Dreadful fates II - LA Ulm - Twobits Winner !!

[Bullock]

After the short version here comes the long version !

ERA: Late Age
MAP: Shadowshore
Turns RATE: 36h until majority want more.
Players: 8-12
Mods: ...CBM 1.92
.............Streamers & Standards (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=39989)
Victory condition : Until survivors agree for a winner ... or to the death !
Diplomacy : Everything is allowed.
Server page: http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=Dreadful_Fates_II

Settings:
Special site frequency:50
Renaming:On
Score graphs:Off
Hall of fame entries:15
Everything else default.

And ofc the usual restrictions concerning bogus orders, filling enemy labs, Army blocking and being a douche bag.
EDIT: The use of free Ettins is also forbidden.


Nations:

Bullock - Ermor
Anaconda - Pythium
Scaramuccia - Mictlan
Jiggymike - Abysia
Ossa - Marignon
Twobits - Ulm (Winner !)(Formerly Fantomen)
Soyweiser - Utgard
Hylobius - C'tis (Formerly Umsolfunolanis)
Dojango - Bogarus
EndymionAwake - Agartha
P3D - Gath
Whollaborg - Midgard

[Anaconda]

Phita!

[Scaramuccia]

R'lyeh this time

[Jiggymike]

I want to play again but I'm not sure if I want to do Chelms (Man) again. Let you know my nation sometime soon.

Actually I'd like to be Abysia this time, thanks!

[Ossa]

Marignon (again)

[Fantomen]

Ulm

[Soyweiser]

Utgard please.

[Bullock]

Aaaaah *** kicking on sight (my *** unfortunately :) )

[Umsolfunolanis]

I'll go wtih C'tis again.

[Soyweiser]

Aaaaah *** kicking on sight (my *** unfortunately :) )

Of course, you are Ermor. You need to be destroyed. (Sadly the one who kills you is usually the one who gets killed next. Which is still going on in nbzrgnfrnzy. I think Jomon will win that one. But I continue to live, as long as abysia and utgard do not attack me :D).

[Bullock]

Aaaaah *** kicking on sight (my *** unfortunately :) )

Of course, you are Ermor. You need to be destroyed. (Sadly the one who kills you is usually the one who gets killed next. Which is still going on in nbzrgnfrnzy. I think Jomon will win that one. But I continue to live, as long as abysia and utgard do not attack me :D).

Lol that s fun Cause i was sure, without you, to defeat Jomon.
Btw Shame on those who are not attacking you lol.

Glad to see u in

[dojango]

I'll play again. Going to try Bogarus this time.

[Bullock]

Welcome back!

The game is up to receive pretenders :
http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=Dreadful_Fates_II

[Scaramuccia]

Tests show this isn't map for R'lyeh. You are in war with everyone very fast:).

So I am taking Mictlan.

[Bullock]

Yeah indeed i think it s better if we have no water nations.

[Squirrelloid]

IRC user EndymionAwake would like to play as Agartha. I believe this would be his first MP game.

He'd be posting himself, but hasn't been activated by a Shrapnel admin yet.

[Jiggymike]

I think you missed it but I said I wanted Abysia. Pretender will be in later today.

[Bullock]

Ty Squirrel.

I ve updated main post for Both requests.
Waiting to hear from EndymionAwake.

The game will start on saturday morning and there is still 2 potentials slots available.

[P3D]

Add me as Gath.

[Bullock]

So we have a last slot if someone want to join.
And we are waiting for 4 pretenders.

[Whollaborg]

I am interested. I have trouble installing the game after a quite a long leave (my cd-station is out of order right now).

Maybe you can wait for couple of hours I get the game up and running? If not, I am happy to let someone else take this last seat.

[Bullock]

Ok i keep you the free slot 'til tomorrow night, keep us posted.

[EndymionAsleep]

Ok, howdy, this is the Agartha that Squirrelloid was nice enough to reserve a spot for while the forums were activating for me. As he stated, this is my first game, so try not to laugh too much as I fall to pieces once the tiniest amount of pressure is placed on me.

My pretender is already in. (and I already regret it! Bah, honor is honor though, I'm locked in... and its not like its the worst... it should be quite playable.)

[Umsolfunolanis]

you know you can resend pretenders? Just send a new one and it'll overwrite the old one.

and it woudl make sense for MP games to activte private messages.

[Whollaborg]

Midgard! Sending pretender tomorrow, as it has gotten really late here in Finland already. Thanks for patience!

[dojango]

Yeah, you can re-send pretenders & turns all the way up until the next turn hosts. The server simply uses the last one received, so if you receive info thru private messages that makes you want to change your moves you can do it.

[EndymionAsleep]

Well then maybe I've done that then. Or maybe not. Muahahaha. Oh, and I did activate private messaging... even though I think intrigue/diplomacy may be my main weakness.

[Bullock]

Great we have enough players for a great game and only 2 pretenders missing. The game will start tomorrow morning or earlier if all pretenders are in.

[Soyweiser]

Wow, waiting for me then? I will make haste making my pretender.

Only.. I need to think of of a name. That is so hard. Go for a normal name, something threatening, something mysterious, something funny... help me here people.

[Umsolfunolanis]

When I was searching for a name for this one I just looked around from where I was sitting and the first thing my eye cought sight of was the whiskey bottle to my left.
Hence the name of my pretender: Oban

[Whollaborg]

Pretender sent! Managed not to be the last :) There is still two pretenders unsent.

[Fantomen]

Pretender in. One left to go.

[Jiggymike]

Woot ready to go! Let's see if I can manage to not mangle this game too badly.

[Jiggymike]

Luck 3: check. Disastrous event on turn 3: check. Sigh: check.

[Umsolfunolanis]

Is anyone interested in Water Gems? I have quite a few of them.
I want Death Gems in exchange.

[dojango]

Anyone else having trouble getting their 2h file accepted? Keep getting an error message from llamaserver that says:

Hello from the LlamaServer.

I received an e-mail from you, but unfortunately there seems to be a problem with it.

Your 2h file appears to be for a game the LlamaServer doesn't know about - perhaps you sent the wrong one?

Details of your e-mail:
Subject: dreadful_fates_2
Sent at: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:30:36 +0000
Attachment: late_rus.2h

[Anaconda]

Llama being acting weird today. I got mine accepted but it doesnt show in the list.

[dojango]

Yeah, nevermind, I fixed it. Just an minor IOHS error.

[Jiggymike]

I sent my turn once just now and it told me that it received my version and then immediately a revised version, hopefully just a quirk in the system.

[Soyweiser]

that happens every once in a while when the server is acting up.

Tip: it is right now.

[Jiggymike]

Yuck, bad turn, was debating which province to move my mercs into and chose the wrong one.

[Fantomen]

Ironically enough, my god was there only because I staled. Now why haven't I seen your Moloch in action yet? Seems to me he should be raiding all over the place by now.

[Anaconda]

Now that we dont have score graphs enabled, I would like to hear bits of intel from all the corners of the shadowshore!?

[Jiggymike]

Ironically enough, my god was there only because I staled. Now why haven't I seen your Moloch in action yet? Seems to me he should be raiding all over the place by now.

So maybe I just got doubly unlucky that you didn't do the movement that you intended to/I expected. I didn't really design him for raiding but I may be running out of options at this point...

[Scaramuccia]

Now that we dont have score graphs enabled, I would like to hear bits of intel from all the corners of the shadowshore!?

Just buy some scouts.

[Jiggymike]

Cool I'm glad that my guys cast Summon Imp against an army of 20 undead troops instead of banishments and smites like I asked them to. Can't really see myself lasting too much longer against Ulm here, I'm down to four provinces and just lost my prophet. On an aside I am really starting to hate this game, takes too much damn thought and effort to go and just get wiped out right away.

[Fantomen]

The night was mild and starry, you could see the Cockatrice and the Maiden rising in the east, the Hound and Dragon in the west. Bael leered against a stone, warmed by his own heat, pondering the war against the northmen. They had suffered losses against the wretched northmen, yes, and now were trapped behind enemy lines. But Abaddon, prophet of Gath'un remained calm as always and commanded faith and hope in his loyal men. Beal knew Abaddon would not fail them, the power of the true god guiding his steps. And Bael was his apprentice, chosen to stand by the side of the flaming prophet himself. No, they would fight their way back with fire and steel, fresh troops awaiting home in Abysia to crush the northmen, melt their ice, cook them alive in those heavy armour they wore. Gath'un himself had awakened, the prophet had seen it in the fires, no living creature could stand against Gath'un, the essence of fire, the smouldering Moloch of Abysia. Bael smiled as he pondered the northmens demise, saw images of his own glory and ascension. I will become the greatest of the Dragons he promised himself, and lost his thoughts in sweet burning dreams.

A chill in the air woke him. A chill? It's not possible, him and his brothers fire should keep the heat, not to mention the smouldering prophet. Yet there it was, a cold wind sweeping over the camp. A mist thick as pinesmoke. He saw his brothers stir in their sleep, waking with grunts and moans. Abaddon stood alert by the fire, peering into the night. Something was not right, "this is the work of dark magics" he said gloomily "Bael, ready yourself, the enemy is near".

The Abysian infantrymen made a shield wall around the two mages and their virgins. Shields gleaming with the water that steamed off the cold mist, smoke rising from red skin. Slowly they came, lurching out of the woods. Tall and silent in black tainted plates, carrying rusted halberds. Their faces pale and rotting, some missing parts where the blackened skull showed through. But it was the eyes that caught Baels gaze, pale blue eyes that shone like icy stars in the rotting faces, eyes that never blinked, eyes with but one emotion. Hunger. Bael felt the chill reaching out of those eyes and take hold inside him, they are not alive he thought, not alive. But they can yet be killed.

Abaddon screamed a command, and he and bael each seized a virgin girl and cut her throat in one fluid motion. The blood spurted out and took fire, driving the mist away for a moment. From the lowest of hells came the sqeaking imps forth, threw themselves against the ghouls. But the ghouls moved faster than Bael would have thought possible, and cut the imps down in the air, hardly pausing. The Abysians stood bravely, but the dead brought their halberds down with inhuman strength and cleaved shields and armor alike. Bael froze in terror when he saw how the ghouls ripped the flesh off fallen enemies and stuffed it into their drooling mouths. He cast a few more spells, but little did it help other than to drain his last energy. He fell to his knees in despair, and before him the last Abysians fell, cut down and eaten.

A shadow larger than any other stood before him, a ghoul with a flowing red cape and flail instead of halberd. The ghoul baron, the fallen captain of the ancient Ulmish guard, risen anew. Bael knew the stories, but had naught believed them until now. "It's only a bad dream" Bael thought as Ulrich Patrifagus ripped his heart out. Bael slipped into darkness with the fading image of the ghoul baron devouring the steaming heart. It was still beating.

[Jiggymike]

^OK that was awesome and assuaged my disappointment/annoyance/fury about my guys casting the wrong stupid spells. Seriously, I'd feel totally justified if someone wrote an AAR like that everytime after whupping my ***.

Also, I guess I was one smite away from killing your pretender and also on the verge of killing your Ghoul Baron before my guys decided it would be more fun to run away, so I can't be too upset with myself. Been an unfortunate game so far since that first turn.

[Jiggymike]

Well that was a poor time to stale...

I had at least 2 good chances to submit my turn and just forgot, oh well.

[Whollaborg]

Mercy!?!

Midgard has been overrun by Mictlan and Marignon,

We hereby ask for mercy from either of the attackers and ask humbly if you could spare us one province to serve our lord who would be our mighty benefactory and warden! Even forgiveness would be granted to whoever granted us this wish be it even our attackers.

We just would like to continue our dabblings into small magics with no real danger against anyone!

- Ottar the prophet of surrendering pretender whom fully acknowledges the superiority of Mictlan god and the might of Marignon as well

[Jiggymike]

People must have bid CRAZY high on those mercs last month to take them from me. I'm pretty much done in this game, Ulm is just swallowing me up and my mages refuse to follow their orders. Sure guys, just waste all your slave on summoning imps and then blink all around the battlefield, that should help! Don't cast all those great offensive blood spells in your repertoire or banishment against his army of ghoul guardians that basically took the north half of my territory with barely any resistance.

[Fantomen]

Those blinking warlocks were an unexpected display of bravery, I'll give you that :p. Well, you did kill 17 ghouls, sieged a fort and horror marked my baron, that's something. I'll have to send new troops now and break that seige, which will slow down my building of a vampire defence by two turns at least. Outrageous.

About those offensive blood spells, could it be they don't work on undead, and that's why your mages go off script? Inexplicable mage behavior is usually tied to targeting issues of some sort or the other.

Blink should probably be removed from the game or given a gem cost, I don't see it causing anything but trouble and frustration. If you want a blinking commander/mage you can just forge sandals. And that's not very often, blinking assassins with magic bows are funny though.

Interesting thing there, that we could see in this battle, a master casting blink also blinks all the slaves. That can actually be useful in a linebacker communion storming a fort, I've used it that way, but that's extremely niche though.

[Anaconda]

To my belowed family back home in the imperial city!

Yesterday I learned more lessons than I have learned during my time with the host so far. Our training at the imperial barracks was put in test for very first time at the fields of Wyndun. I can now assure you, my loved ones, most of the war stories one hears in taverns from here back to the imperial city --- its all just hydras' droppings. But first lesson of the day was that hour is so very long for the waiting men.

Only few days earlier we had became aware of monstrous, one-eyed worms from the deepest caverns of the earth crawling down on us from the north. Commander Titus ordered us to march north and meet them. Later we learned that commander had sent riders before us to muster men from the loyal towns. Our host was few in number, but we had got the best training the empire has to offer, and we were eager to test our mettle with these grotesque monsters. The commander was wise to hide the size of the enemy from us at this point, and our spirits flew high along with the colors of the empire.

When we finally arrived to the field, the commander chose not to try and hide from the enemy but wanted them to find us. So, we build huge fires, and sent out rides to scout surroundings. We didnt build any fortifications however, but we simply maintained our selves and slept. I shared the first watch with a comrade of mine, so we two had got our rest when the horns went off early in the next morning. The enemy was approaching from the north. They must have had some evil magic from the deepest caves with them, for our riders had not seen a hint of the precense of scouts.

As the worm-general spread his host across the field, we were stunned. The enemy had trice the numbers we had in our camp. Indeed we must have seem puny in their eyes. But from this point on, nothing happened for hours. They were simply waiting, and so were we. Commander Titus didnt let us know of he's plans, and therefore we just stayed put on the other side of the field. The enemy saw we had not prepared any defences what so ever, so they must have reasoned we might simply break after seeing theri numbers.

The host didnt break, however, no matter we were truly scared. Maybe more than we had ever been in our lives. What happened was the men grew anxious, and it started to show. The commander had instructed his underlings to keep the men in hand, no premature advance should be made. The stress symptoms are strange, I can assure. Some leak under themselves, some cant stop talking while others dont answer no matter how many times you speak to them... every man acts differently, and it only gets worse with each passing minute.

I believe, now that I think of it, we saw them at the same time with the enemy. A ragtac lot of men marching down a hill from wouth-west. The militia consisting of local men were finally coming to meet us. This made the enemy seemingly disturbed. It became finally clear they had not got outriders nor scouts of any sort. How sloppy, I remember my self thinking. On the other hand, we had the training of imperial war academy. We got these things – underground dwellers... well, most likely they did not.

The local men took the head and met the vanguard of the enemy. The imperial legionaries stayed back. This was, of course, understandable. Never send your best in first.

What hope the first appearance of our militia had sparked, it died out fast. When they passed through us, we saw them up close. The local were young boys with mixed training and equipment. We are young too, I admit it, but these fellows – they appeared so green they could s hit grass. The good thing was the militia had no time to be scared, for the enemy fell on them right away.

They broke immediatelly – it seemed, at least. Poor lads came back running. They threw down their shields and what ever weapons they had got with them. Commander Titus sounded off and we formed a thin, long line. This was also a sign for our horsemen, who were about to flank the enemy and fell on their archers and commanders behind the lines. Running militia was drawing the enemy after them. It was perfect timing; the premature joy of victory was taking over the enemy, and their flanks became vulnerable.

It was my first call, and I remember thinking surely this was also going to be the last. There aint that many things I can recall from the battle itself, thou.

I remember us meeting the remains of our scattered troops as we advanced. Some were crying us to turn around. We had no chance, they shouted. My comrade pushed one of those pitiful things down to the mud and yelled at him that bring it on, we are not afraid! Commander Titus was right after us, furious. I recall him punching hard one of the militia commanders running into him, commanding the deserter to gather all of those capable of carrying arms, and come after us.

”The emperor's own are still here! The fight is not over yet”, he thundered waving the banner he had picked up from the slippery field!

At one point I remember wondering to my self how come there could be so many dead enemies already. When they had died and who had slain them? Later I understood my stress reaction had been playing a trick on me – the militia had not not given up right away after all. Indeed, they had done their part before showing their backs to the enemy. Unfortunately the cavalry got pinned down by missile fire and thus, the infantry was forced to work their way through the enemy lines a foe by foe. That cost us more men than the original plan had been, told commander Titus. The enemy stood bravely their ground. Blood left no room for rust on our blades that day.

[Bullock]

Seriously gath's giants are amazing they wipe all waves of enemies whatever the nation is, with so few losses.
The sacred buff seems to be the right, working pretty well :)


it's quite a shame to fail at 3 (4?) Vs 1 like that :p

[Scaramuccia]

You guys are so fun to watch:)

[Bullock]

lol stop laughing and come help us :) we could use a 5th guy haha.

I'm also gathering any funds that northern nations would provide for this war !

[Umsolfunolanis]

Those Gibbors are tough, especially with that bless!!

Just got rid of three spies in one province this turn.
Stop snooping around in C'tis land

[P3D]

There are troops better than the Gibbors, but for a cap-only giant sacred they are "massable". Without that E9N4 bless they are not that good.

You need to get more skellispammers.

[Jiggymike]

I hope I stay alive in this game as long as possible just so I'll remember to check for the AAR's (or whatever you call the narratives)...fantastic!

[Jiggymike]

I don't love to throw around accusations, but did anyone have spies in Mark for that last battle between myself and Ulm? Seemed pretty clear to me that his archers were firing at my commanders because they ran way up without releasing any arrows and then started dropping them directly around my [poorly arranged] commanders who weren't close to anybody else that that point. Not sure this was explicitly stated in the rules but I understand that it's bad form to use these commands, which can only be copied from Bogus or something. Can we please clarify this?

In any case I finally got the battle I wanted: our pretenders one on one (plus a bunch of imps and PD on my side). Au revoir Fantomen, highly afflicted PoD.

[Anaconda]

So what was the outcome, false god called with evil name of Fantomen got slain in a heat of the battle?

...about those archers, I understood order "fire archers" will make them missile troops fire mages also?

BTW, do I get forging bonus from steel ovens?

[Jiggymike]

So what was the outcome, false god called with evil name of Fantomen got slain in a heat of the battle?

...about those archers, I understood order "fire archers" will make them missile troops fire mages also?

BTW, do I get forging bonus from steel ovens?

Yes, Gath'un, Lord of Fire and Blood was victorious, though he must be thankful for the good troops who sacrificed themselves by distracting the Prince of Death until he could land the final blow, as the battle took place within Fantomen's dominion and the outcome was certainly in doubt.

That may be possible but I've never seen archers directly target commanders/mages like that. If it is, that would be good to know. I did not have any archers on the battle field. This is why I said that I don't want to make any direct accusations, as I'm not terribly familiar with many of the mechanics of the game.

[Jiggymike]

The people of Abysia have held the nation of Ulm at bay for as long as possible, but we fear that they will soon overrun our capitol with sheer numbers. We have held them back with smaller numbers several times but they continue to grow as we stagnate. If anyone would care to attack them from the the West, where they are likely weakened while they concentrate their forces on us, we would be forever grateful. We will pay anyone who can prevent them from taking our capitol with a rare and dangerous artifact...a Soul Contract. Our scouts are concentrated in our own territory and we know little of the proceedings to our west and south outside of Ulm.

[Bullock]

It seems we have lost fantomen for 2 turns in a row. i will put the game on hold 72h and look for sub if we don't have news from her by that time.

[Bullock]

Also, i'm trading my E A W F for some D gems.

[Umsolfunolanis]

I will be away from thursday to saturday morning. So this little brake suits me well.
If you sort out the problem with Ulm/Fantomen before I'm back it would be great if you could wait till saturday anyways.

And plese everyone trade your D gems with me. I have F W N and A. And for every 5 D gems received I will give you 7!! gems in return.

[Bullock]

I give a free alliance against Ctis for any deal of D gems. ;)

[EndymionAsleep]

OOC: I am assuming that the Shambler City site that allows the recruitment of Wild Ettins for free is considered a bug an not to be used by honorable gentlemen. Otherwise I'd in short order be rampaging the land with free SCs.

[dojango]

OOC: I am assuming that the Shambler City site that allows the recruitment of Wild Ettins for free is considered a bug an not to be used by honorable gentlemen. Otherwise I'd in short order be rampaging the land with free SCs.

Correct, good sir.

[Anaconda]

Ah, EndymionAwake changed his name to EndymionAsleep. Well, soon it well be AnonymousDead anyways.

[Anaconda]

Did you get an answer or only dead silence?

[Umsolfunolanis]

Did the frost giants come upon this world??

[TwoBits]

All right. I'll be the new Ulm player. It looks to be a bit of a disaster (among other things, the pretender appears to be dead - wonder if that had anything to do with the previous player taking a walk?).

Oh, and my prophet is gone too - can anyone give me a hint as to what sort of blessing, if any, Ulm has?

Anyhow, feel free to commence diplomacy, or an invasion, or whatever :cold:

[Anaconda]

I would say strike down 1-eyed heretics of Agartha, that would serve the realm as whole!

[Jiggymike]

All right. I'll be the new Ulm player. It looks to be a bit of a disaster (among other things, the pretender appears to be dead - wonder if that had anything to do with the previous player taking a walk?).

Oh, and my prophet is gone too - can anyone give me a hint as to what sort of blessing, if any, Ulm has?

Anyhow, feel free to commence diplomacy, or an invasion, or whatever :cold:

PM sent.

[Bullock]

It seems that Soyweiser has also some problems =(
i will postpone next turn to give him some time to shows up or to find a sub.

[dojango]

Mad props to the nameless soldier who passed out from fatigue and terror on the battlefield. As he bravely lay there, the enemy mages were so disturbed by their inability to harm him that they broke and ran.

A new monument, "the statue of the comatose soldier" will be built to honor him in Bogarus.

[Bullock]

timer switched to 36h as it should have been.

Btw RIP comatose soldier.

[Jiggymike]

TwoBits, just so we're clear, it's generally considered bad form to send one diseased commander at an army. I have no idea if it was a mistake or what your intention was but it's because you can use that to prevent an entire army from moving (just a bit of a foible of the game). Fortunately I was planning on maintaining the siege.

[Umsolfunolanis]

I'm sorry but I cannot go on playing this game. I will be away for the next 5 to 8 weeks. This has nothing to do with getting a terrible beating this turn!!
Please find a sub for me or whatever it takes for you to go on.

It was fun playing with you all.
See you next year!

[Bullock]

And a sub is already found !
Welcome to Hylobius who takes the Ctis ownership.

[Hylobius]

Please let me know of any agreements with C'tis.

[Umsolfunolanis]

pm sent to hylobius

[TwoBits]

TwoBits, just so we're clear, it's generally considered bad form to send one diseased commander at an army. I have no idea if it was a mistake or what your intention was but it's because you can use that to prevent an entire army from moving (just a bit of a foible of the game). Fortunately I was planning on maintaining the siege.

Oops, sorry about that! I had just noticed this diseased commander, and figured I'd pull the typical suicide move to save a few gold on upkeep, and maybe gain some intel while I was at it.

But looking at it from your perspective, I can see how it might appear to be just another variant of the 'scout blocking' exploit.

Truly wasn't my intention though. I'll have to pay more attention to those kinds of details (and maybe try to use someone's PD to 'shed payroll').

[Jiggymike]

TwoBits, just so we're clear, it's generally considered bad form to send one diseased commander at an army. I have no idea if it was a mistake or what your intention was but it's because you can use that to prevent an entire army from moving (just a bit of a foible of the game). Fortunately I was planning on maintaining the siege.

Oops, sorry about that! I had just noticed this diseased commander, and figured I'd pull the typical suicide move to save a few gold on upkeep, and maybe gain some intel while I was at it.

But looking at it from your perspective, I can see how it might appear to be just another variant of the 'scout blocking' exploit.

Truly wasn't my intention though. I'll have to pay more attention to those kinds of details (and maybe try to use someone's PD to 'shed payroll').

No harm done. :) Basically all I can due for the time being is try to make you as miserable as possible (in game).

[EndymionAsleep]

Our children have informed us that we have collected much of the essence of the hottest flame, as well as much of the essence of the deepest water. We wish it be known that these may be available for trade for other distilled essences or whatever other things you other beings may wish to attempt to barter with.

[Anaconda]

The empire has fallen, the towers in ruins lie. His grace, the king of kings, Basileus, has been driven to exile. Now abominations reign what once was called the cradle of civilization and enlightment.

[Scaramuccia]

We have no server update for last 4 hours. Is it a llamaserver bug?

[Bullock]

yeah the server is down atm.

[Jiggymike]

Damn, I was looking forward to an epic, yet futile, battle to save my capitol, but I guess I got dom killed. Oh well, gl to those remaining.

[TwoBits]

Well, I wasn't looking forward to an "epic" blood bath there ;)

That was the first time I've tried for a dom-kill. But then this is also the first time I've played LA Ulm, and their inquisitor mage-priests, in MP.

Anyhow, many thanks for sticking it out and making things interesting!

[Soyweiser]

I cuold really use an extension towards monday! It is one of those weekends again... sorry.

[Bullock]

Turn extended for Soy.

Btw excellent war Endymion, i needed at least 4 or 5 tries to finally get rid of your main army ! However i was wondering if you have also a discrepancy between the fight of this turn and the report?

[Bullock]

Was wondering if some people would be interested in a break between the 24th Dec and the 2nd of January ? if so i'm planning to set a 8days length turn during this period but quickhost still on (so the game isn't stuck if everyone can finally play)

[TwoBits]

That's a very good idea. In fact, I might be starting my holiday travels on the 23rd, but I'll see if I can get in that last turn before the 24th and the 8 day hiatus.

[EndymionAsleep]

Well if the host himself is willing to break the rules with useless douchebag attacks, I guess I'll play a douchebag card as well.

I'm AI everyone. Soy: eat me up.

[Bullock]

lol what a sore loser ... What was my douchebags attacks ?? i ve taken most of your lands with my small armies so don't talk about some moveblock or stuff like that !

[TwoBits]

Huh? I thought I had pretty good scout coverage of the area, but I guess I must have still missed something :confused:

Here's what I did see:

Ermor attacked and captured Kseftia (25) from the sea, thus cutting off Agartha's escape rout.

Ermor attacked the Agarthan force that had him under siege at Pythium (8). This force was expendable (no mage support), but large enough to convince the Agarthan AI that it was OK to burn gems (saw lots of elementals summoned). As Ermor had three forts in provinces bordering Pythium, full of his undead chaff, such a move could have been easily anticipated.

For the storming of the fortress at Pythium itself, I had the Battle Replay Bug. In my version, Agartha won a very Pyrrhic victory, capturing the fortress, but losing most of its army in the process, while Ermor's pretender and mages retreated safely. So, what really happened there, I'm not sure. But in my version, Ermor cast both Wailing Winds and Winds of Death, so that likely happened in the real battle - again, something one might anticipate from Ermor.

So where was the douchebag move? :confused:

[Bullock]

Thanks for your testimony Twobits !
i was expecting congratulations for getting rid of his army with his 60 commanders against my 3 mages & my pretender =p

after some thoughts i think it s prolly the fact i ve sacrificed
2 or 300 undeads before he storms the castle to burn his gems that pissed him.

Anyway it sounds like a clean victory to me.

[dojango]

If it was the bug where the replay is different from the actual result, yeah, that's annoying. I had that happen in a recent battle and posted about it in the forums (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=48146). The consensus seems to be "it happens".

[Bullock]

I have shared my experience on this on your post :)

[TwoBits]

Wow. Really went AI on that. Gotta say, IMO, that's pretty damn weak :hurt:

EndymionAsleep, here's your quote: "this is my first game, so try not to laugh too much as I fall to pieces once the tiniest amount of pressure is placed on me".

Well, it happened. And after you'd put up a pretty good fight. So why didn't you suck it up then? Absolute rubbish behavior. Way to reinforce the notion that noobs are wishy-washy and can't be trusted.

You'll likely create another ID, and go on to muck up another game. Meanwhile, I foreswear to never join another game (and thus probably give up subbing all together) in where I do not previously know all the players in advance.

Bravo. Well done. :doh:

[TwoBits]

OK, I'm squeezing off one last turn. But then I'll be gone until late the 27th. Please adjust the game clock accordingly.

Thanks, and Happy Holidays

[Bullock]

From now until the end of December there is no timer, but quickhost is on, to avoid stalls during holidays.
Try to play as usual if you can!

Happy Christmas to all ! :)

[Bullock]

I m trading any kind of gems, but astral, for some D gems.

[Ossa]

Can someone who is neighbouring these giants stop them from aging my mages? Bogarus? Your army is mighty and vast - can you not put an end to this suffering?

[Soyweiser]

Feel free to try. I have been planning this move for ages now. As soon as I saw the massed armies moving towards my borders.

Any invaders of my cap will die in seas of frost and blood!

[dojango]

That does remind me of what Dr. Strangelove said... "ze whole point of the doomsday device is lost if nobody knows you have it... why you didn't tell zee world!"

[Bullock]

i ve set back the 36h turn length with 72h for the next turn.

[Soyweiser]

Somehow I constantly do not get my turn... tried resend twice already.


Edit:

Got the turn. And I survived! Booyaah!

Of course I set all my scouts to mass attack because I didn't think I would survive. (Take the unrest hit dreadful enemies of mine! Whee, one scout also killed a necromancer :D You are all going down with me!).

[Bullock]

Like Soy said Llama's server has some problem sending turn, so most of us will have to request his turn.

[Hylobius]

I'm having computer issues, could I please have a 24h extension?

[Bullock]

Sure, it's done.

[Hylobius]

Problem resolved and turn in, thanks.

[dojango]

Good night, sweet prince. And may angels sing you to your rest.

[Bullock]

Noooooo where is the BoT ?! RIP

Thx for the game Soy !

[Soyweiser]

Yeah, I died... I wanted to cast master enslave but sadly, the mage set to cast that got blasted to death before he could cast it.

Thanks for the game. Sorry I sucked so much.

[TwoBits]

Can I get an extra 12 hours added to the clock?

BTW, way to game it out to the very end Soyweiser! Folks like you are a pleasure to play against :)

[Bullock]

Sure it's done.

[Bullock]

Aaaah i don't want to finish dogpiled by the 2 majors power of the game.
It has been so hard to survive to finish like that !

who really want to take my dead lands for HEAVY loss ;) ?
maybe it s time to betray each other and i can rally one of you !

Cheers
Ermor

[dojango]

dead but thoroughly site-searched

[dojango]

I need a 24 hour extension please

[Bullock]

done

[Bullock]

Damn, Ossa disappeared and its very problematic in this game.
i was expecting a nice fight before we let you two (boga & Ulm) solve your count.

Since it would be a big waste of fun to let Ossa stall, i propose we put the game on hold for few days hopefully he will come back.

[dojango]

I'm fine with that. What's Marignon been up to lately? Haven't heard a peep out of him in like 20 turns.

[Bullock]

Well i m trying to find some1 to turn him AI (or subbing...)
Won't change much to the incoming result anyway ;)

[Bullock]

And welcome to snark who is subbing Marignon !

[dojango]

hey snark. thanks for subbing.

[Bullock]

He told me he couldn't post here, dunno why. However he can send PM

[TwoBits]

Yep, much thanks to snark!

[Bullock]

Stark i granted you another 48h extension. Do you have any troubles with your turn ?

[Bullock]

24h extension requested by stark.

[Bullock]

Another 24h for Snark.

[TwoBits]

C'tis has staled twice...

[Bullock]

should i put him AI or you want to try to find a sub ?

[TwoBits]

Hm, there's not much left to C'tis. If the current player can't be found, it's probably not worth finding a sub. Since we're already fighting, we can just fight over C'tis as well :D

Oh, and can I get some extra time added to the clock? Thanks!

BTW, are we still on a 36 hour clock? Any chance of getting it changed to 48, or 56 or something? What do the remaining players thing?

[Bullock]

i postponed the turn for 24h. Beside 2bits does some1 else want a timer increase ?

[Bullock]

turn length switched to 48h as requested by 2bits & Snark.

reminder: for some odd reasons Snark cannot post here.

[dojango]

sounds good, just set c'tis AI if he doesn't show up in a day or three.

[Hylobius]

Sorry guys, I had the flu for a couple of days. I just opened up my email to send my turn in and received the change of address form from llama. Isn't it considered good form to try and contact a player before removing him?

I don't know if you set me AI or got a sub. Llama is still listing C'tis as player run so I guess I won't send this turn in.

[Bullock]

Send me your mail by pm i ll change.

[Bullock]

Isn't it considered good form to try and contact a player before removing him?


No i think the good form is to warn other when you can't play.
Since you were not able to post here to let us know what was happening you shouldn't be able either to answer PM, so i don't see the point.
Beside, your nation is getting eaten and unfortunately it's quite common to see people vanishing in such situation.

Send me your mail by pm i will set it back.

[Hylobius]

PM sent.

The point is that I frequently check my email to look for turns and PMs, and I infrequently check the forums of the various games that I play.

Besides I thought it was you that was being eaten ;)

Is the server working again? I have been asking for a resend for a couple of days.

[Bullock]

For some odds reasons scoregraph is enabled on the llamapage.
Figures are very interesting !

Edit: An army of 2K for Ermor LA haha

[dojango]

Weird. Some interesting stuff.

[Bullock]

Since nobody has played his turn ~6h before the deadline i switched the game to 72h. I think nobody will complain (you can though)

[Bullock]

Well well well.
It seems the 2 mighty nations managed to beat the 2 small peaceful farming nations. Congratulations ! :)

Thanks everybody for this nice game.
I will send the admin password by PM to twobits & Dojango.

[dojango]

Why, why did I think it was a good idea to cast phoenix pyre in a communion?

Oh well. Good game, Bullock. I'm surprised you didn't cover the world in unholy darkness. Maybe next time.

[TwoBits]

peaceful farming nation

Ermor? :D

Yeah, it's been an interesting experience subbing in for Ulm. I never would have gone the route the original player sent them on, but it's actually worked out pretty well.

And it's the first time I've played MP with Ashen Ermor. Wow, going on the offensive against them is real trench warfare, what with all the hordes, forts, starvation, etc.. It's been fun! Thanks for the experience!

[dojango]

postponed hosting by 3 hours by request of Marignon

[dojango]

postponed hosting for 48 hours due to technical difficulties.

[dojango]

OK, problem fixed. Sent in my turn; Marignon you can send yours in whenever (hostings still not for a few days, but we're ready to get this gotterdamung started).

[dojango]

I for one welcome our new vampire overlords! Ulm is the victor!

[Bullock]

Well played twobits :)

[TwoBits]

Thanks for a good game everyone - well, everyone who stuck it out to the end/or subbed in, that is :)

Despite some meta-drama early on, I really enjoyed the game, and not just because I won (although that helps! ;) ). It was fun taking over a position that I hadn't really thought much about before (LA Ulm), and dealing with a pretender design (crap economic scales/awake SC pretender-slash-vampire summoner) that I almost certainly never would have come up with.

Made me think outside my usual box. That it worked out well was just plain gravy! So thanks again everyone - and as my favorite news caster would say, "stay classy!" :D