Day 13 - New Plan

Eric of Ebola is a treachorous turncoat and should go down in history at the same levels as Benedict Arnold, should I survive this battle to be the writer of history. Eric of Ebola took the Tower of Eden. After capturing the Tower of Tyrant's using the Batista of Doom (+4 Range), he turned around and captured the Tower of Eden. I wasted all that time moving to the City of Dis. I am made to look quite foolish.

Okay. Let's build on this.

What can I do. I need to definitely take the City of Dis. Destroy Eric of Ebola. Fortunately, if Eric of Ebola were to try and take the City of Dis with his current configuration, he would be stopped. Unfortunately, I will not be able to secure the buffer area from Eric in my movements because he is currently first in the movement orders. I need to go around his movement patterns. Neighsayer Matt has now moved across the bridge he claimed to just use as a defense, my belief is that Eric and Matt are working together to pick over my current situation. James continues to sit in his safety world not taking the tower, leaving me to wonder what the discussion with Matt and Eric was, if any.

The really good news, is that Eric is now garnering more prestige than Matt.
The thing about this game I need to remember if we play again is that one must disassociate their opponents from the good things they know about the real-life person and only believe in the deception they are capable of.
I chide myself at this moment for not realizing the incentives involved in this game.

Day 10 - Legion of Maw to the Rescue

As the Legion of Maw marches off to take the City of Tyrant's, the minions have come off of their nervous edge. While they make a great legion, the cost of having them around the palace is their propensity to eat anything in their way, including a number of minions. Without a nose, ears, face, or eyes, anything wandering by its mouth too closely finds itself as an appetizer to satiate their never-ending desires.

 

The legion of maw is progressing over the grounds. It should reach the Tower of Tyrants within a three turns. While en route I shall strengthen it with a combat card and then deploy the Praetor from the original attempt with the Legion of Krampus. 

Let me give a layout of the board as it stands right now. 

Neighsayer Matt

Neighsayer Matt captured the Iron Staircase (+1 Prestige) and the twisted tree (+2 Prestige) and now sits at the border threatening to attack Eric of Ebola and the Tower of Tyrants. Here is layout of Neighsayer's holiday tour.

Eric of Ebola

Eric of Ebola has left his legion next to the Tower of Tyrants and is probably acquiring tools from the bazaar to attack.

Eric's Legion of Lemures is currently poised to take the Chalice of Malice if he can apply the right numbers. I need to find out what these will be.

James of Gormash

James' Gormash disciples should attack everything within their path. His Melee of nine is out of control. In discussions with him, he stated his goal was to not take the tower. Yet, he noted that Neighsayer Matt was pulling away from the pack with his two recent captures. He also entreated me to take action against the newly minted number one, Neighsayer Matt. We conspired to enact OPERATION Pavlov! The plan is to hit Matt every time the conclave casts a vote, which should be any moment now, in an effort to make Matt fear the conclave's vote.

Prestige Chart and 40 Turn Projections
James of Gormash's concern for Prestige projections made me pause and take a look at the situation. Here is the handy-dandy projection.