Eh, Vinlandsaga ... this would be my second time playing it in my AoM career, the first being the very first map I tried when I bought the game. I believe my early economy from the first time I played was very similar to the economy I had going in this game - very poor. Basically said, I had no idea what to do. Despite the fact I spent the first couple minutes of the game trying to persuade people to ally with me, my only taker was Being somewhat off by myself, I began building some Longboats in an attempt to give TOAO_ChronoJJ a challenge for the water. My attempts were soon thwarted though, as while I was harassing NoFx_televisible's fishing, TOAO_ChronoJJ had the same idea and had afew ships there. I took care of his ships, only to provoke his whole naval force to come after me. Not wanting him to come anywhere near my fishing, I sent his naval force on a wild goose chase. Running my boats across the sea, he frantically tried to chase me, which gave me time to make a 13:00 Heroic advance at the feet of Njord and use a superior Heroic-Age fleet against his Classical Age Kebenits. I took care of him on the water, but get the idea he was pre-occupied on land when he cast Ancestors on Hippikons belonging to NoFx_televisible. Allthough he had no army per se, TOAO_ChronoJJ was very busy running around the land, claiming as many settlements as he could. I had also been lazy, and didn't start building a land army until once in Heroic. I payed for it though, as NoFx_televisible's Hippikons soon found my dwarves gathering gold. I managed to save most of them, and began producting Ulfsarks from my freshly build barracks'. Meanwhile, I had sent my fleet of Dragon Ships over to find TOAO_ChronoJJ's original Town Center. I knocked it down, and started leveling any buildings found on his island. Earlier while being raided by NoFx_televisible, I cast Walking Woods in an attempt to scare him off. It worked, and the trees soon found a group of hunters belonging to him. After killing them off, they soon found a fairly big group of TOAO_ChronoJJ's gold gatherers. My ally, NoFx_Deus, also got in on the raiding, but soon retreated once TOAO_ChronoJJ's small army showed up. TOAO_ChronoJJ's TC count was now up to 6, but he had one problem: he had nothing to defend them with! After claiming acouple town centers, I soon moved in to attack one occupied by TOAO_ChronoJJ. With the help of siege, I shortly took it over and called it mine. At nearly the same time as this, NoFx__Jim used his ancestors and army of slingers to take down another TC belonging to TOAO_ChronoJJ, and his count was down to 4 and mine now at 5. In a desperate attempt to regain the edge in this game, TOAO_ChronoJJ threw up 3 Migdols backed with a now very big and well-upgraded army. He seemed to have bitten off more than he can chew though, and found himself in the middle of an army belonging to NoFx__Jim and an army belonging to NoFx_Deus. Meanwhile up-map, I was busy with my army of Jarls and siege claiming settlements that once belonged to TOAO_ChronoJJ. NoFx__Jim soon advanced to mythic, and used Meteor on the three Midgols that TOAO_ChronoJJ had put up. NoFx__Jim soon ran over what TOAO_ChronoJJ had worked so hard to defend, and TOAO_ChronoJJ soon found himself scrambling to recover in a corner. NoFx_Deus was in no shape to face the now mythic-strength army of NoFx__Jim, so after a short battle he was wiped from the land and resigned. NoFx_televisible had decided to re-build some barracks and docks to the West of one of my town centers, and when he started attacking me I was forced to clean him out This late in the game, and with NoFx__Jim on his last legs, he started teasing me, telling me that he has a huge naval force. He told me that i'd never be able to defeat it .. so I immidiately figured it'd be massed MUs. I massed as many Krakens as I could, then began massing hammer ships. Suddenly, I had a disruption .. one of my TCs was being attacked, and when I looked I found acouple of Siege Towers belonging to TOAO_ChronoJJ. Naturally, I searched for the source of these Siege Towers and soon found a small town belonging to TOAO_ChronoJJ. With my fully upgraded, max pop'ed Mythic army I finished off what little he had left, and he soon resigned. My plan to make an all-TC victory was sadly thwarted, as to my dismay I found the final unclaimed settlement was found on NoFx__Jim's island, being guarded by a Migdol. I also soon discovered what naval fleet he was bragging about: a group of 7 War Turtles. My Drakkar's and Krakens made short work of this, and with nothing left he soon resigned. I was victorious! Eheh .. so some people complained about the short warstory I wrote last week, so I wrote this one to make up for that [This message has been edited by stumpy_006 (edited 06-09-2003 @ 08:06 AM).]
stumpy006 frantically gathers wood for early economy
EvilCat_Knight and NoFx__Jim fight for territory early
NoFx_Deus makes an attempt at saving himself on water
NoFx_televisible raids stumpy006 - stumpy006 scrambles to produce an army
stumpy006 dukes it out with NoFx__Jim's 7 War Turtles on water
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