PBEM game: Song of the Blade (Running)

[Steerpike]

Panther I believe your good scales dont effect other players, only your bad ones.
Not 100% on that.

[The Panther]

Yes, that is true. But my growth scale prevents his death 3 scale from taking effect in his own territories.

[CyborgMoses]

Death 3, on a living nation? What the heck?

PS: Is profanity approved of here?

PPS: What am I supposed to do for the custom hoarding mod? There was not a file in the mail Alneyan sent me.

[Alneyan]

I have resent the files; the other solution was to rebuild the .txt files yourself. Some mail programs have this annoying habit of putting any text file or picture in the body of the mail, and not as an attachment. Got to hate that.

Death 3 is actually fairly common for living nations: the impact of it is fairly reduced, though it grows more and more annoying as the game goes on. It is the deadliest of the "lesser" scales (sloth and misfortune) however, and should be avoided if possible. The problem is having Death on a blood hunting nation using patrollers; I am not sure if that is such a good idea. Still, you should do fine by keeping your Dominion low where you have a border with Ermor, and let their Growth scale take over your provinces.

[Turms]

Seems I am quite lost. Ermor defeated my big army and Arcoscephale used the opportunity to invade. I guess I will keep playing just to see what happens.

A final message to Ulm and other neighbours that I have a non-aggression pact with. If you want to help yourself with my former territories, go ahead and take what you can.

This was a nice game. I had a good number of hoplites because my territories were rich with resources. My real problem was that I had very bad luck with money. I was all the time short of cash and couldn't really hire anything but sages and hoplites. Good thing I had at least those.

Turms

[Alneyan]

All provinces north of 115 (in other words the current theater of operation of the reconnaissance forces deployed by Arcoscephale) are under direct military control of Arcoscephale, regardless of current ownership of the province. Any attack on those provinces will be treated as a declaration of war, voiding any and all standing treaties between Arcoscephale and the offending nation.

Note, however, that it does not mean Arcoscephale claims those provinces as her own: it solely means we will not tolerate any interference with our plans. Once the current skirmishes are over, we will set definitive boundaries, and neighbouring nations not involved in the war should then express their wishes.

All we require is the swift resolution of the conflict; everything else is immaterial.

The Strategon Council of Arcoscephale.

[CyborgMoses]

Hahaha, this is supposed to be "a fairly average situation, at the very least"? Oh, man. Well, I'll hold on like a badger, even if I won't be doing any expanding. I do wish that I had some population though.