Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Darloth - say hello to the Tet Offensive!!

Well, helheims version of it, anyway. I look forward to testing your mettle on the battlefield!

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Re Fomoria's staling, this game does have a master password so you can just use that in place of whatever password Fomoria set.

There is not much of a risk in a PBEM game in telling people the master password - they can't do anything with it unless they get hold of someone else's turns after all.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Thanks Llama, yes we have worked it out.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

I look forward to it with a sense of lambent dread.

However, it may irk you further to learn that this is my first time playing C'Tis (in any age) and, except for a bit of prodding at LA Ermor, my first time on a death-heavy nation.

Sadly, this upstart temerity doesn't stop the turn from falling -just- over my working hours - I can't finish it tonight (I should probably be in bed right now :( ) and I'll have barely an hour tomorrow.

Can I have a 6 hour delay please? I'll play it when I get home, so hopefully I won't use all of that.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

I insist on you having more dread!! Heheh

Nah it doesnt irk me. We just had some trouble managing your shades at first and had to cook up an alternative plan. Took a long time to bring it to bear but now you see it. Really I think you played CTis pretty well overall. There are a couple of things ling and I want to point out to you, but we cant do it while the game is running.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Game delayed 6 hours on darloth's request.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

I'm really enjoying the back and forth in this game.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Yes, it has turned out to be a very good game. A bit unexpected... since I thought that the vengeful Vets would quickly dominate the game.

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Well, you are pretty well dominating it thus far. One noob at death's door, another on very shaky legs. No news from abysia of late, but they seem to be on the verge of collapse as well. Caelum did get hit pretty hard last turn... perhaps enough that some ground can be made up. We'll see :).

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

haha, amazed that I lasted as long as I did. considering bad research and a really slow start

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I believe they are down for the count, capital was taken some time ago.

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eurgh. That turn was -horrible-. Meanies.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

I see Helheim is denuding my Retiarius.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Either that or trying to prempt an attack/move.

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Yep. You should never ever put gladiators in the field where your enemy can see them. EVER. There's really only like 1 or 2 niche situations where gladiators can be effectively deployed in dominions.

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And unfortunately you seem to have hard to detect stealthy units almost everywhere right now.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

I've submitted turn 27, but would like to either delay turn 28 until Monday or get one of the alternates in to play my Agartha turns for a while due to my needing to go to a funeral. Hopefully whatever needs to be done can be done without my intervention, since I leave early in the morning.

Cheers.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

I'll see if I can contact one of the other alternates (Grudge is already in for Fomoria), if not perhaps rdonj or someone else will handle it. If you have specific plans, be sure to post them on the noob forum before you go. We will try to avoid a delay and/or stale if possible.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Actually Im in the same position as Lumen. Sorry I didnt mention it earlier but I will be away w/o computer access starting tomorrow. Unsure how it could of skipped my mind that I would be unable to turn. I *might* be able to squeeze in turn 28 before I go but no promises. Regardless I wont be back until Monday.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

I also will be gone Playing Rugby in Tulsa this weekend, leaving at 1 PM CST tomorrow and returning Sunday evening.

I am subbing for the Noobs and If I get a turn before Noon tomorrow I will get it in but that will be the last one I can do until Sunday evening.

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That's odd. All turns are in but the game's not hosting. Well lets force host and see what happens.

Ironhawk, Grudge, Lumen, try to get your turns in before you go if you can.

Edit: Seems every game's got the same problem right now.

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I would if I had a turn. Going to sleep soon tho so the window of opportunity is closing...

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Not playing until Monday is good for me too... it's going to be a very busy weekend. I can probably scrape a turn together but not turning until monday night/tuesday morning for turn 28 would be fine by me. It seems like llamaserver is broken for the moment anyway so we won't lose all that much time anyway.

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Oh well, with 3 people out till Monday and unless the problem with Llamaserver is fixed very soon, looks like it'll be Monday at the earliest before we can get to turn 29.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Just got the turn and will get it in before I leave (This Turn) but will not be able to do the next one until Monday.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

As we've a few players out for the weekend, hosting will be delayed for 48 hrs.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Vets, any suggestions on nation mods for MA that are nice, balanced and/or compatible with CBM? I like Nehekhara and perhaps Arga Dis. Though I don't know if they are CBM compatible (QM?). Perhaps we will go vanilla.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Sombre made quite a few mods CB compatible, though I don't know offhand which ones. Is this for the next newbs vs vets? Because personally I'd kind of like to keep it to regular nations.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

If you want extra flavour, throw on holy war and maybe CPCS instead? A couple of endgame summons (I have a tweaked one), especially if Llamabeast finishes his early?

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I wouldn't mind a mod that gives archers eagle-king seeking rocket launchers that work during storms. PS: Damn youuuuuuuuuuuuu Caelum! *shakes fist*

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

well for next game I was hoping to be skaven.
actually with my solo games in MA I normally add Skaven, Nehekhara, Lizardmen, Arga Dis. along with CBM and Standards. with no overlaps that I've seen so far

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

I agree with QM, and think these type of games should be vanilla nations, but with the CBM mod.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Yes, I am considering a few carefully selected and well crafted MA nation mods due the number of proposed players in NvV III.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Well that's good, apparently they all mesh well, you can't tell by looking at the descriptions on the Llamaserver MA nation mod section though.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Is it really a Noobs game, if the Noobs are playing mod nations? I don't think so.

There are plenty of other games out there to play the mod nations.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

I think the purpose of this game is to teach noobs what to expect in a normal game so they can be competitive.

For example, CBM is in the majority of games, so it makes sense. I'm not sure some of the extra spells mods or the mod nations make sense for the purpose of this game until you would come to expect them in a regular game. Sure, it would be a great team game, but it wouldn't hold true to the purpose of noobs vs vets anymore.


And on the subject of EK-seeking rocket launchers that work in storms, that's pretty much what EKs are for everything else :D

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Quite true vets, yes I generally agree. I wanted to keep it to regular nations and maps that are included with the distro. I would point out though that some of the better mod nations are often used in "normal" games and are no more difficult to play than the vanilla ones. Again, I am considering it due to the number of players to allow more choices, most likely they'll be snapped up by the vets who'll again have the optional first choice. My question though is what are the best MA CBM compatible mod nations? In terms of balance, completeness, design, etc. I noticed for instance that some of the Nehekaran commanders had a base movement of 4. Some say there are some that are overpowered?

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

I think the best way to balance nation selection: each team sends an ordered list of all the nations. Vets gets their top choice, then noobs get their top remaining choice, then vets get their top remaining choice, etc until each team is full. This way the "power" nations get distributed between the teams. After all the nations are distributed this way, players on either team can swap for any non-picked nation, first come first served.

As far as mod nations go, I haven't looked at, played with or against any. Not sure what's balanced or compatible.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

I know we're looking for pretty noobish noobs here, but it'd be nice to get people who are actually going to participate in our forum discussions and planning. Perhaps we could emphasize that in the signups for the next game? My first 3 battles were vs. a member of my own team who refused to look at the forum to see what indies I was taking, or respond to ingame messages.

I think 7 or 8 people were using the forum, but we had at least 2 that I'm not sure checked it once. The 7 or 8 people who checked were far more effective than the 2-3 that didn't check.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Yes we are looking for real fresh noobs, some of them may not have even read the basic info about not password protecting your pretender. Formoria did not participate and it cost them. Rest assured I will be much more strict on communication and coordination next time. This will be posted. Also alternates will need to provide an e-mail upfront. You'll find all of this when I put up my proposed settings.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Nice idea, though I still think you guys might want to keep first choice, especially given the number of noobs I intend to throw at you. :D Yes, we shall have fun indeed! I'm working on the backstory now. All of my proposed settings will be listed.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Get ready Ermor. The Nief Jarls are newly energized and looking for another fight. Let's just say, they have a secret weapon now.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Does anyone know where my monkeys ran off to. They seem to have vanished on me

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Probably the swine flu. It killed them all.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Lanka is now ruled by the prophet of Mysterio. What other nations shall soon follow?

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

now is the downfall of Homo Hibilis, evil, evil, vets

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Agartha might have won a battle this turn, but considering its pyrrhic nature and the fact that both his castles are now under siege I'd dare to suggest he's losing the war.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

I should stop those kamikaze attacks...

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Well well, whats this?! CTis getting bullish again?? Methinks you need another lesson, Darloth!

Oh and thanks for all the equip ;)

Re: Noobs vs. Vets II: Mysterio's Revenge, EA, CBM, Game running.
 

Perhaps the other vets should take a lesson from Caelum and shed some provinces. Much less micromangement that way.