Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [22/24 players left]
 

Done! Good luck to the players still in it, and thanks rdonj! :cool:

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [22/24 players left]
 

Thanks for playing Stagger Lee. See you in future games.

Oh, the drama, Neifel the all mighty has fallen.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [21/24 players left]
 

And what about Oceania, will he reveal his identity to us?

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [21/24 players left]
 

I personally would at least like to hear that the Oceania player contacted the admin, rdonj, before going AI. A bad show IMO if not.

As avoiding players going AI at any stage was (I thought) one of the aims of this particular series of games. Especially if they still had a fort(s) and troops left.


Edit: Thanks to those who stayed and fought until the end (Kheldron, Dimaz, Stagger Lee). It really does make a big difference to games when players fight until the last man instead of just bailing the moment the omens for survival start looking bad.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [21/24 players left]
 

Well, lets be fair, Kheldron essentially suicided himself, and Oceania did lose his capital and probably just has a fort filled with some chaff. I am very satisfied with players' effort, certainly nobody bailed out so far.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [21/24 players left]
 

Oh man, Oceania went AI?- Was it this turn?

If indeed it was as Psycho described it then it sounds as though it didn't really have impact on the game either way and looks like the player stuck to the end (of his resources and ability to make a difference). I probably would have preferred him not to go AI anyway but I can understand and accept his decision.

Another thing, How do you know all this stuff?- Other players may start adding things up to make an educated guess re. your ID. Best avoid such telling remarks :)

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [21/24 players left]
 

Oceania was Graeme Dice. He did contact me before going AI and my understanding was that, basically, he had nothing left. He also isn't around right now and would have needed to get a sub or stale for a few turns, so going AI seemed to be a reasonable solution overall.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [21/24 players left]
 

Yep, I made a last ditch attempt to throw my remaining amber clan mages, and all of my nature and water gems at my enemies, but couldn't make a dent in them, and had only an empty non-capital fort with a single telestic animate and my pretender, so I went AI.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [21/24 players left]
 

Come on WL, give me some credit, I didn't say anything that cannot be read directly from the graphs. Here, I will elaborate:

Kheldron's suicide - We can see that Marveri lost all provinces and was left only with his capital. Then on one turn he loses all his army, but not the castle. This means that he tried to break the siege in a suicidal attempt. He then goes AI and writes on the forum about his fort being empty and then Fomoria takes it.

Oceania - His army graph rose very quickly over the course of three turns, which means he recruited/summoned a bunch of chaff. On the last turn he lost one of his two forts and 2/3 of his army. Most importantly, his gem income dropped below 6, which means he lost the capital.

Re: YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [21/24 players left]
 

That was no suicide. In fact he had been sieging my castle for some time but I decided I had a chance of breaking it with gifts from heaven spam and such.
He had some losses but not enough :(