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Badmuts 
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Joined: 18 Dec 2011
Location: Amsterdam
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 Posted: 19 Dec 2011 at 00:00 |
Vagabond did well and deserves that book. He kept me busy since Friday morning and stayed one step ahead of me. Also his reinforcements arrived in time for my final charge  . I still need to work a little on my timing, which is still way off.
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Rill
Postmaster General
Player Council - Geographer
Joined: 17 Jun 2011
Location: California
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Points: 6903
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Posted: 18 Dec 2011 at 21:50 |
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Vagabond from nCrow has fought off a last-minute charge by Badmut from Eagle's Eyrie to grab nCrow's first book of the week. Well done Vagabond!
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Rill
Postmaster General
Player Council - Geographer
Joined: 17 Jun 2011
Location: California
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Posted: 18 Dec 2011 at 21:01 |
The book has evaded nCrow's blockades at Ajay in Lucerna. The van evaded HoneyBadger's blockade in that city.
This site was the scene of fierce fighting throughout the week, as nCrow cavalry attacks from Mr_Smiley, Cookieman and others took out defending forces primarily from PA, including Spira Colosis.
nCrow blockades were held by Cookieman, Tarsius, Rill and HoneyBadger. HoneyBadger excelled with a last-minute cavalry charge to take out a blockade by Gypsy_Morph of BSH.
Edited by Rill - 19 Dec 2011 at 02:54
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Rill
Postmaster General
Player Council - Geographer
Joined: 17 Jun 2011
Location: California
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Points: 6903
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Posted: 18 Dec 2011 at 20:02 |
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This one is going to come down to the final stretch Kurdruk. There have been some fierce exchanges going down to the final hours at Ixenland in Perrigor, but it seems that nCrow must concede there. We will fight on until the last book lands though. Praxitelis from BSH and Spira Colosis from PA, among others, racked up big wins against valiant defenses by amula, crash storm, Narol and others at that city.
Edited by Rill - 19 Dec 2011 at 01:15
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LordOfTheSwamp
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Joined: 23 May 2011
Location: Swamp of Fyrgis
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Points: 481
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Posted: 18 Dec 2011 at 10:10 |
The final set of books were sent out by Boukris yesterday, and this week has seen some very fierce fighting - and an evolution in peoples' tactics.
For scale of victories, BSH's hordes are hard to match, with praxitelis [BSH] still sitting in the top 5 battles this week, | 4. praxitelis [BSH] | Mon, Dec 12, 2011 | 10,683 |
which entirely eclipses my victory yesterday or the various 2-3k dead engagements (BTW, applause to Shamarra for engagements around Inverness)
The tactics certainly seem more complex (I have entirely lost track of what is happening around New, so congratulations in advance to whoever gets that) and there is a nice mix of big and small players pitching in (Frost's Herman the Just and Lady Eira attempting to take Frangor from EE was courageous, if optimistic, and I've seen armies around from other guys' small players.)
So, all good fun, and congratulations to all who have taken part. I look forward to seeing the final results!
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"A boy is building sandcastles on a beach. You go and kick down his castle. You could say that it only reflects how you play with sandcastles. Others may think it reflects who you are." - Ander.
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Rill
Postmaster General
Player Council - Geographer
Joined: 17 Jun 2011
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Posted: 13 Dec 2011 at 00:50 |
I like "well organised" as a description better than "disturbingly obsessive."
Congratulations to all of the nCrow players who have been contributing, and a tip of the hat to our competitors, who are not in the least shambolic, to which our battered armies and the ghosts of our commanders can attest.
I'd like to give a shout out to the nCrow players who have contributed thus far. In particular BenDunder has provided leadership, tactical insight and coordination.
Cookie, Harry, Narol, Vagabond and I can testify that even though we might have been the lucky ones to catch books, it could not have been done without the scouting, reinforcement, strategic ideas and general support of many nCrow players, in particular the following (listed in the order they appear on our member roster, not by degree of contribution):
Belle of the Vale Phoenix_470 amula Erk Mr_Smiley Thorulfr MidinightMisha Mona Lisa SonofCharlie Wymara asjeff Auraya Axilmeus crash storm Fughan Manlode Georgio Greyhawke Heartfast Honey Badger Jibra'il Le Roux Richyrd R-Man Tarsius Tigernach_Charlieson Venadine
Working with amazing people like this cannot fail to make us successful.
Thanks once again to Kurdruk for creating this amazing challenge and to Boukris for coordinating sending the books.
Edited by Rill - 13 Dec 2011 at 01:01
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LordOfTheSwamp
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Joined: 23 May 2011
Location: Swamp of Fyrgis
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Points: 481
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Posted: 12 Dec 2011 at 20:54 |
Ah, I suspect that someone - GMs, the gods of Illy, etc. - actually like nCRow netter than the rest of us. Either that or we have to accept that nCrow are wonderfully well organised, and the other 4 of us (EE, Frost, BSH, PA) are a bit shambolic. Because one way or another, nCrow have started to run away with this...
Scores after 3/4 weeks - just one week to go:
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Crows Nest: 12 Lords of Frost: 5 Persona Armoniosa: 5 Eagles Eyrie: 4 Black Skull Horde: 2
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Individual Captures: Cookieman [nCrow]: 4 Kurdruk [Frost]: 4 Bonaparta [BSH]: 2 (EOM) Harry [nCrow]: 3 Firess [EE]: 2 Narol [nCrow]: 2 Rill [nCrow]: 2 Shamarra [PA]: 2 Badmut [EE]: 1 Revenent [Frost]: 1 Vagabond [nCrow]: 1 Vibs [EE]: 1 |
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"A boy is building sandcastles on a beach. You go and kick down his castle. You could say that it only reflects how you play with sandcastles. Others may think it reflects who you are." - Ander.
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Rill
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Player Council - Geographer
Joined: 17 Jun 2011
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Posted: 11 Dec 2011 at 21:13 |
lol, nice one Bonaparta!
nCrow can confirm that it is not always the first blockade on the scene that captures the book. It's possible that it's randomly allotted, or there may be another factor. Possibly size of the blockading army?
As for armies mysteriously repatriated to their towns by the powerful magic of the GMs -- what's up with that? We had several armies of our own returned this round that were NOT associated with disappearing cities. Our only possible conclusion thus far is that the GMs like Kurdruk better than they like us.  |
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Bonaparta
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Joined: 03 Nov 2011
Location: Milky Way
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Points: 541
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Posted: 11 Dec 2011 at 19:56 |
Uh oh, my brilliant theory crumbled to dust. Even my most educated commander "Chief Bakhla the wise" was unable to get new copy of the book and he likes to read Tolkring so much. 
To put above massage in perspective, here is the part of a letter I wrote to Kurdruk a day or so ago:
Master Kurdruk, I would like to discuss the other matters of book catching tourney now. Your advice in the forum about first blocking camp to catch the book can not be right as my commander “chief Bakhla the wise” was successful at catching the book even though two hostile armies were blocking the same town before him. Perhaps caravan evaded two enemy blocking camps, but I came up with another more brilliant theory. The only commander that caught both my copies of Tolkring’s masterpiece was Chief Bakhla the wise (he was named so way before book catching tourney started). He is my only commander that can actually read. All my other commanders are illiterate as the skill of reading is considered a waste of time by most of the orcs, especially true for brutal military type. Of course my other commanders can not seize the book, if they don’t know how to read and have no clue what books are. So I spent some time with my other commanders and tried to teach them how to read, but that was rather Sisyphus work. Some of them managed to remember how letter A looks like, but none of them got past letter B. Abandoning this impossible task I made a few replica book models and each of my commanders got one. Now at least they knew how the books look like. I’ve send all four of my semi book wise commanders to block towns and then something terrible happened. All four of them were instantly returned to their origin towns by apparently great magician called GM. orcs are not used to such magical trickery and of course not even I was prepared for this diabolical transportation. i was so outraged on my commanders, to let this sorcery happen upon them, that I immediately executed them. I’m teaching new set of commanders how to read. Perhaps I will be successful for the final shipment of books.
Edit: Text rainbow
Edited by Bonaparta - 12 Dec 2011 at 00:37
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LordOfTheSwamp
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Joined: 23 May 2011
Location: Swamp of Fyrgis
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Points: 481
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Posted: 11 Dec 2011 at 15:28 |
 Hugie wrote:
hey excellent competition! Can latecomers join in? |
Hugie -
This one is by arrangement, but I do have plans to run something that anyone can join in with.
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"A boy is building sandcastles on a beach. You go and kick down his castle. You could say that it only reflects how you play with sandcastles. Others may think it reflects who you are." - Ander.
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