Legendary Ordeals - Isokron Wins!

[cleveland]

What a neat idea. All kinds of cool ordeals come to mind, with varying levels of cooperation needed from neighbors/Pantokrator:

Walk Upon Burning Coals
Win a battle under the Heat from Hell BE.

Leap of Faith
Cloud trapeze/teleport a commander into a specific province and survive the ensuing battle.

Wrestle a Gator
Have an un-equiped commander kill a Bog Beast in melee combat.

The Ring of Fire
Conquer a province using only Fire Bolas. No damage of any other kind is permitted.

Tame a Lion
Obtain a Kithaironic Lion by whatever means possible.

Swim Shark Infested Waters
Have a non-amphibious commander survive combat under the Shark Attack BE. Oh, and he's gotta kill at least 1 shark.

Baptism by Fire
Kill a Fire Elemental with an indy priest.

40 Days and 40 Nights
Defeat an enemy army with nothing but starving units.

Vision Quest
Traverse a lone commander to a distant province, and have him return safely home.

Climb the Highest Peak
Obtain a fortress in a true mountain province.

Save a Virgin
Defeat an enemy such that at least 1 of his blood slaves is left on the field.

Slay a Dragon
Self explanatory. Drakes don't count.

[Baalz]

Arr, I reckon its about high time for LA Atlantis to rack up a win for the hall of fame and these be pirate toads. Hide yer booty boys, as I'm taking to the seas and none of your holds or womenfolk are safe. I intend to be the next Pantokrator and shall build fresh ships from the bones of these presumptuous giants. At the risk of sounding like a boot licking land lubber I must say I'm impressed with the Pantokrators cleverness, this will be a contest to remember!

[kianduatha]

Something tells me the seas are going to be crowded.

[militarist]

Where is my Ashdod, o , Mighty Pantokrator?

[militarist]

Burnsaber... I'd like to notice that Holy War, idea of which is really great (it's so painful to have ) rebalance the game quite strong ,and some nations which have best priests get a really good boost by this mode. If all games you boon base on, would be played with this mod, we would have a very different statistics. What do you think?

[Lingchih]

I'm not Lingchic, btw, Burn, I'm Lingchih.

[sansanjuan]

"...we sing the funniest love songs
to everyone we meet....
HEY HEY we're Bandar Log
People say our PD sucks
we're too busy-a sing'n
to put anybody down..."

Bandar please (but don't tell the wife I joined another game)
-ssj

[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by sansanjuan

"...we sing the funniest love songs
to everyone we meet....
HEY HEY we're Bandar Log
People say our PD sucks
we're too busy-a sing'n
to put anybody down..."

Bandar please (but don't tell the wife I joined another game)
-ssj

As hilarious as your song was, it lacked the "magic word". I'm sorry about that, better luck next time!


Okay, the game is full. As soon as I get home on Monday, I'll finish up the list of Ordeals and then start working up the finishing ouches to the map and mod. And, since we only got 1,5 water players, I'll set four UW provinces as "low population" (and #nostart). This should give the UW players less of an ecomonic advantage.

Also, I decided to incorporate the "Mark of the Champion" mod into this game. It basically changes the "Champion's Trident" into a helmet, making it a lot more worthwhile item to have. I'm also thinking of enforcing a rule of "no-mages" (priests okay thought) when it comes into arena fights, to prevent obvious chassises from dominating it. Opinions?


On the mod front, this the current tally up (with 12 players a mod needs 6 or more votes for it. Negative vote counteracts a positive vote):

Holy War +(pyg) +(gregstrom) +(Meglobob) (+++)
CPCS +(pyg) +(Meglobob) +(Kianduatha) +(militarist) (++++)
FW Thugs +(pyg) +(Meglobob) (++)
Magic site mod +(gregstrom) +(Meglobob) -(Trumanator) (+)

If you want use your boon to get two votes on a single mod, just PM me.

Originally Posted by militarist

Burnsaber... I'd like to notice that Holy War, idea of which is really great (it's so painful to have ) rebalance the game quite strong ,and some nations which have best priests get a really good boost by this mode. If all games you boon base on, would be played with this mod, we would have a very different statistics. What do you think?

Hmm. I guess that you mean that the HoF wins are not accurate if we bring a HW into account, since a all of the HoF wins were played without Holy War? I kind of see your point, but the boost that HW gives is not that extreme as to affect nation balance so much (since it also considerably boosts the H access of many only H1 priest nations).


The current scheducle of the game:

Monday: Ordeals Done, present final rules.
Wednesday: Map and mod done, game up on llamaserver.
Saturday-Sunday: Start, if all pretenders are in..

[sansanjuan]

Originally Posted by sansanjuan

"...we sing the funniest love songs
to everyone we meet....
HEY HEY we're Bandar Log
People say our PD sucks
we're too busy-a sing'n
to put anybody down..."

Bandar please (but don't tell the wife I joined another game)
-ssj

Alas.. I did forget the magic word. I will have to swear-off drinking and posting (again). Have a great game all. The monkeys will have their day another day..
ssj

[militarist]

And I vote for CPCS, btw, would be fun to try it. The game is going to be quite Crazy anyway, so it will just add some new feelings