Laurence G. Tilley
2nd February 2008, 11:54 AM
At 06:38 PM 16-11-01, you wrote:
>It is with a heavy heart that on t35 the Freeps finally have to
>declare their unconditional surrender!
About bloomin' time too. You guys die very slowly and painfully. Many
thanks for a long and enjoyable game. When it comes to fighting in corner
you chaps take the biscuit (School of Mixed Mataphors).
>With the DS winning in almost every aspect of the game we are left
>with no alternative. The last five turns have been spent harassing
>the darks at home in mordor and hunting the One Ring. But, with the
>death of Elrond this turn even this slim chance at victory seemed
>beyond us, therefore we had no choice but to concede victory to
>worthy winners.
Yup, we had the deaths of all the rest of the Noldo scum scheduled for next
turn :-)
>The Freeps never recovered from the burden of a quickly despatched
>rookie North Gondor and early lack of co-ordination which resulted in
>our team-leader [Mark Seward] taking all the DS pressure in South
>Gondor. Although we added three of the 5 neutrals [including a
>stellar performance from John Stagoll, Dunlendings] we could not hold
>back the tide of Dark agents, emmies & eventually armies.
>Much kudos to Richard Devereaux for his design of the WotR variant,
>which i would recommend to all to try. There has been some discussion
>on our side that DS postions in Mordor might be too powerfully
>defended and fortified and that their tax base was too great,
WHOA! The crazy market, when it eventually collapsed, gave us two totally
unexpected bankruptcies - I lost the FiK position on turn 14 and Richard
Devereux lost the DoL position on turn 15. Did you think we dropped those
positions just to give you a fighting chance? We were on the verge of
eliminating SGo about 12 turns earlier than he was actually eliminated.
>but
>this might have been just the paranoia of a jealous team...;-)
>Other reports might appear elsewhere, but i will be glad to open our
>yahoo group for public dissection [at least for comedy value if not
>to learn anything!] for those interested.
>Once again our congratulations,
>Free People g29;
>
>David Murray [northmen & dwarves]
>Alan Gourlay [noldo]
>John Stagoll [Dunlendings]
>Alan Jeffrey [Rohan]
>Chris jackson [Woodmen]
CJ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!! I
should have known it was a master weasel, who just wouldn't let the
woodentops stay down.
>Kevin Bond [Dunadan]
>Darren Farman [Sinda]
>Steve Suddell [Silvan]
Laurence G. Tilley
http://www.lgtilley.freeserve.co.uk
>It is with a heavy heart that on t35 the Freeps finally have to
>declare their unconditional surrender!
About bloomin' time too. You guys die very slowly and painfully. Many
thanks for a long and enjoyable game. When it comes to fighting in corner
you chaps take the biscuit (School of Mixed Mataphors).
>With the DS winning in almost every aspect of the game we are left
>with no alternative. The last five turns have been spent harassing
>the darks at home in mordor and hunting the One Ring. But, with the
>death of Elrond this turn even this slim chance at victory seemed
>beyond us, therefore we had no choice but to concede victory to
>worthy winners.
Yup, we had the deaths of all the rest of the Noldo scum scheduled for next
turn :-)
>The Freeps never recovered from the burden of a quickly despatched
>rookie North Gondor and early lack of co-ordination which resulted in
>our team-leader [Mark Seward] taking all the DS pressure in South
>Gondor. Although we added three of the 5 neutrals [including a
>stellar performance from John Stagoll, Dunlendings] we could not hold
>back the tide of Dark agents, emmies & eventually armies.
>Much kudos to Richard Devereaux for his design of the WotR variant,
>which i would recommend to all to try. There has been some discussion
>on our side that DS postions in Mordor might be too powerfully
>defended and fortified and that their tax base was too great,
WHOA! The crazy market, when it eventually collapsed, gave us two totally
unexpected bankruptcies - I lost the FiK position on turn 14 and Richard
Devereux lost the DoL position on turn 15. Did you think we dropped those
positions just to give you a fighting chance? We were on the verge of
eliminating SGo about 12 turns earlier than he was actually eliminated.
>but
>this might have been just the paranoia of a jealous team...;-)
>Other reports might appear elsewhere, but i will be glad to open our
>yahoo group for public dissection [at least for comedy value if not
>to learn anything!] for those interested.
>Once again our congratulations,
>Free People g29;
>
>David Murray [northmen & dwarves]
>Alan Gourlay [noldo]
>John Stagoll [Dunlendings]
>Alan Jeffrey [Rohan]
>Chris jackson [Woodmen]
CJ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!! I
should have known it was a master weasel, who just wouldn't let the
woodentops stay down.
>Kevin Bond [Dunadan]
>Darren Farman [Sinda]
>Steve Suddell [Silvan]
Laurence G. Tilley
http://www.lgtilley.freeserve.co.uk