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New Turn up.

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Does anyone know why I can't see forts and temples on the Zen Europe map? Is anyone else having that problem? It's starting to become annoying.

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Do you have those filters turned on? They're controlled by the 5 and 6 keys.

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I can see forts and temples.

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Hehe, I feel dumb now. Thanks guys!

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What's up with Bale? CUnknown, give that ugly mug a phone call and tell him to play it up, or go Ai
-Hehe.

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Hey all, there is a good chance, some one will have to sub for me cause, my mom messed up my computer so I got pissed at her, and now shes pissed at me, so she might confiscate my interent/computer. If i stale 2-3 turns, have some one sub for me.

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It would be your responsibility to find a sub, Legacyspy. Otherwise go AI.

I apoligize if people have not been able to play their turn today. My internet was down for some time (I hope it's back up now--I'm at work). It won't host the next turn for another 24 hours, so don't worry about staling.

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Legacy spy.
You should start a thread on this board. Or just ask Cainehill. He knows everybody!
-Yc

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Hey Cunknown,
Any chance of a forced host by 10:00pm eastern time. That will have given turn 17 (Which shouldn't take more than ten minutes) about 48 hours. At our current rate we've played two turns since 2004. Blah. I know you want to keep the cohesion of the game, but Legacyspy really shouldn't argue with his Ma'ma, and Bale knows how to play a turn when he wants to.
-Grumpy and going to work,
YC

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Okay, forced a host at ~1pm EST.

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But....But....
I wasn't READY!
-Yc

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Turns out im fine.

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It looks like the host is down. Go GREEN (JETS that is).

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He mentioned something about hooking up a LAN network for some good clean nerdy fun with the boyz. Should be back up tomorrow.
-Yc

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Server's Up again.

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Just learned why they call this game DOMINIONS!
-Sorry Abyssia
-Congrats, Jotenhiem.

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why do you say DOMINIONS (in caps) ? I think I'm being a little slow here.

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Jotenheim invaded Abysia around turn 10. Because of the Heat dominion, Abysia soundly defeated the giants. A yearlong siege of Jotenheim's capitol just ended with A pair of berzerked Nief Giants (Almost untouchable because of the weakened fire magic and strengthened cold magic) tore through the Abysian ranks.

DOMINION at it's most effective!
Jot's won when they would normally have lost, all because of a 3cold dominion.

Ten turns before that, the Abyssians won, because the battle took place in they're 3heat dominion.

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Thanks. I've never really paid attention to the effect of scales on units/magic before. I'll have to start.

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The server is going down for a few hours again. I apoligize for the inconvience. As of now, there's 25 min left for this turn and 2 people haven't taken their turn yet (Man and Jotunheim). When the server is back Online, I will probably wait some time before I host...

If Man or Jotunheim was planning on taking their turn (heh) please post here and let me know before I host!

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It looks like I was the Last one to take my turn. Thanks for waiting for me before you hosted.

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NO worries. Cunknown is such a slacker...he probably dodn't even notice we're not on quickhost <jab> <jam>
-Yc

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Well, I am dead, this was my first mp game, and I did okay, what really killed me, I forgot that vanhiem had glamor.

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You made it to turn 30! Could have done much much worse. Your diplomacy could have been better. Taking a province half the world from your empire, then building a thousand gold worth of amazons there without communicating with your three neighboring powers wasn't the best idea.

Turn's up people!
-Yc

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Legacyspy you did OK - We had bad starting spots and I picked on you... Look forward to playing with you again!

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Ya it was quite fun, I learned alot too, what really hurt me was my scales. Ug.

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Nice moves this turn Jeff.
I've never see such effective use of standard troopers! Alas, sun bathing in Italy is once again out of season. Losing over 100 units is generally bad for Atlantis.
What's it going to take to embroil Abyssia and Van into our little wars?
-Yc

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My problem is that I don't use the summoned super combatants and have a tough time dealing with them. Ah well, maybe next time I'll think ahead and maybe be a little better prepared.

You hit me with high protection fatigueless banelords with hellswords, ice devils with hellswords, arch devils, air queens and flying devil raiding parties.

Maybe next time I'll get lucky and end up next to you at the start http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Of course, that wouldn't work if you took a water nation again. Hmmm, I guess there's always water cult http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Dang Jeff,
Aweful bold to think YOU will be blitzing ME next game. Hee-hee. <just talking trash> I usually try to make an Ally in the first 12 turns...then take someone's capitol by turn 20. After that I slow down expansion and go for politics and SCs. Trading for what I need.
Poor Cainehill made one attack this game and never recovered. Poor Abyssia lost his whole army (with mages) after sieging Jotenheim for four turns in the early game. Poor Vanheim got bogged down with crazy Man. (Man was throwing troopes in every direction) Poor Machaka was caught with no were to expand. Poor Bale got super-jumped by Pangaea. Poor Ryleh....Declared war on Pangaea...<Shiver> Atlantis really was left unmolested without even threat from Ryleh. I'd definately have gone for Ryleh had a threat been anywhere upon the horizon. But the way things played out...Pangaea got stuck in the middle of Europe. I think for now on we should play wrapping maps exclusively.
-Yc

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Soulslay was rendered in-effective by the Moloch attending that battle. Sort of a disappointment to see fifty spells bounce off the same target. Blah.

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What do you mean? Something nailed the Moloch. Wasn't it soul slay?

I lost of lot of momentum when Ryleh attacked me. I could have accepted several peace offers from Ryleh, but I'm reluctant to accept peace after having been attacked.

Abysia agreed to a non-aggression treaty and attacked me later in the game. They had to go somewhere I suppose. But then they offered peace, I accepted, and then they attacked yet again a short time later. So, I got what I deserved on that one. I'll learn. But all's fair and all that jazz. No sour grapes http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

When this game ends, I say we go for a rematch http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I'd love to try again.

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The trap you layed 'a turn before we stormed' around venice was sweet! The Five provinces I could have retreated into were all taken by sneaky little Centar devils!
Nice

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Yeah, that was the plan, but you attacked one turn too late. It would have killed everyone except the berserking guys. Of course, I didn't know for sure that you would end up retreating, but I had to hope for something.

Damn, missed it by that much http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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By the way, Ryleh wiped out a large army of mine by cutting off my retreat route. I didn't even notice until after the battle. Nice move on his part. He didn't use stealth, but I wasn't thinking about it and I payed the price.

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Your Fairy Tord god squad has been very successful. When we breached the walls...I teleported in 15 astral mages and my god for 15 S5 quickened soulslayers...but my god didn't participate in the battle...Odd. So you only had to deal with 14 S4 mages. No 'Light of the North Star'.
The teleporting of mages took a turn. So I lucked up and made sure when the attack came that I'd have somewhere to go.
-Yc
PS- Don't even entertain the notion of retaking Italy!
We've got sun-bathing to catch up on.

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Jeffr: I guess I view attacking someone with less emphasis than you do. I just sort of assume I'm at war with everyone unless we have a peace treaty. I don't take it personally when someone attacks me, but I guess some people do. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I will definately remember that for the next game I play with you.

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CUnknown - Nothing personal, man http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif It's just that I think attacking someone shouldn't be undertaken lightly. I'll respond with all I have. So, no worries and I look forward to our next game, hopefully a rematch after this one concludes http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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If everyone agrees, we can conceed victory to YellowCactus (he always wins my games!!). If everyone does not agree, I am more than happy to continue on. I hope someone has something up their sleeve, because he is looking awfully strong.

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I'll concede to YellowCactus. We had our war and he won.

It was a very fun game.

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What? Nobody wants some Tartarian lovins?
-Yc

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I think Abyssia wants lovins YC.

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Jeff.
I offer you the Island kingdom of Great Britain. May you permenantly squish the squid faces beneath your hairy hoof.
-Yc

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How generous of you, but I'm afraid I'll have to decline. I will defend Great Britain and fight until I am destroyed, but I will accept no gifts at this point.

In the next game, of course, I'm all for gifts http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I'll give too - YellowCactus has both entertained and crushed in this game...

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I believe Abyssia has given up as well (he never checks this board, he's a dumb-***). So let me be the first to congradulate Yellow Cactus on his victory!

I'm going to be hosting another one on the same IP very soon. It will be sort of the same idea (early war), but I'm going to go about it differently. I think everyone should start with like 10 provinces, and I'm going to set the indies to 9, but there won't be very many of them.

With a lot of people sharing a border with another human power from turn 1, I think we'll see a lot of both early alliance forming and early war. I like keeping games exciting and actually using national troops. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Yeah, congratulations Yellow Cactus. It was a fun game.

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Pan was scary scary! By the way I'm against the 10 province start. I think developing your empire is a huge part of the game. And the 10 Province start would give Caleum HUGE advantages.
Whatever though.
-Yc