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Old July 31st, 2004, 04:01 PM

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mind you, that was my Pretender
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Old July 31st, 2004, 04:06 PM

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ah man thats a real bad start

the only thing i guess is to hope for no close neighbors and if you run into someone hopefully they are peaceful
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Old July 31st, 2004, 04:22 PM

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plus he was flying too.. just doesn't make any sense, he should have made it back to a friendly provence even if the troops wheren't able too.

i guess the lesson here is just simply NOT to lose any battles, cos retreating is obviously not always predictable. What was the line from the Art of War: 'only fight when the battle is already won'?.. yeah..

anyways, Panther's my closest neighbour.. you won't hit a cripple would you? that's like hitting someone in a wheelchair! its just meeean!
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Old July 31st, 2004, 04:52 PM
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Hmmmm.... maybe it's time for the Panther to pounce.
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Old July 31st, 2004, 05:05 PM

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very funny.. but my Pretender's to busy being dead to laugh.

has anyone ever tried playing WITHOUT their Pretender? or is that just crazy? If the idiot thought it better to drown with his troops rather then fly to safety, then why should I waste so many months calling his dumbass back?
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Old July 31st, 2004, 05:34 PM

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Well I have never played Vanheim so I don't know about the sailing stuff much. But yeah I try not to go into a battle unless I know I will win.

I am not sure how much SP experience you have but you can call your god back with your priests. He will lose one from each magic path though. I don't know if anything happens if you don't call him back. If your god was a rainbow pretender then he basically got screwed but otherwise I would call him back. And I guess make nice with the panther or try to be ready for when he pounces.
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Well, alexi, I wondered where your troops went. I guess it would not be all that hard to take you out in about 2 moves, but I hate to see a person eliminated before the game really gets going.

So, what does everyone think? Should I try to eliminate him or not? I still have plenty of neutrals to take so I have lots to do if even I do not attack his capital. Since he lost his god, I probably have about an 80% chance to kill him. The chance of losing is a big risk for me, though.
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I have never used boats but I think this is what I would expect. You may only rout to an adjacent friendly province, if there are none you die.
Adjacent is adjacent - it does not check how you arrived at the province.

You are probably shafted to lose your pretender this early. You are down a mass of research or combat power or something else important. You can do without later

Unlfortunate start though.
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Originally posted by alexi:
plus he was flying too.. just doesn't make any sense, he should have made it back to a friendly provence even if the troops wheren't able too.

i guess the lesson here is just simply NOT to lose any battles, cos retreating is obviously not always predictable. What was the line from the Art of War: 'only fight when the battle is already won'?.. yeah..

anyways, Panther's my closest neighbour.. you won't hit a cripple would you? that's like hitting someone in a wheelchair! its just meeean!
afaik i know you can only retreat into direct neighbors . flying doesn't help either .

for game balance issues this is great otherwise caelum dropping in your "hinterlands" and savely routing would be too strong .

my sincere condolences to your pretender
i have played vanheim only once in sp so far but they have good units so losing the pretender does hurt them but not as bad as e.g. ermor .
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Originally posted by alexi:
"very funny.. but my Pretender's to busy being dead to laugh."

You know I'm just tryin to yank your chain.
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