Re: Turn 51
 

Turn 51 is out!

Deadline is Thursday.

Southeast Vampire Rebels Win Again! Booooo Ermor!
 

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News Flash!!!!! <Beep-bah-Beep-Beep! Beep-Beep-bah-Beep-Beep!>

This story just in from the sacred homeland of the Ulm United Front Defense Army (U.U.F.D.A.) (aka the Southeast Vampire Rebels), who are fighting bravely to regain their lands from the stinky Ermorean undead smear following an unprovoked invasion by said smear.

U.U.F.D.A. has retaken another sacred castle from the Evil Emorians lead by the Dastardly Boron.

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Lord Pasha and the Southeast Vampire Rebels wish to thank their benefactor (who will remain unnamed) who has been funneling cash and resources to the Freedom Fighters! Thank you! Thank you!

The bad news is that the Dastardly Boron and his smear has raped and ruined every province he rudely swiped from the Noble Ulmish Lords. It will take months and months to fully recover and quell all the unrest!

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Re: Southeast Vampire Rebels Win Again! Booooo Er
 

Playing a blessed Ermor is not so useful i found out. A blessed Ermor is just extremely unflexible, especially with CB.
Ermor is dying now but it has been a very fun game nontheless http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif. Hopefully i will be able to get revenge in a future game, i can't remember any longtermgame i played with Arch where he has not won http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif. This sentence was not meant as a rant but as a compliment for you Arch http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Southeast Vampire Rebels Win Again! Booooo Er
 

Booooooooo, Ermor!!!!!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Southeast Vampire Rebels Win Again! Booooo Er
 

I suppose this is the first time I have ever seen a triple 9 + 4 bless effect. I didn't even know such a thing was possible! Only death Ermor could attempt such a thing.

It is really just too bad that Boron went AE Ermor, or I probably would have allied with him to try and stop Arch from winning yet another MP game. But allying with Ermor is just plain wrong, for the 10 dominion combined with lots of area (plus many temples) causes the destruction of any nearby territories.

Of course, attacking Boron is also a losing cause, truly a can't win position for the big cat in this one.

However, the player who really got the shaft in this game is Cainehill. He has been stuck in the frozen tundra the entire game with no hope of ever breaking out. It is amazing to me that he is still alive. I suppose he is not dead only cause I declared war on Ermor. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Anyway, I see a lot of games that are highly dependant on starting position, like in this game. But that is the luck of the draw!

By the way (for everybody's amusement), I have attached a .jpg file which was the result from scrying in the Ermor capitol. See for yourself if Boron is dead or not!

Re: Southeast Vampire Rebels Win Again! Booooo Er
 

If Ermor is having so much trouble, then I advise that they evacuate the Ulmish Holy Land and lick their wounds in their own backyard. My vampires need more space for flying around.

Re: Southeast Vampire Rebels Win Again! Booooo Er
 

Shafted? Why, I got all the women, all the wine, all the booze. How could I be shafted? Oh, wait - my advisor tells me that we have no wine (against religion), no women - also against the Priestess's religion, and he only said we had _blues_, not booze. Bah! New advisor!

But, no - I'm alive in part because some players, over the past few years, have learned that I'm loyal/faithful sometimes to the point of stupidity, which has earned me some loyal friends / allies - at least, in non-blitz games. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif ( Blitzes, depending on starting positions, all beasts, er, bets / friends, are off. )

Of course, I'm also alive 'cause I spanked Tien Chi a couple times - I'm more Guderian than Rommel, I'm better on defense than attack. Sucks to be on defense, but hey! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

True enough. Unless it's too obnoxious, I only really hate starting pos when it's a blitz game, since .... First, you don't have time to do really serious diplomacy without slowing the game to a crippling halt (as per Stormbinder and Cohen, leading me to declare war against them on turn 2, just to avoid 30 minute turns on turn 10). Second, a regular game, who cares if you're really getting thrashed? If it only takes 5 minutes on turn 50, okay. But a blitz, all too often someone's turns take 4 minutes while some others take 30.

Blitz games, the random positions can really suck. Long term games, well, you can get screwed too, but it only takes a couple minutes a day.

This is, however, why I'm starting to like the thought of pre-ordained starting positions more and more, to make for more balanced MP games. (FFA or teams - we had a great team game blitz Sunday, 3 nations against 4 - us of the Triad got smashed, but with better starting positions it would've really been interesting. Team blitz games are great fun. ( As long as Boron and I aren't on the same team http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif )

Re: Southeast Vampire Rebels Win Again! Booooo Er
 

yah, i like map-mod scenario-ish pre-set starting positions. It allows one to add a bit of spice to the start if one wants, as well.

Re: Southeast Vampire Rebels Win Again! Booooo Er
 

Hey that are just normal undeads http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif. I think 1 black sorceror equals 100 ermor undeads. Has been a while that i played ashen empire and if it is a while the memories will get corrupted http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif. Trying to rely on longdead cavalry (i spent 70% of my deathgems on arch bishops!) was in retrospective a bad idea http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.
Or rather as you say taking ermor was probably the really bad idea.
But having hindered 3 other players from winning is a fun success nontheless for me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif. Because i tend to have a Micromanagementphobia in Dominions. That's why i hoard because this way i have the chance to win by quantity.
Already in starcraft i always relied on Macro and hated Micro. But since i can't hoard with CB i changed my playstyle. Now i try to annoy as many nations as possible because i don't play for winning but for the joy to take down as many other players with me while losing as i can.
So i often play Ragnarok-like in longterm games with CB now and enjoy it.
I hope you don't mind. But hey Dominions is a wargame and i am bringing the war to my neighbors so i do you all a favour by keeping the game exciting from earlygame on http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Southeast Vampire Rebels Win Again! Booooo Er
 

Pardon me for asking, but I have never played undead Ermor before. Exactly how do you get those sacred cavalry anyway? Do they simply show up for free among the normal cavalry?

And yes, the wars have been fun. Though they were not at first when it looked like you were going to blitz me so fast. But, as you say, having an army size of 300 it not as scary from Ermor as it is with any other nation. When I finally won the first big battle, it was truly sweet!

One thing you did for me was to keep my empire fairly small, which translates into quick turns. And easy turns are a very nice thing for me right now with all that is going on in my life!