James Chamberlin

It wasn’t but a few minutes after I made the previous entry that Ogre came on AIM and said he and Rail were ready for a game. Well, I agreed since I was just researching, nothing too important at that time of night.

In the first game, I attacked Railwolf a few times early on, but he rebuffed those attacks without batting an eye. It was pretty much downhill for me after that. I was never really able to get an upperhand over Ogre or Rail. After getting run down by Railwolf’s Persian elephants, it was time to admit defeat.

Instead of exiting the game, I chose to watch the conclusion of it. It came down to Railwolf’s elephants and Ogre’s helepoli. Railwolf seemed to be in control through much of the game (from what I saw), but it was the helepoli that won out. I didn’t expect that quite frankly, but once I saw Ogre mow down the elephants near Rail’s small defensive wall, I knew Ogre had a good chance at a comeback.

Having a lot of fun in the second game we played another. It was on an islands map, not my favorite (not that I really have a favorite, mind you). I’m usually slow to move from island to island, but I had to get moving this time. Ogre and Railwolf got the two big islands, while I got one of the smallest islands on the map. Just my luck. I did well getting over to a nearby island which had a source of gold, but it wasn’t long until Ogre settled in, but I took his lone archer out and took control of the island.

Without much for resources on my tiny island, I decided to move. The island to my right was nearly bare except for a handful of trees. It wasn’t enough to bother with. So I continued down and let my villagers off the boat on the tip of the southern island. And what do you know, it’s Ogre’s home city. I set up camp right down town and start slashing away. When it seemed like I had him dead, he decided he wanted to partner up with me. Fine by me because it wasn’t but a few minutes after this that Rail found my home city and took it over.

Without a home, I hunkered down on Ogre’s island. Just stood around until I had to fend off a pretty big phalanx group of Rail’s. I lost 3/4 of my guys in it, but I did win it. I rebuilt my meager army thanks to donations from Ogre (I was out of villagers at this point, so I couldn’t gather resources) and helped him clear most of Railwolf’s original island.

That’s when Ogre decided to go back on his word and blow my guys to smitherines with his helepoli. See folks, that’s why you never trust an ogre. Sure Shrek may have great PR people, but all ogre’s are mean and ruthless. You’ll see in due time. (Stay out of the swamps!)

I didn’t stick around to watch that game’s conclusion. I saw that Rail had taken firm control of my original home base. I saw a nice group of helepoli which covered the tiny island. Still, it was a good game. I had fun once we quit the (true) first game because of the lag brought on due to the computer AI.

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