Utopia - Age 18

[star mouse]

Originally posted by Zopperoni
1) During the last War, I had an Aid shipment from my King partially destroyed by Explosions. The only thing was: neither one of us had Explosions casted upon us!

Explosions doesn't show up in your Mystic Advisor spell list. Neither do a couple of other spells like Pitfalls.

2) Today I wanted to take a CB of an Avian, but my CB-attempt was reflected back upon me. The only thing is: Avians cannot cast Reflect Magic!

Swirve e-mail bonus. I have had Reflect Magic once this age as an Elf.

[star mouse]

News from the spirit world

At one point during our kingdom's war with Monkeys, I reached the top 50 in the world for honor for the first time ever. I lost about 700 honor to a grab late in that war, then lost more with our surrender.

After our war with Monkeys, which we surrendered after three days of brutal conflict from both sides, the Kingdom went through an overhaul. Two of our biggest provinces defected after we asked them to leave for not working with the Kingdom. There has been a change in the government structure within the Kingdom. We now have a monarch, 2-province royal council who are also the reserve monarchs, a thief/mage leader (me) and an attacker leader.

We only have about 22 active provinces at the moment, but that doesn't seem to matter as we will shortly secure our second war win of the age. Our attackers flattened the enemy kingdom, with something like a 15 to 1 attack to defense ratio, and my usual Leonid-strength meteor showers caused a lot of havoc. (That faery with 30K beastmasters stranded at home is really going to hate me.) For the first time this age, I successfully took on thief provinces with meteors and my almost 16 mod WPA showed them why a good wizard ratio is essential when I landed both of the ones I attempted.

The Myth alliance are interested in how my supermage strat is faring, and if it goes well next age several provinces will be using it.

[Zopperoni]

Nice work, dude.

How's your tpa? Or do you use mass WTs?

Originally posted by star mouse
Explosions doesn't show up in your Mystic Advisor spell list. Neither do a couple of other spells like Pitfall.

But it should still appear in your news right? o_O

[War4ever]

it should show in the news when you send aid or have aid sent to you....otherwise no....you would have no idea its there IIRC

[star mouse]

Originally posted by Zopperoni
Nice work, dude.

How's your tpa? Or do you use mass WTs?

I combine 2 TPA with maxed watchtowers and happiness that stays at Happy or above. Maxed watchtowers mean that I stop thieves 3 times in 5, and the 2 TPA makes it impractical for a Rogue-personality attacker/thief with 1 tpa to deal much damage.

It's a risky strat, but it works. The beauty of it is how it turns people's reliance on Utopia Angel's thief and wizard estimates against them.

People see this in Angel and think I'm a badass thief.

Crystal-Ball on your province will show:
Max. Possible Thieves/Wizards: 13,022 (9.38 / Acre)
Estimated Thieves Number: 9,766 (7.04 per Acre)
Estimated Wizards Number: 3,093 (2.23 per Acre)

What is actually there:

Thieves: 1.97 per Acre
Wizards: 6.94 per Acre

It is so much fun to take people by surprise....

[Zopperoni]

I usually take down the tpa by 1-1.5 and raise the wpa by 1-1.5 to get a more reliable interpretation of Angel's estimates, but your case is pretty extreme

[star mouse]

Originally posted by Zopperoni
I usually take down the tpa by 1-1.5 and raise the wpa by 1-1.5 to get a more reliable interpretation of Angel's estimates, but your case is pretty extreme

oh yes .. it's great having a strat that exploits other people's laziness. They copy the info needed into Angel and out pops the numbers. They assume that Angel's numbers are accurate, they get lazy, and they usually don't stop to think.

What's even better is the watchtowers. A thief goes in with ops a few times, gets caught by the watchtowers, and that's it - they assume that Angel is correct, that I have a good thief ratio and don't bother to investigate further. After all, Survey and Infiltrate are difficult ops, and there's easier targets elsewhere....

So far this age I have lost 64 wizards to assassinations.

[War4ever]

yup , i don't even use angel for attacks...i just multiply by 1.2 if they have forts and 1.3 if its a monarch...never fails....

were all still in vacation mode

[star mouse]

Holy smokes, I've joined the 10K wizard club and I have less than 1500 acres....

Wizards: 10,322

[Zopperoni]

I don't even have 1/4 of that! (I have 2,461 wizards @ 1,000 acres).

And Angel probably still says you have 2.4 wpa or so

[Eli]

3 war wins.

I was about to break the 2000 acres, but was grabbed for 166 earlier today.

[War4ever]

i got hammered twice today, both kdswere in wars...which is garbage, one was a human anon kd attack, so i hit the other idiot...sent his monarch a note too...

probably get hit again... gr...

[Lemmy]

Yay!
I suicided yesterday for no good reason actually, leaving 30 dpa behind, i didn't get a retal
I decided not to train anymore def specs, they die to easy, so now i'm stuck with only 49 max dpa, and 117 acres incoming
I'll have 47 dpa at 1402 acres when my army is home..

[War4ever]

eli........

message unknown province in our kd 23 23...hes inactive.....i sent him a message....... hopefully this will get you in there...

don't mind the fact we have dropped a bit, with our kd in protection the last nine days, others have caught up to us and now many are in the kill zone.....

[star mouse]

Another war

Another war ... and they are trying to assassinate my wizards. I have lost about 5% of my wizards. 20% watchtowers do much tho to put a stop to that nonsense.

My mages were not significantly weakened, and I was successful in casting Meteor Showers on two of the so-called thief/mages that tried the assassinations after I lost the wizards.

Time for more damage, I think ...