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1) Use your remaining assassin's (if you have any) conservatively. You've recently lost 7 in 2 recent consecutive turns do to preparation on my side.

2) You should probably do something about Thetis' Blessing, or not.

3) You have lot's of castles. If you also have a lot of laboratories then I would suggest putting up some protective domes, or else I'm going to keep pounding you with death spells.

4) Your pretender design is simple, a Kraken with very little magic power to lose. Place cheap but effective items on him and send him to battle. Use your other mages to boost his combat effectiveness. If he dies, use all those starspawns to bring him back quickly.

5) Your troops are positioned to jump my army in the place I'll most likely descend, The Sea Untamed (33). Unfortunately for you I already know this, so act accordingly.

6) You prophet is the Queen of the Lake (50 water gems well spent) with 100% regeneration that I haven't fought against yet, I've acted accordingly.

7) I have a triple bless (fire, water, and astral). This is something you would already know.

8) Diplomacy?

Re: Uakari - MA game (signup)
 

Very risky spell this is. I assume it was cast with quite some gems, but if you manage to dispell it while Mictlan has hundreds of guys swimming around in the sea... sounds like fun to me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Otherwise I have very little idea of what's going on in the far east, but in general your big strength should be commuions/astral magic. If you can arrange for master enslave you're golden. The dreams of R'lyeh assessination spell is really good (since Mictlan is likely to have enough astral to stop mind-hunts)

If you need some more general advice, Evilhomer wrote an excellent guide about R'lyeh ( http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=525893 ) and Baalz one about how to use communions ( http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=577320 )
Both are excellent guides, well worth the read. (If you haven't already of course)

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i suppose this is a bad time to mention i've never actually used a communion before?

oh..this is one heck of a position to get thrown into:P but ok, that information was helpful, thanks!

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Eh, well... sometime has to be your first time. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Experiment, have fun, curse a lot when you manage to fatigue all your communion slaves to death, and in the end blame Foodstamp for your inability to win the game.

Re: Uakari - MA game (signup)
 

Thanks for the game guys. Learnt a lot about how to play on the defensive. Hopefully I caused a little bit more pain than the AI would have.

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You definitely did. I've seen you win at least 2 rather big battles, and loose one more while inflicting serious casualties. No way the AI would have come anywhere near that.

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i can still do quite a bit of damage before im taken out - it will make it alot easier for someone else to kill my slayer:P

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Maybe, but I'm clearly not the big fish people are concerned with in my opinion. The territory I eat is near to useless to me once gotten.

My general feeling is that people will let this play out as I'm sure nobody else wants to be the one to take out a water nation. Its much more costly then a land war.

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By the way, sorry for the hold up. I didn't realise I had to send in another turn after I got killed. First time knocked out of a game, but am sure it won't be my last. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.

Re: Uakari - MA game (upload pretenders)
 

i'm going away for a few days tomorrow morning, i'll be back again sometimes monday next week. I have been trying to find a sub, but I haven't been successfull. Can i ask to have the game paused for a few days? If not, then you will just have to live with a couple of stalls from me.