Following Game: Alex vs. ejm

[COOLguy]

League Phoenix Qualify 1 Alex486 vs. ejm29.
Will Alex continue his streak? Will League director ejm stop him? Does anyone else want a play-by-play?

Little pre-game interview with ejm: he thinks he will be defeated.

[Alex486]

I will comment on outcome once I see the map he selects and starting location.

[ejm29]

Games ready to start. This should be a good one!

[Alex486]

North vs South Board.

Board has slight favor to emj29 with 7 towns on the north island vs 5 in south. But 2 of my towns are on the coast which will help me control the sea early on. time will tell.

[COOLguy]

Make sure that your navy has a warship escort. Made that mistake before: Birdies came and got my catapult ships and triremes.
Never again

[RiverRaider 1097]

I've never played ejm, at least I think I haven't. But Alex is a strategist, and very slippery.! I would like to follow the game if possible )

[Alex486]

Thanks for the vote of confidence RiverRaider.
emj is about to make his 6th turn and is leading 585 to 475. I suspect he will lead for about 6 more turns at which I will gain equal footing. No action yet.

[RiverRaider 1097]

I hear that you guys are play on a big map, thanks for the update Alex. keep your bow up and your arrows down ) good luck

[ejm29]

I don't think Alex needs luck, he has already won against me many times before

[RiverRaider 1097]

Losing turns us into winners though, maybe the hard way but that way is the learning way.! )

[ejm29]

ive just taken turn 8, no contact yet, but I think we will see some action in the next few turns.

[RiverRaider 1097]

Thanks for the update ejm, looks like your hangin tough )

[Alex486]

I see someone. ...

[Alex486]

I have initiated contact. emj29 is trying to build a small transport and I have a war ship firing on him.

On a side note, we may habe a game play problem. Daniel wanted me to install the developer version. I followed instructions, but now I can't load the old game data. I have emailed him for help.

[RiverRaider 1097]

Oh dude I'm sorry, that's devastating hope you and Daniel can straighten it out...

[Stratego (dev)]

as i know there is no problem anymore.

[RiverRaider 1097]

Awesome, as I said dude you ought to run for President )

[COOLguy]

That is good. How is the game going now?

[ejm29]

Alex has not taken his turn in a while, I assume the login problem must be ongoing, unless he is busy, but he rarely misses his turn.

[COOLguy]

okay, I assumed as much. So the login problem should be fixed now?

[DoomCarrot]

Hm never finished a game with alex or ejm yet. But they both sound like really slippery opponents

[ejm29]

Myself and Alex have started our new tournament game (as Alex lost access to his old account) it may be a little late for turn by turn comments. But here's some screen shots anyway

[ejm29]

Could be going better

[Alex486]

We finished our game. Having trouble getting the pic to be small enough to fit, however, I get to claim total victory.

[ejm29]

Here's the pic. Congratulations Alex!

[COOLguy]

Congratulations Alex. It looks like it was a good game, though.

[Alex486]

Thanks Everyone.

I am still missing some key upgrades, notable my crossbow men, heavy knight, poison archer, and the ability to build missions. maybe by the weekend I will have completed enough maps to get them all back.

[ejm29]

Cant Daniel give you the gems?

[RiverRaider 1097]

Impressive win without the units you mentioned good job! , hail the king X)