Glad you won, but I'll miss the reports.

Well it's just as well that there are some hold-outs then.

The Corsairs in particular want to play on for a turn or two, and I fancy Harad will too. Which is good, because it means I can finally use those huge armies I lovingly built up....Mwuahahaahahahaha!

*coughs* Sadly that last message was completely wrong. Just got word that the Dark Servants have definitely quit. Since tomorrow I'll get the final turn, and all the other end of game stuff, I'll post a detailed report of all that happened (without censoring anything out), after I get it.

The victory message when it came was short, but nice all the same.

Hi All,
the DS in game 76 have surrendered. I had heard from most of them last week but I hadn't heard from a few so I wanted to wait to be sure. The game will be ending tomorrow, each of you have the choice of running a final turn or a special service turn (which is free). If you have already sent in orders please let me know if you no longer want to run orders.

Rob
Ooh and feel free to read through the game forum. It's here, and I'm Paranoid Android there.

Quite a funny message from the chap that played the Corsairs:

Arrgh! The party be over and the kegs are empty...and me ships be stolen by frilly elves. It be a sad day and a very long walk home.

Grab yer boots lads...your gonna need 'em.

Just realized I never got around to concluding this. So I'll do it now.

The game ended on turn 17 (the day after my previous post). And not only did the Free People win, but the Sinda Elves were ranked as the top nation (yay!).

The final standings for the Sinda Elves were as follows:
Population Center Victory Points : 500
Character Victory Points : 450
Army Victory Points : 450
Wealth Victory Points : 100
Individual Victory Points : 0
The One Ring was still lost @ 2022

(The maximum number of points in each category is 500. With descending number of points being awarded in relation to how the nations are ranked.)

And the top 3 nations were:
Sinda Elves [ 1500 ] Noldo Elves [ 1383 ] Corsairs [ 1225 ]

I had some fantastic characters at the end of the game. Since the game ended a long time ago I don't need to hide their names. The full list was as follows (the ones with asterisks were starting characters):

Aducair - 62 agent with 65 stealth. (had the artifact Bracers of the Mist)
Aelistae - 61 emissary
Amroth* - 74 commander; 29 emissary (with the artifact Orc Slayer)
Arwen - 10 commander; 24 agent
Brand - 10 agent; 72 emissary (with the artifact Turantir)
Ginafae - 53 agent
Haldir - 46 commander
Ithilwen - 30 agent
Lanthir* - 48 commander; 33 mage (with the artifact Dagger of Green Wisdom)
Legolas - 60 agent
Mithrellas - 62 emissary
Nimrodel* - 31 emissary; 110 mage (with the artifacts Thologaer Ciryatano and E Mere Vardo)
Ohtar* - 72 commander; 15 agent
Ringlin* - 90 mage (with the arty Orb of Seeing)
Taurnil* - 44 commander; 25 agent (with the arty Troll Slayer)
Tharudan* - 62 agent; 50 mage with 40 stealth (and arty Helm of Shadow)
Thranduil* - 63 commander; 48 emissary (with the arty Dagnirdraug)
Vaelarin - 54 agent

Basically thanks to the emissaries and some military action I had a big increase in the tax base of the nation. I lost 1 village from the starting population centres, but gained 1 major town; 9 villages and 6 camps. It basically allowed for the Sindar to be a major power militarily.

The only slight regret was that I never had a chance to use the forces I built up. There was a large heavy cavalry army outside Mordor that never saw battle, and in Belfalas I never had a chance to use the 56 warships, 17 transports and 2000 heavy infantry in a planned naval invasion of Harad.

Still it was a good and fun time.


PS. I'm the Quiet Avengers in a another game. I didn't see the point in creating a blog for that since most of the things I'm doing or have done with that nation have had to be kept secret. I might post something after that game is complete.