Day 47

So the troops are recovering.  They are having nightmares from their attack on the MD and I think it's going to last another 4 days or so!  Poor troops.  Well my one army is pretty useless in MA now cause they have -25% fire resistance along with -20% survival rate.  So working on my buildings for the next bit.

I was able to upgrade my zerkers and wolves to level 3.  That is cause I was off of Aloriah for about a day. Got my first 20 hr offline bonus buff for the first time this round.  Think that means that I have been playing too much...

I have huge armies in DS and MM now so I'll be sending them out to go close some dragon gates, and explore the ruins.  Also made it back on the first page of rankings today!  Good to be back on top again ;)  Made the achievement Wood Clever or something like that on gold.  Which is 50k chopped wood.  Thanks to my armies in MA for that one.

I'm thinking lately that besides an army in DS to collect diamonds and close dragon gates I should have the rest of my armies in MA to explore and do things there cause everything is worth so much more there.  Doesn't matter whether it is collecting resources, finding treasure chests, etc it is all worth more there.  But who knows and I am tired so until tomorrow!

Day 46 The Battle

With all the world's eyes on the fearless warriors they drank their potions and went into stealth mode.  Creeping past the great iron dragons they made their way into the Mother Dragon's lair.  Stealthily making it past Hellhounds and Burning Pincers to the very feet of the Mother Dragon herself.  With a loud cry they plunged their weapons into her skin and scales.

She rears up on her hind legs... and yawns.  As she comes back down her weight and body kill half of the warriors and she falls asleep.  A small tickle is all the poor warriors could muster.

Such a lovely notification to get!  But hey guess what?  You did manage to get that scratch that she hasn't been able to get in weeks!  And thanks to you she can finally go to sleep.

Day 45 Troop Summon

From all the outer reaches of the kingdom the troops are flocking in to fight against the Mother Dragon.  Four of the dragon items have been found and brought to Asgard!  The magician's potion for extra power has been brewed.  And in the heart of darkness itself a barrier has been forged!  All eyes now lie on Asgard for protection.  At dawn the battle begins!!

Day 44

The world of Aloriah ticks on!  Well I got to say the middle of the rounds of Aloriah seem to be a bit slower than the beginning and end.  Day in and out you build, chop, grind, walk, swim, search, etc.  But you got to do it otherwise you drop out of the race.  I have already dropped to #23 cause I am not killing enough dragons or searching enough obelisks.

So alas you must find ways to entertain yourself.  I did this by taking after Draak and going to chop wood at (200,200) which is the center of the world right next to the MD!  successfully obtained a valuable treasure chest, and chopped wood for 12 hours.  It was really exciting stuff!  Now I am headed off to go fishing in her layer as well.  So I am kinda curious too if she ever goes to that fishing spot.  I have a Hero with a high pirate skill which would be some nice extra life and damage against her.

Ha I missed the treasure chest on this one cause I forgot that it disappears as soon as you move on the square.  I'll be quicker next time.  Well in the upper picture you can see the fishing spot that I am going to be going for.  I am moving right around the MD so if she moves just one space I'll be a gonner ha.

Well continuing to build my MD army.  Sending my items right now to Asgard (MA village).  The battle is afoot!

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Day 42

1000 SP reward!  30k resources!  Exciting stuff :)  So this was really good for me cause I have been trying to get to the point where I could upgrade my Blacksmith to a level 10.  Normally however I don't have the capacity in iron to get the needed amount.  But since the rewards go above and beyond your capacity I now have enough to make it!  So upgrade I did.  Little over 20 hrs and I will be able to get all my troops up to level 3.

I love my new income on my resources!  With 4 mines now in all my climate zones this equates to ~1200 wood/stone 500 iron and 300 gold with 20 diamonds.  This is more than enough to keep me going thus far.

So since I have never attack the MD before I was thinking this round would be a good one to try it on for size.  If I could get her down by just 1% that is an achievement!  But since I don't think I have the population, about 13k, to right now I don't believe that I will be able to.  But I still think it'll be fun to take a stab at her.

I got one of my armies fishing in MM right now and have been able to catch 3 fish so far, pretty exciting.  I did catch one very uncommon fish so far which sold for quite a bit.

So I have been considering getting my fifth village and settling in TI. This would be to help my population and also to be able to hire an additional 5 heros.  However there is a bug currently with hiring the 5 heros so I don't think I will do it yet.  I think too I might also attack the MD to see what kind of forces it will take to do some damage on her.

Day 40

So I hate it when you come up with this ingenious plan but it is dependent on something like an army getting to a village or something like that and it all gets thrown off.  I currently am trying to juggle 8 armies in my civilization.  And it is so hard cause I want to do so many things but I only have 8 armies to do it with.  I had this whole plan worked out yesterday but it was dependent on one of my armies making it back to my village so I could put them inside and split this other army I had.  I was three squares away from my village and there were two wildlife armies right next to my village but I had this path worked out to avoid them.  I was sitting and watching them count down 10.. 9.. 8.. 7.. 6.. 5.. 4.. and then BAM!  Dang wildlife army moved on top of me!  4 more seconds that's all I needed!  That threw a whole list of commands in like 3 armies completely off.  Back to the drawing board...

So I am at 992 scenario points now can hardly wait for the 1k reward!  Accept my friend Pidge27 got hers and it wasn't that great just resources and a silver chest.  Hopefully mine is better :D

I am fishing for the first time pretty much.  I only fished like twice last round and never with a hero but this time around I have given one of my heros the fisherman skill and sent him off.  Hopefully I catch something rare!

My new village in MA is progressing along quite well.  Wild animals are constantly attacking me but I built up my moat to level 6 quickly and also a poison tower.  Plus when I was settling my new village I transported a whole bunch of troops so I haven't lost a battle yet!  Such a difference from MM!

So your not going to believe this!  In MM if you have an item shop up to level 8 then you can buy a bonzi tree for 1k gold!  I bought four already!  One for each of my villages.  I was so dumbfounded when I saw that deal.  So now I can control 4 mines in each village except MA cause in all the others I have upgraded my runstone of control to level 10.  Those are some really nice resource boosts!