Here is a modest battle report of my game versus Setplux on a small map :
At start, it looks like I’m on an island, a frozen island. Hopefuly my elves don’t bother the winter. So for a start I wander around with my leader stack freed from the cavalry to clean bandits and loot treasures while the crows explore the seas ; it’s definitely an island now, and I have no more city on it so I need to ship asap.
It takes me a bit of time to clean the island and most cities my crows encounter declare war on me. I can only buy one on a long but thin island which cut the sea in two from north to south — this will be the frontier — with my island on the west — the winterland — and what I now identify as the island of my ennemy on the est — the grassyland. A crow spot his leader stack wandering nearby a city he just took on the north of his island. A dwarven city is in the the south west, but well defended. Another crow identify the enemy capital on the south est side of the island. He is a warlord and he now have two cities versus my only capital. I need to act now or I will be in troubles.
My crows allowed me to get quite some gold and the scoundrel army I’m producing is not that expensive yet, so I buy the frontier city and throw my leader army to assault the lightly defended northern city of grassyland.
By the time my leader arrive, my scoundrel army is ready and a hero even joined them. I capture the northern grassyland city. The ennemy come back to retake it, but the scoundrels arrive just in time, and now that the warlord is ready to attack, he can’t retreat. I surround him and launch the battle which quickly become a slaughter as I have more than two times his number. This was the decisive battle.
Now is time to head south-est of the island for the capital. He got enough time to build a powerful stack of berzerker, archers and even one monster hunter, a new hero and his leader to come back, but that wont be enough. I suffer heavy losses but finaly take the victory and the city.
At start, it looks like I’m on an island, a frozen island. Hopefuly my elves don’t bother the winter. So for a start I wander around with my leader stack freed from the cavalry to clean bandits and loot treasures while the crows explore the seas ; it’s definitely an island now, and I have no more city on it so I need to ship asap.
It takes me a bit of time to clean the island and most cities my crows encounter declare war on me. I can only buy one on a long but thin island which cut the sea in two from north to south — this will be the frontier — with my island on the west — the winterland — and what I now identify as the island of my ennemy on the est — the grassyland. A crow spot his leader stack wandering nearby a city he just took on the north of his island. A dwarven city is in the the south west, but well defended. Another crow identify the enemy capital on the south est side of the island. He is a warlord and he now have two cities versus my only capital. I need to act now or I will be in troubles.
My crows allowed me to get quite some gold and the scoundrel army I’m producing is not that expensive yet, so I buy the frontier city and throw my leader army to assault the lightly defended northern city of grassyland.
By the time my leader arrive, my scoundrel army is ready and a hero even joined them. I capture the northern grassyland city. The ennemy come back to retake it, but the scoundrels arrive just in time, and now that the warlord is ready to attack, he can’t retreat. I surround him and launch the battle which quickly become a slaughter as I have more than two times his number. This was the decisive battle.
Now is time to head south-est of the island for the capital. He got enough time to build a powerful stack of berzerker, archers and even one monster hunter, a new hero and his leader to come back, but that wont be enough. I suffer heavy losses but finaly take the victory and the city.