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TEAMS:

1 - Shovah32, Micah
2 - Tromper, Folket
3 - Baalz, Thrawn
4 - DrPraetorius, Burnsaber

Do we want to random the themes, or engage a bid/draft process? I'm fine with bid/draft, but I've never hosted one, so someone with more experience will have to run that part of the game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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The patch sounds sweet, Kris...

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Yee-haw! Wih DrPraetorious at my side, I.. oh.. WE can't lose!

I'm not sure if we need to bid. The teams look quite balanced to me. But, two questions.

1) Do we get some to familiarize ourselves? I might end up with a nation I haven't played so much with (for example last time I played Arco or Man was in Dom:PPP). Couple of days should be enough. If people are eager to start I'm sure that we could come to an agreement with DrPraetorius where he plays something I'm not familiar with.

2) What are the victory conditions? The usual "others quit" or something else? I think capitol VP's should be in the spirit of this experiment.

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I like the sound of randomly assigning the themes so thats where my vote is.

Welcome, Micah.

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Yeah, lets just random them and get it going. Looks like I'll have to wait for another game to enact my revenge on K. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Random it is. Posting in a bit...

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Is a bit over yet?!?!?! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/fear.gif

sorry... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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Yes! It's over! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

TEAMS:

Team 1 - Shovah32, Micah
The Briny Deeps - R'lyeh, Atlantis, Oceania

Team 2 - Tromper, Folket
The Eastern Empire - Arcoscephale, Pythium, Pangaea

Team 3 - Baalz, Thrawn
The Western Empire - Ulm, Ermor, Marignon

Team 4 - DrPraetorius, Burnsaber
The Fiery South - Abysia, Machaka, Mictlan

So, here's how I did this, if anyone's interested. I didn't use my random roll app like last time, since we had two variables. I got real complicated and put the numbers 1-4 on pieces of paper in a cup. Then numbers 1-7 in a second cup (actually, it was a coffee mug, but who's checking?).

I drew from the cup, which gave me the team. Then drew from the mug, which gave me the theme. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I was worried we might end up without a water team after we had made the map with water provinces, but they were actually the first theme drawn.

So, discuss with your teammate which of the three nations in your new theme you want to play.

I'll post the above info on the first page, as well as the game settings and victory conditions (though, it's going to be pretty standard). Everybody can weigh in on those options if they'd like.

We're going to use llamabeast's PBEM server, which makes things much easier (at least for me).

We should be ready for Pretenders soon! Can't wait to get started!

Nation selections
 

Teams, post your nation choices when you figure them out.

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How much water is on this map, by the way?

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According to DrP: "230 provinces, 1725x1725 pixels, 30% water *by area*, which is something l.t. 20% water provinces, and is balanced."

You can download the map on his post on page 3. I'll put it at the top, as well.

If you haven't gotten it already, go ahead and do so.

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26 Water provinces - 25 in one group. It will suffice.

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Okay guys, I've created the game on the LlamaServer, so you can start uploading pretenders whenever you're ready. Here's how:

- Go to Game Tools -> Create a pretender god in Dominions
- Go to the savedgames/newlords folder in the dominions directory, and find your pretender file (e.g. mid_pythium_0.2h)
- E-mail the file to: pretenders[ at ]llamaserver[ dot ]net
- Crucially, you must have the game name, 'Allegiances', in the subject line of your e-mail

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Thanks llamabeast!

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Team 3: The Western Empire
Baalz - Ulm
Thrawn - Marignon

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Dangit, I wanted the Magenta starts. Ah well.

Within teams you can switch your two start locations, if you wish, I just handed them out in alphabetical order. I just switched ours to give me more forest and him more resources.

Start location assignments:
(Team I - Western / Red) This wasn't randomly assigned obviously they have to be in the water.
Micah - R'lyeh - Southern Red / 57
Shovah32 - Oceania - Northern Red / 146
(Team II - Northern / Cyan)
Folket - Pangaea - Eastern Cyan / 200
Tromper - Pythium - Western Cyan / 190
(Team III - Eastern / Magenta)
Baalz - Ulm - Southern Magenta / 94
Thawn - Marignon - Northern Magenta / 144
(Team IV - Southern / Green)
Burnsaber - Abyssia - Eastern Green / 38
TNDP - Machaka - Western Green / 31

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Awesome. Teams 1 and 2 post your nation choices ASAP. Once we have our starting points, we can upload pretenders, and get at it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Looking forward to the game.

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We'll get to you as soon as we finish early communication - I suspect we're in contrary timezones or somethin'. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Shouldn't be too long.

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Are we allowed to attack independents during the first 12 turns? Are we sitting in our start province for 12 turns or do we have more provinces?

Are sites, independents default?

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Folket, you can TOTALLY expand and attack independents. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif The 12 turn thing just applies to other player nations.

I'll post the game settings info at the top. But, yeah, it's going to be all default, and no graphs.

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I assume renaming will be allowed http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif?

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Sure, I'll do renaming. I like that too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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The knights of the Western realm ride forth, bent on purging heathen magics from the world. Finding joint cause with our neighbors and brothers, a new pact has been forged - Black Knights and Chalice Knights thunder forth, charged by the twin gods themselves in a holy crusade. Tremble, evil, for the mightiest knights known to man quest forth bent on eliminating all vile sorceries root and stem. Let all denounce their neighbors as hedge wizards, witches and sorcerers for no man should hold secrets in his heart when the inquisitors come knocking. All mankind should rejoice, salvation from the dark tyranny of sorcery which corrupts men's hearts is at hand.

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I will play Pangaea and Tromper will play Pythium. We have not decieded our positions yet.

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DrP - please swap Pangaea's and Pythium's starting location. Thanks!

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This game will be very worth keeping an eye on. Some nations which are considered low-choices for winning the game make some great choices as an ally. Using each nations abilities best for its pantheon (team) makes it a whole new game.

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I will play Oceania and Micah will play R'lyeh.
Can we have a little extra pretender creation time? I was out of commission yesterday with a migraine so havn't really had time to think.

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That's fine, Shovah.

Everyone, remember you're sending your pretenders to llamaserver. Let me know when you've done that.

DrP, can you finish up the map, and send it to me? Thanks again for doing that.

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Let you know when the pretenders are in? Mine's in.

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You can also see what pretenders are in on the website.

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Sending my pretender now.

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Oceania will take the northern sea spot, Rlyeh the southern for whoever is arranging the starting locations. Thanks

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Yeah, that's what I sent him.

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I'm in for this as Aroscephale (however it's spelled)
I sent in my pretender

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Sorry Bob_Loblaw, this is a team game and is closed (can you change the thread title Thrawn?). FYI it's generally bad form to join a game without asking if new players are being accepted, and what nations are still open (or even reading what type of game it is!).

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Bob_Loblaw?

Are you taking over for Tromper or something? If not you will have to respect that the game is already full.

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I'll remove Bob's pretender.

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Waiting for Machaka.

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Oh, sorry. Sent.

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Awww, bummer. We could have had a third teammate! heheh

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Started!

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So, there's 48 hours on the clock for the first turn (which hopefully won't even nearly be needed, but just in case of problems), and 24 hours for subsequent turns.

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Good luck everybody!

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Sorry about the misunderstanding!

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I have mailed my turn but the server has not updated that on the page. I guess that means that I did something wrong.

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What is this? Everyone knows how to do this except me. Someone should at least be able to tell me how to send my 2h file.

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Umm, I've no idea what the problem is, but if your pretender was received, you should have gotten an email stating so. A second email arrived after all pretenders were received. The only 'instruction' in the second response email I can imagine you may have missed would be that you need to send the *.2h file back to turns (at) llamaserver (dot) net.

Perhaps you were trying to send it to the pretender address? Or it wasn't the *.2h file? Or the llamaserver fell down and couldn't get up? No clue otherwise. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Umm, you're not trying to send it from a different email address than you sent your pretender from, are you? I think that might cause a problem, perhaps...other than that it's simply sending the 2h file in to turns@llamaserver.net (just reply to the mail you got the .trn file in and it should be all set). I dunno what else could be causing it.

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jinx

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And on top of it we're both from Portland.