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don't we have alts for our team, ain't times like this when we call in help

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Well now, this is getting fun!

EDIT: And Caelum, I hope you knew even flying units need a neighbouring province to retreat to. Not so sorry about that Eagle King you just lost. :p

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my internet is back up

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No stales so far which means:

(a) interest is still high
(b) the hosting interval has been sufficient
(c) we've been lucky

Or any combination of the 3.

The critical first 10 turns (when I consider an alternate imperative) are over though, but if anyone's having any issues and needs a sub, yes that is what the alternates are for.

Current interval is 48 hours (at vet team's request) which should be enough time for everyone. If people would like to return to the 40 hour scheduled host, that is fine by me as well.

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48 hours is fine, though I don't think I have ever been in a game that went to 48 on turn 11. The difference between 48 and 40 is not much.

And, in retrospect, I don't see why I was in such a hurry to get my turn. I just got my butt kicked again.

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Hmm. It is quite apparent now that I did end up with that fight I picked earlier. :p I hope it doesn't come back to bite me, though it seems I at least surprised Atul with that last fight.

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Thought you guys might enjoy this:

(12:08:50 PM) namad4: we needa get some reports from baalz
(12:09:18 PM) Ironhawk: REPORT AS FOLLOWS:
(12:09:28 PM) Ironhawk: Mai Tai's are great here
(12:09:38 PM) Ironhawk: Ocean breeze really relaxing.
(12:09:45 PM) Ironhawk: Good luck with the war!
(12:09:50 PM) Ironhawk: <3s, Baalz
(12:10:28 PM) Ironhawk: he sent me that by telegram to forward to you guys

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Courageous acts :medal: just come naturally to noob team members.

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Yeah I knew.

What I didn't know however, was that I am a very very bad man to command an army after smoking copious amounts of tropical plants.

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Only waiting for one player (Ashdod) this turn.

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Okay, back in town (late) tonight, so should be more engaged going forward. Didn't even have a data connection on my phone so all my coordination and communication had to be done in however long I could stand swatting mosquitos using my laptop. If I'd realized I'd have tried to line up a sub... Anyway, grab thy ankles newbs, big stinky baalz is coming for you.

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Woohoo I'm going to finish my fort... damnit, Baalz. You couldn't wait for them to finish painting first.

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Glad to see that Pelthin's internet issues have cleared up.

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Disappointing turn.

Everyone just runs away from me or does their best to evade my guys. What's up team noob? Vanheim wants to play!

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We're too busy treating Ermor like a Rottweiler treats a rag doll! :evil:

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Huh, that's not nice.

Do I have to come in over there and teach you some manners?!?

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Well, this rag doll has poison inside it. So have fun with it while you can.

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He thinks we're going to actually bother storming his castle while he's still in the game. Funny.

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Nah, you're just bluffing trying to bluff you're bluffing a bluff.

Double negative doesn't not make it right.

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Good thing C'tis has partial poison immunity! :p

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We are. No matter how the game goes from here, this struggle in the north has made it all worthwhile.

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Hello, Ulm here.
I will be having a LAN party with my friends which lasts from friday to saturday. Just in case that I might not be able to post my turn in the limits of time I would like to ask for a delay in the hosting.

Also, I'd better mention in advance that me and my family will be leaving for London next monday and are staying there for 4 days.

When we come I should have 1 day free time. Then I will be holding another LAN party :doh:, with my other friends and am likely to be unavailable for 2 days.

I would appreciate if you could just delay until im back, but of course nobody likes to wait, so you could ask for an alternate. I would prefer to stay in the game, but it's up to you. Please let me know by sunday.

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Well you can have an alternate or teammate substitute you for the interim. If it's okay with you? That appears like more than week's delay, which would be a bit of a pain.

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Teammate subs are kosher? That kind of temporary switch should be easy enough to arrange.

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Thinking of which, there'll be substantial time when i'll be away. I have a friend lined up to sub my other games, but I wasn't sure what would be acceptable for this. I imagine Hoplo wouldn't mind taking over somewhat briefly for a nation not getting torn to shreds... Or possibly one of my fellow northerners since they have a better grasp of the local tactical and strategic situation.

I'll figure something out before i disappear for a bit.

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The only problem with a teammate sub is that it won't always work. It would be better to get an alternate. If hoplosternum is taken out though yeah, he could sub for someone.

Just make sure to leave your alternate with detailed notes so they know what's going on and what your plans are.

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Plans? What plans? ;)
But seriously though, I've got no plans. Except for the one which includes smashing Baalz :p
But if hoplo does "sub" me what does it mean? Does it mean I'm out for good or that once I return I'll take over again?

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Once you return you'd take over again. A sub is generally just a temporary substitute player who keeps turns going for a nation while its player is for some reason unavailable.

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Okay then. PM sent to Hoplo.

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I assume you're including me(arco)?

Why on earth would I fight an army with an army that just lost to it?

and what's up Atul, hiding behind marignon raids so I can't attack you? If you want to fight me, don't send marignon to raid my land so my armies have to deal with him instead of you!

:p

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Why on earth?

Well, for one reason, it would be fun?

And I'm not hiding behind anyone's raids, I'm yelling to TheDemon to stop the killstealing! Not only does he try to hog your cap, he's going to get Jotun's pretender too! I do all the hard lifting and the others get the glory! Is this called teamwork?!?

Pokey says: YES!

But guess your options always were: either try to buy your teammates time by harrassing me or save your own behind by responding to Marignon's raids. Dunno if either is valid anymore. :p

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Oh come on now, I'm hardly a legitimate threat to anyone.

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Well, the attack on your cap was, of course, an attempt to at least slow you down on jotun.

I'm not ready to throw in the towel just yet, btw.

and marignon? hog my cap? I just beat an army of his with 20 pd. Unless he has a much bigger army just outside my dominion, then I'm not afraid of him right now - he just forced me to stop attacking you to kick his raiders out of my land.

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Ok, come now, just because we have 48 hour turns doesn't mean you're obligated to take all 48 hours. I know, team N00b also has one outstanding turn 2, but its the same players who are taking a long time for both teams.

Not to rush you Namad, but do you really need 48h for every turn?

I've already made my comments to Bandar in the N00b forums, not that he appears to be reading them.

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We may need to do some reorganizing next turn to keep things moving smoothly.

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Turn posted.

I am removing Lavaere from the game.

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Arco, why are you running away?

In other news, talk about lucky breaks and movement wonkiness working in your favour. So Caelum, we're at turn 15 and you've lost at least... 6 or so capital-only mages against me alone. Feeling lucky?

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We just had that conversation 8 posts ago.

I haven't reassessed the likelihood of my army that failed against you the first time of, in a weakened state, beating you and concluded that it was at all likely. It needs reinforcements to have a chance.

And the fun of watching my elephants cleaved in two by your skinshifters doesn't outweigh the fun of getting some manner of use out of them.

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What's this? Fire-magic based unrest events on my capitol? Calling for more help from marignon, Atul?

You really don't want to fight me, do you? or at least not without all kinds of interference from friends.

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Speaking of friends, you may want to re-assess your intel on my armies. It just cost one of your friends one of his.

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All is fair in love and war.

<3

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Hey Arco, my time travellers brought me a video from the future http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFRul...eature=related

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That's probably one of the most wasteful yet most efficcient way of disposing calligraphers...

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Kudos to Marignon for the excellent deployment against the spiders. Good timing with the morale-based prison of fire as I was coming out of the wasteland with size 5 troops. Didn't see it coming that time. I hope I don't make that mistake again. :rolleyes:

Oh, er... *Ahem!* I mean... Avast ye vets! Ye'll be food for the arachnids and we'll turn your shrunken heads into prophetic fetishes dangling from the sorcerers' huts! Or something.

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Fortunately they are not capital only and Caelum has 3 Forts.... :)

Sadly my Capital still looks doomed :(

But thanks to the Vet team for letting me build my second fortress :up: ;)

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...huh, all the time I've thought they are cap-only. What's the point with the A2W1 mages then?

Oh well, more work to do.

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I'm quite aware of that army.

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That's fine, but seeing as that's tien'chi architecture, I think your time travelers missed my empire by about 300 miles.

perhaps you should hire some new scouts?

Re: Noobs vs. Vets III: Revolution, MA, CBM. Let's get it on!
 

why has laevere been removed from the game? who is replacing him?


Additionally... as far as I am aware I have delayed the hosting of the game once, and once only. Feel free to try determining who has been delaying the game, but as far as I know i'm the only with enough free time on my hands to monitor the page of submissions constantly.


Also your post makes no sense at the time it was posted. As at the time you posted that post a new turn was extremely fresh and even perhaps no one had submitted yet.

Re: Noobs vs. Vets III: Revolution, MA, CBM. Let's get it on!
 

Septimius had lavaere removed because he was always waiting until the last minute to do his turns and many of the noobs felt he wasn't really trying to play well. For the moment hoplosternum is playing both jotunheim and bandar log's turns. This may change in the future.

Also, turns 4-15:

Noob Gold Total - 227412
Noob Gem Total - 1068

Vet Gold Total - 101634
Vet Gem Total - 642

Gold ratio - 2.23x
Gem ratio - 1.66x