Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

The enlightened ones of Patala finds such things as "Deathmatch" too barbaric for our tastes. Good day sir!

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Darn, I was meaning to equip a weak commander with a Bane Venom Charm and send him in, but forgot!

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

I was too busy getting my *** handed to me by Tien Chi to send a contestant.

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Who??? O_o

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

surprised ermor didn't send like 10 commanders in

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Alright, Caelum has a RIDICULOUS amount of PD on their capitol http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

And Mammoths beat the crap out of Rangers.

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

I want to see a mammoth

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

My Mammoths didn't even get a chance at your Rangers before they routed. You thought you had a soft target and you attempted to take advantage of it. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried, but the battle came out well for me.

Arco met a similar fate, although his massive amount of War Elephants did quite a bit of damage against my defending forces.

And forgive me if I had to ramp up my PD to ridiculous amounts. That's what happens when Ulm, Arco, and Utgard all gang up on me at once.

Now be prepared to feel the wrath of the Birdbrain.

--Gabrielle, High Avatar of Caelum

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

The Elephants did pretty good huh? Before they routed.

Your twelve commanders can spam a lot of lightning bolts...my Bandar guys were dropping like flies 'cos of that that is what cost me the battle ahh well : )

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Heheheh. Sounds like Caelum is putting up a stiff defense! Good for him - VPs should be hard to take http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

12 commanders from PD?! HOLY MOLY

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Yeah, I'm done with this "police action". The thralls of Ulm are painting rainbows and peace signs on our ramparts and throwing buckets of poop on our Zweihanders from the Blackiron Gate Bridge.

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Is the server down?

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

The fire burns within. We must release the flames. We must BUURRRR *connect timed out please try again*

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

I guess along with the no server being up and the well of misery being up. It is just going to be a bad bad night.

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

oh jeez the server is down?

Well I am on vacation in San Francisco and my abilities to reach a Wi-Fi spot are limited so... Not to mention that tomorrow I go to Taos for skiing and... Etc etc..

Not asking for special favors but do understand that if I stale for 4 days in a row I am doing my best.

Rathar

P.S. I have no xp with servers being down and Dom3 Do they still count down the hours? If so I have ummm 3 to get in a turn.! Again no excuses just reasons for why I may suddenly seem to suck!

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

There's a well of misery up?? O_o

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Your durn Elephants absolutely mowed down most of my non-PD defensive forces. It was a costly victory for me.

And no, my 12 commanders were not PD. I can't imagine the amount of gold one would have to pump into PD in order to get 12 commanders.

So what's the ETA of the server coming back up?

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Heh, you should probably not give away your military secrets when you're in a 1v3 situation. =) Where are your other neighbors anyway? I'd send help if I even had a clue where to para some in.

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

We are his neigbours http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif although somewhat belligerent ones at that..

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

You can only get two PD commanders, no matter how much money you put in.

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Exams are over soon o_O. NEW CB PLZZZZZZZ

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Is the server down?

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Having just checked at 1:29 pst yes is the answer. Sleeping now, will check in the "I am on vacation" morning I.E. noonthirty

Rathar

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Server appears to be down now.

Well of Misery already?

Isn't it enough misery to have over 300 undead and a Wraith Lord suddenly appear on one's doorstep?

Ermor has really figured out how to take advantage of the way this game was set up. Nice going!

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

I'm guessing Ermor is the Quick, and you are the Dead. Sorry. Besides, we all know Ermor sucks in the late game, so give him a break.

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I have lots more surprises up my sleeve. So Ulm, Arco, and Utgard don't have to fret about knowing a couple small tidbits of intelligence on Caelum.

Expect the tides to turn soon.

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

See you all wednesday when ironhawk returns!

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

I'm here. The server is up but apparently you guys cant connect to it, which is baffling me. I will restart it now... ok its back up. I did have a network interruption yesterday, maybe that effected the server somehow? Let me know if you guys can connect.


As for the Well of Misery: Yes, ermor just cast the well this turn. So, he now now top in Forts, Army, Research, AND Gems. I am betting its only a handful of turns until the Tartarian Factory and the GR bombing begins in earnest http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

I won't get home until another two hours or so, will I be able to get my turn in time >_<

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Hrmm Still can't connect for some reason.

Leaving to go skiing in a few hrs, hope tis up!

Rathar

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

I can't connect to the server too (Still the same IP adress, right?). I'm around for ~2 hours before i go sleep.

And i'm not ready to bomb anything beside dark knowledge http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif. Did you guys know how (gem)expensive a Ghost Rider or Tatarian Gates casting mage is for LA ermor? Ghost Riders needs a Level 6 death mage now. Not to mention that conjuration 9 still needs some time to research.

edit: and tatarian gates are modded to cost 25 death gems now (death 7). I'm not sure i'll ever cast it here.

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Nope, still can not connect. Getting stuck at "this may take some time" using ipadr 24.18.113.45 port 7501

Can you check these to see if either have changed?

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Or firewalled?

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Can't connect either =\

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Let me recheck the IP... yeah its right. Grrr

Ok, I am going to turn the quick timer off until we can get this sorted out. Hopefully tonight - apologies for the delay guys I dunno what is wrong

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

No sweat.

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Server is back up! With msew's help I was able to determine that the problem was due to internal routing on my LAN. All your game connection requests were being routed to my Tivo, not the server computer http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif This has been corrected. Restarting the server now with 24hr quickhost back on.

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Anyone have a dispel handy?

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

How are people's mages and sages doing?

Old age is rough! LOL *comfort oldies*

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Hahahha yeah the Well of Misery has me spooked also. Ermor is topping almost all charts. Scary.

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Where the heck is ermor even? I (thankfully) have not come into contact with the dark one.

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151 I believe?

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Its funny that the leader of Midgard is scared about ermor. Especially the graphs.

Didn't midgard has more than the half troops of ermor? I think this guys aren't banishable, has more hipoints, most of them better attack/defence values and the vans have the glamour ability which is even unblessed a real pain.

Besides this midgard has with patala the most provinces and together with agartha and patala the best income.

I would be by far more alerted if i were a neighbor of midgard.

The only thing i would fear from ermor would be the population killing dominion, the rest can be banished.

Don't overrate LA ermor. They always best in army size graph on the start of the game and should be best in gems too because they couldn't maintain any other army than a casted one.

And for the giants: you appeared on our doorstep. You decided to attack caelum and we decided that 3 to 1 against caelum isn't fair.

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Hey, 3 against me isnt fair either! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

I'll confirm that Ermor's capital is in 151.

It's hard to muster enough banishers quickly enough, but things went better last turn with about 220 less undead to worry about. However, not much of a dent was made in the total number of Ermorian troops.

I agree that 3 to 1 vs. Caelem was unfair. It should have been 4 to 1, to give all of us attackers a fair chance!

Meanwhile, if anyone has made any agreements proposed by Pangaea, they are worthless! He won't hesistate to "interpret" the wording of his own proposals to suit his treacherous intentions!

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

May I request that because of recent server problems, hosting be delayed till everyone gets their turn in? I know Argatha specifically stated that he can't get his turn in time because of some trip he had to take?

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Pangeas proposal during turn3, which was accepted during the same turn: "I wonder if you are interested in a 5-turn non-aggression pact after the ceasefire with pangea? If so I'll stay on my side of the water, so province 83 is yours."

Pangea interpreted it thus: all parts of the agreement end after 5 turns, and the border drawn up is only to clarify which indeps goes to whom.

Utgard interpreted it as: pangea promise never to attack province 83, even if we are at war later on with utgard attacking from province 83.

Pangea finds utgard's interpretation ridicolous, but notices that the message might have been slightly unclear.

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

It's not an interpretation! It's simply just what you said.

If I agree to your desired NAP, then you agree to stay on your side and leave #83 for me.

The proposal might have been ridiculous, from your point of view, but you were its author! I had to laugh and immediately agree!

Of course I could surmise your evil intentions, but even if your promise was counter to them, shouldn't you be bound by what you put in writing and agreed to?

Re: The Quick and The Dead (Accelerated Start) [OP
 

Very odd. With the last turn generation, one of my Sages decided to stop researching and take a jaunt over to one of my other fortresses. I've never seen that happen before.

I've asked him to kindly return, then I'll flog him and toss him back into the laboratory where he belongs.