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Arrian
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Kneel before Grog!
Jul 2001
time: 00:34
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The Tale of Woe (tm)?
How's this:
GoW & ND ganged up on RP. We decided to help RP, despite having a NAP with GoW. We accepted several eastern RP cities, forcing GoW to attack us if they wanted them, which they did (after hemming and hawing for a turn or two). ND also attacked us, because we also accepted a city directly in their path in the west. They didn't waste time, though. Right to the point, those Germans.
RP had a galley off our coast, so we came up with a teleportation idea: we gave them a northern city, they unloaded their 2 horsemen, captured 6 catapults we had next door, put them back in the city, and gifted the city back to us. Presto, 2 horsemen + 6 catapults warped back to Pamplona. This ended up pissing off GoW (and ND to some extent, I think). Down the slipperly slope from the Voxodus... I now think doing it was a mistake.
The war went badly. We were trying to defend someone else's empire against 3-move units (Riders, Ansars). GoW flanked us near Toledo, and got behind us and ripped RP's guts out. After that, RP dug in with everything they had in Pamplona, while we floundered about trying to figure out how to reverse the damage.
We lost a major stack, complete with a large number of catapults, some workers and a settler (renamed a worker, but that didn't fool them) that effectively broke our attempt at a counterattack in the south.
GoW had completed Leonardos, which effectively ended our chances of matching their unit production, let alone ND + GoW, both in GAs.
Finally, in coordination with trying to arrange a peace deal, we landed forces up north, near GoW. To our shock, we received a diplomatic note from Legoland, indicating that if we attempted to press our invasion of GoW, their forces (Lego Expeditionary Force - LEF) would be forced to respond, due to an agreement with GoW. So the whole world was against us. Sound familiar?
At that point, we knew we were done. Our invasion force wouldn't have accomplished much anyway, but it was only intended as leverage. With Legoland backing up GoW, our leverage was shot. So we told GoW & ND we accepted defeat and withdrew what forces we had left. RP was given N. Stormia.
After the war, Cort Haus revamped the Gathering Storm. He did a brilliant job of giving us some real direction again, which we had lacked for quite some time. We've gone peaceful builder, disbanding most of our fleet and concentrating on our economy and wonderbuilding, in the hope that we may see an opening at some point in the future to "deal ourselves back in" so to speak.
-Arrian
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20-02-2004 14:57
Anyway, how's life? Thanks for stopping by, nice to see an old name. 
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