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What Oceania calls an unprovoked attack I call "attempting to come to Atlantis' aid." And unless Atlantis' claim that Oceania asserted sovereignty over all the sea is false (and Oceania's behavior suggests it's not) then my attack was not unprovoked. If you tell someone else you're going to kill me, you've still said you're going to kill me...

Crossing the land bridge was something I had to do early in the game because my start position was a 3 province lake and had nothing to do with him.

It wasn't so much the dominion that killed me, but the fact that R'lyeh is worthless if the mind attacks don't take, and Oceania's sacreds seem designed to counter just those kinds of attacks, even without the s bless. Add the s bless to it, and it's ludicrous.

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C'tis declares war on the evil alliance of Rlyeh and Vanheim!

Onward lizard soldiers! Now is the time for action, while our blood is hot from the summer sun!

Sssla

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I'm in an alliance?

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I don't *feel* like I'm in an alliance.

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Your diplomat claimed friendly relations with Van, before he hinted threats to us of mindless hordes and teleporting enslavers. C'tis does not take lightly to such badgery!

If you have caused Van and C'tis to be entwined in war by sowing confusion in our puny lizard brains, so be it! There is glory in battle, and too many soldiers is a drain on public finances.

C'tis

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Winter is coming. Your lizards, fat and slow from the summer, will freeze while my war hardened Vans tear them apart and feast on their dead bones.

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Oh come now. We R'lyehanians can't order breakfast without mentioning our mindless hordes.

In any case, it *is* a little gauche to declare war on us immediately after my posts about Oceania decimating us. My mindless hordes, they are all theoretical now.

Why didn'tcha just say that you've decided to kick us because we're down. There's no shame in that...but pretending this is a war...oh come now. My mindless hordes, they are as puzzled as they are theoretical.

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Does not the crocodile seek to snatch the prey that is already broken? We would not have presumed to insult the great minds of Rlyeh by stating the obvious, but of course, your screaming death throes were exactly what prompted us to invade your lands.

Vanheim, we would be happy to give you our dead warrior's bones as scraps to your poor troops. Meat for the living requires death, and we are not squeamish! We expect great battles, and there will be few hungry among those of us who survive.

C'tis

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[img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Balloons.gif[/img] We proudly announce that Oceania bought our two sea provinces. So only the island of Elvis is still to be claimed! Interested buyers please send a messanger to us. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Balloons.gif[/img]

Thanks Lord of Oceania for your interest. We gladly accept the gift, the frost brand sword, your prophet brought to our estate agent, but would like to remind you that the full price of 1000 gold hasn't been paid yet. Please send us the money next month. Thanks.

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Last month, for the second time in only a few months, the great armies of Pangaea and Lanka clashed. Since the dawn of the era the two nations had been at war, but recently the greatest battles of all took place.

In the first, a sea of Maenads faced off against a wall of hardened palankashas supported by thunderstrikes. Countless Maenads were slaughtered, but one by one the palankashas were brought down, torn asunder by the claws of the wild ones. For a long time it seemed that Lanka might win, but finally the mighty Pangaean Gorgon flew into battle, and eventually the palankashas broke and fled.

At that point Lanka seemed doomed, but somehow another might army was scraped together, even as territory after territory was lost to the Pangaean raiders. All the mages of the Lankan research teams were brought into battle, for a secon massive confrontation. Once again for a long time victory seemed hopeful. The maenads were killed in their hundreds. But ultimately the palankashas were driven from the field once more, and this time almost all the Lankan mages were killed too.

Lanka is doomed, and has been set to AI. We warn all free nations to beware of the Pangaean hordes.

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I felt pretty much doomed the whole time in this game, since I took over rather than set Lanka to AI when they'd been staling for some time. Despite that I really really enjoyed playing. My war with Pangaea has been constant and vicious. At one point the Lankan armies beat the far larger Pangaean empire right back to their capital, which our allies from Niefelheim then occupied - victory seemed certain. But the maenads broke out, drove off the giants and swarmed back south in such numbers that we were eventually defeated. Well played Pangaea (especially using Destruction and Strength of Giants against me) - it was a fun game.