The Forest of Fear, Knaglan Alliance in free-for-all

http://www.4shared.com/file/Fway-vPz/User_Map_replay.html

My little brother (9 years old) wanted to play a game against me. He made a 4-player map, and the settings were changed so that each player gets 5 gold a turn, on top of villages.

Due to map design, I started in an inhospitable icy hell, where most of my units moved at a crawl and had lousy defense (except for snowy forests and snowy mountains, where I had defense, but still moved at a crawl). I first moved over to the border, since I knew there were lovely mountains there, and my dwarves would like them. Then I didn't have to fight in snow. Since it was a local game, my little brother saw this, and immediately attacked me, since I looked to be more of a threat. he has a semi-successful battle against me before he called it off to fight on his southern border. By which I mean I didn't attack his drakes for a turn, and then he decided to attack me again because I was "right there". Hmm...

I then fought him a bit, and he decided to actually go and fight the southern battle.

So I stockpiled dwarves on the border there, eventually threatening his leader so he would stay peaceful. Meanwhile, I used my income to build lots of griffins and attack over the ice and the river to down south, taking two villages and farming the northerners for experience.

Eventually I figured I had a good enough position on him that I would win any fight we fought, and I started stealing villages with my griffin. He recruited units to man the flat hexes next to the mountains, and then we went to war a bit after that.

I won the battle, naturally, and claimed his villages. I then sent my trapper around to the keep nearer to the battle, but wound up with so much gold by the time I got there, that I wound up recruiting griffins anyway.

Lots of griffins. SO MANY griffins. I was swarming the enemy units with griffins. I had more griffins than I knew what to do with.

And really, once you have that many griffins, there's not much that's going to stop you. Not a bunch of northerners anyway.

I drew their leader out, and swarmed him with griffin masters. It only took three.

(I recruited 25 griffins that game, I lost 2 normal griffins, and two griffin masters. By the end of the game I was making 63 gold a turn. That's 2.625 Griffins a turn, worth of cash. I didn't really care about losses at that point.)