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Tratorix, thanks for sticking with it. I surely underestimated your ability to send out a second army, and your capital mages surprised me. I hope you had fun.

If it makes you feel any better, the map is not really balanced. Many of the provinces in the south are 150 income farmlands, while everything in the north is mountains or wasteland.

Oh, if Tratorix is leaving we should find a new admin. I guess now that I have moved I could admin. Or LDiCesare could on the grounds that he is less noobish than the rest of us.

- Alex, Machaka

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That battle was my last hurrah. Good game everyone--I'm now switching over to AI.

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Horrorfend, thank you for being a competent opponent and sticking with it to the end.

It now looks suspiciously like Pythium is about to stale again... has anyone heard from them?

- Alex, Machaka

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Nope. And I'm not extending if he can't be bothered to ask. This really shows me that team games are a bad idea unless the players involved have a good track record.

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No news from Pythium either :(

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Ugh. If he's not back by the end of this turn, I guess I'll look for another sub.

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I PMd kuketski, who is playing Ctis, and got a response:

---Quote (Originally by aaminoff)---
Hi. Are you planning on submitting a turn in the next couple hours? Or if not and you are done with this game, please post something saying so on the forums. It's really frustrating not to know what is going on with a player.

- Alex, Machaka
---End Quote---
Sorry for disapearing, but yes, i thnk i cant continue playing dominions! ill post last turn =\

Well, it is up to LDiCesare. I feel like at this point we (team 2) have eaten enough of Pythium that it is difficult to see how we could not win. So I suggest we call it, or perhaps run a few more turns of Ctis vs Machaka just as a training excercise. Trying to find a sub for Pythium does not seem pointful.

- Alex

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I'd like to fight at least this turn out and probably the next, just in order to have one or two battles. It's not like the nation I received was in any good shape (I mean, what did he plan to do with that research?), but I've had the time to do a few interesting things.
I'm pretty disgusted by Kuketski. When you do some team play, you at least warn your partner that you may not be playing any more. I wasted some mage time and gems to help him, that's really lame.
But yes, the game is probably won by you, although it totally depends on Machaka's magic research. (I rule off Pangaea as an immmediate threat alone given the graphs on research so far).

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This is a fascinating war we are having. I would love to continue for a few turns. Pangaea is quite willing to sit out and just finish off Pythium and watch. Next turn we can probably set Pythium to AI, since there is not enough left that it is likely to go rogue and attack Ctis anymore.

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Ok. We can fight it out a bit more. I have to warn you that normally my best strategy would be quite boring. I don't know if I'll go for it. I'll probably try something less efficient but more entertaining.
Setting Pythium to ai would be better than have them stale, but Please have Pangaea attack them on the turn they go ai and the next one so they don't declare war on me. Normally if they are besieged in one fort, that should be enough for the ai to consider it's already got one enemy.