Awestruck. New Late Age game. (Game over, Atlantis wins)

[Amhazair]

Aahahah! Atlantis's regular troops are absolutely awesome. Great stats and magic weapons. 20 dudes + minor pd (25 guys on the field total) just drove off an air queen*. (And 10pd already dealt with a Shishi before.) Is there any other nation that can boast a basic troop lineup of that quality? The nation as a whole has it's weaknesses obviously, but I'm completely in love with my little toads.


*Granted, she had a mix of caster and SC equipment so not as strong as she could have been, was not cold immune and the one Tungalic casting frozen heart probably did half of the damage, but I'm sticking with the "Eskimo Toads are Awesome" story

[Soyweiser]

I'm gonna have to ask for an extension. I'm away till 12 august at the shortest. Sorry about that, a wild vacation opportunity appeared.

(And yes, La Atlantis is awesome).

[Amhazair]

12 days? That's really a long time. I'd really like you to find a sub for your trip, pausing the game that long really is the perfect way to have everyone loose intrest. (Or, if you don't have the time to find a temporary sub before you leave, I can look around for someone who'll take good care of your nation, but that would mean you can't instruct them about what to do.)

Other than that I wish you the wildest vacation imaginable.


In a related subject, I myself will be gone from around the 10th till the 18th. Calahan has already agreed to take over my playing duties for a couple of turns, but I'm looking for a volunteer to take care of the admin duties in case something comes up during my absence.

[Amhazair]

Tratorix seems to have disapeared too. I've added 24h, if I don't hear from him by then I'll look for a sub to play out his end. (Midgard doesn't have much left, but enough that turning them AI would make things significantly easier, including several powerful SC's.)

How about Bogarus? Is it worth finding a sub for him, (if he doesn't show up) or is he set-to-AI material?

[Admiral_Aorta]

Bogarus has one fort, which is currently under siege by C'tis, so he's not in the best position.

[Amhazair]

He's still got three forts, actually. But more important is what is in them. If it's an indy commander and 3 Voi Archers setting them AI won't make much difference. If it's a dozen strong mages and a SC blocker though...

Regardless, I'm tempted to just put them to AI, haven't seen anything from them that warrants otherwise really. If anyone thinks otherwise now is the time to make me change my mind.


I'll start asking around for a Midgard sub now. It's a not-much-work position, so shouldn't be too hard to find one.

[dojango]

Say, did anyone receive a lump-sum payment of gold a few turns ago? The intended recipient hasn't received it, yet a review of the .trn file shows that the payment was sent out... to someone.

[Amhazair]

Valerius will be subbing for Midgard. (Thanks for that.) Since I haven't heard any objection I'll see to turning Bogarus AI.

[Valerius]

Sorry for the delay. Of course there's no call for Midgard to be holding things up and I won't after this turn but I just need to decide what to do. Sure, I know it's hopeless but I've got to at least try to be a small thorn in Atlantis' side.

Sadly, Midgard has fallen so I won't be vortexing my forces in order to consolidate them. Although, given my history with vortex of returning maybe that's a good thing.

[Valerius]

$#&%! Completely forgot about that lone cyclops behind enemy lines.

So, how have SCs worked out in this game? I said early in the thread that my impression was that these mods ramped up the power level. From what I can tell they do generally do that but then there's some nerfs as well, such as to some SC HPs. Have there been any trends with particular units doing well?