Shepherds of Creation Game 1 Thread
 

Hi everyone! This is your friendly host Jarnsaxa. The game has started, so please play your turns!

And good luck! Remember, no matter how lush and delicious my verdant fields seem, there is a Vanir hiding behind every shrubbery. They just have glamour, so you can't see them... well, that's beside the point, the real enemy is Baphomet, that #?%&$@*!!!

And please note that in-game, I'm JARNSAXA, a deity. I'm not my normal self. So please don't be offended if, for example, I brutally and suicidally attack Abyssia for no good reason. See, they're fire-worshipping hell-demons, just as bad as Baphomet's filthy humans. Also, I might take offense to anyone who excludes women from their military, or gives their female warriors inadequate armor (like Pythium). Sorry, but Goddesses are sensitive about these things http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Jarnsaxa, Goddess of Flowers and Bunnies

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hmm... one would think you are attempting to usurp the domain of Pangaea http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Now, now, don't you go making generalizations of our entire sex, dear Järnsaxa! My Goddessy self, as an example, rather insists that no durned female shall ever don arms. All they are good for is laying eggs, hisseth I! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

Ningil, Goddess of Slithering and Hissing a lot

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Turn 2 is ready to be played, and it looks like Illwinter stopped doing whatever it is they do on port 8888... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif In other words, you can now log in, so take your turn! There're 22 hours left, and the Fishermen are up for grabs... =)

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Your port is now 8890.

Hope it works!

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So what's it looking like so far? Any sign of Baphomet? I stumbled onto a well guarded swamp that didn't have any special sites in it at first glance - man was I disappointed after losing most of my army against the durned barbarian lizards accompanied by city guards, no less, the traitors... A high priest of C'tis, even; there's no end to the affrontery! Makes me hiss and spit, it does!

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Marignon just took an independent prvince bordering me. And my scouts spotted a province with Troll Moose Knights.

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That it's so close obviously just means that you have expanded too fast! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Heh, Marignon is only one province away from my capital...

On another note, is anyone interested in trading gold for gems (particularly nature)?

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I'm short on gold right now; been cashing in all my nature gems http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Marignon is very close to me and I'm surrounded by provinces with upwards of 150 heavy+light infantry, or 40 prot-19 heavy cavalry (and plenty of infantry), and so forth... nice rich provinces, but will I ever take them? I wonder http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Ulp! Turn 6 and I have yet to expand... did someone mention Abysia before? Nothing to see here!

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Up here in the icefields the neighbouring provinces are of little value. Still, that does mean their garrisons are a little less extreme.

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Well the Abysian juggernaut is rolling. I am a little nervous about those Amazon/Griffen Rider provinces, but I should cut through the standard indeps like a hot knife through butter...

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Looking at the Hall of Fame, it seems the 4-armed-fury is rolling too http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Yeah, let's all hope that Baphomet notices the massacre, too! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I just realized how totally cruel a combination luck scale and a fortified city is... There won't be a five turn stretch of nothing happening in a province, ever! And taking the average C'tissian, any old barbarian raid or troglodyte invasion is too much to counter without some heavy garrisoning. What fun! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Did you realize how totally cruel is the combination of lack of luck scale and turmoil? I would settle for a one turn stretch of nothing bad happening http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Nah, my realizations are totally selective: if it isn't happening to me right now, it doesn't happen at all. Like a goldfish. Thus, your misfortunes are nothing to me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Aand this just in out of the wild wild land of narcissistic lamentation: I just realized that I have to save all my gold for 7 consecutive turns to build a second castle. That is assuming no locusts...

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Why build? According to my flying scouts reports, there are many forts already pre-built for your convenience http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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At the rate Marignon is building temples, I'm starting to wonder if he'll get a dominion victory...

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Yeah, I suggest a new anti-temple agreement. If you see Marignon temple, raze it! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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How is everyone holding up vs. marignon? They just carved up my biggest army without a loss (griffon rider/blessed angel combo)...

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They came and burned my temples http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif Summer lions, crossbowmen, flagellants. That bless really is something, though!

Does anyone have a plan or something? How about everyone sends all their gems and gold to me and we the lizards will then take Baphomet down? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

What ever happened to Rudra, btw; I hope it was a good death!

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This looks rather tough! Suddenly I am glad of the very strong indies between me and Marignon. What is the bless?

Right now, my plan is to acquire archers. Hopefully they can eliminate flagellants and xbows before they can start hurting my real troops. And it may be a dream, but valks in the rear could kill Lions' magical leadership, if they target the correct enemies. For now, I'm going to avoid coreward expansion.

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How did you get angels?

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No, that was the enemy army (plus assorted national troops that didn't even make to the fight before my army was dead). Mine was maenads and centaurs.

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Rudra died in most silly way. He was stupid enough to pick up some berserker pelt and I haven't noticed it amongst all those bad events messages http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Marignon is giving me real troubles because he seems to have tons of angels and they're scripted to attack commanders. My plan is to get to staff of storms and then to wrathful skies. That is if I can hold on to my capital for long enough.

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Angels are shock resistant so beware...

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Ugh. This looks more and more like a job for the fish-boy! Or does Baphomet have an underwater corps, too?

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I haven't seen any underwater troops yet, but I'm expecting undead to show up eventually.

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Some free intel: My scouts spotted at least one sea king's court worth of sea trolls hanging around the throne of the world.

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Bah. You've got enough money to afford scouts?

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After two quickly done turns, I find that the Big B might be coming for me. Four armies on my border; three of them look manageable, but one consists of up to 230 troops which may be more of a problem.

And a public apology to Caaelum. The one help you asked me for against B - cash - was the one I'm least able to give. Sorry. My income levels are truely pathetic, and giants get through a lot of food. Then there's the accidental damage bills. The average lifespan of door around here is around 3 weeks, and nobody's prepared to insure us anymore...

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What, you've got the option to recruit them? Never seen one, no sir!

So, how's the good fight? Marignon has wasted a largish amount of dudes in a sillily strong knight province, which is always worth a laugh. Other than that, it looks bleak. Well, perhaps good ol' Soapy will take care of the army on our border, what with his winning streak in the HoF and all...

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The Great God Bolthorn (all praise to His mighty name etc) has come down like a ton of snow on a couple of Baphomet's armies. But there are more of them popping up all over the place.

Also, he's building temples like mad. It'd be worth all our whiles to target them as soon as possible.

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By the way, I have a large surpus of air gems; anyone willing to turn them into an air booster or staff of storms could make a good profit.

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I hit const-4 in probably 2 turns, so I'll tell you when that happens... by then I should have an air-3 mage at a lab. But I sorta forget what level that stuff is at http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Being stuck at drain-2 is sort of bleak... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I have scouts all over. I happened to see the battle in between Caelum and Pangaea, with 200 vine-units, 20ish hama dryads, an earth mother and a lord of fertility all against a harpy scout. Why can't I find any cool provinces like that?

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Where? Where? Where do we have 200 vine-units, 20ish hama dryads, an earth mother and a lord of fertility? Some dumb generals must be hiding those armies somewhere from our high leaders http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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No, those were the indies. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I was confused at first, reading "Pangaea attacks independents" and seeing this massive army... then I started wondering why you had 2 gods... then I realized your army was just the single harpy http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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The attacking scout trick really pays of in this game, it has so far helped me a avoid:
*The province with two pretenders and hordes of vine men
*A province with 40 trolls
*A province with 6 Handmaidens of Death
*A province with ten darkvines plus 70 mandragora, vine men and manikens

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Um, Jotunheim asked me for gold, and I accidentally sent 100 gold to Pangaea instead... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Sorry!

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After reading your message I wondered where that had got to. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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Anybody else out there having some trouble accessing the server?

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Yes, I can't connect. I can still connect to Shepherds of Creation 2 though.

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God's Eye is freezing when I try to check, too.

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Same here

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Server needs a little kick... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Hello,

As some of you seems to have problems I have interrupted the force host. You have 48 hours to go. I'll see if I can find any problems.

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Typically this problem just needs the server process to be restarted.

Happened all the time on Mosehansen's server.

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Well, I'm not sure what changed, but I was able to login this morning.

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Hmm... I managed to log in, but it's down again...