Recorded Games

3v3 Highland

Mystic_Mongol (Vikings), Mystic_Mayan (Mongols), Mystic_Denmark (Persians)

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GLX_dr (Mongols), GLX_Kun_Teper (Viks), GLX_Sekspert (Japs)

Here is a good old-fashioned rumble!

Its 3v3 Highland with two seperate rivers going accross between the two enemies' main towns.

Mystic Mongol was in a difficult position, being under pressure from both dr and Kun_teper, he stopped dr's flushing archers from crossing the bridge with his galleys, and held on to his town for a very long time under a huge amount of pressure. Indeed had Denmark used his early imperial advantage more effectively by getting a castle and trebs, he may have even held onto his town.

Denmark helped mayan to get Sekspert out of his town by destroying his towers, they then both hit sekspert by building in his town, but sekspert refused to yield. Denamrk was fighting in two places at once and had reverse river control... however, he and Mayan put sekspert under a lot of pressure and he resigned, even though he had 69 men left!

Mongol had relocated in denmarks town with just 40 villagers and later came back with an enormous force.

I won't tell you the outcome of this game, but look out for an awesome sea battle near the middle of the map at 1hour 13 minutes into the game.

3v3 Oasis

Mystic_Briton (Chinese), Mystic_Byzantin (Byzantines), Mystic_Spaniard (Britons)

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Floodtide (Franks), Lighttide(Celts), RUCrazy (Chinese)

February 2001 was a difficult month, we didnt really play many "great" games, but this one stands out as one of the best. It was a friendly challenge from 3 guys who knew each other.

In this one Spaniard is up against RU Crazy, Byzantin against Lighttide and Briton and Floodtide take up the centre positions.

Byzantin and Spaniard wall off, but Briton sneaks some villagers through to enemy territory. In early castle all the Mystics have buildings on the enemy side of the wall, except Byzantine has not hidden his.

Britons TC gets discovered and it is smashed up by knights from Floodtide and RUCrazy. But he manages to escape just one villager and build a barracks. He trains pikes and this villager goes on to build a later TC, 5 Stables, 2 seige workshops, 2 castles and shows just what damage one villager can do! SPaniards forward builders are all killed.

Byzantine continues to push Lighttide hard, but Floodtide comes to help. Once RUCrazy sees Britons buildings, Floodtide takes his frankish knights over to help, but this leaves Byzantine to hit Lighttide even harder!

There then ensues a powerful battle to remove Britons forward base from RUCrazy's town, and it isnt until Spaniard can smash theough the wall to assist in imperial that Mystics look to have things under control.

Unusual map, in that Floodtide did an awful lot of fishing! - he had access to the centre lake from the outset!

4v4

Arabia

Mystic_Briton (Chinese), Mystic_Hun (Vikings), Mystic_Teuton (Mongols) and Mystic_Guard (Spanish)

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Holy_Rolling_ (Chinese), Holy_Fire_ (Celts), Holy_Soldat (Vikings), Holy_Rush (Mongols)

This is game of the Month for January 2001, a Clan game vs the Holy Clan.

This was Mystic Guards' first official clan game before being recruited to controller, and it was a real tough one!

You can see from this recorded game that this could have easily been lost had it not been for the attack at about 35 minutes between Hun and Briton, where Briton attacks Holy_Fire from the side, forcing him to retreat from the front line where he is hitting Hun, and come back to defend his town. This move alone caused Fire to lose his town, and Hun to start an intimidating march forward through Fire's town.

Tueton tries a late flush against Soldat, which doesn't work very well as Soldat already has towers up, however, Mystic Guard builds up in front of Teutons town p[rotecting him from too much damage, as he is weak at this stage.

After destroying Fire's town, Briton has trouble from Holy_Rolling_ who has a castle outside of his town and it taking Britons gold! So Briton builds castle and bombard towers to beat him back. Guard also hits Rolling in the middle at the same, this is too much for them.

Rush puts in a good attack at the end beating back Mystic Hun, but by then Teuton has Champions and Guard Paladins and the other 3 are virtually dea, so they resign.

Mystics Byz (Vikings), Mystic Recruit2 (Mongols)

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RFR_Triv (Mongols), RFR_Saint_Benny (Britons)

This is an awesome 2v2.

Everyone flushes except Byz at the start, and yet it turns into an awesome imperial battle by all sides.

I don't want to give away the result, but you will see some great skills in this game.

4v4

Continental

Mystic_Briton (Mongols), Mystic_Hun (Vikings), Mystic_WarEagle (Persians) and Mystics_Chinese (Aztecs)

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Typhoon_Mike (Chinese), Typhoon_Fishie (Mayans), Typhoon_Uth (Celts) and Bloody_Knucklz

This is game of the Month for December 2000, but it could be the Game of the Year! - I can only think of a couple of games this year which have come close to this one in terms of action, excitement and determination to succeed!

Chinese and Hun started on the front line, Chinese up against Bloody Knucklz and Hun against Typhoon Uth. Noone moved until feudal age, when Chinese and Typhoon Mike had some Galley wars, eventually won by Mike who continues on to destroy Mystic fishing. Chinese discovers that Mike has built a forward base near him and Briton, but does not wall off early enough to stop Bloody Knucklz early knight rush. Indeed he only had 2 sections of stone wall to complete!

Hun and Wareagle build into the centre of the map while Briton sends light cavalry raids to Bloody Knucklz. Mike is wise, he has walled off effectively and cannot be touched, although his forward base is attacked by Briton but Chinese cannot help as he's weakened - but at least is walled off by now, and Briton and Mike both build a castle near to each other.

Hun goes imp first and continues to take out Uth, Mike imps 2 minutes before Briton and flattens Britons town! - But Hun signals for Briton to build up in Uth's old town, and Briton escapes 62 Villagers and uses his old fishing boats over there and some tribute from Hun to rebuild in astonishing time.

Fishie is getting strong by now and has pushed back WarEagle and Hun to their bases. Knucklz has a Castle in Chinese town and is trebbing it, Briton has lost his town, so all does not look good for the Mystics!

Chinese does a good job of holding off knucklz for as long as possible, while WarEagle regroups his units to fight off Mike who is now through Britons town and into his town with Trebs, Cavaliers Arbelists and Champions. At this stage (50 minutes) - Chinese and Briton have lost their towns. Hun has an enemy Castle in her town and battering rams destroying her TC, Wareagle has his town under seige, the enemy own the centre - apart from Hun's continued push, things do not look at all good for the Mighty Mystics..... but this is where the Mystic God lends a hand :)

Hun returns to base with some champs to remove the units, but continues pushing clockwise around the map against Fishie, Briton helps out with Hussars against the hoard of Plumed Archers. Chinese escapes to Wareagles town, and Briton starts to make Elite Cannon Galleons. WarEagle pushes back Mike with Hand Cannoners, Elephants, Bombard Canons and Cavaliers!

Within 10 minutes Fishie and Uth are virtually dead and Britons Cannon Galleons pound into Mikes town removing his source of resources to sustain his attack against WarEagle (which Bloody Knucklz has also joined in with) - Chinese helps to smash back the double. Hun takes control of the middle and Typhoons say gg !!!

What a game!

Mystic Briton (Mongols), Mystic_Hun (Vikings), Mystic_Saracen (Goths), Recruit8 (Franks)

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Troj_Chillibee (Teutons), Troj_Tarken (Britons), Fu_San_Do (Koreans), me44 (Aztecs)

This is a hard game for the Mystics.

Recruit8 is hit hard early, but Saracen supports him well, and Briton supports hun a little while raiding everyone with his cavalry.

In the end the Mystics win, but its by no means easy!

Mystic Mongol (Mayans) Mystics_Byz (Vikings) Mystic_Celt_ (Japanese) Mystic Recruit4 (Britons)

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Deimos Apostle (Vikings) Warrior Apostle (Saracens) Devil Apostel (Celts) Sith_Masta (Britons)

The random map generator created a wierd map here, not just a two-sided map with bridges, this one is a real maze!

Anyway this is an exciting game, as all of our games against the Apostle clan seem to be! Theres no early resinging either everyone fights on even when they have lost their town.

Mystic Byz and Mystic Celt were on the front line (flanks) while Recruit4 backed up Byz and Mongol Celt_. Celt_ was in the most difficult position being right next to the aspostles' best player, the awesome Deimos.

Deimos sets up a base in the centre of Celts_ town early and Mongol takes the centre of the map. Byz fights off Sith_Masta and waits with r4 until imperial before crossing the bridge. Meanwhile Mongol hits Devil hard in his town and Deimos hits Celt_.

In imperial its pretty much stale mate on Celts side with Mongol and Celt just about holding off Deimos, while Byz and R4 take out Masta and Warrior. Celt_ does well to create cannon galleons and kill off Deimos's attack, while Mongol finds the back route into Deimos' town and does some Eagle Warrior rushing. Good win for Mystics

Mystic Briton (Chinese), Mystic Byzantin (Vikings), Mystic Masked (Mongols)

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Sith General (Franks), Sith_Vicious (Vikings) and Sith_Tomcat (Spanish)

This was an official clan game between Mystics and Siths. This game shows what disruption can be caused by early and frequent cavalry attacks.

Mystic Briton plays chinese for the first time in several months and doesnt do too badly. The Mongol LOS bonus is a big advantage to the Mystics team.

Masked attacks first with an early castle time and disrupts Generals and Tomcats resources by attacking with light cavalry. He also helps out Byzantin who is having some trouble with Vicious.

Briton lands and builds castle in Tomcats town and razes it to the ground. Meanwhile Byzantin gets cannon galleons to destroy Vicious's attack.

Finally Sith_General manages to get some Frank Paladins, but the Mystics are just too strong for him to have any success with them.

3v3

Oasis

Mystic Briton (Vikings) , Mystic Byzantin (Celts) , Mystic WarEagle (Persians)

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ToD_Brain_Bug (Chinese) ToD_Warhammer (Vikings), ToD_Keule (Spanish)

Briton and WarEagle start on the front line, while Byzantin is in the middle. Warhammer is on Britons side and Keule is on Byzantins side, while Brain Bug takes up the centre position.

Briton and Warhammer have early exchanges, while the other front line remains intact until imperial age. Mystic Byzantin is the first to imperial, but the others are very close behind.

Warhammer builds a castle very close to britons front line and goes imperial before him, this results in him being beaten back by trebs, he loses 2 castles and several barracks, but Byzantin has a castle there and supports well.

Meanwhile there's a lot of skirmishing between Keule and Wareagle, with Brainbug and Byzantin in support on the other front line.

Mystic Briton cunningly sneaks a villager around the side of the map to build a town centre behind enemy lines in between Warhammer and Brain Bug's town. This later causes a lot of trouble for the ToD's.

An Awesome battle ensues on the other front line with War Elephants / Pikes/ Paladins / Halbs / Bombard Cannons, Bombard Towers and trebutchets. So many Elite elephants go down, but the line is held by both sides, noone gives way.

At 45 minutes it looks like a loss for the Mystics with the ToD's leading quite convincingly on the scores, but all of a sudden within 10 minutes the Mystics are right back on top. Byzantin points Briton to a gold patch, he was really short of gold all game and unable to launch a convincing attack until now.

Byzantin unleashes about 20 Hussars who storm through the front lines to devastating effect. These hussars kill literally scores of villagers. At the same time Briton is sending in Champions from his covert base and builds a castle right in the middle of Warhammers town, trebbing down his TC's.

The ToD's fight on Valliantly for another 10 minutes or so, but they are being attacked all over the place and while one front line just about holds, the other one has come down, leaving their villagers open to attack.

Great game!

Mystic Japanese (Japs), Mystics Frank (Huns), Mystic Recruit9 (Vikings)

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CCCP_Ostap (Vikings), CCCP_Earnhill (Britons), CCCP_NAM (Goths)

This clan are no rookies, thats for sure. This was a close game and needed great skill from the Mystics to achieve this great victory.

The main difference between the teams is the fishing, only one CCCP goes fishing whereas all Mystics do, they protect their fishing well too giving them control of the seas and this important food resource. This linked together with the fact that a combination of Japanese and Vikings gives so many fishing bonus' gives rewards to those who carefully select their civ.

Mystics Frank is under some pressure after attacking Earnhill, when his neighbour was, in fact, Ostap. This gives Ostap the opportunity to hit Franks base, which is largely unprotected.

R9 and Jap are first to Imperial with CCCP very close behind, but Jap executes a devastating imperial push, leaving CCCP_Nam no opportunity to recover, the game was over from that point, but the brave CCCP's battled on relentlessly.

Mystic Briton (Koreans), Mystic Hun (Huns), Mystic Mongol (Spanish), Mystic Turk (Celts)

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DMS_Evangelion (Saracens), Rolfe_Gothic (Persians), Blue_Fire__ (Mongols), PotatoCakes (Britons)

This game is quite exciting, as its a battle for the Mystics to gain ground from beginning to end.

Briton tower rushes dms, but his villagers are seen and Briton loses a lot of villagers trying to tower off stone. Turk comes to help in castle age, but Blue fire has build beside Turks base and Turk hollers for help!

Meanwhile Mongol has late flushed Gothic and is pushing forward gradually. Hun has built a forward base beside Blue_Fire's base and Potatocakes is Booming to Imp.

Turk nearly loses his town until hun comes to help. Briton is down to 29 villagers and one TC after dms rams down his base, but he comes back strongly once his castle is built.

Once hun trebs Blue_Fire out of Turks town, Turk and Briton work well to beat back dms, while Mongol has beaten Gothic out of his town and does some devastating Paladin raids, which eventually do just enough to secure a nice win for the Mighty Mystics!

Mystic Briton (Vikings), Mystic Hun (Byzantines), Mystic Mongol (Spanish) and Mystic Byzantin (Aztecs)

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Deimos_Apostle (Vikings), Mani_Apostle (Aztecs), Wolf_Apostle (Celts) and Silent Apostle (Mongols)

This is an awesome game.

Mongol moves early to palisade Manics' gold, but Deimos comes to help which forces Briton to back up Mongol.

Hun gets early castle rush from Silent Apostle beating her out of her town, but Briton gets early imperial and smashes him out of there so that hun can rebuild, byz helps out too.

This early castle rush certainly upsets the team, for as well as Briton having to help Mongol, Byzantin is in trouble too, and Hun is unable to help much as shes still weak from losing her town. Briton fights in two places at once and eventually Byzantin and Hun get to strength so he can help out Mongol some more.

Deimos plays awesome and is very difficult to beat back, but eventually Briton tributes resources to Mongol so he can go imperial and together they beat them back gradually.

Unfortunately Manic then disconnects about 1 hour 15 minutes into the game, and then the victory is soon for the Mystics.

Mystic Briton (Japanese), Mystic Hun (Aztecs), Mystic Trainee4 (Vikings)

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Mystics Mayan (Mayans), Mystics Frank (Spanish) and Mystic Recruit2 (Chinese)

This is a supreme example of how to use teamwork effectively, here you can see just how well the Mighty Mystics combine to be even more deadly.

First see how Mayan and Frank double Mystic Briton with Feudal rush, walling off gold and then knights. Unfortunately for Briton, all his gold piles are on the enemy side of his town, but Hun tributes him 200 gold and he castles in 20 minutes. He fights off the feudal rush and knights but when the mangonels come, his castle is not finished and he is forced to abandon town (he has 2 castles in his town at this time!)

Meanwhile Trainee4 is showing what a great teacher Mystic Turk is, and wipes out recruit2's town and then, on instructions from Briton, hits Mayan. This is a good move as Mayan's main town does not have much defence as most of his military is in Britons town :)

Briton manages to escape about 7 villagers and builds up to get to imperial. Mayan is unlucky getting to imperial as Trainee4 marches forward killing his tc seconds before imperial research is complete.

well who wins? - watch it and see !!