World in Crisis - Started

[chrispedersen]

Hey! New Game!
Map Glory of the Gods
Worthy Heros, CBM1.3
No Exploits
Lama Server
Delays on Request

Niefleheim - Chris Pedersen
Hinnom - Hunt11
Agartha-Juffos
Ermor-Kleptos
Lanka-FakeyMcFake
Hel -Solymir
Formoria -Jim Morrison (Warning: Jim won his last game as Formoria = )
Ulm-Ossa
Tien-Quitti
Oceani-Saarud
Caelum-Baalz
Sauro-Executor
Abyssia-lwarmonger
Ryalla-Vfb.

[hunt11]

If Hinnom is allowed then can I be them, if not then Abysia

[Juffos]

Agartha for me.

[Klepto]

Ermor please. What age/map is planned?

[archaeolept]

it's gotta be EA. probably glory of the gods map? just guessing.

[Fakeymcfake]

I'm in, Lanka please.

[solmyr]

I'll give Van a try.

[JimMorrison]

I must be an evil person. I would like to play Fomoria. :happy:

[Quitti]

T'ien Ch'i for me please.

[Ossa]

I'd seriously like to try Ulm

[Executor]

Sauromatia for me.

[Saarud]

I'd love to join as Oceania.

[Baalz]

I'll take Caelum

[archaeolept]

that's 12 so far. the map is 227 land +47 sea. How many players are you looking at?

[chrispedersen]

Welcome Baalz!

I'm looking for 15 or so, unless people express strong preferences. We really need at least one more water race.

Game is created.. get your pretenders in !

[Evilhomer]

I will play oceania (but please make the tiny lakes in the glory map no start positions)

[Executor]

Saarud already chose Oceania Evilhomer.

[rtyffg]

I'd like to join as Kailasa.

[chrispedersen]

I will play oceania (but please make the tiny lakes in the glory map no start positions)


Don't know how to do it. But if you are willing to do it, and have it checked - I'm willing.

[Saarud]

I will play oceania (but please make the tiny lakes in the glory map no start positions)


Don't know how to do it. But if you are willing to do it, and have it checked - I'm willing.

Well I did say earlier I wanted to play as Oceania and hopefully that will be ok with you.

[Evilhomer]

Oh, totally missed your post there, my apologies - Oceania is yours of course

[Klepto]

I noticed the game has been created. CBM 1.3 includes Worthy Heroes, I assume we should only enable CBM for pretender creation? Should we start sending in pretenders now?

[lwarmonger]

I'll take Abysia.

[chrispedersen]

As we stand now, we have 14/15 races taken. EvilHomer, do you feel like taking Atlantis?

Please start uploading pretenders.

There is a *small* difference between worthy heros and CBM1.3 in gladiator weapons. Nevermind - I only used CBM in creating the world.

[vfb]

If EvilHomer does not want Atlantis, I will take Rlyeh.

[Klepto]

All uploaded, good luck everyone :D

[chrispedersen]

If EvilHomer does not want Atlantis, I will take Rlyeh.


VFB, you're in as Ryalla. Game is closed. Signups open still for alternates if Pretenders do not get uploaded in 48 hours.

Best to all!

Chris

[vfb]

Thanks, and have fun everyone!

[solmyr]

On second thought, I'd like to take Hel. Since no other player picked Hel so far, is it ok?

BTW, you got my name typed wrong chris.

[rtyffg]

It suddenly came so, that i can't take part in this game. If you have already accepted me as Kailasa, consider that nation free now.

[chrispedersen]

Kailasa dropped.

[chrispedersen]

Hey guys.. we've got 11/14 submitted.

Lets get those last three in!
We're missing:

Solmyr: Hel
Juffos: Agartha
JimMor: Formoria

[chrispedersen]

We currently sit at 13. I have email solmyr, without response so far.

So, we have two open slots. If I don't hear from either Solmyr or a new player I will start the game tomorrow night.

[Evilhomer]

What nations are left to pick ?

[chrispedersen]

Here are the nations that have sent in pretenders:
Sauromatia
Ermor
Abysia
R'lyeh
Caelum
Lanka
Hinnom
Agartha
T'ien Ch'i
Oceania
Niefelheim
Fomoria
Helheim

We really only have one ocean nation... a water nation would be best.

[Evilhomer]

I would be happy to play a water nation. But it seems in the list you posted that there are already 2 water nations in this game (rlyeh + oceania). Also will this be Glory of the gods (multiplayer) map or the big standard one ?

[chrispedersen]

Huh. Must have missed it in the signups. Please feel free to take any nation you wish EH - and thanks for the catch.

I was expecting to use the 227 ish map. But I'm open to suggestions.

[Evilhomer]

Actually I think I will pass, sorry. Was looking to play Oceania or maybe some other underwater nation (though 3 water nations will be too much)- I will wait until some other game starts. GL to you all.

[chrispedersen]

Smile.. how about signing up for Even More Machiavelli then Homer = )

[chrispedersen]

Game has started! 24 hour turn around please!

[Executor]

First turn and already the best national hero! I'm gonna like this game.

[chrispedersen]

Horrible start here. Elephants in 2out of my three adjacent provinces with no other places to expand on the 3rd ave.

[JimMorrison]

Well on the bright side, if you can figure out something to kill elephants with, you could use them to your advantage. ;)

But that's right, you're Nief, you shouldn't have much problem with them really. :p

BTW, are you going to update the list of players? Always nice to have a reference for who to PM for things.

[Executor]

This game is going along very well, we only started two days ago and turn 4 almost done! I'm in another game where we started on September 6 and it's turn 10?

[chrispedersen]

Well on the bright side, if you can figure out something to kill elephants with, you could use them to your advantage. ;)

But that's right, you're Nief, you shouldn't have much problem with them really. :p

BTW, are you going to update the list of players? Always nice to have a reference for who to PM for things.

There is no way to update.. or at least I don't know it.
Anyone can create a new message <hint hint>

[JimMorrison]

They made it so everyone can edit the front post, for things like this. Don't you have a button? O.o

[vfb]

It is written in the Holy Tome of Phil, that all nations which have not acknowledged the Prophet Ylid Heem are sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every Aboleth who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise.

- The Readings of R'lyeh

[chrispedersen]

I have sent 3 emails to llamaserver over 3 hours using 2 different email sources.

I get no response. As it is getting close to deadline, I am going to delay the game, World in Crisis. Llama, if the turn doesn't show in a timely fashion, could you look into it?

[Executor]

I hate militia!!! They joined 3 turns in a row and they just won't die... It be nice if you could disband troops.

[Fakeymcfake]

If you have any items that allow water breathing just attach a bunch of militia to a commander equipped with one and move them into a water province. Then move the commander out and leave the militia to drown.

Or, do what I do, use them as arrow fodder or as distractions so that the proper troops can work their way up a battlefield unhindered.

[Executor]

I've sent 80+ militia with a couple of cavalry backup against about 10 or so elephants, militia sliced trough the elephants like butter!?

[chrispedersen]

Its not that surprising, actually. Its the tyrrany of large numbers - which is why that massed slingers are effective against vanheim, and massing is so critical for malverni.

Units have to make morale checks when they lose x% of their number. I believe the first check is at 10%. When they get down to 4 units, they have to make continuous morale checks.

Additionally, the entire force has to make morale checks when the total casualties are high enough.

Elephant morale is low, if I recall, its 8. Home terrain adds 1.
Sermon of courage, adds one (or two). But even if so you're still talking a base morale of 10.

And, with 10 elephants, you have to make your morale check as soon as you loose 1 elephant.


The same mechanics BENEFIT militia. If you have 80 militia in one segment - you don't even get the first morale check until 8 militia have been killed.

So, I'm willing to be what happened ist hat the elephants advanced and either didn't kill 8, or the militia actually got first strike.

[hunt11]

Guys, I am going to be gone Friday and Saturday, so should i look for a sub, or could you stall the game for me instead?

[Executor]

Well actually it was 60 militia and 20 flagelants that got butchered by the slingers. But still you'd expect 10 elephant to be able to rout 60 lousy militia that have same morale as they. I think only 1 elephant actuality died, that's why I always use undead with elephants and cavalry.

[JimMorrison]

It was a warp in the space-time continuum. We got the wrong battle results..... In another game, I fought ~10 Mammoths with 140 Skinshifters, and I lost over 40 men. I think the battle results were switched at birth. ;)

[chrispedersen]

Guys, I am going to be gone Friday and Saturday, so should i look for a sub, or could you stall the game for me instead?

I promised liberal delays upon request. Just remind me - I'm an honorary blond.

If you wish to find a sub thats ok too.

[vfb]

Because they have rejected the law of Phil, and have not kept his decrees, because they have been led astray by the false Kraken Steen, who is now dead, I will send fire upon the Sea of Angels that will consume the fortress of Oceania.

So speaks Ylid Heem, prophet of Phil

[hunt11]

Guys, I am going to be gone Friday and Saturday, so should i look for a sub, or could you stall the game for me instead?

I promised liberal delays upon request. Just remind me - I'm an honorary blond.

If you wish to find a sub thats ok too.

So if you could stall for Friday and Saturday it would be great.

[vfb]

"Let the prophet who has a dream tell his dream, but let the one who has my word speak it faithfully. Is not my word like fire," declares Phil, "and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?"

As I, Ylid Heem, foretold, the fire of Phil did smite the unbelievers in the Sea of Angels. And they did burn for their sins, and those who lived were taken as our slaves. And glory will be to Phil if we can obtain another hammer for breaking more rocks into pieces.

If you would sell a hammer to R'lyeh, we will pay you most handsomely. We grant safe passage to all messengers to our seas, that they may tell us their hammer prices.

-- Ylid Heem, prophet of Phil

[Fakeymcfake]

The Lakan Nation would like to apologize for the slightly awkward bit of diplomacy that has recently occurred between us, the Ermorian Republic, and the Giants of Formoria. Furthermore we feel we must ensure that harbor no ill will towards either nation and hope that in time this can be remembered as an amusing little footnote in a long and prosperous history between our collective peoples.

[vfb]

Sadly, R'lyeh's slave Princess Buttercup did not manage to capture the champions trident at the arena match. My congratulations go to Hinnom, who sent one of their own enslaved humans to snag it. May the champion live long and prosper! Not bloody likely though, considering Hinnom's appetites.

-- Bork, Head Quartermaster of R'lyeh

[Klepto]

The Lakan Nation would like to apologize for the slightly awkward bit of diplomacy that has recently occurred between us, the Ermorian Republic, and the Giants of Formoria. Furthermore we feel we must ensure that harbor no ill will towards either nation and hope that in time this can be remembered as an amusing little footnote in a long and prosperous history between our collective peoples.

We Ermorians laughed, except for the ones left decomposing on the battlefield :)

[hunt11]

After the Baal's of Hinnom had discovered the victory of our commander they were so pleased that they ate a city as a victory celebration :D So as a reward he has been given a pendent that marks him as uneatable for any of their kin.

[chrispedersen]

By random luck it seems that 10 /18 of my provinces are plains - which are poor grounds for gems. So the giants of Niefle find themselves forced to stoop to commerce.

Aka we will pay 15 gp for death gems. Alternately, if you would like skull mentors, we will sell skull mentors for cost +4 death gems.

[Fakeymcfake]

The Apes of Lanka have a wide surplus of death gems and would be happy to trade with the Neflie Giants. Tell us what amount you would be interested in and we will attempt to send it before the next turn comes in. We'll take gold.

[chrispedersen]

Looks like llamaserver is down.

[vfb]

It did the same thing at around 7:30AM GMT today, but got better around 8AM somehow.

Hope it fixes itself again!

[Executor]

Llama did mention he had power cuts the previous time, maybe it's the same problem again.

[vfb]

The llamaserver fixed itself, but still looks a bit wonky. Back to the game...


R'leyh would like Water gems. We will trade Earth gems 1-for-1. PM vfb (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=8915) if you are interested.

[vfb]

Greetings, R'lyeh has found a buyer for our Earths gems.

[Saarud]

Something is very wrong with my turn. I did try to send it but I have got 16 responds (so far) with 8 telling me that's it's the wrong turn number and the other 8 telling me it's an unknown game.

My intention was to never ever stall on any game here but since I can't send in my turn and I'm about to be eliminated anyhow I guess it would be ok for you to forcehost when everyone else has done their turn.

I'm really sorry for this. I'm also sorry for my bad performance I really did try to stop vfb forces but he is a way better Dom 3 player than me.

Hope to see you guys in other games!

[vfb]

Hi Saarud, everyone's getting these messages, because the llamaserver has gone temporarily crazy. So it's nothing you've done wrong.

Good game, and sorry about the rush. But fate placed you between me and the rest of the oceans, and I had no-where else to go! I was just lucky that when I bumped into you, your armies were off in the north expanding.

[chrispedersen]

Saarud,

I acknowledge your willingness to stay in, despite losing.
Excellent sportsmanship. Thanks you.

[chrispedersen]

Gentlemen
The llama server has lost it - and will have lost it at least till llama returns, and probably a few days thereafter... Nov 3?

There is also the possibility that the daily volume has exceeded the capacity of the llamaserver to serve.

I can host the game for a few days if we are so inclined.

[vfb]

My intention was to never ever stall on any game here but since I can't send in my turn and I'm about to be eliminated anyhow I guess it would be ok for you to forcehost when everyone else has done their turn.

It doesn't sound like Oceania is intending to submit their final turn, and they have been eliminated from the game. The game is set to host on "15:55 GMT on Friday November 14th"

Do we really want to wait that long?

[chrispedersen]

Hey Vfb, no I don't. I just haven't been able to get llama to take my turn.

I'll try again momentarily.

[vfb]

Hi Chris ... when I checked the status page, all the turns looked like they were in except Oceania. But I guess something must have been messed up, to make it crash. Thanks for resetting the turn!

[llamabeast]

Actually it turns out it was a general fault that made it crash. I've just rehosted it, so you should be back on track now. Sorry about that.

[vfb]

Agartha! Your presence in the Northern waters is unacceptable. For it is written in the book of Phil, "And the oceans do belong to Phil, for he is the Kraken. While those who farm the lands may be permitted to fish in the sea, those from the caves are unclean. And he who dwells in the cave will defile the seas, for his bodily fluids are most impure."

R'lyeh hereby revokes our NAP-3 with Agartha. It is now turn 22. We will not commence hostilities until turn 25.

So speaks Ylid Heem, prophet of Phil

[Executor]

I see Lanka isn't wasting any time with my situation.

[Fakeymcfake]

Sorry about that, just taking the one to give my future fortress another province to draw on.

[lwarmonger]

Hmm. I am not getting turn 23 sent to me (Abysia). And when I ask it to resend the turn, it still isn't getting sent.

[chrispedersen]

Iwar, please pvt me your email address...

Chris

[chrispedersen]

Iwar,

I changed the email address, resent the turn, and had no problem veryifying that the turn sent and was received, suggesting the problem is on your side.

Please give me a heads up on what email addryess you'd like it reset to; I've delayed hosting 12 hours to enable you to do this.

Best, Chris

[Klepto]

I seem to be having a problem with turn 24, it consistently crashes my game when I try and load the .trn file. Hopefully I'll get it fixed soon, is anyone else having problems?

[Executor]

Did you download the new patch?

[Fakeymcfake]

I don't mean to cause alarm or point blame or whatever, but I was wondering about the message I received from the host saying that Hinnom might be cheating due to a large influx of money over the last turn.

Again, not accusing Hunt of cheating, just wondering what's up.

[lwarmonger]

The same thing happened over at Timewarp. I believe Llama speculated that it has something to do with the irregularities involved in the server recently.

[lwarmonger]

Hmm. This is most frustrating. I am getting everything else. Notifications that my turn has been recieved, notifications that the e-mail address was switched away from mine (when chrispederson first did that) and then switched back (when he changed it back to my e-mail)... but I am not getting turns for this game and this game only. I am currently in several other games on llamaserver that have started back up and I am getting turns from them, so I don't think it is me.

[hunt11]

I have no clue what could have happened to have that message sent :confused:. It might be something due to the patch, but that's just a guess.

[Klepto]

Did you download the new patch?
That fixed it :doh:

[lwarmonger]

I've PM'd llamabeast with the problem, so hopefully we can get this resolved. Until then I'd appreciate it if either we extended the time hack, or if chrispederson would send me my turn via e-mail again.

[chrispedersen]

Iwar,
I was about to take your turn, forward it to you again.. the thought occured however, why don't you set up a new email service at hotmail... and we can set service to the new address?

Chris

[lwarmonger]

Alright, should be good to go.

[hunt11]

does anybody know why Caelum has gone A.I.?

[Fakeymcfake]

Probably because they were losing out to Sauromatia pretty badly.

[Executor]

Those Eagle Kings were something I tell ya.

[chrispedersen]

What you talking about Exec.. you ate them like they were chicken... Frozen chicken, mayhap, but chicken nonetheless.
How many Hof'ers did you kill... 8?

[vfb]

R'leyh would once again like Water gems. We will trade Earth gems 1-for-1. PM vfb (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=8915) if you are interested.

[chrispedersen]

Well it appears as if there is a run on water gems.

Jotunheim will pay for water gems with death, fire or nature gems, or buy them at 15gp each.

[chrispedersen]

Hosting is delayed 48 hours (or more) while I look for a sub.

I staled, and I know damn well I submitted a turn.

So if anyone knows someone to sub, please advise.

Best

[JimMorrison]

Fomoria is crumbling under the weight of Hinnom, T'ien Ch'i, and Lanka.....

I hadn't planned to go AI yet (if ever), but if you don't find a sub quickly, maybe it would be better to have a human at the helm of Niefel, than Fomoria, at this point.

Let me know. I'd prefer to have this turn process with me as Fomoria (trying to pull off something painful), but I could swap next turn.

[vfb]

Come on Chris, just keep playing. It's only one stale. From the graphs Nief is just down a single province this month, and like you said, Nief is still #3 or #4 in the game, right?

[chrispedersen]

Well, no one else has been interested in picking up the position - not a single bite at all.

Does anyone object to Jim picking it up?

[Fakeymcfake]

Fine by me, better than going AI. Oh and are you going to keep on with running the game or are you going to hand it off to someone else?

[chrispedersen]

I'll do whatever people prefer. Probably better to have people in the game, monitoring it. Want the job?

[lwarmonger]

Personally I think it is much better to give things to a person than switch AI.

[JimMorrison]

I have just revised my turn to set Fomoria to AI, Chris.

So if you could manage one last decent turn for Niefelheim (hire a Niefel Jarl at least? ;)), then you can submit, host, and switch email to my address if you please.

[Fakeymcfake]

If no one else minds (or wants the job for themselves) I can handle watching over the game. Just PM me the admin pass.

[vfb]

What's happening with this game?

Has Chris given the admin pass to Fakeymcfake yet?

[Executor]

Yes I was also wondering. When are we continuing and who is the new admin?

[Fakeymcfake]

I haven't received anything yet, I'll PM Chris and ask him what's up right after I finish typing this.

[JimMorrison]

I haven't received anything yet, I'll PM Chris and ask him what's up right after I finish typing this.

I asked him to submit a quick turn (like just buy some commanders and check the research really fast) and submit, then set me as Niefel. He asked why I couldn't take them now, and I pointed out that I was setting Fomoria to AI this turn..... And he hasn't replied further.

[Fakeymcfake]

Okay, so I've taken over as Admin, the next turn should have gone out, and now we should have things rolling again.

[Klepto]

Ermor has fallen! With no army and only the city of Ermor itself remaining I've set myself to AI. Thanks for the game all, I can see I have a lot to learn. Well played Agartha, who I found pretty much unstoppable.

Good luck everyone, I'll see you in other games I hope :)

[Fakeymcfake]

Later Klepto, sorry about smashing up your last best hope there.

[Executor]

That's one, actually two pretty large summoned armies there Agarta.

Maybe this would be a good time to consider moving to 48 hours hosting interval.

By the way did anyone notice that almost the entire HoF is dead?

[Executor]

Sorry I'm actually still good with 24 h/t...

[Fakeymcfake]

Alright, if anyone gets to the point where they want to move along to a 48 hour turnover let me know, we'll put it to a vote. However, I'm currently enjoying the fast pace of this game, makes things more exciting but I'll bow to the whims of the mob.

[Quitti]

I'm enjoying the fast pace too, though I won't say no if majority wants to move to 48h turns...

[Fakeymcfake]

Lanka is in the market for an air boosting item. Offering gold, gems (I've got everything but astral and fire), favours *wink* (no really, you want me to make you something, harass a certain neighbor, cede some land, make an offer and I'll consider it).

PM if you're interested.

[Executor]

Whoever forged the Aegis and black book of secrets this turn, DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!

[vfb]

Not only that, today is a sad sad day, because R'lyeh called on the Earth Kings and no-one answered.

[Juffos]

If possible, could hosting please be postponed by 24 hours?

I would really appreciate.

[Fakeymcfake]

Sure, hosting will be postponed until 21:45 GMT on Sunday November 30th.

[lwarmonger]

Abysia would like to announce that both Niefelheim and Lanka are fully occupied in an unprovoked assault upon us, and we call upon other nations for aid in attacking their undefended frontiers!

[Fakeymcfake]

Heh, "undefended" he says.

[lwarmonger]

Indeed I do! Abysia can still be triumphant, it merely needs a distraction by some other power!

[JimMorrison]

A big distraction. With shiny spinning things, and blinking lights! :happy:

[lwarmonger]

And massive, massive tracts of... land!

[Fakeymcfake]

Executor hasn't sent in his turn yet so I'm going to delay hosting 10 hours, hopefully he'll get it in before then.

[vfb]

Can we please move to a 48-hour host now? The turns are getting longer.

[Fakeymcfake]

Ok, time to vote.
Everyone has until the next hosting to vote and to make sure everyone knows I'll send out a message via llamaserver.

Post your preference and that's what we'll be.

[Quitti]

I don't mind moving to 48h

[hunt11]

I think we should move it to 48 hour hosting now.

[Executor]

48 hours is good.

[Executor]

I think TC just declared war on everybody.

[vfb]

R'lyeh has decided that is an excellent analysis of the situation. The surprise casting of Arcane Nexus has rendered all our diplomatic agreements with Tien Chi null and void. We immediately slurp the brains of the TC ambassador in our capitol.

:brain: SLURP! :puke:

[Fakeymcfake]

Well, as it appears that at least half of the people want 48 hour hosting we'll switch to that after this next hosting interval.

On a completely unrelated note, TC just became the proverbial 500 lbs gorilla of our game. And unfortunately, this world only has room for one nation of apes, proverbial or otherwise.

[hunt11]

Hinnom must be one very lucky nation :). A couple turns into my war with TC and thanks to arcane nexus, the whole world is very interested in my nations war with TC.

[Quitti]

Yes, please do keep the pearls running in, thank you, thank you.

On a complitely unrelated note, R'lyeh attacked disregarding their nap3 with us. I knew it was coming but still I'd like to inform others who do business with R'lyeh.

We're living in interesting times :)

[vfb]

R'lyeh is pleased Tien Chi got the subtle hint about eating their ambassador's brains and spitting them out, and voiding all our agreements with them.

We would like all nations to know that if you cast any of the following global enchantments without prior consultation we consider it an immediate declaration of war on us.

There's the usual suspects:

Arcane Nexus
Astral Corruption
Burden of Time (We've got our poor slaves to think of, you know.)
Utterdark
Forge of the Ancients


Plus since we like it all nice and lonely under the waves:

Thetis' Blessing


But not too lonely:

Sea of Ice


So long as other nations refrain from casting these globals without some sort of discussion first (wherein we reserve the right to optionally waive the immediate state of war which would normally result), then they will find us eminently trustworthy.

-- R'lyeh

P.S. Tien Chi brains are not very tasty. Needs extra ganglion sauce.

[Fakeymcfake]

I feel I must congratulate Iwarmonger on being the most irritating person I've ever had the misfortune to take over, ever.

Christ, I feel as though I'm trying to take Stalingrad or something.

[Executor]

Hmm how did that one end?

[Fakeymcfake]

Well enough, though Iwarmonger is quite a tenacious defender. I won't say too much since it is still going on though.

[lwarmonger]

Well, you are still having your stalingrad... my main fortress awaits! I've got defense down pretty good, it's my offense that needs work.

[Fakeymcfake]

No kidding. I think my Stalingrad reference was more apt than I ever thought it would be. At least it wasn't a total loss though.

[lwarmonger]

True, you significantly damaged my mage base, and those are losses that can't be replaced at this point. However my pretender is a tough nut to crack.

[Executor]

Sauromatia protests that these contests, clearly held for our entertainment, need to be delayed until our scouts are in proper position!

[Fakeymcfake]

Then, the humble people of Lanka would kindly suggest that you go around our territory as going through has seemed to not work well for you thus far.

[Executor]

Perhaps the demons of Lanka could STOP hunting down our spies as they have formed a union and demand a gold bonus for recon missions in Lanka lands. Of course we killed the ringleaders but the problem still remains.

How else are we supposed to enjoy the battles at Rowan Keep?

[Fakeymcfake]

I wouldn't worry about missing any further battles, I've made plans that should resign Iwarmonger to a very effective but a very anti-climatic end.

[chrispedersen]

One player has rewquested a delay. People, please address further requests to fakey...

[Fakeymcfake]

Whomever needs a delay, you're lucky I read this, nearly went to bed. Anyhow, yes, address any further requests or complaints to me. Requests will be acted upon in short order while complaints will be promptly ignored and deleted, but at least they'll go to the right person.

Anyhow, delaying hosting by 24 hours.

[Fakeymcfake]

Alright, Juffos has requested a delay over the weekend. However, since he has already sent in his turn for this turn I'm going to hold off until the next turn rolls around. That way I won't have to delay the turn twice or risk forgetting and having Juffos stall a turn. So that means that all currently outstanding turns still must be turned in by tomorrow (I'm looking at you Executioner and Quitti) and afterward the next turn will be due on Monday.

Any problems with this arrangement, feel free to throw curses and notes attached to rocks in my general direction.

P.S. Turn.

[Executor]

I'm guessing this wasn't a real attack from Niefelheim, but still I have to ask since there seems to be a global conspiracy against me in many games.
Was this a hostile act Niefelheim?

[vfb]

It looks to R'lyeh like a bus full of blood slaves got lost in the mountains. :D

[JimMorrison]

You have a scout there, Vfb? :p

Ummm, seriously. I didn't just actually attack you with an indie commander and 10 Blood Slaves. I'm scratching my head on this one, but he must have taken a wrong turn, I distinctly told him to take those girls to the castle. I think he was trying to border-hop and start a little polyginist commune. o.O

My apologies, there won't be any PD or anything there next turn.

[Fakeymcfake]

Alright, since we are coming up to that most wonderful time of the year I'm going to seriously extend the hosting intervals pretty soon until at least the new year. I'm thinking 96 hours (4 days) will do but if anyone thinks differently feel free to say so. I'll move it back to 48 once the holiday season dies down and I'll probably start it around the 20th or so, sooner if anyone requests it.

My apologies to anyone not taking part in this festive occasion.

[Executor]

Just 13 more days until that most wonderful time of the year start for me too...
I'd ask of you to keep the hosting interval, 96h, at least until 3rd January or so.

[vfb]

96 sounds good to me.

[lwarmonger]

Well, that is it. Nothing left, and my last two fortresses gone. I've switched to AI (only two undefended provinces left with no troops in them).

Good game all.

[Fakeymcfake]

Good game Iwarmonger, you put up a damned good fight.

[Fakeymcfake]

Alright, extended hosting period goes into effect... nnnnnnnow.

If anyone needs any further delays for whatever reason, don't hesitate to PM me or post here. At this point I'd hate to see anyone drop out due to holiday hijinx.

[Fakeymcfake]

Alright, Hunt11 has asked for a delay of game so we'll be on hold until the 2nd.

In other news, Merry Christmas. I hope Santa got everyone that SC they were wishing for, though how the fit down the chimney is beyond me.

[vfb]

R'lyeh is sad to note the passing of our Moose Rider Deiphobos. 50%CR doesn't cut it against Frozen Heart!

The defenders of Tien Chi's capitol also managed to hold off the R'lyeh attackers, with their Army of Lead, but we did not spot the AN caster in that province in any case.

[Fakeymcfake]

Forgive my ignorance but what the heck was that quake?

[vfb]

That would be TC using up some of his pearls and casting Armageddon. I would have preferred that TC stuck to wishing for Mandahas to lead his armies against me. :D

Unfortunately it appears Agartha has been heavily summoning and casting rituals that are not Astral or Blood. This feeds pearls through the Nexus to Tien Chi, who then proceeds to nuke the world. Agartha's actually pretty well set up to handle a few Armageddons, because his units have high HP. I don't know how his income actually managed to go up this month though.

[Fakeymcfake]

Jeeze, I would have preferred that he did as well. Heck, I can't gather sacrificial virgins if they're already dead now can I?

[lwarmonger]

Well from the looks of things it isn't like he's got much to lose from Armageddon. At least make sure your enemies don't enjoy their spoils!

[vfb]

I think he is enjoying playing the last thrashings about of a doomed god. At least, that's how I see it! It's pretty fun actually. I'm having all kinds of horrible things cast at me. His god is nice and super-afflicted and horror marked though. :)

But those Armageddons are pretty brutal!

[JimMorrison]

The peaceful Neifel giants groan and protest.

Could it be, that this horrible quake has awakened something great and terrible from an aeons old slumber....?

[Juffos]

Agartha is gearing up it's defences, because their once-peaceful neighbours of R'lyeh have become brutal and bloodthirsty. Who knows who will they be striking after the upstart T'ien Ch'i has been exterminated?

[Executor]

This is a new low even for TC. Com on man, you're dead what's the point of destroying the game for the rest of us?

[Executor]

Oh yes and for the record. This idiotic move of your affected R'lyeh the least by the way. Now he has an even bigger chance to win.

[vfb]

Agartha, I'm just complaining about you because I see all those Iron Dragons in your capitol, plus you fired off both Wells with AN up! And the Well of Misery had to have enough gems to override Sauromatia's, so that in itself probably paid for a wish.

Sauromatia, the Armageddon hurt you and Hinnom and Lanka the most probably, because of blood hunting, but it's not going to kill any of Agartha's units at all, and Agartha's income even went up this month.

[Juffos]

Yup, and by eliminating me, R'lyeh's victory is more than assured.

Go for it.

[Quitti]

"And the world trembled, great balls of fire descending from the sky, killing thousands upon thousands in the world. Seeing the world wane, population of the world being slaughtered, the Great Cyclops Kevätkukkanen had only one thing to cling to. At least no-one else will flourish in the empty lands, once homes to the prospering countries of this wasteland. "

As a side note, this hurts r'lyehs income, but I'm guessing their probable clam farming will more or less feed off their army. The nation of T'ien Ch'i has nothing to gain from fighting two-three superpowers at once. Our once mighty empire has been beaten by the coalition of Sauromatia, R'lyeh and Hinnom. Our lands ravaged by Golems, Gargoyles, Air queens (they do drop quite fast to frozen heart, though, to my surprise), Tartarians, Grigori and All sorts of underwater whatnot. Only great power not attacking me has been Agartha, who undoubtedly have some superior motive for this, seems to be having some... conflict with R'lyeh now. All I can do is hurt Sauromatia and Hinnom and the rest who swore vendetta against me when my Nexus went up. I'm still holding on into 8 different forts, and one of them contains the person who's been wishing all along. Do your best, while you still can :)

On another note, R'lyehs incompetent attacks against my MR 40 cyclops do continue, though my god, being powerful, cannot hold on forever. You'd better do well now and attack R'lyeh while he's still occupied in my lands, before he gobbles up the whole game.

Oh and Executor, this does not destroy the game. This alters the tactics you need to use to win. Which I doubt now since I've got my eye on something else than R'lyeh alone. He has more or less beaten me alone, you (Sauromatia) and Hinnom having more or less just swiftened my demise. T'ien Ch'i is on it's way making the game somewhat unplayable for all else but Agartha and R'lyeh. It's time to choose your sides, and for what I'm worth, it won't be the underwater superpower.

[lwarmonger]

I have never heard of vfb being anything other than peaceful and benevolant towards his neighbors. Surely this must be some Eastern trickery to decieve all into believing him to be an aggressive player!

[vfb]

R'lyeh is not gobbling up anything. We have shared the spoils of your lands equally with the Arcane Nexus Taskforce.

R'lyeh does not have all that many clams either, since you put the AN up, I've cut back my forging and such to the bare minimum. (Except for GoRing my Moose which you killed, but hey I've gotta have some fun!)

R'lyeh apologizes for our incompetence in eliminating your cyclops. I was misled as to the outcome of the previous battle, and expected to see something quite different inside your fort. R'lyeh has considered launching a lawsuit against the producers of the movie "Last Month's Battle in Tien Chi" because of the historical inaccuracies therein.

[Executor]

Quitti, if you keep casting Armagedon we might as well declare Vfb the winner. You are only hurting me, Niefelheim, Lanka and Hinnom.

If you do choose to continue to do this, I will clearly have no chance to win but I will do anything and everything in my power to make Vfb the winner.

[Quitti]

Executor. Consider my point in the game.

Soon to be eliminated, with the power to affect the whole game.

I'm basically capable of eliminating two out of three players who are currently attacking me from winning the game, while somewhat hurting the third one, and at the same time doing mostly nothing to the only neighbor I have who has not attacked me.

Now what would you do in this position? If you had to go, wouldn't you want to go with a boom ;)? Like I said, it's time to choose your sides. I'm predicting that only Agartha and R'lyeh can possibly win this game anymore, and while R'lyeh has been amusing and a good opponent, he has been an opponent, while Agartha has not. Why not play a game bit in favor of him then?


"While raining fire and destruction upon his enemies, knowing his fate was doomed, the once great and mighty, now all but blind, diseased, cursed, horrormarked, weakened, limp and crippled with horrendous wounds, the once mighty Cyclops thought; Well, it was fun while it lasted."

Thumbs up for Vfb for being a worthy opponent, I don't really know how I could've stopped you from successfully raiding my lands. I could've probably put more mages for magic duel duty but that's kind of expensive use for those.. Besides, when are you gonna attack with something that has the power to kill that cyclops? Your paralyze/soul slay just doesn't seem to cut through MR40... I wonder why. And by the way, the gobbling part. "Divided equally", perhaps based by landmass, but you picked the one third that contains around quadruple the population/income compared to the rest of the wasteland down there :) Tidal waves ahoy.

[hunt11]

Well that is one way to go with a bang. Through I was one of the players who was hurt the most by this, I can't really fault you for doing as much harm as you could to those who are fighting you. I am curious though if you got outside help to amass that amount of pearls.

[Executor]

First of all Quiti, income doesn't really matter this late in the game if you think Vfb screwed us over with land, only gems do.

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I'm basically capable of eliminating two out of three players who are currently attacking me from winning the game, while somewhat hurting the third one, and at the same time doing mostly nothing to the only neighbor I have who has not attacked me.

Again you're wrong, all you're doing is killing our blood income. While it is very hurtful, it's far from eliminating me from the game. Oh and if you think that score graphs show something, you're wrong, again. Those are all militia and other troops I couldn't get rid of.
I might as well lay it all out, the real power of Sauromatia is in 400+ vampires and over 50 vampire lords which was my strategy from the start along with dominion kill. I have some other thing worth mentioning but not until Agartha is dead.


Believe me when I say this, Agartha will not win this game, Vfb will.

Sauromatia declares war or Agartha, we will uphold our 3 turn NAP before we attack. I wanted to do this a very long time, actually since Juffos overcasted my well but only TC stopped me. It doesn't really matter any more.

R'lyeh can consider Sauromatia an ally until the very end at which point we will surrender to him so that R'lyeh will win.

[Juffos]

Oh, gosh, gee. Maybe I should too surrender to R'lyeh so nobody actually loses but gets to be part of the great mighty Kingmaker Confederation? :D

No. A game which has developed this far should definitely not end in such an anticlimax. Agartha won't surrender! Ever! We will fight even if the gills of every single pale one have been excised and fed to troglodytes! We hope our resolve will inspirate every nation out there still with dignity and balls to fight against the cowards.

[Quitti]

hunt11, I've had Arcane Nexus up for, who knows how many turns, it generates quite plenty of pearls for me.. I've been firing wishes every turn since. And still got plenty to go even if the nexus will be in some miraculous way be dispelled. Also I had quite a bit clams myself, basically I blew all my water income and the water gems I traded from others into clams, which produce pearls for me.

Executor, since you admitted that the Armageddon is hurting you (And since it's obviously hurting Hinnom), it's enough for me to keep doing it as long as I can. But hey, it's a game, I play this game now only to keep you from winning, since I can't keep r'lyeh from probably winning the game. To be honest, hunt11, You could've played your cards a bit better, I didn't do much to decimate your 6000 gold dawn guard army at province 55 10-20 turns back. But since you got grigori or few now, they are a tad late. You should've gotten/used them way earlier.

[hunt11]

Quitti, Yes I realize that, I had planned to go straight for blood after getting the mandatory dousing rods, but then the war with Formia started. I had to focus all my research to more pressing needs so that I could win the fight. Also since I was using a lot of mages to counteract his sacreds, I had even less mages researching. Thanks for telling me about the wishes, it makes my life a lot easier, also to be honest my blood economy only real use for me was to get LOC's, because while I can see the use of having a massive blood economy, it was never my plan.

[Fakeymcfake]

Hey, this is hurting me quite a bit as well and I've done nothing to you. While what you're doing is allowable as far as the design of the game goes I'd say it is somewhat akin to knocking over a chessboard after losing a game in terms of sportsmanship.

I'm not saying that I don't understand your reasoning for doing so, a last hurrah before going down is always fun to have. But by launching successive earthquakes you're screwing over everyone, not just the people who beat you. You're not even hurting them that much. Executor is right, you're barely scratching R'lyeh with the earthquakes, and while the loss of bloodslaves might annoy Sauro it's crippling me way more than anyone else.

Anyhow, if you're going to keep this up until R'lyeh finally puts you out of your misery I might as well quit and concentrate on other games because quite frankly you've just pissed all over my chances for your little blaze of glory.

[Quitti]

On a completely unrelated note, TC just became the proverbial 500 lbs gorilla of our game. And unfortunately, this world only has room for one nation of apes, proverbial or otherwise.

I considered that a threat, though somewhat meaningless since you really didn't have easy access to my lands. True, you have not actually done anything in-game to hurt me that I could at least be aware of. But such is the price to pay for siding with my enemies (if you aren't with me, you are against me, and the usual stuff, yadayada).

Yes. I ruined your chances. Now is your chance to ruin the game for someone else. Attack Hinnom, sauromatia, agartha, r'lyeh, whoever's left. Or spam some infernal disease, who knows, you might get lucky with accidentally killing off my wisher :)

[vfb]

Surely even Agartha wishes this madness to stop, and will join in the elimination of the insane god Kevätkukkanen of Tien Chi before the world is reduced to a smoldering wasteland. Fly your iron dragons down to The Den, so you may capture a TC castle the next month!

[Executor]

Quiti, I see you are a very bad loser and that will get you nowhere. With this attitude you will never win a single game. People will begin to hate you for the way you play and will want to take you out as soon as possible. I am very certain that you just made some enemies in this game, nothing else.

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While what you're doing is allowable as far as the design of the game goes I'd say it is somewhat akin to knocking over a chessboard after losing a game in terms of sportsmanship.

I couldn't agree with this statement more, bravo.

I'm a bit interested now, would you go for this solution in a megagame???

[vfb]

ooc:

Sorry Fakeymcfake and Executor, I have to say that I see it totally differently.

I suppose it depends on whether you are playing this game to win, like it's chess or some other pure intellectual challenge; or whether you create some kind of fantasy in your head about the situation (RP). Of course, when you play from a RP perspective, you are still trying to win in that case too: you want your pretender to ascend and become the new one true god.

The difference shows up when your pretender has lost hope of ascending. What do you do in that case? Just go AI? That's one option, and there's nothing wrong with choosing it. Or you can try to exact revenge on the nations who caused your demise, using any means available. Or you can become the vassal of some other nation -- this is the only choice I really don't like (but when I think back when I first started playing, there didn't seem to be anything wrong doing that ... but now: ewww!). Or if you've had an enjoyable war but come out on the short side, you can even surrender to the victor, and maybe he will even discover a cache of loot in your treasure chest. Or your vengeful followers can distribute the last unused gems and items to the enemies of your enemy, so retribution will be paid upon the wicked. I think I've done all these at one time or another.

And you don't know for sure what TC has planned either. He may have saved up enough gold from when he had Nature's Bounty up that he thinks he still may have a miniscule chance for his god to ascend, if he totally destroys the income of the others in the world. (I don't think that's the case here ... but I'm not Quitti.)

There's nothing in any of Quitti's posts that I read, that indicate he's Armageddoning the world just out of spite. I'd be happy to play with him again.

If you want to play in a game without Armageddons, then please make sure that's part of the conditions at the time you join. Otherwise, find a way to work around it. That's part of the fun playing against people!

I think it's possible this post will irritate you and make you want to attack R'lyeh. That's okay! (The attacking R'lyeh part, I mean. I'm not intentionally trying to anger you, I just see that as a possible outcome.) :D As you may have guessed, I play the game from an RP angle. So I do want my god to ascend, by any means necessary. But I do enjoy the challenge that comes from finding solutions to problems thrown at me. And even if you are not RP'ing, I will RP for you, and invent some reason (in my head) why Sauromatia decided to attack R'lyeh. I'm not saying you have to attack me though! :) Please kill TC's wisher first, at least.

[Juffos]

If you do choose to continue to do this, I will clearly have no chance to win but I will do anything and everything in my power to make Vfb the winner.

Quiti, I see you are a very bad loser and that will get you nowhere. With this attitude you will never win a single game. People will begin to hate you for the way you play and will want to take you out as soon as possible. I am very certain that you just made some enemies in this game, nothing else.

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While what you're doing is allowable as far as the design of the game goes I'd say it is somewhat akin to knocking over a chessboard after losing a game in terms of sportsmanship.

I couldn't agree with this statement more, bravo.

I'm a bit interested now, would you go for this solution in a megagame???

Augh, the mirror! The mirror! It burns! :D

[JimMorrison]

I feel like I'm in some sort of Dominions addicts meeting.....

Hi, I'm Jim Morrison, and I play Dominions.

"Hi, Jim!"

O.o

There's an irony to Armageddon, really, and that is if you look very closely at the game, you can almost see who will win because of it. Anyway, I hope you wanted R'lyeh to win, because it sure looks inevitable at this point.

I am in the camp who kind of doesn't care about the ultimate outcome anymore, I would just like the game to end. ;)

[vfb]

... O_o ... *_\ ... O#o ... escape click click click r click click click click F click click click F1 scroll scroll click click click scroll scroll click click click escape F5 click click e AHHHHhhh.....

Hi Jim.

[Quitti]

Vfb speaks wise words. I mostly agree with what he said. (Being a vassal might still be a viable strategy for winning the game if you had some epicly good plan.) But either way, While nature's bounty netted me huge loads of gold, they're gone now - used to upkeep and new mages mostly. I do not play for win anymore, I play to make the game the way I want it to turn out - I'm eliminating many players from the victory race, while giving a chance to the only nation that did not attack or threaten me, and giving a chance to the only opponent I have that I've had really fun time trying to battle against. The outcome is best when it's one of your choosing, is it not?

And to be honest. "You made some enemies" does sound like another threat thrown at me. I do not carry grudges between games, knowing other player from previous/simultaneous games might alter my tactics of playing against that nation, but I certainly do not see them as "enemies" (as much as you can't see other people as enemies in dominions) from the beginning. Are you trying to speak me out of opening huge calderas in the ground, causing massive quakes and tidal waves? I don't really think you can. I'm a god afterall ;)

[Quitti]

I'm a bit interested now, would you go for this solution in a megagame???

If it suited my purposes and was not against the rules, the answer is Yes, I would.

[JimMorrison]

Vfb speaks wise words. I mostly agree with what he said. (Being a vassal might still be a viable strategy for winning the game if you had some epicly good plan.)

In my first MP game ever, I got diplomatically sandwiched into 13 provinces, in a poor location. I offered my services to my good neighbor, considering the entire game a learning experience. I cast the first global, and ended up with 4 up at end game (including Arcane Nexus), and we ultimately considered it a joint victory.....

Just proves - when your only sure thing is guaranteed failure, always go for the long shot. ;)

[Executor]

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And to be honest. "You made some enemies" does sound like another threat thrown at me.
I'm just saying, not everyone is so forgiving.

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I'm eliminating many players from the victory race, while giving a chance to the only nation that did not attack or threaten me, and giving a chance to the only opponent I have that I've had really fun time trying to battle against. The outcome is best when it's one of your choosing, is it not?

Hehe, I wonder why you're helping Agartha...
Well R'lyeh was kinda the only one besides Agartha who has in a position to attack you. If you were next to me, believe me I'd throw everything I have at you. :)
But I did take out the first biggest threat of the game, named Cealum and controled by Baalz so that's enough for me.

[Fakeymcfake]

I personally have no issues with the use of Armageddon as it can be a very powerful weapon if used correctly and prepared for properly. However, in this case it appears to be nothing but an act of desperation and/or spite, which while perfectly in line with the rules is something I find somewhat distasteful and I've said as much.

But I'm not going to declare Quitti an automatic enemy because of this or make any other comments as to his character or abilities as a player. Though I will be watching him closely if/when we wind up in another game together as this situation is one I would certainly like to avoid.

[vfb]

Bah! How many Mind Lords does it take to kill a Cyclops? What a CF that battle was.

It's only thanks to the insane Nethgul blinking my Mind Lord around and convincing him that it was a good idea to go try to leech the Golem's soul, so that the Mind Lord's bodyguards could beat him up and make him stop paralyzing everyone. Magic Duel would have been a smart idea.

I was wondering why my Mind Lords died and then I saw I parked them right next to my Rime-Haurberk wearing Troll. Thank goodness they did finally decide to shuffle off their mortal coils, since that let their troll bodyguards run up and finally kill the TC god.

I think all of these seismic disturbances have created underwater pressure waves that have turned the mind of R'lyehs finest strategists into puddles of goo.

Oh yeah, and go ghost wolves! A lightning bolt or two instead might have been nice.

And I do have a duskdagger, but the wielder was stuck in the middle of nowhere muttering, so I just had to hold the castle storming party without him.

[Executor]

I don't understand why that Golem had the ruby eye?

[vfb]

He's been in a bunch of battles in that castle.

You can pick up eyes from friendly casualties.

[Quitti]

And artifacts get mostly picked up anyway, I had a f5 or f6 capable mage with the eye originally, and pretty much only the cyclops and golem survived that battle and cyclops was already filled up with misc slots so naturally the golem took it...

[Executor]

This is turning into a mad game.
Sigh, Illwinter???

Don't be surprised when I cast utherdark or something. :)

[hunt11]

Let's see how many game altering spells (utterdark and astral corruption) we can cast before this game ends :).

[JimMorrison]

Let's see how many game altering spells (utterdark and astral corruption) we can cast before this game ends :).

Gonna get fun trying to overwrite globals now, if you roll the Illwinter, you're probably going to fail and lose your gems. ;)

[Fakeymcfake]

This is turning into a mad game.
Sigh, Illwinter???

Don't be surprised when I cast utherdark or something. :)

Please do, my demons would love it.

Hmm, now what terrible terrible blood ritual can I work up?

[vfb]

Oh Phil.

Sounds like my mages are going to need some bodyguards. :(

[Executor]

This is madness, madness I tellz ya!
Send me the blood slaves and I'll cast astral corruption. Actually this could be a very good idea

[Fakeymcfake]

Eh, might take me a couple turns to get the slaves together, I've been throwing all my slaves into raising an army to attack Hinnom. Oh, Hunt11, I'm going to attack you in three turns, heads up!

[vfb]

R'lyeh witnessed a great battle in Witch Hills, where a mere smattering of Tien Chi mages held out against Hinnom. A great Grigori was seen staggering confused around the battlefield. Lay off the bottle, Ezekiel! There's work to be done.

And much strangeness: The Master with the Iron Crutch was in the battle, marked as having cast a global. He was wielding many astral boosters, but is feebleminded, so it is impossible to tell what paths he may once have had. The Master was slain by the drunken Ezekiel, but the Arcane Nexus still remains.

Though the Master is immortal and was slain in his own dominion, R'lyeh still holds the Tien Chi capitol, so he should be dead permanently. But the Arcane Nexus is still up.

Very mysterious!

[Executor]

What! No more Armageddon!?
Blah, I started to enjoy this game being totaly screwed up.

On another matter, The Immortal Empire Of Sauromatia had been attacked by Neifel Giants last month. The temperature is falling considerably all over our Empire and there for we must act. How are we supposed to use the blood of innocents if it is frozen? This act of hostility clearly makes our former agreements null and void!
Sauromatia is on the move.

[JimMorrison]

We anticipated this. Though the coming of the Illwinter was most directed at unseating Agartha to help our myriad friends, we knew that it was only a matter of time before Sauromatia saw fit to remove themselves from that group.

We welcome the coming war, and we pity the poor misguided amazons who will die in the coming months. The Illwinter has come, weep for your children.

[Fakeymcfake]

Woo, complete chaos ensues!

In other news, is everyone still good with the 48 hours hosting? Personally I'm still good with it for now, but if the upcoming war with Hinnom gets really involved I might need extra time. I'm just wondering what everyone else thought on the matter.

[vfb]

Since R'lyeh can't afford to hire anything any more, I'm still fine with 48hrs. :)

But I've got no objections to increasing the timer if someone else wants to.

[Executor]

I let you know after the initial attack on Neifel.:)

[Quitti]

Heh, I'm just hanging along. That battle in witch hills showed the awesome power of simple w1/a1 mages again (thanks to CBM to making a worthless spell very much worthwhile). Even the awesome Grigori are not immune to confusion ;)

On another note, that Master with iron crutch (whatever) was my wisher/AN caster, and, well, he died.
AN Caster dead -> check
Capitol under enemy control -> check
AN Caster immortal, no place to raise -> check
Arcane Nexus down -> wait, what, I still have it? Well, it's free pearls. Too bad I don't have much to use them to :(

[JimMorrison]

You could mail them to Niefelheim, whom your Armageddons have grievously wounded, but who never did a thing to you. <3

And I think this is a known bug, where Immortal units who cannot come back due to occupied capital don't trigger the Global Effect check on their removal from the game, since they didn't actually die at their time of death, or at their point of removal from the game.

You may want to post it anyways, as if it's not the same bug, it's related. Llama can furnish the files for both turns to Illwinter as well, so they can see what actually happened.

[vfb]

This is madness, madness I tellz ya!
Send me the blood slaves and I'll cast astral corruption. Actually this could be a very good idea

The threat of Astral Corruption, combined with the rapid takeover of Niefelheim by Sauromatia, is too great a menace to be ignored.

R'lyeh declares war on the cannibal manflayers!

[Executor]

Does R'lyeh have no honor? Choose a weakened nation for war, and even than try to outnumber them 2 to 1.

We welcome the war with R'lyeh. Now nothing stop us from casting Astral Corruption. I suggest you try to take me out in the next 6 turn. That's the deadline before I cast AC.

[JimMorrison]

Does R'lyeh have no honor? Choose a weakened nation for war, and even than try to outnumber them 2 to 1.

A weakened nation? Like mine? Or like R'lyeh? :re:

I understand where you're coming from, but really? :o

[Executor]

Prepare yourselves mortals, the day of reconing has came!!!

[vfb]

Already? I thought you were going to wait six months. :shock:

[Executor]

Well... yes, but I need to dramatically intensify the situation, first the Amazons go to war led by the Witch Kings, than than legions of vampires ravage the land, than comes the tartarian invasion, and finally the sky turns dark by the AC. :)

[vfb]

Well, R'lyeh is glad to see you have a plan!

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to just tentacle it.

[hunt11]

My first major battle with Lanka and I have only one thing to say. Damn that undead monkey. My Grigori had routed or killed everything on the field except one undead monkey and then the defenders turn limit was reached and he ran.

[Executor]

R'lyeh should be careful sending those Golems, they could run into some vampires.

[vfb]

We have heard tales of the Vampirii roaming the lands, and thought it was related to the End of Days that Tien Chi has started with their Armageddons. R'lyeh send a crack researcher out into the field to investigate, cleverly disguised as a Golem. He found no sign of the bloodsuckers, but he has only just begun his detective work.

[Executor]

Sauromatians shall continue the work of the once glorious Tien Chi. The End of Days is coming.

[Fakeymcfake]

My first major battle with Lanka and I have only one thing to say. Damn that undead monkey. My Grigori had routed or killed everything on the field except one undead monkey and then the defenders turn limit was reached and he ran.

I had never encountered a Grigori before, tough hellspawn you have there. I am glad that I was at least able to score a technical victory in our first bout.

Sauromatians shall continue the work of the once glorious Tien Chi. The End of Days is coming.

Tell me it's going to be astral corruption, cause that'd be just peachy. However if you're going to spam more earthquakes I might have to join the dog pile.

[Quitti]

The awesome Cyclops Kevätkukkanen in the lead of once-glorious nation on T'ien Ch'i is probably looking everyone from above, having a smile on his rocky face, enjoying the chaos he has set in motion. All that now awaits is the corruption of astral plane itself. I predict that in few years, only horrors will exist on this pale world, devoid of population, infused and ravaged by the magics unleashed by us.

It's the end of the world. And I was the herald of it. *Evil laughter*

[vfb]

Oh Phil.

I was expecting Hinnom to take TC's last fort in #60 this month.

Instead not only TC has escaped to raid the countryside, he's at it again with the Armageddons. This needs to stop!

-- R'lyeh

[Quitti]

The gods of this desolate world shall not stand up to my plans! The world must be purged from pesky population - it only interferes with the greater picture! The world shall burn!

[Executor]

I guess people here really don't like a 1 on 1 war... Will Sauromatia fall before AC is up? I think not...

[JimMorrison]

I guess people here really don't like a 1 on 1 war... Will Sauromatia fall before AC is up? I think not...

But you attacked Switzerland. That's some sort of international war crime. >.>

[Fakeymcfake]

Alright, work is getting crazy for me now that we're into exams so I gotta ask if people are alright with extending hosting times. Personally I'd like to move to a three day hosting interval if no one has any issues.

[Executor]

I'll second that proposal.

[vfb]

Excellent idea! Thirdeded.

[hunt11]

Sounds good to me.

[Fakeymcfake]

Well that's a majority. Three day hosting intervals starting now.

[Executor]

Now it would be a damn shame for that sickle, boots of planes and armor of virtue to get lost, you might not get so lucky next time...

[vfb]

Yeah, I was worried you weren't going to hit me! :D

But I'm short on death gems, so unless you'd like to trade me some, I'll have to continue to raid.

[vfb]

R'lyeh thanks Agartha for the unexpected hijacking of my GoH. The support payments on my aquatic units has been ruining me, and I've tried to starve the bastard spawn to death, but just when they are about to starve and die, they'd get better! Argh.

Anyway, I expect much better results with my aquatic forces population control plan now.

[Juffos]

No problem. We are here for your convenience.

[vfb]

By the way, I assume you know by now that rebel TC death cult terrorists are camping out in your neighborhood?

Be careful that they do not infect your peasants with their dreadful meme of total global population annihilation! Soon all your Agarthan babies will be casting Armageddon too, and then we'll all be in big trouble.

-- R'lyeh

[Juffos]

Local earth readers have already been sent to remove any threat of thought poisoning.

[Quitti]

Thought poisoning? We are here on an important mission from our God. We must build a bastion of hope - hope of a better tommorrow, tomorrow with no population in the way of the perfect world.

[Executor]

Everybody ready??? Deadline up...

[Quitti]

The world - with it's scarce population on the verge of extinction, it's veins of magic poisoned by the sacrifice of hundreds of virgins - IS LOOKING GOOD!

Kevätkukkanen's plan is working! The world is cast into disarray, the eyes of R'lyeh no longer watch us from above! No magic can be safely practiced, no population remains to fuel your futile wars! Admit your defeat to the greater power - No-one can win!

On a sidenote, anyone got any plans now that the world is in ruins? Perhaps take a field trip to north? I heard it's quite warm now, with huge calderas having been opened by us there. And those rivers of magma sure make it easy to cook your food.