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welcome to the game zenphos

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Hey here's a question. A while ago I sent my pretender with a group of mercenaries to attack a province. The mercenaries mostly died while my pretender was building up his magic. Then he started fighting and winning... but the mercenaries were hurt so badly that my whole side routed. My pretender kept fighting though, possibly because he was caught... but then after he'd become free, he kept running back and forth, chasing down enemies and killing them, even though his side had routed, until the enemies were all gone. After the battle he was alone in the newly captured province.

Is this normal? Why would my pretender keep fighting like that? He wasn't berserking or anything.

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Immortal pretenders (not sure about immortal units) will never leave the field in their own dominion, so that was probably what happened.

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Huh, cool. That's good to know.

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Hmm, apparently the stun effect on Thunder Strike is... important.

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Found that out the hard way, did you? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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No it wasn't hard at all you just have to stand there

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AAARGH! How stupid can you be? I had my turn ready, and just forgot to send it. Or, more correctly, I was convinced I had sent it, but apparently not. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

I need a wall to smash my head against. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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WALL

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Thank you.

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Cool. Arch Devils can "loose their tail" in combat. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I love this game.

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Ask that devil the same... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Oh, that's okey. He won't miss his tail anymore, since he got killed. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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'd like to trade for air gems, I can offer an abbuncance of water and death gems in return, and a smaller number of earth gems.

Let me know if you are interested in doing a trade."

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Vanheim staled twice in a row now, and I can imagine the postion isn't really very intresting to play anymore. I've sent real friend a PM asking wether he intends to continue playing. If he doesn't reply and stales again I'll see about getting him switched to AI.

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Arga Dis has large quantities of surplus water gems (or items forged with water gems) available for trade. I'm willing to trade them for any other kind of gem at a 1:1 ratio. Better rates might be available for specific kinds of gems I am in need of. Contact me for details, I'm sure we can work something out.

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He's back, and with his tail attached again! All praise the powers of hell! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Vanheim stalled again, so I will see about getting him put on AI. Let the land-grab begin. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image.../firedevil.gif

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Man, we really are churning out the turns like madmen aren't we? The game has been running just over 60 days, and we're currently playing turn 58, even with the delay we made to find a replacement for Velusion. And most players have already submitted again.

My turn is ready too, but I will wait with submitting it till tomorrow evening, as I have a couple of busy days comming up. Saves me the need of having to fiddle with the timer.

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Yes, everyone has been quite good with the speed.

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Edit: nevermind, I found a workaround. (Forgot the map though. Off I go to get that one too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif )



Anyone here is any good with computers?

I got myself a new one yesterday, so I've been busy installing all kind of stuff. In the context of this game I re-downloaded the 3 mod nations, and extracted them without problems using whatever tool windows comes with already. (this is windows vista, which I'm not familiar with by the way) But then I downloaded the worthy heroes mod, and windows did not give me the option to extract it. So I downloaded winRar, which I used on my last computer, to unpack it. Unfortunately, when I try to use winRar to extract the files into the mod folders I get a series of error messages telling me 'can not find destination path' and 'access denied' (And when I use winrar to try and extract the mod nations that worked fine with Windows, I get the same messages btw)

Anyone of you has any idea of 1) what I can do to make winRar work for me, or 2) what other unpacking program I might be able to use to unpack the worthy heroes mod?

If anyone has an idea that would be great, since obviously I can't play my turn without having the correct mods installed.

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Blimey, that's one scary defence you've got ready at the Karene fort. Not sure I can crack that one with the forces I currently have in the area, never mind about trying to minimize losses. Some thinking needs to be done.

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Well considering it is my last province it should be scarey. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.
I mean it is my pretender and all my high level research mages.
Still I figure the PoD 3 devils 2 arch devils and who knows how many other devils you have floating around shouldn't have too much trouble taking it out.
Or I guess you could always wait for the diseases to kick in and finish me off the slow way. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.

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Foodstamp, I see you aren't having any luck finding a replacement for you, and you staled the last two turns, so I suppose real life is being a real ***** and you can't keep R'lyeh afloat till you find a replacemnt.

I don't really have a good view of your situation from my position. Do you think switching R'lyeh to AI now would be premature? Obviously finding a sub would be preferable, but if your position isn't really attractive for a sub and you can't keep playing, switching it to AI is preferable to letting it stale.

Let me know what you think, and if a sub doesn't turn up in the next few days, could you switch yourself to AI? Or if you think it would really be a shame to go AI already I'll see if I can pull some strings and find a sub anyway.


I hope your RL circumstances aren't too painful, and wish you all the best.

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For some reason I haven't received my new turn, and the "turn resend" option isn't working on the llamaserver. Never had this problem before, and i've PM'd llamabeast, but please delay a bit if it looks like I might stale.

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I tried to resend your turn to you too, just in case it works. I've had a similar problem myself once before, and got around it by having my turn sent to another e-mail adress. If you have an alternative adress turns can be sent to, let me know, and I can change it.

I'll be keeping an eye on the status so you don't stale.

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I will give Xanatos a chance to respond to the thread, then I will move R'lyeh to AI.

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I've postponed hosting by 24h to give Xanatos the chance to look at his turn if he decides to take over.

I'm happy to see we found a solution for you, Johnarryn.

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Xanatos will be joining us, and take over R'lyeh from Foodstamp.

Thanks for helping us out Xanatos, and welcome. I postponed hosting so you have time to familiarize yourself with your situation. The turn is now scheduled to host friday 14.55h GMT. If you need a bit more time for some reason, feel free to ask.

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ok so im looking things over on his turn now, wow! lots to do...where to begin:( any thoughts or suggestions?

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1) Use your remaining assassin's (if you have any) conservatively. You've recently lost 7 in 2 recent consecutive turns do to preparation on my side.

2) You should probably do something about Thetis' Blessing, or not.

3) You have lot's of castles. If you also have a lot of laboratories then I would suggest putting up some protective domes, or else I'm going to keep pounding you with death spells.

4) Your pretender design is simple, a Kraken with very little magic power to lose. Place cheap but effective items on him and send him to battle. Use your other mages to boost his combat effectiveness. If he dies, use all those starspawns to bring him back quickly.

5) Your troops are positioned to jump my army in the place I'll most likely descend, The Sea Untamed (33). Unfortunately for you I already know this, so act accordingly.

6) You prophet is the Queen of the Lake (50 water gems well spent) with 100% regeneration that I haven't fought against yet, I've acted accordingly.

7) I have a triple bless (fire, water, and astral). This is something you would already know.

8) Diplomacy?

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Very risky spell this is. I assume it was cast with quite some gems, but if you manage to dispell it while Mictlan has hundreds of guys swimming around in the sea... sounds like fun to me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Otherwise I have very little idea of what's going on in the far east, but in general your big strength should be commuions/astral magic. If you can arrange for master enslave you're golden. The dreams of R'lyeh assessination spell is really good (since Mictlan is likely to have enough astral to stop mind-hunts)

If you need some more general advice, Evilhomer wrote an excellent guide about R'lyeh ( http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=525893 ) and Baalz one about how to use communions ( http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=577320 )
Both are excellent guides, well worth the read. (If you haven't already of course)

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i suppose this is a bad time to mention i've never actually used a communion before?

oh..this is one heck of a position to get thrown into:P but ok, that information was helpful, thanks!

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Eh, well... sometime has to be your first time. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Experiment, have fun, curse a lot when you manage to fatigue all your communion slaves to death, and in the end blame Foodstamp for your inability to win the game.

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Thanks for the game guys. Learnt a lot about how to play on the defensive. Hopefully I caused a little bit more pain than the AI would have.

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You definitely did. I've seen you win at least 2 rather big battles, and loose one more while inflicting serious casualties. No way the AI would have come anywhere near that.

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i can still do quite a bit of damage before im taken out - it will make it alot easier for someone else to kill my slayer:P

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Maybe, but I'm clearly not the big fish people are concerned with in my opinion. The territory I eat is near to useless to me once gotten.

My general feeling is that people will let this play out as I'm sure nobody else wants to be the one to take out a water nation. Its much more costly then a land war.

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By the way, sorry for the hold up. I didn't realise I had to send in another turn after I got killed. First time knocked out of a game, but am sure it won't be my last. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.

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i'm going away for a few days tomorrow morning, i'll be back again sometimes monday next week. I have been trying to find a sub, but I haven't been successfull. Can i ask to have the game paused for a few days? If not, then you will just have to live with a couple of stalls from me.

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I noticed that thread of yours asking for subs, but with all that talk about the team game in the first few replies it didn't register that it had anything to do with this game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

I for one see little problem with granting you a few days extension, and would rather not see someone stale through no fault of their own. Anyone else has monumental objections to a delay of a few days?

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A delay sounds fine.

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cool thanks, i'm heading off today, and i managed to do the current turn and send it in already. So it shouldn't be so bad http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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You certainly picked an intresting time for your trip though. Things are just getting really intresting. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I'd like to join playing Eriu, please. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Eerm... Have you read this thread? (or did you reply to the wrong one?) The game has been underway for quite some time, and we're currently deep into endgame.

I think it's a bit late to join. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Haha, yeah I noticed. sorry http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif I got sort of excited and jumped on it. Heh heh. I'll lurk and wait for next game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Or maybe start a thread of my own. Ooh!

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No problem. There's worse things to get excited about than dominions. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Of course, my imaginary girlfriend tells me there's better things to get excited about too. But then, if she starts nagging me too much I just un-imagine her, so she knows not too push too hard. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Janlm got in one more turn than I thought. (or I postponed a turn too soon, depending on your point of view. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif ) In either case, his turn is in, so we're now only waiting for Ermor's turn. Not that there's any particular rush or anything. If you're using the delay to catch a much needed breather, be my guest. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I am indeed. After a rather nasty demonstration of the late-game power of blood magic, the delay is quite good for me to think about what I want to do.