracks. I pumped one jug and began to hit his barracks. But in came Silverwolf and Flanker with juggs. They got my Jugg and started screwing me over. Warp and Shaf were sending their juggs down to me. I was yelling at Warp to get the heck down here and bail me out :) Gotcha was up to Castle and was working on sappering through to save me. During that time I was trying as hard as I could to kill Tarquinn's peons. He would hop peon after peon over to my town. He was building towers and beating me up bad. Then Gotcha finally sappered through. He ran in with Knights and saved me. Phew.
I was back in the stone age. Gotcha had Mages and I had 7 peons and Town hall :) Warp was trying to send down all the Juggs he could, Shaf too. They were getting in big battles. Eventually they were able to kill Tarquinn's hall at least once or twice. But, he started to pump gryphons. They were screwing Warp's and Shaf's Juggs over.
Well there I was. I had about 7 peons and Gotcha had just saved me. I started pumping peons as fast as I could. I quickly got up to Keep, then Fortress. During that time, Gotcha was protecting me with his Mages. Tarquinn sent in a gryphon or two. Gotcha was yelling at me to start making axe throwers. Gotcha and I killed or damaged some of the Gryphons.
During this time, Shaf was invaded by Werm. Werm went all land and was up to lust. Shaf said: "I'm dead guys." Werm had Dks, getting his tower. He had some Juggs left over, but his town was gone. Shaf goes I have 5 Juggs where do I go? Me and Warp were all: "crap what has he been doing?" We yelled: "Get the heck down to red you idiot!" We needed Juggs down at red now. So Shaf rolls in with his juggs. I believe they were able to kill Tarquinns hall for either the first or 2nd time.
The enemy over came Warp and Shaf's Juggs eventually and took down my yard and all my sea stuff. Someone then took my oil spot. Looking at the pictures later, I think it was flanker. He took Tarquinn's oil spot who already had an oil spot in the middle of nowhere. They got got Shaf's Juggs and he was shortly eliminated. They got Warp's sea stuff. They didn't get Gotcha's because he had Mages. It was looking really bad.
Warp invaded Silverwolf. All he had for defense was some walled in peons on gold. Warp was really ripping up Silverwolf bad when Tarquinn's Gryphons came in to save Silverwolf. Warp's invasion was beaten off.
We knew we had to take back Shaf's place from Werm. Gotcha was already running Blizzard runs on the place with invisible transports. He would land, Blizzard the place, then get back into his invisible transport. Werm would try to rune the place where he thought the transport was. Gotcha would land, pop out the mage, then move the transport. Werm would rune the place where the transport USED to be, then Gotcha would get back on the invisible transport at the spot where the runes were not. haha. It was pretty funny. Warp had hasted, lusted Dragons he would send in and attack the place, and then run. Werm had lots of Dks, but Gotcha and Warp were wearing him down with their 1 2 combo. One time Gotcha popped out the mage, blizzarded Werm's peons at Shaf's old town, then got back in, went down to Silver's place and Blizzard them too haha.
But we weren't doing good. We knew we had to take werm's place. I built a shipyard and had Gotcha protect it with Blizzard. I was able to get about 2 Juggs and 2 destroyers out. But Flanker came over and took my yard. Gotcha was able to Blizzard some of the ships. I built another yard in the inlet between Yellow and White. I got out some transports. I had a load of 5 or so Ogres with Bloodlust. I had Gotcha make my transport invisible. I went up toward Werms place to invade. I was going to invade on the very left side of Shaf's island and sneak in right by Warp's place. I was about to land when I saw 2 of Werm's Ogres on the shore. Just then..... Tarquinn drops. CRAP!
We got into the chatroom. Man. Silverdork was talking some shit. One of them said, we don't even need Tarquinn. Man bullshit. If Tarquinn hadn't screwed me over, I woulda jugged their ass hard core. Man I couldn't believe that crap. That pissed me off. I said, well i'd be glad to play Shaf, Me, Warp, and Gotcha vs them 3 if they wanted to afterwards. Werm then said, "Nice little invasion shlong." I guess he saw my guys about to land and knew they were coming. Well crap. I went into the other room and I started talking to Gotcha and Warp about what the plan was. We were going to invade Werm. So after Tarquinn made it back in the chatroom, I launched the saved game.
Instead of invading Werm, I went down and Invaded Silverwolf. He didn't have a thing. I killed his peons and went straight for the hall. Silverwolf was just building a blacksmith. hahahha. I had lusted Ogres in his town. hhaah. I got his keep and started working on his smith. But in came 2 of Tarquinns Gryphons. I attacked the smith anyway. I got another trans full of 2 or 3 berzerkers and some Ogres. During that time I only had 3 Ogres left and Tarquinn was nailing them with Gryphons. I got the Ogres and Axers over to Silver's island. I lusted up the Axers. Werm had 2 Dragons there attacking me too. I got 2 or 3 Gryphons and then Werm ran with the last one. I had the island. I took out everthing on Silver's island but the shipyard.
Gotcha and Warp were saying that we had to invade Werm at Shaf's place NOW. They had both been attacking it. Gotcha would blizzard the peons. Warp kept sending in Dragons, hasted with Bloodlust. But that wasn't doing it. So I loaded up 2 transports with Ogres and Axe throwers. Gotcha made them both invisible. I landed on the shore out of range. But Werm runed the place where I was going to attack. 2 of the Ogres ran in and died in the runes against my commands. Stupid Ogres :) I decided I should retreat. I put the 6 guys in one transport, and 4 in the other. I moved them back and approached the island from another side. I landed, lusted what I could and charged. In retrospect, I should have ditched those stupid archers. All my guys died, but I took some Ogres and peons and stuff with them.
Sometime around this, Warp was saying a transport was coming to invade him. He had taken his hasted Dragons over to Werm's 2nd island (Shaf's ex place) and he noticed Werm's transport coming to invade him. He sent the Dragons back to get the transport. Warp said we have to get that thing before it lands, otherwise he is screwed. We were both chanting "GO GO GO GO GO" as the Dragons were attacking the transport. They sunk it just before it got to the shore. Warp and I were yelling "YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
I was watching Tarquinn's place. He loaded up 2-3 transports full of guys. He had a bunch of Knights and about 5 Mages. I tried to get Warp to intercept them but he wasn't able to. They landed on Shaf's island. It was clear the whole team was making their defense at that mine.
I had killed all the stuff at Silverwolf's town but his yard. I got what was left of my invasion part, which was a few axers and some Ogres and invaded Tarquinn. I was beating away on Tarquinn's town when he sent in a load of Knights. I fought with the Knights and thanks to bloodlust, I won with 2 Ogres and an axer. I finished off all of his good buildings. I was beating on his hall, when somehow, I think using a peon, he killed my axer. I had 2 Ogres left on Tarquinn's island. I finished off the Castle. That left 4 farms, a yard and foundry. I left them alone.
I flew over Silverwolf's and there he was mining. I was totally surprised. We spent all that time fighting to get Shaf's mine back from werm and we totally forgot all about the mine at Silverwolfs. I ran in with 6 Bloodlusted Ogres and took the place. The Ogres then guarded the mine. I was pretty much out of money. I told Gotcha and Warp that I was going to invade Werm on a suicide mission to get those Mages. I invaded and got 2 Mages and damaged the other 2 or 3. Warp then came in with the hasted, Lusted Dragons and finished them off. We discovered that Silverwolf had set up a town at Shaf's with Werm. We also discovered werm had sappered through to Orange, Shaf's place. That is how he was so easily defending it with his Ogres. He sappered in a weird spot that was hard to notice.
I told Gotcha he should quickly come get Silverwolf's mine. There was 20k left in it. Gotcha landed and began setting up. Silverwolf landed too and was also trying to take the mine. I had ferried over 2 transport loads of peons from my town to Silverwolf's. I used all of them to attack Silverwolf's hall he was putting up. Warp helped me with his Dragons It was an awesome sight. You can see it in this picture. Gotcha set up his hall and built some Guard Towers. All of the enemies navy surrounded the place and flanker sent in some footmen, and tried to lure us to the shore to get us with his juggs. HEY. We invented that man! haha. Like we would fall for that. I had my peons run toward the shore and run back to our towers. I tried to do the trick the opposite way. Eventually, the towers took the footmen.
We were then invaded by at least 1 Werm Ogre, and some other unknown forces. I was back to my play acting. I yell into the other room:
Enemy invasion. Peon Army responding to the situation. Peon army engaging the enemy. (After the enemy was killed) Peon army has routed the enemy. Returning to defense positions....
I had the audience over at Gotcha's room rolling. It was funny :)
After the enemy invasion, I planned on walling in that guard tower of Gotcha's. But I ran out of money doh!
Gotcha got a transport with at least 2 Mages over to the island to further it's defense. He then planned on Blizzarding the huge armada laying seige to the island. He didn't have a flyer so he had me take this picture of the armada's demise. I then took my peons and surounded the mages to defend them as seen in here.
Just then I spied an enemy white peasant
The Peon army has spotted an enemy invasion of our island. (Gotcha & Warp: What is it?) A lone peon. I think the Peon army can handle it! (Peon army kills the enemy peasant) I fought off the invasion. It was viscious, but the peon army was able to win. (Everyone in the other room was rolling :)
It wasn't too long when an invasion of 6 Axers from Silverwolf came in. Their target was Gotcha's Mages. I attacked the Archers with all my peons. Gotchas Paladins with healing also engaged. While Silverwolf was trying for the Mage that was there, Gotcha was healing it. Silverwolf's Axers were killed without doing any damage whatsoever. Hahaha. Silverwolf then turned on the messages and said something about his displeasure about not getting it. hahaha. A little while later 1 grunt came in and tried for mage again. He got it down to about 10-20 hit points but we killed the grunt with the peons. haha. Foiled again! Silverwolf said something about that mage was his. haha. DENIED.
As soon as we had healing a short time earlier, Gotcha healed all 4 of Warp's Dragons. He healed everything else we had.
Then Gotcha took Werm's 2nd island, (Shaf's old island) Silverwolf was defending it, and Gotcha and Warp said it was pretty much axers only defending it. There was about 1100-1200 left in the mine. I think it was 1200.
Shaf's, Werm's, and Silverwolf's island were now under our control. I took a flight over flankerX's island. All he had was 3 guard towers. CRAP. We could have taken that easily.
I noticed Flanker was pumping footmen still. I also noticed that he was making Destroyers. So I sent Warp's Dragons over to get his barracks. Warp started attacking it, I'm not sure if he got it or not, but Flanker built some archers. He also had a destroyer on the shore that I think was hitting the dragons. So I told Warp to retreat. An archer was standing by the river between Silverwolf's (well OUR island) and Flankers. So I had Gotcha Polymorph it Maybe I should say Pigacized it.
It was around then that they started talking about how pointless this was. It was a stalemate. BULLSHIT. I said to them, No way, we can win this. They laughed at us. Silverwolf starts saying no way. He said to take a flight over the middle. I had theorised that they probably had 4-5 Destroyers. Those would easily be killed by some Hasted, Lusted, Dragons combined with healing. I took a flight over the middle and I was able to spot about 6 or so destroyers. But they charged my flyer. Those Jerks! They set a trap for my flyer. I thought they would pull some crap like that. I quickly got my flyer back home.
They had a ton of destroyers in the middle. Those jerks had made a bunch of destroyers and put them all in the middle surrounded by transports, tankers and flyers, to cause a stalemate. That seems like a pretty jerky thing to me. Warp said he would have done the same if he were them. Not me man. That's pretty gay. Gotcha said: "Yeah that's pretty gay." hahaha.
Pretty soon after, we eliminated Silverwolf. I heard Gotcha yell from the other room: "hahahhaha ELIMINATION!" hahaha.
Sometime around then, I heard Warp go, shoot my Dk is gone. I look over at his screen and where the dk was supposed to be, there was nothing. I go where did it go? He said: "I'm not sure." Hahaha. Later I learned from Werm that he had used a sapper and an Ogre to kill it and at least 1 Ogre. So that meant no more haste for the Dragons. DOH! During that time I had taken the 2 Ogres left on Tarquinn's island and landed them on Gotcha's. My transport was sunk. I had no more transports and no money. I had 2 Ogres with about 2-10 hit points on Gotcha's island. I had 1 flyer, and a bunch of peons on Silverwolf's old place.
Gotcha then started yelling Sappers Sappers. Move your Ogres at my place. I headed right with the Ogres but then saw the sappers run above me toward the left. I doubled back toward the sappers. I got a few hits in. but first sapper hit the foundry. The next one hit the foundry again and killed one of my ogres. Crap. Gotcha couldn't make anymore transports. DOH!
Warp then set his dragons on attacking Werm's place. He had 3 Dragons on the place. 1 had died before it could be moved earlier. Warp then walked into Gotcha's room. I yelled at him to watch his dragons. He said, what for, they can't get them with anything. I said, ok. I knew that was probably our only hope.
We then theorized what we should do. I said that we should take flankers place. We should also get rid of Werm. We then figured that we could use bloodlusted hit and run combined with healing to get those destroyers. We went back to my room, Warp and I.
Gotcha and Warp took Flankers main island except for his shipyard. They also got rid of Werm as I hear Gotcha yell from the other room: "Eliminationnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn" hahaha.
Tarquinn starts talking about how stupid this is. I said we could win but they didn't believe us. He said, well I'm going to quit. Flanker can stay for the stalemate. YEAH WHATEVER BUDDY! I don't think I said that however :) He left.
I flew over the middle and saw this. You think that's bad? That's not even all of his ships. You'll see a better picture of them later. HOLY CRAP!
Ok here was the situation. We had 1200 gold in the mine at Shaf's old place. We had 1 Ogre with 2 or so hit points of mine. Warp had 1 or 2 on his island. Gotcha had 2 Oil tankers, and a transport. We were all out of money. We had no shipyards, Gotcha had one shipyard. I said to Warp and Gotcha:
"How many Destroyers do you think he has? Oh you know what? Hahahaha... Let me ask him.. Flanker: How many destroyers do you have?" Flanker: "16" I figured I was on a roll.. Shlonglor:"how many flyers?" Flanker: "3"
What would you do vs 16 Destroyers with only 2 tankers, a transport, 2 Mages with all the spells, a paladan with healing, one Ogre with lust? I put that question even to Vermeer and Shaf afterwards and they had NO IDEA :) That's why only the Andrews boys™ could win this game! :)
Flanker then said something about leaving. He said I gotta go somewhere but i'll leave my computer on. I walked into Gotcha's room as did Warp. I said, I've got it, (I'm pretty sure it was my idea) how about flame shielded, invisible tankers? hahah. Yeah! I said wouldn't that be the ultimate to sink all those ships with one invisible, flameshielded tanker while he was away. Wouldn't that be the ultimate to sink all his ships while he was gone. He would come back to find all his ships sunk. It was low down, but come on. It was no more low down then trying to cause a stalemate by making a bunch of destroyers then camping out in the middle. That would just be the ULTIMATE to kill all those ships, win that game and go back victorious.
Gotcha then researched flame shield. He made a tanker invisible and then flame shielded it. He then set it after the ships. They started taking big time damage. Oh man that was funny. Flanker goes: "YOU ASSHOLES!" hahhahahahhaha. MUHHHAHAHAHAHAHHA. That jerk had tried to trick us. He didn't really leave his computer. I said: "What happened to you leaving your computer?" He said: "I did leave but I came back." Yeah WHATEVER. He was trying to pull a fast one on us. We sent out the invisible tanker, with flameshield again figuring we could use this one tanker to get his whole fleet. But he used attack ground and killed it. DOH. I guess that wasn't going to easily win us the game.
We sat there thinking of our next move. We were having another conference in Gotcha's room along with our studio audience :) It then came to me. Ogre Eye of Killrogg! I could place it over the ships and they would shoot at each other. They would be in a limitless supply so we could use that to win. YEAH everyone yelled. I ran in the room and launched an eye. I flew over to the ships and they all started shooting at each other. as you can see in this picture. I sunk 2 and damaged some more. I made another eye and got 1 or 2 destroyers more. hahahha. I said to flanker, "only 13 more destroyers now :)" I sent another eye over and NOTHING HAPPENED! The Ships didn't fire. Flanker goes: "no more of that. I allied you" THAT ASSHOLE. That is freakin LOW. Allying me so his guys wouldn't shoot at my eyes. It was a brilliant strategic move on his part. I would have never thought of that. I talked to some other people and they said they just would have just seperated their ships. Flanker had allied Warp also so he wouldn't fire at his eyes either. CRAP. That was going to win us the game.
Gotcha had gotten the rest of the money from Shaf's mine. Before he got it we had figured we would make a Sub and make it invisible, and flame shield it. If he didn't have a flyer, which we were pretty sure he didn't, that would be awesome. I had told Gotcha and Warp to attack Flanker's flyers. We killed 2 of them. I figured that he didn't have anymore. I had asked him and he said he had 3, but I didn't see any, anywhere. So I figured he was lying. Lying like he did about leaving his computer :)
Gotcha got all the money back from the mine and found that he was like 70 or so gold short. CRAPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What really pissed me off is I had a peon sitting there by Gotcha's hall with a bag of gold in his hand. After playing diablo, you know it would be cool to just drop that bag and have gotcha's peon pick it up. I mean come on we are allies. All he needed was 100 gold.
So Gotcha started making a destroyer. He was planning on making that invisible and flame shield it. I then said, "hey wait wait cancel, when the destroyer gets up next to the ships it will fire at the ships and it will become uninvisble or visible rather." Gotcha said: "Yeah you're right." He canceled. He built a transport instead.
Gotcha then said, hey if he is allied with you and Warp, I think it's time to send the dragons in. With him allied, they won't be able to fire. I Lusted the Dragons up with the Ogre and they attacked. Warp got one of the ships and ran back. We then immediately sent over the eyes so if he unallied, the ships would fire at each other. No luck. He was still allied. Gotcha then sent over the transport he made, with it invisible and flame shielded. He sunk one or damaged them real bad. He kept it moving in eradict paterns to keep the ships from firing at it. After the flame shield wore off he ran home.
Flanker tried to chase the transport a few times but he would return to the middle once he got near the shore. One real close call he had followed the transport with a few destroyers, and just as the transport became visible, the destroyers were hot on it's tail. He ran with it to the shore, and just before the destroyers were going to kill it, the mage made it invisible. YEAH HAHAHHAHAHAH. Gotcha then blizzarded those Destroyers. Yeah baby! We sent some more eyes over. We figured it was time for another dragon raid. Warp sent over the Dragons again with lust, but this time the dragons accidently fired on a tanker of flankers. One Dragon was killed before it could return. CRAP! We had 2 Dragons left.
Gotcha sent the invisible transport with flame shield out again. Flanker was ready and fired with attack ground. Luckily he missed. Gotcha damaged some more ships BIG TIME. I had a flyer watching. I saw his peasant on the shore repairing but the funny thing was his transport was still invisible. I didn't get a screenshot. But have you ever seen a peasant repair an invisible transport before? I haven't, it was pretty funny.
Gotcha was making his flyers invisible and we would plant them over flankers ships. He never even knew hahahha. We took a look and almost every ship he had was in the red. This is all that was left. He had 7 Destroyers and 2 battleships, all dead. When i had killed number 12, I said to flanker: "1 down, 12 to go" Then we killed a few more. I asked flanker how many he had left now. He said "13" hahahhaa. I said to Warp and Gotcha. Hmmm He only had 12 a while ago, and now it's up to 13? hahahha. He was obviously talking outta his arse :)
It was then flanker yells: Remeber the Alamo! He charged with all his ships to Gotcha's shore. Gotcha blizzard the the whole bloody lot. Just a few of them can be seen here. I sure as hell didn't want to use the only flyer i had left to Blizzard & Destroyers :)
Flanker had a few ships left but he knew we could kill them. The truth is, we might not have been able to. He might have got lucky and killed the transport or Dragons. I woulda played it out. But instead he charged. He then surrendered!
Gotcha then took a picture of all that was left of Flanker's Armada at the end.
YEAH! OH man. I went to kchat as fast as I could, grabbing a stat screen shoot of course. I yell out in kchat. WE WON. FUCK YOU!!!! Their side went: NO WAY! I heard they had been talking about the stalemate they had made with us the whole time. SUCK ON THAT FOOLS!! hahahha. That was just the ultimate acheivement of my war2 career to walk into kchat and scream out our victorious cry and stick it to them. Those jerks had been talking it up in the chatroom during that drop, they had been talking it up saying stalemate, they had been in kchat during the game talking it up, and what happened. ANDREWS BOYS SKOOLED YOUR ASS!!!!!! Oh man. Warp, Gotcha, I and everyone in our room watching was so excited. Never had I had such a victory feeling such as that. I wanted to tell Shaf but he was in a game. Tarquinn was no where to be found. When Shaf got back, I told him. He said NO WAY! of course :) I then questioned him. I asked him what he would have done against 16 destroyers with 2 tankers, a transport and the other stuff we had. He had no clue :) Almost as cool as sticking it to Werm and Silverwolf in kchat, and sticking it to Tarquinn when he came on later. Hahahha. He didn't believe we won either. That is until we told him we used flame shielded invisible transports. I think he liked that. The game was over. We had overcome a 3on4. We had beaten all possible odds against us. Andrews boys had once took an impossible situation and turned it into a win.
The game lasted almost 4 hours!!!!! Shaf had played 2 games while we were still in that one :)
This was the kind of a game you could retire on. I know I've said it before, but I have a hard time believing any game could be as big and more satisfying than this one.
What was so neat about this game is almost every strat was used in this game. We had Invisible Transports, Hasted/Lusted Dragons, Dragons, Gryphons, Invisible, Lusted Dragons, Invisible flame shielded tankers, transports, Juggs, Destroyers, Runes, Polymoph, Slow, Hasted Dks, peon battles, archer battles, Sappers, repairing transports... Just about everthing was used in the game but Raise the Dead, Unholy Armor and Whirlwinds. And another amazing thing is just about all of those contributed to the win. Had we not had Warp's Dragons we would have lust, or Gotcha's Mages, or My Lusted Ogres, or invisible transports. Everything came together. Everyone on the team, even Shaf did their part to win us the game.
I talked to Werm and their plan was for Flanker and Silverwolf to Go all Juggs. I believe that might have been Tarquinns plan too. Werm was to go straight up to lust and go all land taking out whoever was at Orange (Who turned out to be Shaf) Flanker went all sea. Normally people at Blue run out of lumber after a few Juggs, but he set up a lumber mill on Tarquinn and Shaf's 2nd island. He also set up a Shipyard and Rig at Tarquinn's place (Red) He did nothing but pump Juggs and Destroyers. He did pump a few footmen but they didn't do too much. We were kicking ourselves over not invading him. We could have easily put an end to his ship days. He only had about 3 Guard towers protecting his down. A Dk and some lusted Ogres could have taken him out quite easily. What was even worse was he was pumping Juggs and Destroyers even up to the end of the game. Had we invaded earlier, we would have had less ships to deal with.
Silverwolf was also going all sea. But we cut him short of making too many Juggs luckily. He did do some major damage early on. But Silver never properly defended his town. Warp who invaded him first said all he had was his peons walled in. That's it. You can't expect to last too long with those kind of defenses.
Werm commented on how Tarquinn let them down. He had 5 Mages and a bunch of knights and rather then attack us, he landed on Shaf's island and got his Mages killed. Had he attacked any one of us, I'm sure that would have won them the game. He could have put his Mages on the shore and Blizzarded any of our towns. I think Gotcha's would have been the hardest to take, but at least it would have done some damage against us. I think I have to agree with Werm. Not using those Mages to attack us was a big mistake.
But I'm going to place a lot of the blame on Silverwolf (The War 2 Whore) Had he not given us his mine, and I mean GIVEN, there is no way we could have won. Thanks DUDE! :)
But everyone in the team should be commended, they all played great. Just some better then others. I don't think anyone in that game was dissatisfied with it, even the losers. We all had fun.
Now the second part begins. We were going good I was worried about gotcha because i knew he went land. I didn't have much wood but i wanted to mine the mine out asap to deny shlonglor or gotcha from overpowering me from getting it. Then As i expecting it starting to have unseasonable weather. What i didnt suspect was b4 that Warp comes in with some hasted lusted dks. DOH. And while my guys were milling around in confusion gotcha would come in and blizzard my guys. I still had plenty of cash but was lacking on wood. So i start pumping dks out in hope of coiling his guys. As I look back on that I probably should have just saved my money, but afterthought as they say is a 20 20. Well as this is happening silverwolf is invaded by shlongs or Gotchas knights. Not sure which. I was like DOH. Silverwolf was bailed out by tarquinns birds. But eventually shlong came in with some axmen and finished them off. Now this is the key to the game. If silverwolf would have mined the mine out we were in great shape. But he left 20 GRAND in the mine. This would be important later in the game. As i was successfully fending my mine off from dragons orges and mages. After shlong finished with killing silver off mostly he comes for me. He lands around 12 ogres on my island, i get 2 from runing. Then WARP comes in with his damn dragons again and scatters my guys. When it doesnt look good tarquinn comes and bails me out. He brouhgt 8 knights and 4 mages. a couple of mages died but what was important was i was able to fend shlong off again after lusting Tarquinns knights. This is where things fell apart. I wanted tarquinn to hit either Gotcha or warp and hit their mages. Instead he elected to stay. As things were, I could fend off shlongs attacks directly but those damn dragons restricted me. With what little wood i had i decided to take matter into my own hands. I wanted warps DKS dead. But since no one could do it i decided to go kill them myself. My first attemp with my peons failed. He saw it coming. So the next time I loaded my last ogre and peon in it. Landed and killed one dk. One was remaining. So i have 1000 gold left. I knew that we were not going to win but had a chance at a draw. So I told FlankerX to make more destroyers for dragon attacks would have to come. And myself with the last of my money, i built a sapper. With this sapper, i snuck it onto warp's island and killed the last of warps dks. Warp still had 3 dragons but he could only lust them and not use haste which is deadly. After this i did some scouting. We relized that the key to the game was for us to go for a draw. We weren't going to win because of Gotcha and his mages. But we did know we could gamble for a draw. Flanker made 12 destroyers that game and kept them center. He also had a couple of sappers at home. We knew that gotcha was getting the bulk of the money and were not quite sure how much shlong had. SO that is when we decided to get gotchas Foundry. First sapper made it with flying colors. Gotchaslowed the last sapper, but it got to the foundry. Realizing now that gotcha yard was weak Flanker sent in a battleship. I will let shlong tell you the rest of the story because i was finally eleminated after all this:)....oh and it was 3 hours later too
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Wermacht.
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