Mistletoe - an LA game for busy people (in progress)

[Bananadine]

What makes a routing bukavac turn about and fight again?

[LDiCesare]

What makes a routing bukavac turn about and fight again?

Shame?

Or did he turn berserk, regenerate hit points to go over the limit that had him flee in the first place?

[Bananadine]

Can regeneration cancel routing?!? I had thought nothing could cancel routing, except of course the end of the battle.

The unit wasn't regenerating or berserk.

[Gregstrom]

Ooh, I want to see my turn now.

I'm not yet convinced of the value of bukavac as remote summons.

[Bananadine]

Wait what am I saying, of course I know about things that cancel routing. Death, probably Charm, certainly going berserk... well, I'd thought that nothing in this particular situation could cancel routing in this particular way, anyhow. :)

[Bananadine]

Ooh, I want to see my turn now.

I'm not yet convinced of the value of bukavac as remote summons.

I've been wondering about that myself. It was awfully impressive to me to see the first couple of them, anyway!

[Gregstrom]

Admittedly undines and a WQ aren't exactly a good target for tramplers... Bad targetting on my part, I think.

[Bananadine]

According to scouts, Patala's flying demigods could swallow at least a quarter of C'tis without warning, whenever they became tired of picking at Atlantis. What defense does C'tis plan? Domes of flaming death? Hmm.

[Bananadine]

God help us I have delayed hosting. I got really mixed up somehow, I think LlamaServer was showing weird times for a while like it sometimes does? And I thought the deadline was tomorrow and I am so tired now.

I will pull the next turn back by the same amount to make up for it (unless someone objects).

Hm actually LlamaServer is showing weird times right now--it says it last updated 14 minutes from now.

Well now I have to stay up at least long enough for the delay to register. :(

[Bananadine]

Well it did.

[Gregstrom]

There's only you to go, unless Ermor desperately want to submit their post-mortem turn. So no real need to pull back the next turn - just force-host this one when you submit.

[djo]

We continue to play on a higher plane of existence. And there, we are winning!

[Bananadine]

Hm, well, I guess you're right but I finished my turn pretty close to the deadline anyway so I'll just let it go now in service of the ideal of uh something or other.

[Bananadine]

There seems to be a change in the air.

[Slobby]

It's summer! ;)

[Bananadine]

Stellar Focus, not so impressive... Patala has the right idea. Turn up the heat slowly enough, and the lizardman won't jump out of the pot before it boils!

[Slobby]

Crazy. Game been goin on for 2 years...lmao

Been some good battles Bananadine :D

[Bananadine]

Yes. It's been exciting, though increasingly burdensome.

It may become less exciting, if Patala, C'tis, and Bogarus finally succeed in giving Atlantis to Patala... how much more interesting our war might be, if anyone other than Patala had hope of winning!

Maybe the honorable Patalans could send a few rudras into C'tis, just to be sporting. Not to worry--the rudras would be in no danger!

[LDiCesare]

Well, I have that delusion that maybe I might handle myself better on ground than underwater.

[Bananadine]

According to experience, Patala knows how to beat your Tartarians and your sauromancers. Do you know how you'll kill its angels and rudras? Fighting on the land, you will have great difficulty keeping a rudra away from your lizard mages.

Atlantis suggests that you defeat one Patalan army, before wagering your whole nation on your supposed ability to do so! ...Or, if you end up losing whatever fight you're preparing for at the Atlantian capital, then consider that the foe that defeated you is itself being defeated by someone much richer!

Even if the Atlantian capital is lost, the sea will remain an expensive target for anybody. Patala has sacrificed five demiliches (plus items) for a chance to own the small sea outside Marignon--a sea that produces a total of three gems per month. When will that investment ever be paid for! Maybe more than one nation ought to consider restricting its battles to the land.

[Slobby]

According to experience, Patala knows how to beat your Tartarians and your sauromancers. Do you know how you'll kill its angels and rudras? Fighting on the land, you will have great difficulty keeping a rudra away from your lizard mages.

Atlantis suggests that you defeat one Patalan army, before wagering your whole nation on your supposed ability to do so! ...Or, if you end up losing whatever fight you're preparing for at the Atlantian capital, then consider that the foe that defeated you is itself being defeated by someone much richer!

Even if the Atlantian capital is lost, the sea will remain an expensive target for anybody. Patala has sacrificed five demiliches (plus items) for a chance to own the small sea outside Marignon--a sea that produces a total of three gems per month. When will that investment ever be paid for! Maybe more than one nation ought to consider restricting its battles to the land.

;) Ah but you see from what you've stated that's all the reason there needs to be for the triple alliance against you. If 3 larger nations combined can barely make headway against you then how would 2 fair against a (potentially) stronger Atlantis?

You're a wiley opponent and that makes you dangerous. The best bet is take you down now while you're on the defensive.

You mention the payback on my demiliches. I can make more demiliches. If I recall you lost 9 commanders in that battle. How long can you last a war of attrition?

[Bananadine]

Look how little Patala fears C'tis! And with good reason--for every crippled Tartarian commander in C'tis, there are two strong ones in Patala, cured by the Gift of Health! What, again, can C'tis use to fight against that?

Maybe some Atlantian allies would help.

[Verjigorm]

Wrong Thread...

[Bananadine]

More sea trolls, C'tis? If you have so many water gems you don't need, then why not just send them straight to Patala? It would save us all some trouble.

[Bananadine]

Gregstrom has finally lost heart for good. A call for substitutes has turned up nrasch, who seems to be human and is therefore a million times better than the AI. He is set to take his first turn immediately. Please send any necessary propaganda his way.

[nrasch]

Hi hi all! And, as I said in our in game message, thanks for letting me join. :)

I'm also on IRC as LeafyBits.

And finally, why in the world is my pretender named Anus?!?! ;)

[Executor]

This thing still on? wow...
Who's winning? Who's got my cap? When was AC brought down? How are things in the Armageddoned wastelands?
Ah, AC and Arm., good times...

[LDiCesare]

Patala owns themost land, then C'tis and Bogarus. Atlantis holds its capital and most of the water. A long war for the seas is underway.
Provinces with 5000 pop or more are rare and considered rather rich around C'tis.

[djo]

This thing still on? wow...

Ditto! This has to be some kind of record. I thought I survived until the end of the game, but no, it turns out I was eliminated somewhere in the anonymous middle. Incredible.

[Bananadine]

It's Thanksgiving in the US and family has stolen my time. :( I must delay the turn.

[Slobby]

Hey no worries Banana! The games been going on so long a small delay...no problem. :)

Although I am anxious to see how this turn plays out... :angel

[Slobby]

banana what happened to your big abom prophet?

[Bananadine]

Why do you ask?

[Slobby]

Well that battle that we had at the end he was there. Then when I stormed again the following turn and you teleported out he was gone!

[Bananadine]

I don't recall seeing it that way. Maybe one of our battle views was out of sync or something.

[Bananadine]

I've just sent in a turn, but LlamaServer seems to have stopped listing the game sometime within about half an hour before I did so. Disturbing. If my turn is lost, I would prefer to roll back the next one and submit it again. But maybe everything will happen normally. LlamaServer is a strange beast.

[Bananadine]

Well I had to explicitly request that my turn be sent, but otherwise everything went fine.

[Slobby]

Hats off to you Banana! I just looked at the score tables and didn't really realize till now how much of a pain in the *** you're defense is with such limited resources!

Nation Provinces
C'tis 80
Patala 156
Atlantis 16

Nation Forts
C'tis 36
Patala 102
Atlantis 16

Nation Income
C'tis 2193
Patala 3562
Atlantis 83

Nation Gem Income
C'tis 170
Patala 313
Atlantis 47

Nation Dominion
C'tis 1528
Patala 2710
Atlantis 112

Nation Army Size
C'tis 11282
Patala 32000
Atlantis 13217

[llamabeast]

Don't know if you guys noticed a bug where the llamaserver got confused about which turn you were on this turn (if you tried to send in a turn file it would have bounced it). Fixed.

Also, can't believe you guys are still playing on turn 249! Crazy!!

[llamabeast]

Don't know if you guys noticed a bug where the llamaserver got confused about which turn you were on this turn (if you tried to send in a turn file it would have bounced it). Fixed.

Also, can't believe you guys are still playing on turn 249! Crazy!!

[llamabeast]

... Has this game been going on for more than three years??

[Bananadine]

Yes.

[Bananadine]

Thanks for fixing the error llamabeast. The server was left thinking there was only about half a day left before the next deadline, so I manually added the remainder of the usual time.

[Slobby]

... Has this game been going on for more than three years??

Time flies when you're having fun! :)

[LDiCesare]

Yes I saw the weird turn numbers.
I really suck end-game. I've been unable to take a single underwater fort so far.
Then again, gem-gens kind of make the resource graphs irrelevant.

[Executor]

... Has this game been going on for more than three years??

This was one of my very first Dominions games actually. :)

LDiCesare, it's been 2 or 3 years since you killed me but I'm still hoping to see you die.;)

[Slobby]

... Has this game been going on for more than three years??

This was one of my very first Dominions games actually. :)

LDiCesare, it's been 2 or 3 years since you killed me but I'm still hoping to see you die.;)

LOL!

[LDiCesare]

I'll definitely die. Probably next year ;)

[Slobby]

Hey Banana 24 hour extension please.

Thanks

[Bananadine]

Family has visited and prevented me from accomplishing anything. I must delay the turn.

[LDiCesare]

I've been stuck for work without dom3 available for a few days and miscalculated the deadline.
I should be back home tomorrow evening. Could I have a 24h extension?

[Bananadine]

Done.

[LDiCesare]

Thanks.

[LDiCesare]

I'm sorry but I'm turning AI.
It's really a chore to play the turns and I haven't found anything clever to do for quite a while anyway.

[Bananadine]

Perhaps the great empire of C'tis will disappear soon, then. Or perhaps not. We shall see.

When the Atlantian army finally tears down the jeweled city of Patala, a statue of a lizardman will be placed on the spot, in your memory.

[Slobby]

Whoa game changer lol Bananadine can you extend the hosting by one week - lots of micro is gonna be needed for this turn

[Bananadine]

Okay.

[Bananadine]

I've temporarily turned off quickhosting so that I too may reliably partake of the extra time. I'll probably make some adjustments in my orders and then turn it back on tomorrow. Presumably this will not actually change the hosting time at all.

[Slobby]

Yikes lost track of time - 24 hour extension please

thanks

[Bananadine]

Okay.

[Slobby]

Need 48 hour extension on this turn Banana - can we just increase the hosting interval to like 10 days or something. Really only have time to do these long turns on the weekend.

[Bananadine]

I've put it to 9 days. That should support a turn-every-weekend schedule.

[Bananadine]

Problems?

[LDiCesare]

So is this dead by now? If so, care to share the looks of the map at the end?

[djo]

Holy cow, this thing was going through this past February? I was eliminated three years ago!

What turn did it end on? Who won?

[Bananadine]

Hm, I gave him an extra two years, but there's been no communication. I guess I'll need to find a substitute.

So is this dead by now? If so, care to share the looks of the map at the end?

It's still on, we're just waiting for Patala: http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=Mistletoe

I'll probably make up some kind of after-action package once the game has finished. Maybe just scrounge all my .trn and .2h files out of Gmail or something. Or maybe put something up on YouTube, I dunno. Could be educational. A show of mankind's excess for the benefit of future generations.

[PvK]

Turn 326 - sweet! :D

What's the victory condition? 5 victory point?

[Bananadine]

Occupation of every province by Atlantis.

[PvK]

Lol!

[Bananadine]

Alright, I've asked for a substitute at Dom3mods. I don't know whether anything will come of that.

[Executor]

Holy **** people. I think some of the players might die of old age before you guys finish up. Keep up the good work though!

[Hoplosternum]

I still get emails about this one saying it is inactive from what I assume is the llama server :)

I was eliminated early on sadly but it reminds me of Dominions and this forum every few months when it pops up In my inbox :)

[Bananadine]

Well "we" can't finish at present because there aren't any other players anymore. And I haven't yet given up and taken out the AI by myself (assuming LlamaServer even allows a game to continue with only one player left).

I'll probably ask at at least one more forum before I lobotomize Patala and accept my victory.