Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

the story of my life

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Sounds like you need more silver, iRFNA.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

That is a trademark of Caelum, it's amazing troop synergy displayed in its PD.

After Aeons of existence, Caelum have struck upon the magnum opus of battle tactics adopted by all of its PD: A mix of warriors and archers (sounds good so far right?), the warriors then fly in right before the archers shoot them in the back, then they all fly away due to massive causalties, ingenious! The archers also have contest on who can headshot the PD commander (who charged along with the warriors) before the enemy cut him down, and it's a close call every time and sometimes a lucky shot from an archer can take out the commander right in the beginning, routing the whole force even earlier then usual! While I can't quite recall, I believe the PD uses the un-shielded version of its warrior to enhance the effectiveness of it's amazing tactic, it synergize so well that you can't possibly come up with something this effective even if you tried.

The only thing missing is a national description to detail this omitted facet of Caelum attitude: The nation's macabre outlook and psychotic humor, in fact all of its PD double up as a circus troope with constant turnover due to occupational deaths.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Actually, I have adopted the PD strategy for my armies. It's just too deadly to ignore.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

The dog pile on Vanheim is now up to three, Agartha, TNN, and Fomoria. I will try to give Fomoria the same welcome as I gave the other two, but my forces are being stretched thin. Neighbors of these three should see this as an opportunity.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

I just had the pleasure of watching Nifelheim's prophet go to work, and it was quite impressive. 79 strength? Good lord.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

You forgot to mention the midget masher! Squish squish go the birds :(

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Whohooo! doubled my nr of provinces last turn :D

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Fantastic! How many candles do you have left? It can't be that many, since all of the provinces under your control are very heavily in my dominion.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

How did you manage that? I saw your capital get taken by undead hordes and you don't seem to have much else.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

In fairness, those hordes were only mostly undead.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

I'm having trouble connecting to the server, it just hangs at the waiting for game info screen no matter how many times I try again.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

as usual, email sent, should be fixed shortly

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Yeah, super tough (see: impossible) time connecting, despite having firewall off. It looks like you already extended, but if not, extension please.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

My dominion still extends pretty strongly through most of the occupied territory though. Bandar Log doesn't seem to be developing the conquered territory so much as raping it with 200% taxes. Besides, I've got pretty good scales for it (the turmoil 3 and luck three means he should be getting a fair amount of positive events), so I can kind of see why that works without spreading his own inferior dominion.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

There seems to be some debate on the matter, but the general consensus seems to be that you do not benefit from the Luck scales of an opponent's dominion. Some believe Luck 3 in an enemy dominion is treated as Luck 0. Others say it is Misfortune 3.

See: Enemy Dominion + Luck/Misfortune

I am not sure which is correct. But, I am certain that red candles and shamrocks are not a good combination.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Fair enough. Regardless, he doesn't seem to interested in developing the land... more taxing the inhabitants into rebellion.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

I still have some of my magepriests running around, they can create undead. And ghouls, and if you make ghouls you kill pop. Scorched earth!

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

You are no more than a mere annoyance.:)

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

From the SeaOfInnocence thread, but applicable here. Perhaps it will give SirMu time to figure out how he's gonna get his turns to the server :)

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Now I've put an end to your "scorched earth" in my fair lands! Now all I have to do is destroy those Apish interlopers and reclaim my proper place as a world power!

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Nice 420 sized bird army, Caelum. It would be a shame if something should happen to it.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

that army needs to get smoked.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

yum yum kentucky fried chicken I wan't some aswell

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Just checking that the game is paused.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Ok, I was hoping everyone would have their turns in by now, then I would have restarted the timer. But I'm tired of waiting, so the timer is going up to 48 hours again. Let's brush off the dust and get this rolling once more!

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Silence0, you're the only one left. 3 hours!

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Did Silence0 stale last turn? Once again 3 hours, waiting on TNN and vanheim.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

hmm yea the last time silence0 was online was 16 days ago, I don't think he wants to play anymore. Sub?

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Taking the timer off... Anyone know the state of TNN currently, so I can give people an idea in the sub thread?

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Btw Timer is not off yet. I might be wrong but its showing that there are 8 min left.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

I think you mistook the games newbswithlowselfesteem with seaofinnocence.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Doh!

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Vanheim: Hylo is still here, he submitted turn in my other game just yesterday. (You might send a reminder though)

TNN: I haven't looked at this turn yet, but barring nations jumping in to take advantage of the stale, I didn't see much change to his empire from my vantage point last turn. I'll update this once I get a look after I get off work. You might want its neighbor to provide some details on the diplo, though I believe it's actually at peace (it was at war with one nation I think previously, but I believe that's no longer the case).

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Tir Na N'Og is down but not out. I can't see every province, but I estimate they have about 12 left. I (Fomoria) is the other neighbor that was until recently at peace with them. I declared an end to our NAP3 about 7 turns back then attacked 3 turns ago, shortly after attacking Vanheim.

Vanheim had already weakened them substantially. But, they have several thugs left as well as their pretender. It would be a good choice for someone in the mood for a brief die-hard. And, few nations die as hard as Tir Na N'Og with a decent bless, E9N4A4 in this case.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

I haven't seen any ads for a sub yet. Are we still holding out hope for Silence0? I sent him a PM (actually 2, the second on accident) on 4/25 asking him to get in his turn. He did not respond. I think it's safe to move on.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Ya, sorry, I've been busy. Putting up a sub thread

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

I'm still playing as Vanheim. I staled when I did not notice that the game had restarted. Fomoria has taken advantage of TNN stales and started to eat him. TNN still has a relatively viable position for a sub to take over.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

That is not a fair statement. I did not know TNN had staled the turn before last and did not know, though was concerned, he was going to stale the last turn. Still, I played my turn with the assumption he would also play his. I did not hold back from attacking. But, I also did not attack in provinces where he could have beaten me had he made an effort.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Furthermore, as you well know, Hylobius, I had already attacked Tir Na N'Og before he staled.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

How do you see who staled? I thought that was rather hard to do on this server.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Besides inferring from lack of activity (which is darn tough with score graphs off), the only way I know of is to remain on the screen that shows all of the banners of the nations in play. Any X'd out when the hosting clock runs out likely staled. I know from administrating a past game (though on llamaserver) that many players though will often get their turn in just minutes before the game hosts.

I've suspected that at least in some cses this is actually a form of metagaming, acting as if you are going to stale to get your opponent to take a risky move. I've considered doing it myself but have been too paranoid that either a internet connection failure or real-life event will cause an actual stale. So, I tend to do the opposite, get a draft turn in as soon as I can and, if possible, a more considered turn later.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

PavlovianCat to the rescue

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Hey all, P-Cat here. Like he said, I'll be taking over for TNN. I was able to log in fine so it should work. I'm not even in that bad of a position, though I really don't understand some of the stuff it seems he was doing (there's a bunch of sidhe champions just sort of... researching, and I have no idea why).

That said, can anyone fill me in on the current political situation? I need to know which side the pointy end of the spear should be facing.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Welcome PavlovianCat. I am playing Vanheim, and we were at war. More recently we have both been attacked by Fomoria so it is probably in our best interests to work together against a large and aggressive Fomoria. I'm not certain what your current relationship is with Agartha. Best of luck.

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 4: A New Hope
 

Hope is kindled

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 5: The Empire Strikes Back
 

TNN and Argatha are friends :)

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 5: The Empire Strikes Back
 

Caelum loaned TNN 100k gold and 1k astral pearls under the guarantee that they'd be paid back with 10% interest by turn 75

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 5: The Empire Strikes Back
 

I wonder where Caelum got that kind of cash to begin with. Cheater! You norfleet (do a search ;) ).

Re: NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 5: The Empire Strikes Back
 

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