Round 44 Aries Goetia

It's draft round time again, although I decided to random instead. Landed with Jomutta's pack (Hexum, Edgar), and a couple of duos (Exrio + Espiritus and Angry AI + Blade). Other randomers were Ares Titan, Vovin, and Rury. It looked like a chill realm, so I was expecting to have a somewhat chill round. Thought about going nomad at first, but decided to go with dwarf in the end as I couldn't be arsed finding multiple targets at 7 am my time.

We threw some ideas for themes and after a vote we went with zodiac. If you're wondering about some of the names, ask Ares since it's his ideas. I didn't completely follow the template and made a pun on Ars Goetia instead, with the ruler name (V) resembling both ram and demon's horns as well as the initial of my lifetime name, while the hero name involved the sheep's sound (Baa-L). It felt like a nice fit lol.

Vovin yeeted himself out of realm chat before oop and never returned. We're off to a great start.

Day 1, Hour 3

2025-04-06 00:59:12 Victorious on the battlefield, Aries Goetia (#1) conquered 30 land from Erwin316 (#2).

Good ol' Erwin provided a nice hit for my first.

Day 1, Hour 13

2025-04-06 12:07:51 Victorious on the battlefield, Aries Goetia (#1) conquered 33 land from Aether Regnum (#11).

Found someone with light dp for my second hit. The guy bounced his first hit too, ouch.

Day 2, Hour 13

2025-04-07 12:11:47 Victorious on the battlefield, Aries Goetia (#1) conquered 35 land from Zougla (#5).

Got another player hit, just barely. The guy got locked later on...

Somewhere around this time, Espiritus also got locked for allegedly having multis.

From day 3 its bot bashing period so nothing really interesting to write about, except maybe this one.

Day 11, Hour 22

2025-04-16 21:00:17 The Guild of Shadows has been destroyed and rebuilt by Aries and Shine (#1).

We tried to get Underground Society before, but the twats in #5 stole it from us. Fortunately we was able to get another wonder as everything else had been taken at this point.

Day 23, Hour 3

2025-04-28 01:59:30 Victorious on the battlefield, Aries Goetia (#1) conquered 112 land from Orenthal James Simpson (#5).

Finally got a player hit again after a while!

Day 26, Hour 8

2025-05-01 07:42:27 Victorious on the battlefield, Aries Goetia (#1) conquered 117 land from Snozzwangers (#0).

I could have hit another player but decided to pass a hit on #13 woodie and went for a bot due to better land type.

Day 29, Hour 16

2025-05-04 15:00:52 Victorious on the battlefield, Aries Goetia (#1) conquered 129 land from [Cannon Fodder] Draft pick #9 (#13).

Things has stalled for some time and it's getting frustrating due to people just sit and train. I decided to yolo on an ares drop target. Let's see how it goes...

Credit to Hexum for getting the ops done!

Day 32, Hour 21

2025-05-07 20:00:44 Victorious on the battlefield, Aries Goetia (#1) conquered 145 land from De Niro jr. (#3).

Found another ares drop hit.

Day 39, Hour 3

2025-05-14 01:58:45 Victorious on the battlefield, Aries Goetia (#1) conquered 205 land from [Talent] Draft pick #2 (#13).

Finally got a hit after sitting for like, one fucking week. Fuck this round.

But hold on, turned out there's more happening later on.

2025-05-14 12:59:39 Fellow dominion Aries Goetia (#1) fended off an attack from Elf Woods ruined Wood Elves (#7).

I guess this will be the highlight of my round. #7 woodie released his spec dp and retrained them as spec op to hit me 1 tick before my troops returned. I turned on SP, and released 1k spies after they got their ops on me, and it paid off. Although I was wondering for a bit if it'd work since there's like 20 seconds difference between the release and the hit. Whew!

Day 47, Hour 4

2025-05-22 03:01:16 Victorious on the battlefield, Aries Goetia (#1) conquered 179 land from I'm gonna become the King of the Pirates -Mith (#2).

Yolo'd on an easy target on last day so I can reach 5k. Hopefully I'll make it back lol.

And that's it. It's been a shitty round for me as placement once again colluded against me. At least I was able to reach 5k and had a clean sheet (no bf, no bounce, no getting hit - although it was close for the last one lol).

Thanks to my realmies for the ops and support, and thank you for reading. To the next round of collusion.