Re: Declaration of Disgust, by divine fiat
 

I knew the gem income comment would burn me...

I didn't get a chance to use it!!!

Instead, I've hoarded them like a greedy little (and soon dead) king!

Krool

UGH
 

UHG!! I fear that the Worthy Empire of Ulm has been overrun. We have only a few turns left before all will be black... Good playing, Panther.

Re: Declaration of Disgust, by divine fiat
 

Krool, that is too bad. I was looking forward to battling some gem summoned baddies.

Oh well, I guess that was not to be.

No if this wall would hurry up and crack...

Grim Knight, The Lengthy Beseiger.

Re: UGH
 

Yes, Panther my good buddy and I shall divide the world between us.

So far he has completly vanquished Arco and, if we trust the words of the Black Iron Lord, Ulm will soon be vanquished by him as well.

Meanwhile I have vanquished Vanheim and it looks as if Pythium will soon fall to my flames.

Fire and Ice shall burn you all!!!

Grim Knight, The Destroyer of Kings.

Re: UGH
 

Yeah, too bad the game is over. It has been very fun. But I have to wonder about the wisdom of the victory conditions, and I am the one who put it that way. I thought that it would make for a bigger, bloodier fight, and I suppose it did exactly that. For everyone but Grim Knight is now at war with me since I am winning. I am not at all sure that it would have happened that way under different victory settings.

But it is too late now and the game will end on the next turn. I don't even get the satisfaction of trying to eliminate Jontunheim, though I did kill his ghost king Last turn.

The folks in this game have been very fun adversaries, and we ought to start another one with the same folks having first dibs on joining the new one.

However, the absence of new slots on the Mose Hansen server is a huge problem . Some have suggested PBEM. I was considering hosting a game on my own home computer, except that I don't think I can behind my firewall.

Any ideas? Three of my four ongoing games are ending very soon. I am losing the other two big time now and will be eliminated quickly in both. I would like to start another one right away. I am willing to try a PBEM game, though I am not sure how it works. I think you would not be able to play one turn per day unless you force stales. Anyone have any experience with PBEM?

Re: UGH
 

I'd be up for another game.* I think with PBEM, it would have to be agreed that there would be a scheduled host every day at a specific time (unless there was a special request).

Dragonfire and I have been playing PBEM for a few months. I don't mind it at all. The trick is making sure players are careful to not lose track of the latest .trn and .2h files.

PASHA


*In spite of the fact that my ego is currently brused by such a swift spanking by the Panther-Meister.

Re: UGH
 

The walls should Last awhile. They are made of all the gems I recently uncovered but didn't use!

Krool

Re: UGH
 

It is my personal opinion that Ulm is the single worst nation against Caelum. Pretty much any other nation can deal against the false horror spam if they go the right magic or troop path. But Ulm is too one-dimensional to change its ways.

The fundamental problem with Ulm vs. Caelum is that the smiths always target the false horrors and kill their own troops plus a few horrors that would dissappear after the battle ends anyway. My son says they ougth to make the mages never target summons unless that is all there is left or the summons threaten the mage. If that were the case, Ulm could slaughter the back rank mages and archers with the power spells and eliminate the Caelum cheap false horror spam.

Just my opinion anyway. Had I been Ulm and you been Caelum, Pasha, I would have lost just as quickly as you did.

If we start a new game, whether PBEM or not, I would like to try my hand at Abysia for the first time in MP play. I have been testing that race in SP, and it seems a good race though hard to play. There are so many choices and paths Abysia can go down, that is seems difficult to know which is best. Abysia aslo has a difficult time doing research, unlike Caelum.

Anyway, if you want to host a PBEM game, Pasha, count me in.

Re: UGH
 

Thank you for your nice words, Panther, but something tells me that the world is safer that YOU are the rocket scientist and not me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

I have a kooky map that we could try. My one reservation is that it might not be a perfectly balanced map. It's the Tyrande map on the Illwinter site. It's a very beautiful map (and that means a lot to me for some reason). What do you think? Dragonfire and I have been playing on that map, and we both like it (but, again, lawyers like pretty things).

But, it might not be totally unbalanced. I think the provinces near the middle of the map are very rich, while the provinces on the edges tend to be poor. This gives the players "stuck" in the middle of the fray the resources they need to survive. The large mountain ranges make the mountain passes very important.

Re: UGH
 

Another interesting map is Arduria (also on the Illwinter map page).