Dawnstrike - JURRI WINS

Ygorl · #1 January 30th, 2007, 08:25 PM

O ye besotted druids! How much must I weaken you before you leave the Celestial lands?

Teraswaerto · #2 January 31st, 2007, 06:56 AM

Wait, what? Who changed Ghost Riders to need Death 6, and why didn't anyone tell me?

I feel almost as stupid as that one time I didn't start building a (1400 gold, 6 turns to build) castle on my (1300 population) VP province until it was too late.

Cumulative VPs, oh how I hate thee.

Jurri · #3 January 31st, 2007, 08:18 AM

Haha, not to worry, my dear friend the lizard. As it turns out, the alliance of the Giants and their pink-flagged masters have failed in breaching the walls of even a single one of my VPs. So, the result would have been the same even if I had not claimed one of your VPs mine... As it stands, I'll even have a surplus of points.

The next and final scoring is this following turn, unless I'm mistaken, so these will be the last sets of orders... It's kind of anticlimactic that we know the result with certainty a turn beforehand (or 36 turns, like Meglobob

), but that is an artifact of the fort-system.

Baalz · #4 January 31st, 2007, 12:08 PM

Boy, that was a lot of thunderstrikes!

GG, I'll crush you next time!

Meglobob · #5 January 31st, 2007, 12:27 PM

Ah! Won my bet, knew Jurri would win (once I finally figured out culmative VP's that is), congratulations to Jurri on a masterful game and thanks to Pasha for his professional hosting.

I liked playing Atlantis, once I had got used to it, my first ever water nation. Things do seem to move slower when your a water nation than a land nation.

I blame my total failure mainly on Oceania, who was ruthless in his use of those knights of the deep early in the game. If I had started where R'lyeh was I would have been destroyed in exactly the same way Pasha was, probably earlier. Took me 23 massed mages with untold gems plus nearly 200 troops and alot of research to eventually defeat Oceania's army.

Also having Teraswaerto and Solo as neighbours (both good players) blunted my expansion on land to anything beyond 2 measly provinces.

Anyway enough excuses, good game everybody!

solo · #6 January 31st, 2007, 01:43 PM

I agree, well done Jurri!

This is the first time for me playing for cumulative VP, too, and was a learning experience as well. It was lot of fun getting to meet several players I have never played against before.

Many thanks to Pasha for an excellent job hosting the game. With so many players to keep happy, this is an unenviable chore, but should he be willing to organize another VP game similar to this one, please count me in.

Teraswaerto · #7 January 31st, 2007, 01:55 PM

Congratulations and thanks from me also, to Jurri and Pasha.

I had my glorious plan of overtaking the VP race with superior research after who ever tried to grab too many VPs too early was taken down by, well, everyone. Somehow it didn't quite pan out.

After seeing Jurri's skill firsthand it's easy to see why.