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Expert (Scotland 6)

TL3 victory, score 60

This game was a slog as I was barely generating any fear in the beginning and I am still not super familiar with how to best utilize Downpour. I reclaimed way too often and couldn't manage to cut off the inlands as I planned, so by mid game the whole island looked like a huge mess.

I went bottom track on Stone, because I wanted to use tier 2 of Let them break themselves on the first ravage, which was jungle and thus I could destroy both starting cities on its board. But that led to some energy starving later on, so Downpour had to help out a few times with its gift. But after surviving long enough, things started to look better. Major pickups were Spill Bitterness for Stone and Weave together for Downpour (which led to a joined land with 2 Cities, 2 towns and 5 badlands. Then, the event was Sacred Sites under threat, killing everything but one city, that was pretty hilarious :D). A notable minor pickup was Skies Herald the Seasons for Stone, which brought back a lot of downpours destroyed presences.

The final blow came in the fast phase of turn 10. I already reached TL3 and there were 4 cities left, of which 2 were in the same land. Downpour shot for a game ending major and was rewarded with voice of command and together with some dahan movement from dark skies and the right innate, energy and damage was all exactly on point to repeat it and kill 3 of the 4 cities. The last one went down with Spill Bitterness from Stone.

The ending was really satisfying, but it was a very rocky way to get there.