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[Hide] (2.1MB, 3403x1036) Reverse for anyone who is interested here is my aar from the World_pEAce game
I had a bog standard Fortitude, regen and schock resistance on a Monolith bless. i just added low light vision because i planned at the start to go for caves and then summon the four dwarves in the midgame with the possibility of adding the galegate in the lategame. i suffered the experience of that combo in the sparks disciples game and wanted to share that misery with some other players.
Sadly I had no caves close to me and i fucked um my pretender paths, while going from drain 2 to drain 1 i moved air from 4 to 2 denying me the dwarves until i empowered my pretender, but air gems there to important for such investments until lategame there the dwarves would hurt me more than the other players, while also making me the target of all the players.
Expansion as a giant nation is not all that hard, you recruit as many giants as you can and recruit a priest commander to lead them every other turn.
Sadly my expansion was rather slow because i had a coastal cap and from my four land provinces one had barbs, one lizards and one had something like 3 bloodhenge druids forcing me to leave my capring until i had a good number of giants.
After expansion was done and i had a good number of indi scouts ging i had a rather good idea of that was going on in my surroundings.
R´ley was fighting atlantis and was not interested in annoying me.
Ctis in my south west had heat 2 and would have been a great early war target but we had a realy awkward border that i did not want to fight trough, in addition ctis and hinnom there already fighting and i would rather fight ctis later than help hinnom win that war and then have to deal with him myself.
In my north was Tir na n´Og and my border with him was worse that my border with Ctis, i got a quick nap with him because i did not want to get elfed and then ignored him.
This only left my with lanks as my early war. He has had the best expansion and was already building multiple forts, but while he was investing his gold in in infrastructure and mages i did not even recruit mages in my cap all my gold was going into more giants. I simply rolled over him and got my first palisades by conquering his right after he build them. He went ai after i caped his cap, but that just moved the war into an annoying direction as the ai immediately bought all mercs it could buy and started raiding.
With Lanka dead i got some more neighbours, but while i would have wanted to also kill Kailasa and Mictlan because they had at that point in the game no answer to firegiant stepping on their cap i instead started to invest into my Research, to get to my answers to the Ubar i now bordered.
Ubar was grabbing all the provinces he could and was at that point by far the biggest on the map.
I allied with T´ien Chi to force Ubar to fight on two fronts and hopefully split his raiding forces. T´ien Chi also recruited Oceania into the war and claimed to get Tir na n´Og and Marverni ropped in, but they never showed up. I also tried to get some more allies but i think fucked up and send my larpy messages to people that did not border Ubar confusing them instead of getting allies
The war against ubar was not that exiting, i finally started recruiting muspel Jarls and kitting them. Spirit Masks are a cheap way to get Spirit Sight and some mr, frost brands i brought from T´ien Ch`i as i had no water mages but wgems and Weighless Tower Schilds and Boots of the messenger are always useful and i made tons of them.
btw: enchanted Salt is a scam i used all my egems to give all my muspel Jarls one and it did nothing, anything else in the misc slot would have been more useful. If somebody knows how to make them work please tell me because i have no clue.
In the war against Ubar i simply but my main stack onto his cap while raiding and counterraiding with my jarls. then i had to wait till i researched Ench 6 for Fay-eyed Warriors to storm his cap, because i feared he get all his raiding jins to kill my giants on his cap
But while i waited on ubars Cap T´ien Ch`i managed to get his armys blown up by said Jins because he send them simply in with just some random mages and no plan.
Meanwhile Oceania got ubars southern lands and gave reports on there Ubars pretender was.
In the end i got ubars cap and its surroundings, Oceania the south and T´ien Ch`i got ubars throne and 3 forts.
While this was going on sauromatia and Ctis stated their deathwar while killing Vanheim and caelum seemingly incidentally. Funnily Caelum ai survived between them because its two forts there sieged by eventindies. And the Throne of Bureaucracy and the Throne of the Sun also never got touched. I think both of them would have wanted these 5 fgems to spam more dust walkers.
The Hellheim, Maverni and Tir na n´Og triangle never did much of anything, Maverni did not even get the thrones that there in his territory and he had the Thrones of creation and abundance. Hellheim woke up once Oceania gone ai and started slowly taking his land provinces. And Maverni conquered Tir na n´Og after he went ai, but he let me vulture like half of Tir na n´Og.
Oceania killed Yomi and Therados and then ether fell asleep or lost the will play. He went ai in a still decent position.
Meanwhile Rley killed Atlantis and started skirmishing with Agatha, but as a whole he sat in his pond and did not much.
I planed to join all the people doing nothing and started searching my land and slaming Dreamstones, Owlquils and Skullmentors to get up to lightless lanterns as fast as possible to catch up in Research and get Eternal Pyre up. But while i was doing what Tir na n´Og, Mictlan and Kailasa gone ai and i vultured that i could from them. I even got Mictlans cap accelerating the blood eco i was setting up at the same time.
My Plan was to blitz Ctis once Eternal Pyre got heat up to atleast 4 and my candles with gift of healt there on one or two of his forts.
But everything changed then T´ien Ch`i brocke his nap with me.
why T´ien Ch`i decided to fight my i still dont quite get but i dont think he quite through of the consequences of attacking me, because after the nap ended e stardet raiding me but never send a serious siege army out.
this allowed me to gather my spread out vulturing giants and simply go from fort to fort slowly cracking them, he was a real fort spammer. At some point he realised he had lost and gone ai.
In addition to him oceania had gone ai and his ai attacked me, but just like T´ien Ch`i it just tried to raid me for a bit. But with this war i finally got a water province allowing me to summon a queen of water. This surprised me because i assumed with all the water nations someone should have picked up his water harem, instead i got it.
At this point i entered a clown dimension because Rus also attacked me pulled then back, but said to me that he indeed wants to fight me. just to then stall 6 times and then go also ai.
And while i was dealing with what i got a message from pyrene that he is bored, this was his reasoning to put a 1000 cavecows on one of my forts. He got that fort but i killed that "army" with good old living fire spam. Sadly i did not have the time to post that battle in thread. After i wiped out this he also gone ai.
At that point my turns had clown music playing because while my scouts watched a fun deathwar i had to deal with 4 ais screaming "random bulshit go" while cracking one or two forts a turn.
i also got like 150 gems and spend most of them on forging and rituals. I have 30+ amulets of antimagic and resilience and messager boots as a standard kit floating around on mages and jarls
Once I have started conquering rus and took the waterThrone in my cap with my water harem. I realised i only needed one more throne to win and that rus had 2 right in front of me, i started summoning Bishop fish and forging flying Carpets.
afterwards i waited until all the fish there in position to claim the 6 thones in one turn and finishing the game.
I think no one quite realised how big i got just from fighting my 2,5 front war.