Day 28

It is just me or do the Black Dragons seem to be a lot more aggressive this round?  Got attacked twice but had no problem defending against them.

I decided this round to give chests a try out.  Last round I didn't bother at all with them.  One of my heroes I am going to take all the way to primary with the lock picking skill.  He almost has secondary as a skill.  I wonder if picking one of those locks is an achievement.

I switched my Zerkers to fire damage.  I did this cause almost every animal except those in MA don't have a fire resistance.  So this means their damage will hit with full power.  I thought this was important cause their damage isn't very high to begin with.  This means I had to raze my arrow tower and build a fire tower in MM.  That was a little scary cause I was without that needed boost for almost the whole day.

So now that everyone is starting to expand PvP is starting to come into play a little more.  Not in the traditional sense of attacking one another's villages but in the sense of controlling lookouts and claiming dragon obelisks.  Had a couple of run ins already but most of the bigger people I just ask for peace with. But that presents it's own problems cause then you can't go claim their DOs and Lookouts which can get annoying if you are in the same area at the same time.

I have the biggest army yet (except the very first army) of dragons coming to attack 363 of the buggers.  Upped my pop slightly and now I should be good.  If 3 more dragon gates are sealed before they attack (very likely) then it'll basically be a cake walk.  And I think that I'll be able to go out and hunt down some dragons after that.  REVENGE!!!

Day 27

So I got 350 SP today which means rewards!!  Course they give you a bunch of resources upfront which is nice, but then you get a choice more resources, or different items to choose from.  Mine were 2 bronze chests or a silver chest or 3750 wood/stone, 2000 iron, 1000 gold, and 62 diamonds.  Since I already had a pretty significant amount of resources I decided to see how the chests would compare to the resources.  I chose the two bronze chests cause I didn't have a hero with lock picking at secondary and didn't plan to for a while.  So from my two bronze chests I received 1311 wood, 1843 stone, 515 iron, and 393 gold plus I chose the items ornamental dagger (+20% sacrifices) and saddle (+7% land movement).  So by far it is much better to choose the resources upfront if that is what you need.  However if you have a good income of resources then by choosing chests you have the opportunity to can items that you otherwise would not have had the opportunity for.  The ornamental dagger will translate into faster building/training/research.  Thought that was an interesting experiment.

Was able to upgrade my zerkers and axe throwers to level 2 today!  This is exciting cause it means I should be able to defend with less units and not keep running into the population problems that I do.

Beat emerald army number 3 today.  It seems I am doing fine in this area now!  Plus the constant attacks provide a nice income of diamonds.  The only thing I am worried about now is when I leave with my hero to go settle in Molten Ashlands.  Because when I do I'll be taking a lot of power with him.  For one he has the protective skill so as it stands right now that is +60% life and damage when defending a village.  I'll need to make sure my troops can survive without him when he leaves.

Black dragons will be attacking me tonight but I got no problems defending my village in DS.  I have noticed though that it seems they are attacking more villages this game round than last.

Nothing else to exciting to report.  Claimed some DO and found some treasure chests.

Oh one last interesting note!  It seems the game map is the same as last round.  I have found some mines lookout towers, etc in the exact same places as the last map.  So if you can remember where any of those secret places you once had were I think they'll still be there.