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[Unraveller]

Spoiler: DAY 1 LOSSES (click to show/hide)

Total Suffering
947 - Crundle Tribals
197 - Crundle Pebble-Slingers
30 - Trogs
9 - Gru'Beks

NM
241 - Crundle Tribals
91 - Crudle Pebble-Slingers
6 - Trogs
8 - Gru'Bek

MW
228 - Crundle Tribals
98 - Crundle Pebble-Slingers
1 - Trog

ME
440 - Crundle Tribals
21 - Trogs

SM
38 - Crundle Tribals
8 - Crundle Pebble-Slingers
2 - Trogs
1 - Gru'Bek

Spoiler: DAY 2 LOSSES (click to show/hide)

Total Suffering
709 - Crundle Tribals
196 - Crundle Pebble-Slingers
50 - Trogs
40 - Gru'Beks

NM
46 - Crundle Tribals
1 - Trogs
1 - Gru'Bek

MW
72 - Crundle Tribals
63 - Crundle Pebble-Slingers


ME
60 - Crundle Tribals
12 - Crundle Pebble-Slingers
4 - Trogs
3 - Gru'Bek

SM
531 - Crundle Tribals
121 - Crundle Pebble-Slingers
45 - Trogs
36 - Gru'Bek

Civilization Name: Daal'Gak (Great Hole)
Theme: Subterranean Gribblies

Spoiler: Day 1: Emergence of the Crundles (click to show/hide)

When at last the final beams were erected and Gru'Bek paste dried to the cool air of the wastes, the 'fortress' of Burz'Gaang was complete. It's cavern-like complex within extended as if almost a natural extension of the vast vault below, expected of creatures who dwelt not upon the surface of the world for but a scant handfuls of moons. Certain their prized Gaar'Vul, the black stone, was secure under the watch of the most sharp-eyed sentries amidst the Great Hole and fort, the Daal'Gaks' gaze turned to lands beyond. To the spire-like mountains of the north, to the unfathomable tree and lake, to great marshes and olde cities, to technology fallen in decay. . .

Knowing not the freedom of this open world, the disjointed tribal chieftains of the Daal'Gaks turn to eldest longhorns whom spend their days gazing deep into the mysterious confines of Gaar'Vul. It is there they witness a vision, one that drives the tribes very spirit onward. A red figure, squat and horned, rising to the top of a great spike of stone. They overlook the world before them, parting the clouds and shed tears, for eye to eye is a vast crimson sea that sets itself awash across the land. Swallowing forests, cities, ruins alike. And it was good.

Gaar'Vul holds only truths, and so it shall be.

From every corner a Daal'Gak tribe rises. They blow bleating horns and croak bellowing songs of the world below, off to the lands of light.

Spoiler: Day 2: Gaze Upon the Glass and Weep (click to show/hide)

Crundles were not know for their breadth of emotions like the Trogs, yet, as the collectives gathered, gazing into Gaar'Vul, they saw images of their fallen comrades deep within the obsidian. On this day, seeing for the first time their banded together race perish in their acts of bravery against the world unknown, they shed their first tears. Both greiving for the fallen, yet commemorating their sacrifice. For if ever the Crimson Wave will one day be realized, they know in their tiny beating hearts that only greater sacrifice must be made. . .

It is with this that the many disconnected Crundle chiefs join together within the fortress of Burz'Gaang and come to a realization. Up to know their vision has been limited by many voices tugging back and forth one direction or another. If the Daal'Gaks will ever truly grasp their destiny, written so poetically by the Meteor that tore the Great Hole asunder, they would need a true leader. . .

Spoiler: Day 3: First March of the Black Blades (click to show/hide)

Longhorns gaze upon Gar'Vul, they drink deep of its abyssal surfaces. There they see a collective image, a Crundle much like themselves, they grant a name to this image, and take hold of the nearest red devil that fits its description, these are Gar'Vul's chosen.

Black and red, shining glass and warty flesh. The finest warriors beneath the crust, bearing warped obsidian blades from the stars, they march, listening to the whispers of their little shards of Gaar'vul. With all the rigorous training granted to them by their tribal chiefs and all the wisdom of the longhorns, the Crundle Black Blades emerge from the dank confines of Burz'Gaang with fire in their eyes, believing themselves to be empowered by their idol as chosen ones.

As it happens, the gibbering masses among the little horned imps seem to think the exact same thing, or even greater; the tribals elevate those who wield their black blades with all their apparent martial prowess as legendary heroes of the Great Hole, before even entering combat mind you. Going so far as to have every Crundle Black-Blade's names on the hearts and minds of the populace, something that would otherwise be only reserved for chiefs and the occasional close friend. This emergence alone marks a shift in Daal'Gak society as the remaining tribal chieftams continue their ceremonial duels to crown the first lord of the Crundles.

With innumerable foes made of cold, hard stuff arising in wastes beyond the Great Hole, the Daal'Gsks look to these chosen commanders for morale and order in battle.

Home Territory: The Great Hole -- https://imgur.com/a/f3X8UbF
Other Territories: None
Owned Strategic Resources: Meteoric Obsidian (100/Per Turn) -- Volcanic glass of an unnaturally dark shade. It fell from the heavens above, rupturing the Earth long ago. Thus cracking the olde vaults below the world, by which all manner of detestable beast emerge. The Tribal Daal'Gaks both idolize what is left of the enigmatic glass and have begun to utilize it for its unfathomably sharp edges when knapped. It is said one may see their innermost self in reflection when gazing upon 'Gaar'Vul.'

Spoiler: Current Troops and Location (click to show/hide)

TOTAL
Crundle Tribals -- 3,850 (963 Value)
Crundle Pebble-Slingers -- 1,247 (312 Value)
Crundle Black-Blades -- 300 (150 Value | 150 Meteoric Obsidian)
Trogs -- 459 (459 Value)
Gru'Beks -- 361 (271 Value)
1909
Great Hole
Crundle Tribals -- 759 (190 Value)
Crundle Pebble-Slingers -- 312 (78 Value)
Crundle Black-Blades -- 300 (150 Value | 150 Meteoric Obsidian)
Trogs -- 80 (80 Value)
Gru'Beks -- 55 (38 Value)


NM
Crundle Tribals -- 1,263 (316 Value)
Crundle Pebble-Slingers -- 409 (102 Value)
Trogs -- 143 (143 Value)
Gru'Beks -- 106 (80 Value)

MW
Crundle Tribals -- 147 (37 Value)
Crundle Pebble-Slingers -- 67 (17 Value)


ME
Crundle Tribals -- 700 (175 Value)
Crundle Pebble-Slingers -- 88 (22 Value)
Trogs -- 154 (154 Value)
Gru'Beks -- 107 (80 Value)

SM
Crundle Tribals -- 981 (245 Value)
Crundle Pebble-Slingers -- 371 (93 Value)
Trogs -- 82 (82 Value)
Gru'Beks -- 93 (70 Value)

Heroes: None

Supplies: Meteoric Obsidian (x150 - 150 = x0)

Recruiting this turn: (157 Value)
200 - Crundle Black-Blades (100 Value | 100 Meteoric Obsidian)
229 - Crundle Tribals (57 Value)

Spoiler: Troop Designs (click to show/hide)

Crundle - Tribals -- (Project Cost: 2 | Recruitment Value: 0.25) Squat, gremin-like creatures no taller than four foot at the tall end. Their wart-covered red skin is like stretched rubber over their thin boned structure. A collection of small horns dot their angular skulls, the length of which is an arbitrary symbol pride among them. Oddly, they give off a pleasant and inoffensive earthy odor. Their main choice of equipment consists of lacerating natural claws, knapped stone spears, and loose fitting cavern hides to ward the elements of the surface. Crundles are far and away the main inhabitants and dominate species among the Daal'Gaks. And while their introspective intelligence leaves something to be desired, their surprising cunning does not.

Crundle - Pebble-Slinggers -- (Project Cost: 2 | Recruitment Value: 0.25) Much as the above, save for the replacement of their spears with long slingstaffs born of spongy fungal wood by which stones are flung. They gather together in loose bands and sling in a rather orderly unison, fooling a foe to perhaps believe they've mastered the art of siege engineering and bear catapult-like objects.

Crundle - Black-Blades -- (Project Cost 4 | Recruitment Value: 0.5 | Meteoric Obsidian: 0.5) Having found the best methods in knapping away the Meteoric Obsidian from which the Great Hole surrounds, the Daal'Gaks have begun to utilize it for weaponry, seeing the dire need for greater arms against the ails of the world. The Crundles chosen to wield these wavy blades of volcanic glass are the first of their kind to train religiously in he arts of combat. Their ultra-sharp swords needing the most delicate, yet stern hands of the Daal'Gaks in order to find the greatest use. Based on this alone the Black-Blades have seized military command amongst the Crundles, and now guide small blocks with ever so slightly greater leadership than before.

Trog - Siege Beasts -- (Project Cost: 4 | Recruitment Value: 1) Rare amongst the Daal'Gaks are great furred humanoids, some standing greater than ten-feet tall. Walrus-like tusks decend from their upper mouths while broad muscled shoulders aid in their lumbering gait and short legs. I'm truth, the Trogs are far more intelligent than their comparatively minuscule cousins. They bare greater wit and even a taste for philosophy. However they are subjugated by the Crundles and used as beast of burden and war. With backpack-like fungal-wood structures harboring a handful of Crundles wielding long spears, javelins, and slingstaffs, they combine the qualities of a siege tower and battering ram into one absolute unit.

Gru'Beks - Thick Slugs -- (Project Cost: 3 | Recruitment Value: 0.5) Amidst the Great Hole, a great advancement for the race of Daal'Gaks was the domestication of the humble Gru'Bek; A large bulbous cavern slug that both secretes and may expel a mixture of mucus that quickly hardens, taking on a cement-like quality. Used to trap prey for further dissolution. As well as a renknewable resource from which the Daal'Gaks have used to create the first bits of infrastructure for their tribe. Only the Gru'Bek is known to be able to naturally neutralize this cement. Crundles coat themselves in a thick tar / pitch substance, which has been found to resist around 90% of adherence to the Gru'Beks' mucus. Thus Gru'Bek masters are able to be picked out at but a glance, sometimes referred to as black riders. Up to a trio may easily ride the back of one such slug, with the usual assortment of weaponry. Two bearing a longspear, and the third a slingstaffs. In battle their intent is not to charge like most cavalry, but utilize their mount's physiology in trapping / screening the front ranks of the enemy.

Spoiler: Project Information (click to show/hide)

Expand Outwards and Upwards -- (Project Cost: 9) Overcoming their trepidation and shedding their sensitivity to the great lights above, the Daal'Gaks collectively make an effort to emerge from their deep ravine and build up a presence in the world at large. Through a combination of spongy fungal wood and Gru'Bek cement, they construct the makings of a proper fortress, or at least one through the bleak eyes of cunning cave dwellers upon the precipice of the Great Hole, to secure their place amongst the rest. It is known in their tongue by the name Burz'Gaang


Study the Black Glass -- (Project Cost: 4 / 4) As the minds and souls of the Daal'Gaks develop under the rising and setting Sun, so too does their need for greater tools and deeper myth to herald them on. And so those of great horns begin to lance hefty chunks of the meteoric glass, while the few masters of stonecunning and craft begin to knap the incredibly sharp material to use for blades that might rend any substance asunder. Or to the superstition of the Daal'Gaks, cut through any mysteries or truths. -- Unlocks recruitment of Crundle Black-Blades (Value 0.5 / Obsidian 0.5); The first of the true Daal'Gak warriors who bear pride in martial skill, bearing long wavy, feathered shards of Meteoric Obsidian. Not only do they reflect the true spirits of their wielders in their deep mirrored surfaces, but so too may they slice delicately through some of the most durable materials.

NEW PROJECTS
Search for Tunnel Networks -- (Project Cost: 1
1 / 5) The great subterranean vaults below the surface, below the Great Hole are interwoven and connected, nigh untouched by the surface world. Yet, surely there must be other caverns, other dark passageways, and strange crevasses that will connect just as well to the surface? The most intrepid of Crundle kind lead an expedition back into their primordial home to search for such secret entrances, hoping to one day use them to spill out upon the land.

Gathering of the Tribes -- (Project Cost: 2 / 10) The Tribal chiefs and longhorns amongst the Crundles have made an epiphany with the emergence of the black-blades and their leadership across the battlefield. As such they have come to the conclusion that Crundle-kind must have a monolithic figure by which to look up to in both awe and reverence. The chiefs begin a protracted process of duels and battles amid themselves, streaking one another's blood across the Great Hole, not out of malice for one another, but for the advancement of their race. The last one standing will be named High Chief, both the greatest Crundle warrior and leader.

Gundle: Reloaded -- (Project Cost: 1 / 5 | Meteoric Obsidian: 50 / 150 | Crundle Tribals: 100 | 100) On the dawn of the third day, the technological wastes to the south were silent, save the gibbering of the Daal'Gaks. The strange and inexplicable sights they had witnessed the night before continue to play at their nascent minds; Bright lights that can wipe out an army, hordes of dark sheened monsters with the hardest of shells, even hand sized stones that burst and spew shrapnel. It is the sheer curiosity of the little buggers that drives them to tear these implements apart and 'reverse engineer' them in the loosest imagining of the term fore its rare that they can even put them together. Still the Crundles horde every little item they can get their hands on, mainly Gobborg guns and other firearms found around the arcology and old metropolis. After more than a few accidental deaths the Crundles also begin to understand the components of ammunition for this advanced slings. As thus they begin to add a little of their own touch, a piece of Gaar'Vul into the implements, knapped black glass bullets, set to tear through the thickest of machine hides. At that, the Shardslinger Squads will soon be prepped for action. ( Crundle Shard-Slinger | Recruitment Value: 0.5 | Meteoric Obsidian: 0.5 | Relative Access to ruined technology. )

0/26 Project Points remain.

EDIT: Because math is hard.

[coleslaw35]

Spoiler: The Kingdom of Steelhold - Day 3 (click to show/hide)

Civilization Name: Das Königreich der Stahlfestung (The Kingdom of Steelhold)
Theme: Medieval Pseudo-Prussia
Day 3:
Home Territory: Stahlfestung
Other Territories: -
Owned Strategic Resources: Stahlstein - An exceptionally strong and durable stone resistant to damage.

Current Troops:

Home Province (MEE):

Stahlspieß: 842
Herzenssuchende: 436
Eisen Eingeweihter: 361
Leichtflammenballiste: 104
Geschmiedete Ritter: 85

NEE Army:

Stahlspieß: 294
Herzenssuchende: 165
Eisen Eingeweihter: 186
Leichtflammenballiste: 40


Heroes:
Supplies:

Recruiting this turn (158 points total):
Stahlspieß (1 Point each): 25
Geschmiedete Ritter (1 Points each): 85
Herzenssuchende (1 Point each): 48

Spoiler: Troop Designs (click to show/hide)

Infantry:

-Stahlspieß (Recruitment cost 1, Project cost 2)
The Stahlspieße (Steelpikes) are pikemen armed with small bucklers and backup shortswords, and are clad in light plate - a cuirass, open-face helmet, and chainmail. They are the main frontline unit of the Kingdom of Steelhold, and are primarily used to protect from cavalry charges or to advance in a spearwall towards the enemy to open a hole in their lines for light infantry to exploit.

-Eisen Eingeweihter (Recruitment cost 0.5, Project cost 2)
The Esien Eingewiehter (Iron Initiates) are sword and shield armed, studded leather armored infantry primarily used to flank or exploit holes in an enemy line in order to wreak havoc on soldiers in vulnerable situations, such as archers or high value targets like siege weaponry crews. When no such opportunities are foreseeable, they are generally tasked with defending the longbowmen from potential harm.

Archers:

-Herzenssuchende (Recruitment cost 1, Project cost 2)
The Herzenssuchende (Heartseekers) are longbowmen, armed with a shortsword as a backup weapon, wearing padded leather/cloth armor. Obviously not intended for melee, and they typically remain behind lines of Stahlspieße as they pelt their foes with arrows.

Cavalry:

-Geschmiedete Ritter (Recruitment cost 1, Project cost 4)
The Geschmiedete Ritter (Forged Knights) are a part of the crown-sanction knighthood Der Orden der Geschmiedeten (The Order of the Forged.) They fight to defend the people of these lands and have often successfully served as the only check to past rulers. If the king trusts The Order, then The Order shall trust the king and fight in his name. The king has thus been granted the ability to recruit from its members to fill the role of cavalry or heavy infantry. Each knight is clad in a suit of plate armor and wields a kite shield and a lance for any initial cavalry charge, with a longsword in the case of dismounting or upon use and breakage of the lance.

Artillery/Siege:

-Leichtflammenballiste (Recruitment cost 1, Project cost 3):
The Leichtflammenballiste (light flame ballista) is a ballista designed for the Heißebleipfeile, a ballista bolt carrying a quantity of molten lead. While this ballista serves its duties well enough to be a viable battlefield implement, there are still serious issues with the machine pertaining to range, accuracy, and effectiveness that must be rectified before the weapon can reach its true effectiveness.

Spoiler: Project Information (click to show/hide)

Technology:

(5 Project Points) Heißebleipfeile (hot lead arrows): These ballista bolts are designed to hold an amount of liquid lead within a large, hollowed arrowhead that breaks apart upon impact, spilling the molten contents upon the target, killing or debilitating them at least temporarily as molten metal sears and fuses to their skin.

Constructions:

(6 Project Points) Fortress in Stahlfestung

Recruitment:

(2/10 Project Point Cost) Recruit Hero - Drachentöter (Dragon Slayer) - a larger, stronger, more accurate, longer ranged ballista with much more stopping power. While primarily designed as a direct counter to a certain dragon to the south, the weapon excels in every category (except weight and size) when compared to the Leichflammenballiste, and is even able to fire upscaled versions of the Heißebleipfeile as needed. A mighty weapon indeed, and those who man it are renowned as a Hero crew.

[coleslaw35]

Spoiler: Steelhold attempts to hold their gains in the NEE (click to show/hide)

Feverish fungi approach from the west. Find a defensible location in the ruins that maximizes choke points, and have pikemen stick their big long shafts in them. Deploy ballistae and Heartseekers in whatever rubble allows them to support these chokepoints or take advantage of lines of fire. Have Iron Initiates guard the archers, ballistae, and the rear of any pike lines they can. The small buggers may be able to weasel their way through. If the enemy decides to wait for us to attack, then push the archers up to harass and have them retreat back behind the cover of the pikes and ballistae. Don't do this too often or they will begin to lay ambushes.

NEE Army:

Stahlspieß: 294
Herzenssuchende: 165
Eisen Eingeweihter: 186
Leichtflammenballiste: 40

[Shadowclaw777]

Civilization Name: The Ancestors
Theme: Eldritch Horrors
Day 3
Home Territory: Darkest Dungeon
Map: https://imgur.com/a/EF0zqWK
Other Territories: -
Owned Strategic Resources: Crimson Curse
Current Troops:
998 Bone Defenders
583 Bone Arbalests
298 Undead Horse
162 Supplicants

Heroes: Necromantic Scholar
Supplies: Crimson Curse (Stored) (138/Turn)

Recruiting this turn (159 Value)
138 Supplicants
21 Bone Defenders

Spoiler: Troop Designs (click to show/hide)

Bone Defender: Human Militia of the previous castle, now risen up to the grave from necromantic energy in the Ruins as now skeletal shells and equipped with their arming swords and heavy kite shields, wearing and armored in rusting chainmail and their hardened bones, while slow they move in formation and carry heavy armor and have their undead motivation to kill any who oppose the Ancestor’s will until their bodies eventually shamble to broken pieces (2 Project Cost, 1 Unit Cost)
Bone Arbalest: Human Guardsman of the previous castle, now risen from their outposts and sentry positions and have been risen from the Ruin’s necromantic energy, they are equipped with powerful hitting crossbows, but take significant time to reload, and all have a rusting semi-useful bayonet when enemies try to melee them. (2 Project Cost, 1 Unit Cost)
Undead Horse: Undead horses that used to be grazing, pack and work animals, or even some horses from the knightly stables, now risen up from necromantic energy most still have their rotting skin as they trounce and gallop across the battlefield with their bonely hooves and carved horse jaws to trample on their opponents (2 Project Cost, 1 Unit Cost)

Supplicant: A huge tick that is comparable to the size of a man after drinking the Crimson Curse, engorged and toughened chitinous-armored tick that is grabbing and ventriloquizing onto a desiccated corpse, it controls the human corpse and can puppet itself for its own locomotion. The giant tick can either run up to another and attack a giant creature with its mandibles to stuck the blood from another creature forcibly and possibly spread the Crimson Curse, or perform predigestion and shoot out a bile of acid that can burn through metal, all powers they gain from absorbing the Crimson Curse and living in the Courtyard. They serve in combat as a form of offensive brute, being able to handle damage while also dishing it back and spreading the Crimson Curse among the enemy ranks and distilling chaos and havoc as their organic forces require the blood of others to be satiated or wither away and die.  (3/3 Project Cost, 1 Resource, 1 Crimson Curse)

Spoiler: Project Information (click to show/hide)

Crimson Curse (5), Powerful curse that increases the ferocity, strength, endurance, and stamina of a creature wherever they harvest blood from others in any means possible an have a endless thirst to gather more and more of it, this supernatural curse has found a way to live inside the bloodstream and has mystical abilities with it, it transmits whenever another creature veins touch the Curse and they become curse with the effect.

Necromancer Scholar: (9): One of the Ancestor’s most valuable scholar and adviser
that collaborated with the Ancestor on the art of how to achieve immortality, murdered and then brought back with much of his intellect intact, but with little to no humanity remaining. After the Ancestor's death, the Necromancer took over the Ruins, using their magic to bring the corpses buried there back to life as their servants, continuing his unholy experiments with necromancy and bringing back the dead eternally. The magic has empowered the creature to be twice the size of a man and clothed in giant red cultist robes with only its damaged skull showing, he is capable of bringing back the dead alive from fallen enemy forces into the undead at this creature’s command, with his mere touch to absorb the life energy of a creature until it withers into a husk, as well as raise multiple skeletal hands from the ground from his scroll to entangle and pull squads of forces six feet under into the ground. His giant skeletal frame and raw energy holds him together, allowing him to still be very difficult to take down.

Supplicant: A huge tick that is now comparable to the size of a man, engorged and toughened chitinous-armored tick that is grabbing and ventriloquizing onto a desiccated corpse, it controls the human corpse and can puppet itself for its own locomotion. The giant tick can either run up to another and attack a giant creature with its mandibles to stuck the blood from another creature forcibly and possibly spread the Crimson Curse, or perform predigestion and shoot out a bile of acid that can burn through metal, all powers they gain from absorbing the Crimson Curse and living in the Courtyard. They serve in combat as a form of offensive brute, being able to handle damage while also dishing it back and spreading the Crimson Curse among the enemy ranks and distilling chaos and havoc as their organic forces require the blood of others to be satiated or wither away and die.  (3/3 Project Cost, 1 Resource, 1 Crimson Curse)

Brigand 8 Pounder: An artillery piece used for both siege warfare, heavy anti-armor and anti-personnel Cannon that does it through with its explosive ammunition of that either being it’s main solid cannonball shot, that hurls it’s projectile at high speeds that destroys walls and toughened, armored, or just generally huge creatures that pierces the surface that it desires, or the grapeshot ammunition that it can shoot a wide cone of fast-firing projectiles to destroy grouped up infantry and other targets. Built in a solid cast iron frame and rotating wood wheels for its locomotion, it is created by three skeletal matchman that load and move the device for their entire existence as well as being the bodies that carry ammunition for the field weapon, equipped with steel arming swords and rusting chainmail if they are engaged. Cost 1.5 (3/5 Project)

[Supernerd]

I noticed at least one person attempted to do a military action without listing the troops that are being used.

All military actions must list the units that are being deployed, even if they were already in the territory on a prior turn. I do not keep track of every individual unit.

[Unraveller]

-- Fallen Stars --
The Daal'Gaks Prepare in the North.
(NM)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This little skirmish has become deeply personal for the Daal'Gaks, they care little for the luminous horros beyond the mountain now, albiet still leaving a force to reinforce the mouths of Mount Nasty's caverns furthest north. Their attentions are all affixed to the great, majestic Gryphon and its flight, and lack of theirs in kind. The eagle-beast swoops down and tears their loose ranks asunder, yet still returns itself to the skies, a mockery of the Meteor that has brought the Daal'Gaks together, and as such must be dealt with extreme prejudice!

Crundle Tribals -- 1,203 (301 Value)
Crundle Pebble-Slingers -- 409 (102 Value)
Trogs -- 143 (143 Value)
Gru'Beks -- 86 (65 Value)

Much of the original expeditionary force remain. The tarred black riders still remain upon their Gru'Bek mounts trained to the sky as yet another day passes with little progress, only this time they've two days straight worth of experience aiming their cementing spittle at the flying beast, this day, the third day it would come crashing down. The Crundles, being a crafty sort themselves, knew full well that the beast might not wholly fall for the same trick, nor did they fully believe their armaments capable of piercing its thick hide to any real affect, and thus, laid wait for the soon-to-be Gryphon slayers to arrive from the Great Hole.

Crundle Black-Blades  -- 100 (50 Value | 50 Meteoric Obsidian)
Gru'Beks -- 20 (15 Value)
Trogs -- 30 (30 Value)

Again the Daal'Gaks laid out tasty morsels in choice locations amidst the crags they'd spent the mornings scouring, hunting grounds to be sure by the wide sweep claw marks grazing across the stone. They were sure that if indeed the monster would land to snatch away prey again, it would be beside or below spires of rock, more enclosed spaces, just enough for it to be a more difficult place to maneuver, from which the grey furred Trogs would wait, clinging to. Removed of their cumbersome packs and palisades, the giant walrus-like trolls would leap upon the beast with all their weight and the deep gouge of their tusks to keep it from barreling away once more. All while the very same black riders goaded their Gru'Beks to stick it with cement, it's wings and feet.

Finally, the newest leaders among the group, the black-blades would charge, bearing their ultra sharp feathered edges to the creatures neck. If they indeed couldn't find entry in quick enough, the bravest of the black-blades would be tossed by the strength of the Trogs toward the Gryphon to do their work.

-- Chaos Reigns --
The Stranded Daal'Gaks Explore.
(MW)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Being only a mere two-hundred Crundles left from their odyssey into the cold lake isle, there was little else to do than to enjoy the sights and perhaps eek out a new life amongst the red leaves, subsisting off a modest diet of Chaos Butterflies. For no Crundle wished to think of the treacherous journey home.

Crundle Tribals -- 147 (37 Value)
Crundle Pebble-Slingers -- 67 (17 Value)

As they climb and generally enjoy the ambiance of the otherwise peaceful island, a few little imps discover that a sweet smelling sap drizzles from a small wound in the tree's dark bark. Being ever the curious and rash sort, the small tribe tastes of the extract. They are utterly surprised to find that it is perhaps the most delicious taste that has graced their unrefined pallets and at that begin consuming it wholesale! The gibbering red devils convincing all their mates to have a good guzzle all the while.

-- Thru Caverns Dark --
The Daal'Gaks do something sneaky and crafty.
(SM)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The truth shall not be revealed! Until next turn.

The Daal'Gaks perform stealth operations in the SM tile.

-- Murk and Mire --
The Daal'Gaks war with colossus.
(ME)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

When all was said and done, and the many relics of the past lay crumbled before their feet the Daal'Gaks believed themselves to be victorious. To be lords over the tough shelled monsters that roamed the metropolis, only they wrong, so desperately wrong.

Crundle Tribals -- 700 (175 Value)
Crundle Pebble-Slingers -- 88 (22 Value)
Trogs -- 154 (154 Value)
Gru'Beks -- 107 (80 Value)

The red legion that remained after their rampage through the forgotten streets were awestruck by the titan that bellowed out its melodious song of grinding gears and rusted metal. And before that, the inexplicable apparition, like that of an image in the depths of Gar'Vul. Though some no doubt fled and few others were welled up with the sheer fear of their mortality, many a crundle couldn't help but think that at last the great chief of this hateful tribe has brought itself to bear against them! And with that, they were tiny sling-wielding boys, against the Goliath of a machine.

Crundle Tribals -- 600 (150 Value)
Crundle Pebble-Slingers -- 100 (25 Value)
Crundle Black-Blades -- 200 (100 Value | 100 Meteoric Obsidian)
Trogs -- 50 (50 Value)
Gru'Beks -- 35 (26 Value)

As more and more of the Daal'Gaks poured into the streets of the metropolis and brought to plan amongst the crumpled relics and destroyed technology, they came to a conclusion. Little did they know of spirits and superstitions beyond the Obsidian, and little more did they know of the strange artefacts of the past. However, they knew indeed the latter of which could be destroyed. And thus, they would destroy the machine so utterly and without repute or contention, that the Ghost in the Machine could possess nothing among the metropolis ever more, terrifying it into the afterlife they believed.

By whatever means they can, whether that be scrounging up material or weaving a makeshift band of thickening mucus of the Gru'Beks, the Crundles hope to create some kind of means of imoblizing the legs of the screeching monstrosity. By distracting its wanton hate with the fastest of the bunch they'd get to work, eventually goading between a pair of old bombed out sky scrapers from which many pebble-slingers wait to hail their stones upon it. There, they'd seek to enwrap its steel legs, and use the great strength of many Trogs in hopes to topple the beast, through which the horde can be upon it.

At the joints and exposed bits, black-blades use their devilishy sharp implements to cut through and disable its great power while the rest pry and smash and gnaw at any opening they can get to. Gru'Beks run themselves over these fallen parts and limbs to further cement it to the ground below. It is their hope that beyond the physical means, the sheer conviction of the Daal'Gak tribe will win out against the Ghost's and eradicate its presence utterly.

-- Back at Home --

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The remaining Daal'Gaks turn inward and spectate the great gladiatorial combat that is their dueling honor-bound chieftains. Blood is shed, tears are shed, but most of all for the Crundle peoples, weakness is shed.

Crundle Tribals -- 159 (40 Value)
Crundle Pebble-Slingers -- 212 (53 Value)
Crundle Black-Blades -- 0 (0 Value | =0 Meteoric Obsidian)
Trogs -- 0 (0 Value)
Gru'Beks -- 0 (0 Value)

[Supernerd]

Still waiting on TheRedwolf to post their action...

[Screech9791]

and have pikemen stick their big long shafts in them

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[TricMagic]

and have pikemen stick their big long shafts in them

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Is it allowed for others to peek in spoilers?

[Supernerd]

I think the spoilers are more to made the post size manageable than to make things secret. There is a mechanic for stealth actions that are supposed to be secrets, and players can PM me the finer details of their plans without it counting as a stealth action.

[TheRedwolf]

Civilization Name: League of Grand Battleborn Trance-mages and Questors
Theme:Pride Month
Day 3:
Home Territory: Pridea
https://imgur.com/a/jtq2IvL
Other Territories:
Owned Strategic Resources: Hormones: 300 (+100)

Current Troops:
Allies:2800
Bi-barians:540
Gunmen:540
Longboats:540
Heroes:
Supplies:

Recruiting this turn:
None

Spoiler: Troop Designs (click to show/hide)

Longboat: Wooden Galleys Designed for naval combat and Transportation. They are crewed by Sapphic women from the island of Lesbos Cost 1
Bi-barians: Warriors from the south that wield double edged battleaxes that swing both ways in furious attacks Cost: 1
Gunmen: men from the citadel that wield muskets in battle. They are extremely accurate because they fight with their lover by their side Cost 1
Allies: Miscellaneous sword warriors recruited from other lands. They tend to be fair weather soldiers that retreat easily Cost .25

Spoiler: Project Information (click to show/hide)

Longboats: allows training of longboats cost 5
Bi-barians: Allows training of bi-barians Cost 2
Gunmen: allows training of Gunmen cost 3
Trance Rites: An intense series of meditation rituals involving hormones allowing trance mages to transform in to their true selves, granting them magical abilities. The order Estros specialises in healing and support, the order Andros specialises in offensive spells, and Enbos specialises in pushing and transcending the boundaries of magic  cost 8
 Allies: Allows training of allies cost 2
Trance mage order Andros: allows training Trance mages of the order Andros 3/5

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[Supernerd]

The following players have not posted a combat action. If you do not post a combat action within 24 hours, I will assume that you have no intention of engaging in combat this turn and no combats will be processed for you:

Pridea
Harvester Nexus
Clock Tower
The Ancestors

[Screech9791]

I wasn't going to do any fighting anyways; what the fuck did you think I would do the turn after I take heavy casualties?

[Supernerd]

Turn 3

Spoiler: Worldmap (Massive image) (click to show/hide)

Time moves forward ever slowly...

Spoiler: Territory Information (click to show/hide)

NWW: The northwest corner of the map.
Strategic Resources - Lucent Glass: A special kind of glass that can only be made with the sand from this beach. Can be used to train units with invisible equipment.
Tactical analysis - Ace Island: A mysterious island with almost no life present, aside from the worms and microbiome.
Tactical analysis - Sea of no Cares: The sea in the northwest corner of the world. Those who sail beyond the tile rarely return.
Tactical analysis - Second Darkest Dungeon: Its a dungeon, lit only by faint red torches. There's only one darker dungeon in the known world.
Neutral Entities - Ghoul x 291: Undead monsters with cannibalistic tendencies.
Neutral Entities - Rogue Necromancer (Hero): A practicioner of the dark arts, holed up in the Second Darkest Dungeon

NW: Pridea, a player nation

NM: The northernmost tile, just above the center of the map.
Strategic Resources - Astral Shards: They radiate a brilliant evil light from a distant world. Can be used to train units with both light and unholy powers.
Tactical analysis - Site of the Starfall: Meteors have fallen here a long time ago. The remnants can heal the body, but injure the soul.
Tactical analysis - Cenati Meadow: A field with many flowers, where its almost impossible to track someone by scent.
Tactical analysis - Mt Nasty: The tallest mountain in the area. Insurmountable to most unit types.
Neutral Entities - Luminous Horrors x 220: A kind of light demon, with an annoying tendency to heal both itself and others of its kind.
Neutral Entities - Griffon (Hero): This monster has the body of a lion, wings and head of an eagle, and a bad attitude.

NE: Underveil, a player nation

NEE: The Northeast corner of the map.
Strategic Resource - Dark Wood: Wood grown from a forest tainted by darkness. Can be used to make high quality siege weapons.
Tactical analysis - Shadowed Woods: This ancient forest is the perfect place for an ambush, if you don't get lost within.
Tactical analysis - Mt Barton: The highest point in the territory. This mountain is a particularly defensible location.
Tactical analysis - Ruined City: This city is reminiscent of Steelhold architecture, yet distict.
Neutral Entities - Satyr x 149: Not quite a man, and not quite a goat. These creatures are fond of trickery.
Neutral Entities - Mamut Taipan (Hero): A massive snake with a deadly venom. It is unclear what kind of prey could possibly warrant such a mighty animal to also require venom.

MWW: Darkest Dungeon, a player nation

MW: One tile west from the center of the map.
Strategic Resource - Discord: This extract from the Tree of Chaos can turn people into monsters. Can be used to create strong but hard to manage units.
Tactical analysis - Great Lake Orbega: The waters of this lake are dangerously cold. Ensure your boat is up to code.
Tactical analysis - The tree of Chaos: The chaotic influence of this massive tree can lay waste to even the best made plans.
Tactical analysis - Fragile Ice Sheets: A very dangerous place to march a large army.
Neutral Entities - Butterflies x 1179 (0.2 cost): These insects are seemingly pretty and harmless, yet many deaths are attributed to them!
Neutral Entities - The Mad Dryad (Hero): The guardian of the Tree of Chaos. Far more powerful than any regular hero. If she is to be slain, you'll need to wait for her to do something reckless and stupid; which is often.

MM: The Great Hole, a player nation

ME: One tire east of the center of the map.
Strategic Resource - Winsome Slime: This goopy substance can absorb and contain massive amounts of magic power. Can be used to create magic-resistant units.
Tactical analysis - The Dark Swamp of Tears: The mud-water within this swampland can swallow a person whole!
Tactical analysis - Elder's Lake: The perimiter of the lake is one of the only two routes through the tile that won't severely impair your army's marching speed.
Tactical analysis - Former Metropolitan Area: The ruins of a once great city lie here.
Neutral Entities - Green Gunge x 300: A slime monster capable of melting flesh and metal alike with its powerful acid. Though slow and not very bright, only their core is vulnerable to conventional weaponry.
Neutral Entities - Ghost in the Machine (Hero): A powerful spirit that haunts the Former Metropolitan Area. It controls the remnants of old world technology though a process not yet understood. Banish it, or destroy the relics to render it harmless. Many of the relics in the west and central regions have been dealth with, and the Reanimated War Machine is incapacitated

MEE: Stahlfestung, a player nation

SWW: The south west corner of the map
Strategic Resource - Cockatrice: A cross between a snake and a chicken. Contact with this creature will slowly cause the victim to turn to stone. Can be used to train units that exploit this phenomenon.
Tactical analysis - Ancient Temple: Built from holy stone. Not a safe place for the local aberrations to stay.
Tactical analysis - Cockatrice Nests: Also known as the statue garden. very dangerous for a lightly guarded caravan.
Tactical analysis - The Wild Lands: Beyond this portion of the map lies monsters too powerful for the modern civilizations to have any hope of taming. Some nasty things may encroach in this area.
Neutral Entities - Guardian Statue (Hero): This massive animated statue at the Ancient Temple seeks to purge the world of something. That something includes you!
Special Project - Giant Tortolisk: With control over the territory, your first project involving the Giant Tortolisk will gain a +2 bonus point modifier! A massive reptile that can petrify all it beholds! One of the few natural predators of the Cockatrice.

SW: Old London, a player nation

SM: One tile south of the center of the map.
Strategic Resource - Precursor Aerotech: Technological artifacts from an ancient civilzation far greater than those of modern days. Can be used to make high tier technological units.
Tactical analysis - The Scar of the World: A massive canyon that most units simply cannot traverse.
Tactical analysis - Old World Viaduct: A bridge about 20 meters wide that crosses the Scar of the World. An important tactical location.
Tactical analysis - Ruined Arcology: The ruins of a once great city. A treasure trove of ancient relics.
Neutral Entities - Gobborg x 75 (0.5 cost): Goblins augmented with technological components. Nasty unpredictable demihuman trash.
Special Project - War Machine: With control over the territory, your first project involving the War Machine will gain a +2 bonus point modifier! A massive robotic warform that guards the Ruined Arcology. It has protected the grave of its masters for millenia from any and all incursions.

SE: Nexus Wastes, a player nation

SEE: The southeast corner of the Map
Strategic Resource - Floatstone: This rock is as light as air! Can be used to train units that are both armored and swift.
Tactical analysis - Abandoned Highway: The easiest passage through the mountainous territory to navigate.
Tactical analysis - Mirror Lake: A crystal clear lake.
Tactical analysis - Urd Volcano: A massive volcano that can do a lot of damage if it erupts at the wrong time.
Neutral Entities - Harpy x 180: Winged humanoid monsters, fond of consuming children.
Neutral Entities - Red Dragon (Hero): A fire breathing dragon! Enough said right? Its underbelly is covered by a thin coating of lead.

Tips of the day:
If you go fight an enemy hero without thinking, you could lose a whole army!

While diplomacy with NPC nations is impossible, other means of manipulation might not be...

It is strongly recommended to make a journal post along with your turn update. The story is going to be run mostly by the players and its more interesting that way.

The combat results will be in a separate post. After that post is made, you may post your Day 4 update.

[Supernerd]

NM:
The Daal'Gak were none too happy about the antics of the Griffon, so they brought in their elite troops and prepared their ambush once again.

In time, the Griffon can be seen in the skies above. It seems perhaps a bit off-balance from the previous cementing, but still quite capable of aerial maneuvers. It looks around, and seems to spot the bait. As the Crundles suspected, it didn't appear that it was going to fall for the same trick so easily.

But then, about five or ten minutes later the Griffon appears again! It appears to be a bit bigger this time. Closer inspection reveals that it is now carrying something, but nobody actually saw the thing land to grab prey...

Shortly afterwards, the sound of what I can only assume are Crundle Explicitives can be heard as the Griffon dropped a boulder on one of the Gru'beks laid out as bait! The ambush Gru'bek take a shot, but the Griffon was just too high up for their attacks to connect!

Casualties
1 Gru'bek

NEE:
The Sporelings advance to the Shadowed Woods by moving along the coast, suffering only minor losses from the wayward Satyr in the area. Things start to get a bit odd as they head deeper into the woods however. Sometimes when a Sporeling takes a certain path, one following behind it will run into an obstacle such as a tree or a rock that the first one did not encounter. Thanks to the United Collective of Spore Hivemind, the Sporelings were able to function reasonably well; but the lack of dedicated sensory organs made it difficult to fully grasp the area.

Fighting the Satyr in the heavily wooded area was mroe difficult, as the Satyr were able to swiftly maneuver around the woodland area, and had a number of traps prepared. When a group of sporeling scouts failed an ambush here, the small groups were unable to take down the much swifter Satyrs.

A few hours after the incursion began, a group of 10 Sporelings were suddenly crushed by something extremely heavy! While the sporelings were resistant to blunt impacts, there was a limit to this; and something capable of applying enough pressure to squash it would also squash the core even without having to aim for it. The collective identified this as the First Mamut Taipan encounter!

The Sporelings began to assemble en masse to prepare to engage the beast. During this time, they learned that Mamut Taipan is fast; another scout group was lost during this time, which wouldn't be too surprising if not for the fact that it was near the opposite side of the forest as the first one!

The giant snake seemed to have a suspicously high level of awareness in this place, and the United Collective of Spore was unable to determine why. Mamut Taipan engaged a large group of sporelings exactly once before the new day, used its body to strike at them a few times, then disengaged by climbing a large tree and escaping across the forest canopy. A few Sporelings were able to cling onto it and while their infection ability was not completely ineffective, Mamut Taipan was pretty resilient. The hive mind noticed that some of the Satyr were actively involved with the removal of the sporelings that clung to it!

Elsewhere, Steelhold fortified the ruined city to prepare for a fungal assault. The Ruined City was now about as secure as it was going to get without actually taking control of the area and rebuilding the place. The humans noticed the sound of pan flutes coming from the west; presumably a Satyr trick, but nobody among them fell for it...

Casualties
291 Sporelings
62 Satyr

MW:
Something that the Crudles did seems to have finally aroused the ire of the Mad Dryad! Unfortunately, very little information could be gleaned about precisely how it fights as the only living witness' testimony has been dubious at best. Something about screaming and the tree hitting things or something to that effect.

Casualties
214 Butterflies
146 Crundle Tribals
67 Crundle Pebble-Slingers

MM:
One of the Crundles from the west somehow got sent flying so far that they landed all the way back in The Great Hole! The landing has proven to be 100% fatal for the poor sucker. One of the now blood-soaked Trogs who happened to be nearby is completely mortified, but physically fine.

ME:
The Daal'Gak sent in a contingent of Crundle Black-Blades to help secure the Former Metropolitan Area. The plan was to break down the Reanimated War Machine using conventional attacks, knowing that there was a non-infinite amount of punishment that it could take.

With great effort, the Gru'Bek and Trogs were able to hold the mechanical monstrosity in place. Its motor controls were clearly not as great as the original machine once was, but still sufficient to cause a lot of harm; and the ancient micro-missile weaponry was still operational enough to be fired even in its current state. Mercifully, only one barrage from that was launched over the course of the battle, but it has proven to be quite devestating.

The Pebble-Slingers took their shots, but the weapon has proven to be seemingly ineffective. The Reanimated War Machine would thrash around wildly, lifting a food above the ground alongside a large chunk of concreate that it was stuck to. The Ghost in the Machine had also sent some remaining minor artifacts to attack as well.

The Crundle Black-Blades weapons proved to be absolutely essential for the plan to take the thing down to work. Quite a few blades had been shattered in the process, but the Meteoric Obsidian was sharp enough to pierce through the rusted alloy joints of the machine and eventually it had been disassembled to the point where it could no longer be animated!

The Ghost in the Machine starts to fade, and moves to the east where the last remaining artifacts are. With any luck, the worst is now over...

Casualties
487 Crundle Tribals
46 Crundle Pebble-Slingers
108 Trogs
24 Gru'Bek
28 Crundle Black-Blades

SM:
The Daal'Gak are going to attempt a stealth action! Its effects will go next turn, so if you have any business in this tile make sure to explain in detail how your troops will conduct their business!

You may now post your Day 4 update!