[Dragon-new] Re: [dragon] SotC Report

[Rob Bowman]

Greetings,

I just wanted to thank you both for your efforts on behalf of our Clan. =20
Domo arigato... <bow>.

Take care,
Rob- Mirumoto Shokan


>From: Juan Antonio San Emeterio Olano <bannockburn at terra.es>
>Reply-To: dragon at michonline.com
>To: dragon at michonline.com
>Subject: Re: [dragon] SotC Report
>Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:28:14 +0100
>
> >  In the beginning, Sendatsu was asked to attack Shiro Isawa (P1) and
> > take it from Phoenix hands while the other Dragon General would defen=
d
> > the Shrine of the Ki-Rin (Dr4). It was a good time for the Phoenix to
> > sense the wrath of the Dragon, but his times as a Ronin made him
> > unable to convince his troops to aid him and had to get back to the
> > mountains (no gold in first game and military defeat). Meanwhile,
> > Shane had been engaged by 2 Unicorn armies, who had gone back after
> > seeing the Shadowlands advancing into their territory and the third
> > general had been engaged by the other 2 Phoenix generals and defeated
> > them.
> >
> > >>>The 3 Unicorn armies were fighting against a Lion army and me when
> > they heard that Shadowlands were conquering
> > their castles. As the Lion-Dragon alliance was going to win, I offere=
d
> > them to retreat and try to recover their castles.
> >
> >
> >  Time passed and the Shadowlands passed over the Unicorn, while
> > Mirumoto Shane and Matsu Peke had allied and were preparing an ambush
> > to all three Shadowlands Generals in U2, but the ambush was not to be
> > as the Horde had advanced forgetting to take the Unicorn castles.
> > Meanwhle, Sendatsu had been ordered to go to the Shrine ot the Ki-Rin
> > and use the famous Togashi Technique (wait for 2 hours doing nothing).
> > With an alliance between Dragon, Lion and Scorpion, and a no
> > aggression pact with the Phoenix we went to have lunch.
> >
> > >>>I think the game gives a lot of points if you keep your provinces,
> > so I wanted to hold ours. And also I think is very dragonlike to take
> > care of his lands.
> >
> >  When we returned, Sendatsu=B4s orders were to destroy the Phoenix wi=
th
> > the help of the other Dragon army, thing they did, though the Phoenix
> > general used foul tricks to allow their Daimyo to reform at P2 before
> > we could take it (he started losing time and we were unable to end
> > before his Daimyo reformed), giving the other Phoenix army time to
> > take the Dragon lands. We had to choose between attacking P2 and
> > destroying the Phoenix or retake our castles. I voted to destroy the
> > Phoenix, but we were ordered to retake our castles. What we didn=B4t
> > know was that the third Phoenix army would leave next turn, and we
> > would have destroyed the Phoenix had we attacked them. After that, I
> > was sent to the Phoenix front while the other army was sent to retake
> > the castles. I engaged the Phoenix Daimyo in battle (the same one who
> > had beaten me before) and beat him in a little more than 15=B4, givin=
g
> > the other Phoenix player time to reform. After that, I was engaged by
> > the Phoenix army in P1, and was unable to beat his corruption (both
> > Shadowlands and Kolat). With time just to reform at the mountains, wa=
r
> > was halted and the Horde was deemed winners, with us being the second
> > best army in Rokugan.
> >
> > >>> My general fought like heroes in the afternoon, holding the
> > phoenix armies, even when the phoenix daimyo, wohm I thought fighting
> > in the Shadowlands, was destroyed and recovered at home. (I was then
> > fighting against two shadowlands armies with the Lion Daimyo, the
> > Scorpion Daimyo and two Unicorn armies, so turns passed with almost n=
o
> > orders). After the battle, with both our castles lost, I went back to
> > the mountains, we recovered the castles and I ended the game
> > conquering P2 and beating twice the Phoenix Daimyo, once in P2 and in
> > my las movement in P1.
> >
> >
> > End Results:
> >
> > 1st Shadowlands Horde   16 points
> >
> > 2nd Dragon 12 points
> >
> > 3rd Phoenix, Lion, Scorpion and Crab 8 points
> >
> > 7th Unicorn
> >
> > 8th CraneHitomi SendatsuUnaligned Tattooed Samurai
> >
>--
>Mirumoto Shane
>Dragon Clan Samurai - Experienced Shinjo Shane
>


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