Re: five teams of two wanted
 

Team Aku/Hubris is changing our pick from Vanheim to Ctis. Rather play a heat theme than cold because I refuse to use cheezy *** Caelum and I dont like Jotumheim.

Also what are the game settings?

Magic sites/World Richness/Independents/etc

Re: five teams of two wanted
 

I propose:

Sites normal (40%)
Richness normal
Independents 9
Research hard

Re: five teams of two wanted
 

Panther and I want Machaka and Marignon.

Re: five teams of two wanted
 

It seems fair to assign enemies according to the order we signed up.

Zooko and Arc
King Lear and Ioticus
Tauren and Panther
Yellowcactus and Cunknown
Hubris and Aku

So Team Zooko&Arc wins if Hubris, Aku, King Lear, and Ioticus all die. Team King Lear&Ioticus wins if Zooko, Arc, Tauren, and Panther all die. Team Tauren&Panther wins if King Lear, Ioticus, Yellowcactus, and Cunknown all die. Team Yellowcactus&Cunknown wins if Tauren, Panther, Hubris, and Aku all die. Team Hubris&Aku wins if Yellowcactus, Cunknown, Zooko, and Arc all die.

This is going to be FUN! :-)


UPDATE: See further in this thread where I change my mind. Instead of enemies being assigned according to the order that they joined the game, Alneyan will randomly assign enemies without telling anyone who they are!

You'll have to hire scouts or expand the borders of your empire if you want to know who your enemies are. :-)

Re: five teams of two wanted
 

Tauren/Panther team what is your first pick? you chose two nations.

Also YC/Chris team needs to choose a first pick.

Re: five teams of two wanted
 

So our team's first pick is (still) Ulm, and forget anything I said about Man or Pangaea...

Re: five teams of two wanted
 

Now as for placement, either one of us can place all ten teams and everyone can know everyone else's starting positions, or we can solicit some third party to do the placement for us and we can all not know. Although we all know that the placement will be *roughly* the simple layout described in the ASCII art in the first message of this thread.

I think we should just have everyone know everyone's position. Could someone tell me how to do specific placement, or just do it (on Inland) and post it for everyone to see?

Re: five teams of two wanted
 

I don't think that YC and I are actually playing. That Faerun game is going to start taking a lot of time soon. Sorry..

Re: five teams of two wanted
 

Okay! Thanks for letting us know right away.

current line-up:

Zooko and Arc -- Ulm
King Lear and Ioticus -- ?
Tauren and Panther -- Machaka
Griffin of Buerrig and Hacker Pschor (if they are still interested) -- Jotunheim
Hubris and Aku -- Ctis

Re: five teams of two wanted
 

Since we had the last pick in the first round, we went ahead and choose the first pick in round 2.

However, it turns out that we are no longer last because of the substitution issue so I suppose we really have the second pick in round 2 instead of the first one...