5302 MayDay Goes to Amazon

[Ashgar75]

This was my first game where I felt like I had a plan and executed it fairly well. I did make a few mistakes and will share them.

I started by using all 5 Red Dragon Groups. I made 2 divisions and 3 patrols. I was able to map out my region of Krynn in two turns. I found a neutral village in the water as the only PC in water which was a fortunate thing being a Dragon Kingdom. I used my groups to take over PC's. This freed up gold for some magic research and allowed me to feed and pay for my troops. RD troops are incredibly expensive. I took my region over by turn 4. I waited until turn 4 to take over the city due to negative food production and that gained me the region. I had some luck in leveling up some leaders due to using the military each turn.

I was looking around at neighbors. The AT was not a good target due to water PC's so I tried to make nice. I also wanted to play nice with the UN as I didn't want what few wizards I had eliminated by a couple of agents. I was trying to decide who I would invade as I thought it best to just keep moving and keep my troops fighting without rest. The DW to my East were the most likely target. That is when I saw them invade the UN. This was the perfect opportunity as I could go after my primary target and try to gain some favor with the UN. I invaded the Dwarven region in Zanthia and turned the region neutral in one turn. So far so good. I landed at his capital as my scouting groups had already uncovered the entire region. Trying to attack his Capital was a failure as I didn't hit his group first. He had a brigade there and I messed up on my orders. I had moved to the city already so I took that next turn and after two turns of dancing with the DW army group, I finally decided to attack it and had a huge victory. I did lose a couple of brigades but they were Wyverns so not a major loss. This is when the call went out that the AM was marching to victory.

I couldn't drop things with the DW as I was still locked in battle, but I decided to leave his PC's alone as I assumed he would drop and I had just taken the region. I started prepping for the attack int Pellinor. I moved Emmi's across Zanthia, I healed and rebuilt my Army Group and a Divsion, and on the turn I enamored and launched,

ERROR, Game Over!!!!!!

Damn that Vball!!!!!!

Fun times. I am starting to get a feel for the game and the possibilities. Thanks again all and while it was short, it was fun!

[Ry Vor]

Its pretty definite that in the next release, Rex in Maelstrom will change from control of 4 regions to control of 5.

I don't know all the specifics of which 4 regions are being controlled for early game winners, but I am guessing Stormgate is usually involved.  This is not necessarily a flaw, it was something I think players have not quite adapted to.   Although, the intention was that Stormgate would start with a human division outside it, and that it could not be accessed via land from area OQ.   It may also need a Glyph of Warding to protect it from gating. 

Anyway, even with those changes the intention is to make standard victory control of 5 regions and see games going into the turn 30's on average.