Dark Castle: Turn 29

 

Excellent. Our Palisade in Idenhorm completed.

We only had one battle in Delca:

I wouldn't ordinarily show the this battle, but I wanted to show that darkness was still in effect. This is important because it means my forces have a large advantage right now because darkness gives a -3 to attack and defense unless you are undead like me and have Spirit Site.

I'm not going to show the battles, but patrolling in Idenhorm rooted out three spies from Eriu, R'lyeh, and Phaeacia. Watching the battles shows me that my formation isn't set well because I had streamed some of them in over the past few turns.

It's always a good strategy to make sure you have a spy at least next to the thrones so you can see what's going on. This is what I started doing in earnest last turn.

Something mildly interesting is that darkness didn't show in the three battles, which is odd since darkness is supposed to be a worldwide event. Perhaps there's something different with discovering sneaking units vs. traditional battles?

This is important to understand because, based on worldwide darkness, I'm going to attack Bandar Log and assault his capital. My force has 533 units, which contains 44 Knights and 63 Lictors.

I also have a smaller reinforcement army attacking Copper Canyons to the North. This army has 311 units, which contains 10 Knights and 19 Lictors. South of my main army, I'm sending in Grave Giggler to attack Delca. I think there's a chance that Eriu will try to attack here as well, but I think GG will do well against him.

Let's check out our events:

I haven't seen that peasant event before. He's actually not that bad since he can help lead my undead, and he came with four fire drakes.

We recruit a priest in Kingdom of Dhara.

I didn't like having to do it, but we forge a Skull Mentor for 10 previous Death Gems. I was going to summon another Arch Bishop next turn, but I figure I need research more then a few extra Lictors.

Here are our final moves: