So I signed up for poxnora a few days ago, but didn't really mess with it because I like to play people I know.  So I got Jason and Jenn to sign up.

I played Jason last night.  My hordes of the undead (free sample army) against Jason's powers of nature.

The first game, I cut him off from his nora font (points you get to bring out runes every turn) unknowingly and after a very long game, finally figured out I should probably be going after his tower (sort of like life points in magic).  So I won that one pretty handily.

The second game, we didn't start out with any nora fonts and we both charged for the fonts.  Back and forth we fought for them until finally he got one and I had one.  The game was on, we both charged for each other's towers, meanwhile fending off attacks on our fonts.

For a while he had a bit of an edge, tossing out monsoons to blanket the areas with enough moisture to keep his giant octopus alive (they suffocate on dry land).  It was tough, I had brought out my toughest units early on and he had trounced them when I had tried to go in for the kill. 

Meanwhile I hadn't defended my tower and Jason had brought several large units (a crocodile rider and a giant rhino bull thing) next to my tower.  I brought out an executioner (big slow unit) to defend my tower, but it didn't look like it was going to be enough. 

Then I played my trump rune (runes), Mobilization, a rune that lets every unit do another 5 Action points worth of actions.  All my units attacked again, severely damaging his units.  BAM! My 2nd mobilization, everyone attacked again!

The tide had turned, a term very appropriate when fighting the forces of nature. ;)

It was a tough battle, but I finally got the 2nd font, then swarmed across both bridges while trying to defend my wounded tower.  The game ended with my tower having only 2 hp left.

It was good, long, and tense, and it gave me a better idea of what the game "could" be, which I liked.

I "might" buy some runes rather than using the free ones, but you get 6 free armies and they are pretty cool.  I highly recommend checking it out, if only so you can say you played it, and its free. http://www.poxnora.com