Gemfire Scenario

Background

Blanche Family

Family

Lyle Family

Family

Tate Family

Family

Tudoria Family

Family

Divas Family

Family

About

The Divas family is the hardest family to start with. Loryn has no gem and is sourrended by the king the the Blanche family. Loryn's two lands, Culver (17) and Lindum (18) are open to attack from 6 locations-- one of which is Londre (22) which, being the King's homeland, is always well stocked. Culver and Lindum don't even have decent 5th units availible.

The members of the Divas family are the better news. Loryn is a solid character at 83/93/77. Raith is already in Lindum (18) and has a war power value of 94--making him tied for second highest in the scenario. Melgan has an 84 for war power, which makes him excetable to leave behind for defense. Elias is just a poor character.

Stratagy

A stratagy that works well is to start by defecting Pender from Caster (19), which always succeeds. Pender has the highest war power value--96--in the whole scenario. Then spend the first year building up cultivation and protection as well as money/food trading. Elford (16) is open at the start of the game, and has gunners available (a decent 5th unit). However, Loryn only has 172 soldiers. Londre (22) has 296 and is likely to attack.

In the first year, Blanche, Lyle, Lankshire and Tate will all fight, starting with Eljing (15) and Centra (16). This is good because they all weaken their armies and use up their gems in the flight. Durring the development phase, there is a high likelyhood of receiving a pastha. These are the best 5th units you can hope to get for awhile.

Once money starts to become available, begin building a large army of at least 400 soldiers in each provance. Remember to keep food, around 1:1 with the number of troops. If you don't, phamon will kill off your armies.

If you get a pastha, move it to Lindum (18). If not, hire Skeletons--they are weak, but can move 3 spaces/round and make good cannon fottor for gems to keep the heat off your troops. Keep an eye on who is attack whom and when. Launch your first attack against Ostlan (12) after Blanche has been in several wars in a 3 month period. This will incresse the likely hood that they will not have a gem available for defense. You can also try attacking with a small force and retreating just so they use their gem, but risk getting captured.

In the first wars, try and preserve as many troops as posible. If you get pasthas, use them--they are free and only good for one battle. If you have 5th units like skelitons, don't feel back wiping them out. And use your archers as much as you can without putting them in danger. Keep in mind, if you attack with a large force, the enmey will likely huddle in their base. You just have to ware them down. A combination of archers and pastha work great for this.

Once Ostlan (12) is secure, take Hermet (11). This will isolate Lindum (18), which by this point should have good stats for cultivation and protection. Take Petaria (5) if you can manage it, which will isolate Ostlan (12). It isn't likely you will be able to keep the war front moving for long, so don't push too hard--even if their gems are gone. Dig in and build up again.

Keep an eye on what 5th units are available as the computer may have moved them arround durring it's battles. By default, none of these lands have decent 5th units, but may had some moved in. Banshea (6) is the first land that will have good 5th units--Spearmen. Centra (16) has Gunners, but only take it if you have plenty of trops to attack with and to leave in Culver (17).

Dig in and build up. Watch the wars and when supplied enough, take out the Blanche family. Lyle might request an alliance durring this process, so take it. This will give you one less thing to worry about while you deal with Blanche. Once they are overthrown, Erin will not join you. Consider banishing him so you don't have to fight him latter. At this point, you won't get most of his family.

Dig in again and build up forces against Lyle. They are usually fairly weak anyway after fighting with Blanche. Start with Dunmoor (1) and move south. By this time, Raith, Loryn and Pender will have strong war power values, and battles should be pretty easy. Lyle will never surrender. If you manage to capture Ander, banish him. Wolfen or Keyla will take over and they will surrender the family if it's weak enough.

Once the Lyle family is knocked out, the Tate family will probably surrender. If not, attack them once provance at a time and keep requesting they surrender--they will when weak enough.

If you've made it this far, the game is pretty much yours. Start attacking the king. Remember that hitting the king directly is best because his war power value is so low (40). Tudoria will likely surrender as well, and that's game.

Lankshire Family

Family

Starting Statistics

Below are tables of how the game begins. Items such as mercenary units for hire don't change through out the game.

ID	Land	Gold	Food	Troops	Loyal.	Cult.	Prot.	Family	Mercenaries
1	Dunmoor	186	174	158	56	49	39	Lyle	Orks, Bugbear, Pikemen
2	Carveti	173	178	134	68	56	55	Lyle	Orks, Fachan
3	Cobrige	158	162	131	45	42	39	Blanche	Orks, Fachan
4	Banshea	191	187	133	61	55	48	Blanche	Orks, Fachan
5	Petaria	203	205	151	70	59	58	Blanche	Orks, Bugbear
6	Hyland	258	262	249	54	49	47	Blanche	Orks, Fachan, Spearmen
7	Norwood	186	191	205	59	54	46	Lyle	Ogre, Lizards
8	Lisle	135	140	102	46	45	34	Lyle	Ogre, Lizards
9	Erewood	139	146	145	42	40	33	Lyle	Ogre, Lizards, Lancers
10	Rodale	145	153	151	40	42	34	Blanche	Ogre, Skeletons
11	Hermet	146	155	146	45	52	39	Blanche	Olog-hai, Skeletons
12	Ostlan	141	135	138	41	48	42	Blanche	Olog-hai, Skeletons
13	Powice	254	259	268	49	45	36	Lyle	Ogre, Bugbear
14	Cardyf	189	195	196	48	43	38	Tate	Ogre, Bugbear, Pikemen
15	Eljing	84	81	0	0	48	24	<Vacant>	Ogre, Wyvern, Warriors
16	Centra	98	85	0	0	56	23	<Vacant>	Ogre, Bugbear, Gunners
17	Culver	208	210	172	56	60	47	Divas	Ogre, Skeletons
18	Lindum	196	193	156	45	55	30	Divas	Olog-hai, Skeletons
19	Caster	220	211	199	54	61	39	Lankshire	Olog-hai, Skeletons, Shooters
20	Anglia	156	164	179	49	52	34	Lankshire	Orks, Skeletons
21	Oldlyn	93	92	0	0	54	23	<Vacant>	Orks, Skeletons
22	Londre	406	364	296	76	64	63	Lankshire	Gargoyles, Skeletons, Shooters
23	Attley	154	176	152	35	53	32	Tate	Ogre, Skeletons, Warriors
24	Linden	151	155	151	36	51	30	Tate	Orks, Wyvern
25	Ashlan	184	188	192	51	50	40	Tudoria	Gargoyles, Lizards, Lancers
26	Penzan	139	148	146	55	48	38	Tudoria	Orks, Wyvern
27	Belgam	176	173	158	56	55	39	Tudoria	Orks, Skeletons, Spearmen
28	Celsea	158	167	180	54	62	35	Lankshire	Gargoyles, Wyvern
29	Cambry	84	75	0	0	48	25	<Vacant>	Orks, Gargoyles
30	Farlan	96	91	0	0	41	23	<Vacant>	Gargoyles, Skeletons, Gunners

Name	Political	War	Charm	Fame	Location	Family	Title	Relation
Ander	95	89	79	18	13: Powice	Lyle	Prince	Lyle
Loryn	82	93	77	6	17: Culver	Divas	Prince	Divas
Bryan	91	81	75	0	23: Attley	Tate	Lord	Tate
Erin	87	94	80	21	6: Hyland	Blanche	Prince	Blanche
Hubert	76	87	82	0	28: Celsea	Lankshire	Lord	<none>
Geoff	89	75	77	0	22: Londre	Lankshire	Vassal	<none>
Roland	78	81	84	0	6: Hyland	Blanche	Vassal	<none>
Terian	81	84	77	9	14: Cardyf	Tate	Prince	Tate
Seth	88	73	74	0	13: Powice	Lyle	Vassal	<none>
Adryl	76	87	51	0	9: Erewood	Lyle	Lord	<none>
Eadric	93	68	96	9	25: Ashlan	Tudoria	Prince	Tudoria
Karl	84	62	81	0	5: Petaria	Blanche	Lord	Blanche
Pender	80	96	23	0	19: Caster	Lankshire	Lord	<none>
Geolug	93	85	62	0	22: Londre	Lankshire	Vassal	<none>
Owen	65	87	66	0	3: Cobrige	Blanche	Lord	<none>
Jerras	68	45	72	0	6: Hyland	Blanche	Vassal	<none>
Kelvin	73	70	74	0	26: Penzan	Tudoria	Lord	<none>
Alain	60	54	77	0	25: Ashlan	Tudoria	Vassal	<none>
Eselred	44	40	51	12	22: Londre	Lankshire	Prince	Lankshire
Wolfen	66	94	67	0	7: Norwood	Lyle	Lord	Lyle
Elford	69	74	71	0	22: Londre	Lankshire	Vassal	Lankshire
Alex	65	76	77	0	27: Belgam	Tudoria	Lord	<none>
Karla	71	44	72	0	22: Londre	Lankshire	Vassal	Lankshire
Anise	72	18	80	0	14: Cardyf	Tate	Vassal	Tate
Shabard	54	78	62	0	20: Anglia	Lankshire	Lord	<none>
Galford	62	78	53	0	24: Linden	Tate	Lord	Tate
Cairn	56	62	57	0	6: Hyland	Blanche	Vassal	<none>
Aiden	56	73	38	0	22: Londre	Lankshire	Vassal	<none>
Veen	74	60	35	0	6: Hyland	Blanche	Vassal	<none>
Raith	32	94	36	0	18: Lindum	Divas	Lord	<none>
Walther	40	72	47	0	8: Lisle	Lyle	Lord	<none>
Elias	48	45	70	0	17: Culver	Divas	Vassal	<none>
Bradley	48	74	35	0	25: Ashlan	Tudoria	Vassal	<none>
Melgan	44	84	63	0	17: Culver	Divas	Vassal	<none>
Seagal	40	43	60	0	13: Powice	Lyle	Vassal	<none>
Andrew	45	60	41	0	2: Carveti	Lyle	Lord	<none>
Keyla	58	84	86	0	1: Dunmoor	Lyle	Lord	Lyle
Gweyn	82	55	86	0	4: Banshea	Blanche	Lord	<none>
Geran	43	89	56	0	10: Rodale	Blanche	Lord	<none>