Jaguar - finished, Szumo declared winner

[llamabeast]

Okay, I will take Shinuyama's turn this evening, then advertise for a replacement when I get a chance.

[llamabeast]

Wow! Abysia and Atlantis are big!

Lots to do for Shinuyama... think I might carry on playing this for a bit if people don't mind. I reckon the multiple turns of staling (6 perhaps?) probably cancel out the fact I've played a few more games.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

I don't mind. Loren, did you get my PM?

[sum1lost]

llamabeast said:
Okay, I will take Shinuyama's turn this evening, then advertise for a replacement when I get a chance.

Llama, you don't mind if I take that one province, on my border, do you? I was in the middle of negotiating for it when he started staling, or I probably would have taken advantage of his staling some time ago.

[llamabeast]

Grr! Shinuyama is under new management, and will no longer be pushed around! Every province is critical to our small empire. Besides, we feel the current boundary is a very natural one, with the sea lying between us. We would however be interested in proposing a non-aggression pact, so that we may each focus our attentions elsewhere.

In other news, Shinuyama is proud to report a considerable turnaround in the war with Abysia. Three (admittedly small) Abysian armies were annihilated to a man, and their mighty pretender was (astonishingly) brought down by a swarm of o-bakemono.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Dear llamabeast, you need to revive the Shinuyama guide thread. Admittedly, I suck with Shinuyama, but I thought such a feat was impossible. How did you pull it off? Or did you just have six turns of income to spend on hordes of low-resource o-bakemono?

[llamabeast]

Speactacular strategic planning combined with an advanced tactical paradigm mainly, I'd say

[carlosib]

I should've known someone would be taking control sooner or later. Those huge armies out of nowhere were too much for my little almost scouting armies...I guess the real war starts now, since it was just taking empty provinces so far...

Anyway, i thought my fear+awe E9 F4 ciclops pretender would do much better against those o-bakemono...he routed much too early

Well done llamabeast!

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Even if I don't win, I'll be happy with this game. Each turn is another trip to the candy store. Not a single province around my capital is without a site. How else would I have 300 resources? Some of them are of the common, 20 gold copper mine variety. But I've never had so many. Are you sure the site frequency is standard, llamabeast? Then again, I am surrounded by mountain-forests instead of the usual farmlands with their penalty to site frequency. Is the bonus from forests and mountains cumulative?