Game: Hidden Signs (in progress)

[Zachariah]

Server IP Address: 205.217.155.218
Port: 8097
Late Era, random map of 15 provinces per player, renaming enabled.
Quickhost or every 48 hours.

join now! I'l start it once a bunch of folk have joined.

[Ramiro]

Im in as ermor !

[UninspiredName]

Ooh, I'm in as Patala.

[Catquiet]

Mictlan

[cupido2]

Arco please

AND DON'T PUSH "START GAME" WHEN UPLOADING YOUR PRETENDER.

(Happend in every game on this server before I could upload my pretender)

[Reverend Zombie]

cupido2 said:
Arco please

AND DON'T PUSH "START GAME" WHEN UPLOADING YOUR PRETENDER.

(Happend in every game on this server before I could upload my pretender)



There's a command line command for noclientstart.

[UninspiredName]

Bah. Taken. Alright, Marignon then. Not that I have any right to complain. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Tequilich]

ill give Ulm a try.

[Tuidjy]

I went in as Man, but uploaded a pretender without a password. Any chance
you can remove her? I do not think anyone wants a unprotected player.

[UninspiredName]

I think if you just delete the old pretender, make a password-protected one, and try to join as man again, (It would still say 'human-controlled') it will give you the option to overwrite.

[Tuidjy]

You are right. I just did that. Thank you.

[Jazzepi]

I'd like to try R'lyeh. It's going to take me a day or so to put together my pretender, so please don't take that slot if you're thinking of joining!

Jazzepi

[Herbacious]

Hey "UninspiredName" if you would still like to play Patala I didn't have my heart totally set on them... I just happened to pick them before you posted =)

Send me a PM if you would still like to play as them and I'll pick someone else.

[K]

I'm in as Atlantis.

[Jazzepi]

I accidentally placed my pretender in the midgard slot. I did not mean to do this! Someone else feel free to take them. If the game starts with them in, they will need to be set to AI.

Also, someone took my R'lyeh slot between the time I posted and right now, so I'm bumping them out. If you're going to join a game, you should at least care enough to bother to read the thread involved in it.

Jazzepi

[Herbacious]

Well you could always ask the host to rotate Midgard back through AI to open, easier than counting on someone to take the slot.

[Jazzepi]

I sent him a message as well.

jazzepi

[Zachariah]

i tried closing nation 14 (midgard), but it didn't seem to work, so i took it over, and will make it an AI.

[Jazzepi]

Thanks Zach. Sorry about that =\

Jazzepi

[Digress]

I joined as Jomon.

[Reverend Zombie]

As Pangaea.

[Arghaii]

As Tien'Chi.

[Zachariah]

ok, i'm kicking this sucker off! see you on the battlefield!

[Jazzepi]

The nation of the Mad Dreamers, Ry'leh is looking for a dwarven hammer. We have gems to trade. Let us know if you are interesting in selling such a creation via PM on the forums.

Jazzepi

[K]

The True Atlantians have engaged Ry'leh. Any help would be appreciated.

[Jazzepi]

Marignon is staling again for the 2nd time in a row. I sent and e-mail and PM to the host. He needs to be set to AI so that we can move on with the game.

Jazzepi

[Jazzepi]

Marignon is staling for the 3rd time in a row. Can the person running this game *please* set him to AI.

Jazzepi

[Zachariah]

OK, I just set em to AI. Sorry for the delay. I also had to reset the host clock to 48 hours, but there's only one more nation to post their turn: come on Man!

[Tuidjy]

I have been trying to post my turn. I cannot connect. Is it me?
Can the rest of you connect? As for my delay, I apologize...
I was trying some diplomacy, and failed on all fronts ;-) So
no more reasons to delay.

[K]

Do you have the new patch?

[Zachariah]

just updated the server to 3.08, so yah: you'll need the path.

[Jazzepi]

4 hours till host, Patala is about to stale.

Jazzepi

[Zachariah]

if they stale again next turn, i'll AI-ify them

[Jazzepi]

3 hours till host, Patala is about to stale again.

I think they took their last turn though. I dunno, maybe the player just needs to be nudged. I just really hate waiting for one person.

Jazzepi

[Tuidjy]

Do you keep logs of your turns on the server? For the third time in
a row, my armies did not execuse my orders as given. Every turn,
I have one or two armies NOT MOVING. No, there is nothing moving
against them, they just stay and do nothing.

This turn, it has been three turns since I have broken T'ien C'hi
armies, and I have been unable to order my armies into his
undefended provinces. This turn, I was unable to withdraw my army
from a province I knew Ulm was invading with 400 troops. And no,
my commanders did not all go insane and unresponsive at the same
time because of R'lyeh domain. I checked. The effects are EXACTLY
the same, but they were under T'ien Ch'i domain, they did not
display the icons, and ALL commanders in the affected armies
failed to act.

Consider me a whiner if you wish, but I am getting tired of playing
a game in which my armies sit there and do nothing. In my other
game upgraded from 3.06, I have Pangea's mangradoras appearing in
my (C'tis) domain, even when it is level 8, and I am fighting indies.

As far as I am considered, 3.06 to 3.08 games are messed up, domain wise.
I am dropping from this game. I enjoyed fighting three enemies
at once, but I do not enjoying losing a retreating army because of bugs.

[Jazzepi]

Is Arghaii as T'ien Ch'i still with us?

Jazzepi

[Jazzepi]

Arghaii as T'ien Ch'i staled last turn, might be heading for another one.

Jazzepi

[Zachariah]

i'll AI-ify him if he doesn't take his turn before next hosting.

[Reverend Zombie]

My internet access will be spotty this weekend. May I have some extra time for submitting turns due Saturday or Sunday, please?

[Zachariah]

possibly... can you try and hold off on taking your last turn till just before you leave, and send me an in-game message telling me when you'll return?

[Jazzepi]

Emor's legions grow out of control. They control the south eastern section of the map without contest. Soon they will conquer Pangea, and finish off the last of Jomon. With these two conquests in place, they will have sundered three nations in a row.

The mad dreamers of Ry'leh call to all the people of the world to unite in a great alliance against the undead hordes. While they may not knock on your door today, very soon they will swarm across your borders.

The time is ripe, Emor has done little in the way of research, but they are doubtlessly working hard at studying for terrible evocations that will not effect their undead hordes. If you wait to act, our fate is surely sealed.

Ry'leh promises safe passage, and the return of any border lands taking during raiding, to those that would join agaisnt Emor. Their legions are large, and their commanders plentiful, but if we stand together we can best them.

This call goes out to Arco and Ulm whom both share borders with Emor. The land is Mictlan is unfortunately stranded a bit far away to help, but they could at least pledge support.

Jazzepi

[Tequilich]

The Counts of Ulm agree with the beings of the deep, Ermor must be stopped. Ulm officially breaks the NAP pact we have had with Ermor and will start hostilities after 3 turns. We call out to the nation of Arco to join in our crusade.

[Catquiet]

If Arco wishes to fight Ermor, Mictlan offers a NAP with Arco until Ermor is defeated. Now you just need to get a NAP with Patala to secure your western border.

Who is subbing for Patala BTW?

[Ramiro]

And I am the big villan....... .
I have make pease with all nations in my frontiers and only attack unhonorable lords who not mantain he´s words.
I have newer wroke my word or a pact.
If you want war you will have war.
If the other nations are so ingenous to believe ermor is the real danger, I invite them and see the map and respond the following : R ligh controls all the oceans, how you supouse you will defeat him ?, he expand in the same way as ermor and if ermor disapear he will ocupate half world....
If pangea retreat from my territories I offer them pease: you invade me and broke a pact not me ...

[Tequilich]

To the fall of the Ermorian Empire! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/stupid.gif

[cupido2]

These false words make the wise men of Arco laugh!
A non-aggression pact with Patala??? NAP broken and backstabbed by the ape-scum: shame on him. Doing the same mistake again: shame on me.
And the oh-so-worried-about-the-Ermor-threat double-tongued aliens from the sea are weakening Arco, the only nation able to face Ermor, even more by joining forces with the traitor-monkeys and invading the north of our peaceful and once prospering kingdom.
So the wise men decided: As long as Arco isn't given back all his provinces that were lost through treason and treachery and as long as there is no reparation payed to Arco, Arco is not willing to rise arms against Ermor.

[Jazzepi]

cupido2 said:
These false words make the wise men of Arco laugh!
A non-aggression pact with Patala??? NAP broken and backstabbed by the ape-scum: shame on him. Doing the same mistake again: shame on me.
And the oh-so-worried-about-the-Ermor-threat double-tongued aliens from the sea are weakening Arco, the only nation able to face Ermor, even more by joining forces with the traitor-monkeys and invading the north of our peaceful and once prospering kingdom.
So the wise men decided: As long as Arco isn't given back all his provinces that were lost through treason and treachery and as long as there is no reparation payed to Arco, Arco is not willing to rise arms against Ermor.



The mad dreamers of the deep have continued their raids until Arco agreed that Emor needs to be defeated. In this light, we have pulled our people from Arco's shores, and raid no more. They can take back their 2 provinces with ease. We do claim sovereign control of all the ocean though, and will no return the single ocean province Arco staked a claim on.

We hope this is good enough for the people of Arco, your northern border is secured, and we will keep our NAP at least until the foul forces of Emor are ground into the dust from wench they came.

We ask that Patala and Arco might reach some sort of agreement and peaceful terms so that Emor might be dealt with.

Jazzepi

[Jazzepi]

Can we move away from the long hosting now that Reverend Zombie is back?

Jazzepi

[Jazzepi]

The mad dreamers would like to announce that they have, for sale, dwarven hammers! Price is negotiable, but we are looking to make a substantial profit. After all, these hammers save you gems in the long run.

Jazzepi

[cupido2]

Since when is Patala on AI?? o.O

[Reverend Zombie]

Patala AI=suxors

[Jazzepi]

Is Atlantis still with us? I can't tell if they're staling or not.

Jazzepi

[Jazzepi]

Atlantis staled last turn, and I think he's going to bring us to the 48 hour limit again as it appears that Emor is taking his turn.

Jazzepi

[K]

I'm out, so its not an issue anymore.

Can anyone tell me what happened last turn? I staled and the next turn had much of army gone.

[Jazzepi]

I have no idea. I think Mictlan attacked you.

Jazzepi

[Jazzepi]

I concede complete and utter defeat to Emor. This was my first time playing LA Ry'leh and I wasted a bunch of money/time in the beginning that should have been better spent raiding their territories and building chaff for my solar brilliance strategy in the late game.

I also had an idea, far too late, of building a SC out of a golem, sending him in with a guy who could cast solar brilliance without passing out, and then having the solar brilliance guy run away while the golem pounded on their army.

A 2 man 2000 strong undead army destroyer.

Unfortunately Emor now has access to antimagic, and their army is gigantic. Despite killing about 2000 of their units, I haven't even made a dent.

I'm going to remain in the game as long as it amuses me to try out some new stuff, then I'll set myself to AI.

Jazzepi

[Tequilich]

When Ermor attacked one of my castles I casted Solar Brillance and it didnt seem to kill even one of his undead.

[Jazzepi]

You need spell penetration items on your guys. It gets resisted by magic protection, and protection of the seucplher or however you spell it, raises that.

Jazzepi

[Ramiro]

Here the bad guy......

Seriuslly, I am really a very defensive player and I have not started any war.....I must congratulate the alien for his diplomacy, he convince alwais someone to die for him...

Ulm has give me a lesson about strategy and how to fight against ermor(what was my main objetive when I chose ermor), solar brillance is a good spell but not against protection from the sepulcre and less convinate with antimagic.... I really dout it is the rigth way

To be honest I consider the game will be winned by mictan or arcocephale depending their diplo, I have low chances as it is inherent to ermor, is a killing nation untill some one think outside the box.

[Jazzepi]

Actually solar brilliance is fine, but I needed to get access to to earlier and I needed to build more chaff. I was also going to combine solar brilliance with earthquake spam, which would have been devastating.

I also took someone's advice, which was a bad idea, and built my pretender into a SC chassis. I never used him as such. In retrospect I would have simply taken either a site searching/researching pretender, or better scales. I found myself wanting for money towards the middle-late game.

Jazzepi

[Ramiro]

Can´t conect to the server... server down?

[Zachariah]

looks like this game ran its course!

Here are the final scores:
http://www.evilzombies.com/HiddenSigns.html

I'm going to be starting this server up again, same settings.

[Ramiro]

Well it is a bit surprising.......
Hmm... I win?
All the other games you are hosting are only 66 turns lenght?

[Jazzepi]

You had 24,000 troops. I don't see how it's a surprise ;P

Jazzepi

[Ramiro]

...yep good point ... well my ¨victories¨ against ulm were suffering ten time casualties than him .... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/Injured.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/Injured.gif, but alwais were more undeath in the horisont... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif.
Any way I learn a lot about ermor... Hope I can put it in practice...
Thanks to all for the good game and specially to zachariath for host it !

[cupido2]

Err why did he win?? was there a 66 turn restriction? I would have reached undead mastery soon http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Jazzepi]

I set myself to AI. I'm not sure who else was in the game. No there was no turn restriction.

Jazzepi

[Ramiro]

I was waiting for that spell since a lot: in the moment you cast it,I will cast burden of time and utterdark, remove all my undeath from the front and send my faerie queens with storm ,tarrasques(no one imaginate what was I doing with all thouse nature gems per turn)and wraith lords(with magic resist items and soul vortex) against you.
I haven´t cast any of these spell before to avoid been in war against arco too.
Any way As I recognice in my previus post, I not believe I will finally win... but neither any of my enemies....

[cupido2]

Hehe, I think you might have won the game at the end Ramiro, but I don't like games that come to an end so suddenly without seeing how my SC I built and carefully outfitted over the last 20 turns will fare in battle... (even if they would have been wipped away). So I have to admit, that I'm really disappointed that this game ended now.

[Zachariah]

The server would no longer continue the game, so i figured it was over. There were no error messages.