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Old May 5th, 2008, 01:09 AM

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Yes, he put Atlantis to ai.
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Old May 9th, 2008, 08:06 PM

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Ermor has staled 2 turns in a row. By rule they can be set to ai now. But they will be given 1 more turn since the game is down to so few players as it is. And I gave Atlantis 3 turns as well.
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Old May 11th, 2008, 05:11 PM

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And on turn 88, we bid Valerius a fond farewell! Thank you for gutting it out for such a long time with Abysia. A lesson in tenacity. Without a real of hope of winning the game outright, Valerius stayed and remained a thorn in the side of his enemies for a good 50 turns after his kingdom was overrun by Eriu!

Welcome back Zhao! Of course on your 1st turn back you direct Ermor, my longtime friend, to attack me(: But who else is there to attack? It is endgame, and former allies and friends must now vie with each other-for all of our former enemies are no more. And perhaps you can weaken me enough for Caelum to seize the crown.
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Old May 11th, 2008, 06:36 PM
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Yes, my two stales were just a clever ruse to get you to lower your guard. Muha! The hordes of Ermor are on the march!
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Old May 11th, 2008, 08:08 PM

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From page 1 of the rules:

"Staling 2 turns in a row without notice or explanation will result in a sub or ai taking over your race."

Not only did you fake me out, you almost made ai!

Though I do not want to win by default. And I am still rather busy mopping up Atlantis. So you were/are still not my highest priority. That will change soon.
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Old May 18th, 2008, 03:48 PM

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On turn 90, Ermor went AI.

On turn 91 only 4 human players remained. Tichy, who was playing Marignon, and who was allied with Arcoscephale, Zoshan, who was playing Pythium, and who had only a few provinces, and Lolomo, who had a good sized empire as MA Caelum.

While I was anticipating putting MA Arcoscephale into the Hall of Fame for the 1st time, and the chances of Arcoscephale prevailing were good, in the end I decided against pushing for victory.

I won the first Epic Heroes Game, and after much reflection, decided it would be in poor taste to win a second mp game using my own mod. In addition to the inherent advantages to knowing your own mod, I also perhaps received some diplomacy advantages as well from being the mod's author and host of the game.

Lolomo carried out a strong campaign, and through his usual
stellar play, managed to conquer one nation early, and win a tough war in the midgame. Lolomo also persisted in the game when he had little hope(in the view of most of the players)
of prevailing.

And such tenacity deserves to be rewarded.

I do want to thank everyone who played in Epic Heroes II. If you have any comments on a particular Epic Hero, they will be considered as the final tweak to the mod is made.


Congratulations Lolomo!
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Old May 18th, 2008, 09:11 PM

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Haha, thanks! That Forge of the Ancients was my last card. If you overcast it, I would have surrendered.

Caelum's Epic Hero the Yeti was quite tough for the early game. I made him a prophet and had him summon a couple of winter wolves and set him conquering indies. The winter wolves served as fodder, and I went through a few sets of those. With about 3 or 4 winter wolves, he could take down even knight indies. After conquering maybe 6 provinces, I just had him summoning winter wolves. I collected about 40 winter wolves, but these were slaughtered by Mictlan's triple blessed jaguars in their first battle.

Afterwards, I empowered the Yeti in air, fire, and blood and was grooming him to be an SC killer, since he got the heroic attacker bonus. Never got around to testing him out.
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