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Ok, hosting has been changed to 48 hours. Next host is 5:50 GMT Sunday.

Machaka: Maybe there's a lesson here that I should stop trying these teleport attacks. They never seem to work out. I think a big part of the problem is my scripting and troop placement. But it also surprised me because it seemed a couple castings of leech hit your AQ but had no effect. I thought leech/life drain bypassed MR?

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Well, he lost one hp at some point of the battle. He got hit by leech once. I remember reading that Drain Life passed all defenses, but I'm not sure about leech. It was close call, anyways. Those Gifts went close!Btw, Why didn't you cast wind guide with your Air Enchantress? You do realize that casting Mass Protection also makes your warlocks suspectible to their own Heat Aura, since it lowers their fire res to 75%?

I'm really starting to like the Late Game portion of this game. There's always something intresting happening, and since you can do more stuff, you can also make more complex "plots". It's also been quite educational experience (like you can't out-poison Horrors with Hydra Hatchlings, Horros have Drain Life attacks). I need to come up with something else. Those horrors are nasty!

Oh, Oceania. About the siege battle. That Prison caster wasn't exactly planned. I was just using the cool artifact Pythium had traded to me, I really didn't considers its possibilites, until now. That's a good trick for a fire nation. Prison of Fire spam + Heat From Hell in a siege. Your trolls also seemed to have dislike for my Flaming Arrows..

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I have to eat that crow right now, since you kept the fort and took the field. Next time I think I will bring a few more of my water mages. They were not so good against Pythium, but cleansing water seem to be denting your preference for undead, eh? Now if I can only figure out how to script to go after some of your commanders and we have a fight on our hands.

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Doh! I forgot wind guide. That's a really annoying mistake because I actually used it earlier in the game against Pythium.

As far as mass protection affecting my warlocks ... umm I never thought of that. I think I'll be avoiding that from now on.

The horrors are about the only thing that's gone well for me recently, though they were certainly no match for that earth king and army they ran into last turn.

Thanks for the feedback. And I agree this is turning out very interesting.

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You guys have only just switched to 48 hours after 60+ turns? Wow, you're hardcore!

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We are a bit insane I think. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

It's been a fun game. Tien Chi came after me early and only my sacred statues' extreme protection and my infantry's kite shields saw me through the hordes of arrows he unleashed upon me. I'm glad I pushed my enchantment early to allow me to summon those statues. Pulling almost all my mages off research duty hurt my RPs badly, but they really helped keep my nation alive. I'm small but still alive and keeping lots of statues around. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Bowling.gif[/img]

To Tien Chi (hopefully you are still reading this):It was a good fight. It sounds like we both did a couple of 'head smacking' moves (Like me forgetting to crank my tax rate at home down after pulling my patrollers out and not noticing till I couldn't build troops suddenly http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif).As I said in our PMs, I have no hard feelings whatsoever. My own lack of diplomatic rapport with you was a big contributor to our war, and we never had any kind of NAP or other agreement, so it's not like you violated any kind of treaty. I look forward to seeing you in other MP games.

To my current neighbors (Caelum and Jotunheim): I feel like a buffer zone between you 2 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif, but I've found you both to be good neighbors.

My little corner of this world is isolated but I am still finding this a good game of Dom3.

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Yep, I'm enjoying it as well. I admit I haven't been incredibly active diplomatically (probably mostly due to the somewhat isolated position I started in), but it is a lot fun. Much more interesting than trying to plow through another 500+ militia AI army http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

The Dumb, Dead & Vengeful
 

Abysia: Err, that battle at your fort was completely planned to go that way! You see, I'm lulling you into a false sense of security! Ha-haa!

Ugh, sometimes I just hate the battle AI. I mean, my Earth King would only have had to go like two squares up to start kicking your Demon Knights around, but no!

"Durrr.. Me great melee King of Earth. Me good fight. Durr.. No fight. Dudes in way."

Nice plan with the Storm, otherwise he would flown right into your mages. How did he die, btw? I didn't watch the battle through, but I simply cannot believe that you could have gotten Paralyze through his MR of 32.

You finally nailed my Air Queen. Gongratulations. Well, he probably caused you enough headache to justify her gem cost. I had a clever paln to nail your next group of teleporters, but apparently, you decided to take a different route.

Well at least the filming for the movie "Chaga the Hunter Spider Mummy 3; Back with a Vengeance. Again." are well underway. Abysia, would you mind sending a couple of horrors against him? That'd make a kick-*** action scene.

We have taken some setbacks, but the lands of Machaka will not be yours for free, you vile fire-men! Be prepared to bury many,many of your kin in Machakan soil!

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Great post Burnsaber. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

I really lucked out that I had just researched flames from the sky. But it looks like I was even luckier that I chose to cast storm. I couldn't decide between storm and mass flight but in the end I decided I was better off fighting at the castle gates since I didn't have enough troops to surround you. I have no idea how the earth king died; it looked to me like he escaped but then I saw the message that I found the flying ship. It does seem unlikely that soul slay or paralyze got through that insane MR and he was still over 100 HP.

I'm even more confused that your AQ is dead since you put her on retreat and she was gone before my horrors attacked. She had two provinces she could retreat to; one of them my horrors cleared out but the other was still open. I had always thought that if any province was available for retreat you were ok. Does it not work that way? Maybe the game chooses a retreat province and if it's not available the retreating unit dies? Well, if she is dead it certainly cost me enough. What did I lose in the attempts, something like 8 mages or more and their magic items? And you're right: I had had enough of that and just decided to sit back and cast some horrors. I'm glad I didn't get to see the plan you came up with to kill my teleporters: as it was I was losing half or more of my mages with each attempt.

Now the mummy's back ... it's just an unending parade of SCs. And I know it's just a matter of a few turns until your GoH/Chalice-healed tartarians start arriving. But let me take alook at Chaga's stats, maybe I could oblige you by sending some horrors (it's less painful than losing mages in any case).

Delay in hosting
 

I need some more time to complete my turn so I've delayed hosting by four hours. New hosting time is 06:55 Thurs.