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[chuckpint]

[Deeghter]

Thank you, Chuck!
I was afraid that there is "a hook" on casting Haunt!
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[ddicerc]

The Selumari are surprised by the sudden assault from below. They gather to ward off the attack. Their Sharpshooter and an Enchanter turn gray and fall, while the other Enchanter shakes off the Plague. A blue Kintroop joins the fray. After initially hiding, the Kinchamp breathes on his Undead foes, while the rest of the Selumari swing desperately at their foes.

Good tactic, Dieter!

Resolving Convert: Sharpshooter killed, Enchanter gets a Cantrip, which he uses to summon a Blue Dragontroop before he expires. Good thing you can't bring back your dead!

Resolving Plague: Enchanter rolls two shields!

Save roll: I can go into detail if you want, but thanks to the 8th face I got 25 saves, even with my big D'kin going belly up.

Counterattack: Kinchamp makes up for his cowardice by rolling breath. Then I got 6 swords, two kin claws, and Archer and Knight ID for a total of 9 more hits. Pathetic.

[chuckpint]

[ddicerc]

[Deeghter]

Yep! I agree, Steve! And regarding the present situation I'm glad that I have the chance to resist burial!! ::sweat::

Steve, if you roll a Dragonkin Breath, you are allowed to choose the victims BUT:
I've re-read the entire game, following it step by step but I couldn't find any action of yours that summoned a Kinchamp!! And I only have two troops and a hero in your army on my playing table. How could you roll a breath?? Either you or me have a setup mistake but according to the posts you haven't summoned a Kinchamp but have always used up your magic points (so you might not have forgotten to mention the summoning), so I guess you mixed up your D.kinhero with a D.kinchamp??

Please re-check, Steve.

After that I will resolve your Breath (if still there) and then your attack.
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[ddicerc]

You are correct again. Someone has been tampering with my army! (Or, more likely, my dice are getting pushed around by my sons as they play at our much-too-small game table.)

Rolling Hero instead-3 claws, so no breath, but now 12 hits.
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[Deeghter]

[ddicerc]

Thanks for picking up my miscues, Dieter. The attention I've been paying the last couple of days, I should be getting my butt kicked instead of having my opponent bail me out! (Not only did my kin get mixed up, but I already had your reserves at my home.)

The fear of Haunt has been put in me. Time to change strategy.

An Archer starts wielding hitherto unseen power, and goes to join the mages. The army, fearful of another surprise attack by the dead Undead (the UnUndead?), pleads with the mages to help. Mana sends the Air Wyrms from the Undead swamp to the Selumari home city. A pair of kintroops, one blue, one green, join the army to assist against another Undead incursion. A scout is sent off to explore.

OK, city promotes an Archer to an Enchanter.

Rolling magic...10 wands, Enchanter and 2 Evoker IDs=20 after doubling.

Summon the two blue Wyrms from your home to my home. Summon a blue and a green Dragontroop. (Need those saves and melee muscle more than my Archer!)


A lone Horseman retreats to reserves. Done.

Guess I can roll dragons...

The Air Wyrms have a mixed reaction. One swishes the Undead, then offers a treasure. The other spits lightning. The Undead decide they are sick and tired of lightning!

Weird roll:

1st Wyrm-Tail-treasure
2nd Wyrm-Breath
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[Deeghter]

You're welcome, Steve (but your Dragons aren't! )

Resolving Blue Dragon Breath first: --> I choose Spectre, Revenant and 1 Apparition. Let's see if they can save individually: --> Revenant saves by shields, Spectre and Apparition get killed. I bring back a Wraith for the Spectre (stepped damage).
Until beginning of my next turn this army can only make save rolls and save avoidance rolls due to blue dragon breath. In my now following combination roll against the dragon attack only saves are counted. No way to kill the Dragons!

**squeeeech** (opening treasure chest).....now look at that! SURPRIZE !! There's a Vampire sitting in there! OK, sorry Revenant, but you gotta go!
Revenant jumps into the chest, sulking! Chest is being catapulted into my DUA and returns empty.
= Revenant gets promoted to Vampire by treasure chest.

Resolving dragon attack:
Roll, roll, ---> Heucuva ID and 1 shield from an Apparition. Saves doubled by 8th face = 6. Enough to save against the tail attack.

Reserve phase: --> pulling everything back into reserves!

I'm done, my turn ends.
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[ddicerc]

[Deeghter]

[ddicerc]

Oh, I don't think the dragons are going to have much to worry about this turn.

One of the Archers proves worthy of being a Sharpshooter. Hanlas orders more magic from the frontier army. Mages comply with power, and even the lesser troops manage some assistance. Fog envelopes the coast tower, while heavy winds back the Horseman scout.

Using City, promote Archer to Sharpshooter.

(I just noticed I did make an error last time. I sent the Horseman to my home terrain, as I said, but in the description I called it a city, not a tower. I hope this didn't confuse you, since the actual turn described it correctly.)

1st March:

Rolling magic...

I almost feel guilty about this one (but not too guilty).

14 wands, IDs from 3 Bowmen, a Horseman, and an Evoker=24 after doubling.

Wall of Fog on my home. 4 Wind Walks on my Horseman. With the two left, what the heck, a Watery Double on the frontier.

2nd March:

The Horseman catches the wind and rides it, trying to get into the tower.

Attempt to maneuver my home. Oppose?
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[Deeghter]

[ddicerc]

OK, officially move my home to 8th and capture it.

The Selumari scout hurried past the shuffling dead and sealed himself in the tower. The elves now controlled the battlefield!

That was a very interesting game. You pulled off some moves that caught me completely by surprise (and have now given my son, who loves to play Undead, some ideas for his next game).

One suggestion I would make is to add more straight-up melee troops to your mix. Yes, Plague is a lot of fun, but the Minor Deaths only have a 30% chance to save against Lightning Strike. Even with stepped damage, that hurts. Besides, had you actually succeeded in Plaguing me, I would have chosen a Dragonkin as my next unit, with a 5 in 6 chance of saving.

Convert, on the other hand, I like. You didn't get a chance to use it in a regular battle, but that could have helped get some of your dead units back.

Haunt is a better spell than I thought. I always assumed burial was automatic, since it is an Undead-only spell, but Chuck set me straight. I can see this being useful against a mage-heavy army-pop out of the DUA, whack some mages, probably suffer little in return, and go back to the DUA. If I played Undead I might just try it.

You could use some more mages. If you could have gotten enough magic to bring back more units or Finger of Death mine, you might have done better in a magic duel.

You did get nailed by some bad luck. You had generally lousy save rolls, and my dragons only offered you treasure when they breathed. That, and one of them gave me quite a few tails-think I'm going to set that one aside for future use.

I don't like playing Canadian, and I was going to try to force you off the 8th face earlier, but Haunt scared me. So that was an additional positive to the spell.

Your best bet might have been to bunch up and come straight for me at the frontier when it was on melee faces. Once I got the 8th, it was blue magic all the way. I did have to concede my home 8th to you, though, because of my failure to have the terrain on the correct face. That made life interesting.

My biggest advantage was the ability to directly attack your big units with Lightning. Your Finger of Death spell would have taken 12 points to nail one of my rares (although that would allow no saves).

Also, use more common Dragonkin. They're easier to summon, less devastating to lose, and although Degenerate Dragonkin buries them, you can then get new ones back. Once I nailed your 3 commons, you had very little chance of getting more back. I usually use 7 of commons and one uncommons and one rare in case I get a chance to promote. If you play against the Coral Elves, don't summon too many until the CE have theirs in play, which makes them reluctant to use Degenerate since it buried all of theirs.

With Undead, the best general line of attack is to press melee and use magic in support. Even their fastest units are no match for most races' cavalry. You might even have had a better chance if you had come to my 8th earlier on and challenged me at melee-while I had maneuvers as saves and double saves, the Plague/Slay/Convert SAIs could have gotten me anyway. (Just like what I hoped would happen with the dragons-their main attack wasn't too hard to save against, but Breath is nasty, and you can always hope for tails...)

If you want another challenge, I'm willing to play again. Try tweaking your Undead, and I'll play the same Selumari army (so you can even plan specifically to counter what that army can do, if you want).
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[Deeghter]

I just put my comments into your quote box in red letters, that's faster!

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