Mongoose - Starting (at last!)

Sensori · #1 November 17th, 2007, 11:56 AM

Well, it's not that much of a mystery once you think about it - my and his gem incomes might have been nearly identical for a long long time, but he had two nations working as a buffer zone whereas I had to constantly react to his, Marignon's, Ulm's and Arco's attacks and throw all kinds of things on them (Mind Hunts, Earth Attacks, the works).

That obviously stunted my growth (and I mentioned it to Abysia quite a few times), while I knew that Caelum would probably be growing stronger. But now that he only has one safe province to work in without getting bombarded to hell... Well, it was all for naught. And now this game has turned into a "Wait till Caelum dies a Dominion death" game. :-p

WonderLlama · #2 November 18th, 2007, 02:25 PM

Ouch! I was fine with my Forge of the Ancients dispelling any other enchantment out there. Including my other ones. Just not the earth well. I figured I had a 4/5 chance. And I certainly need to gamble. Ouch!

WonderLlama · #3 November 19th, 2007, 10:54 AM

Sorry about the delay. Llamaserver wasn't accepting my turn last night for some reason. The first time I got a "Pretender not found" (or something like that) error email. The second time, I got no response at all. And didn't know it hadn't worked until this morning. But I sent it in again, and it worked.

fabio80mi · #4 November 19th, 2007, 01:44 PM

Np wonderllama

btw your defense so far has been heroic, after losing all your province except the capital in like 5 turns you're proving to be very hard to beat definetly

Sensori · #5 November 19th, 2007, 03:35 PM

Yeah, although it's a bit pointless since the game'll end with Caelum's destruction.

Still, a valiant effort to make the game take just a few turns more.

WonderLlama · #6 November 20th, 2007, 03:19 PM

Well, I had a good run. After that last turn, I'm ready to go AI. You hit me very hard with those fireballs. I was going to put up several redundant domes next turn, but I figured this turn all your spells would be going after my invading army.

It's your call though. I'm fine with trying to hold off a few sieges if that's fun for you all.

Either way, good game.

Oh, and as promised, my secret. I was up to about 50 clams. All those scout decoys that never worked as decoys had them. Maybe you figured that out. Those fire spells killed most of them though. I made them using Ice Crafters who had been empowered with nature. So they were half price. And I must have used about 20 wishes, mostly on gems. So I was in no danger of not being able to finance that. I was just about to wish for armageddon 5 turns in a row, which I figured would end blood hunting and bring you all down to my income level. But you got me too soon. Probably nothing shocking on what I did, but I didn't want to tell you about just how many scouts I had with pearls lest you go after them.

Sensori · #7 November 20th, 2007, 11:29 PM

Well, that was kind of why I threw all kinds of crap on your home earlier in an attempt to rid you of the Air dome to let Abysia throw Flames from the Sky at you without it interfering. ;p To stop you from Wishing by destroying your clam base (which was all you had). And obviously you had more than was showing (suspicion confirmed by your guy having Wished again - a level 9 astral mage doesn't turn into a level 10 astral mage with all other magic levels rising a level too without wishing). I myself am using the very same technique and have my clams on hiding Star Children all over my nation. Yeah, I figured it out all on my own a few days ago! ;p

To make a long story short, I knew I used gems where you didn't (remote attacks, lots of them), and I should've realized before posting that you had used them for that (clams). Altho I bet it has required a lot of alchemizing to get that going.

As for you quitting... It'd work for me quite well. I think this game has gone past its expiration date.