Re: "A Song of Ice and Fire", veterans-only game, MA. In progress, midgame...
 

Nevermind that, I've just spoken with PriestyMan on IRC. He is still playing and he said he is going to submit turns normally in the future.

Re: "A Song of Ice and Fire", veterans-only game, MA. In progress, midgame...
 

sorry about that guys. last week was my first week of college, so as you can imagine it was a bit crazy and for some reason this game was the one that got put onto the backburner

Re: "A Song of Ice and Fire", veterans-only game, MA. In progress, midgame...
 

Hmm. A nation falls, and not even a peep. An odd game.

Re: "A Song of Ice and Fire", veterans-only game, MA. In progress, midgame...
 

Hrm, Vanheim, it seems you've just eliminated us both from the winning contenders...

Corwin, due to this most interesting development I'll need a 24h delay as I have an exam tomorrow, and another one in 3 days.

Re: "A Song of Ice and Fire", veterans-only game, MA. In progress, midgame...
 

We'll see.

Re: "A Song of Ice and Fire", veterans-only game, MA. In progress, midgame...
 

Executor may very well be right Dimaz. Pythium Empire is not going to sit quietly and watch Vanheim taking over Ermor. Considering the huge size of the Ermor's territory and their gem income, as well as recent Vanheim's conquest of Pangaea, that would make Vanheim too powerful. It's a first turn of their war, and Vanheim has already propelled himself to a leading position in province graphs. I don't know if Van would be able to keep it up, Ermor does have strong network of castles to rely upon to defend against raiders as well as good research. But then again Van likely has tons of teleporting stealthy raiders by now. And I know that Ermor does not have (at least for now) a strong tartarian factory, since both chalice and scepter are owned by other nations (I don't have them, but I can see that both these artifacts have been forged), and GOH has been casted by me.

Frankly I expected either me or Tien Chi would be Vanheim's next target.

No problem. 24 hours have been added to hosting time.

Question - has Vanheim attacked Ermor *and* Ulm at the same time this turn? I thought Vans and Ulm do no have a border, no? But provinces graphs do not seem to leave any other options. Teleporting van commanders raiding Ulm's uncastled provinces for gems and money boost? But if this is the case, I am curious why has Van decided to go after two nations and not concentrate on Ermor, who seems to be currently his primary target?

Re: "A Song of Ice and Fire", veterans-only game, MA. In progress, midgame...
 

Actually, it is Ermor who has presumed to invade Ulm. Perhaps they now regret that action. The Black Priests would be willing to entertain an offer of reparation.

OTOH, perhaps Van might consider a suitable *gift* to Ulm in exchange for its services? Even now, the heavens open and mighty iron-clad beings can be seen to descend...and what of Bandar...drama!

Re: "A Song of Ice and Fire", veterans-only game, MA. In progress, midgame...
 

Ah, that makes sense! That means that this turn Ermor has taken about 5 provinces from Ulm, and has lost about 10 provinces to Van. Thank you for clarification.

Re: "A Song of Ice and Fire", veterans-only game, MA. In progress, midgame...
 

All right, considering recent developments, as well as my own geopolitical situation, it leaves me with only one sensible course of actions.

The Pythium Empire is withdrawing from NAP that we currently have with Tien Chi. Please consider this to be our 5 turns notice, according to the agreement between our nations.

Re: "A Song of Ice and Fire", veterans-only game, MA. In progress, midgame...
 

You're cancelling our NAP? What do I have to do with any of this? I wasn't even in the equation. And it was a six turn, not a 5, btw. I don't do 5s, I do 3s or 6s.