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Ulm finally managed to put together a force that could kill my pretender, well done.

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Yep:)

My single and only unique blood summon managed to get a few life for a life spells out;)

Btw, I'm away from Friday morning to Sunday evening - could we arrange to host just once in that timeframe?

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I'm also have a break from friday to monday. Do you mind to wait until monday night for hosting ?

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Agree. For Easter postpone new turn hosting until Monday.

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If your both away for easter then I'll add a big chunk of hours after the next hosting.

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Pythium will be away Friday to Monday so I'll be postponing hosting for that period.

Also I've set Ermor to AI.

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Radio,
Request to add a day to the turn cycles... Lot's of balls in the air this spring.
-ssj

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I can't believe this game was still on 48 hours. I thought it must have gone to 72 ages ago.

Anyway its on 72 now.

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I kind of liked the ridiculously fast pace :D

72 is appreciated though. I hate playing turns on weekends.

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Everyone,

Apparently the host thinks I have received a bunch of gold or something....no idea what that is all about. I have about what I expected, but definitely no large sudden increase. I will of course be willing to submit my turn to anyone for confirmation. I assume this is a weirdo game issue?

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It happens sometimes on several games. No worries

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No worries Tbird. I suspect the mods sometimes light those types of flags for no good reason.
-ssj

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All,
ano has graciously decided to take over Pythium. Good luck all!
I will be watching as a spectator as much as I can... -ssj

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Hello. It looks like I'll be subbing for sansanjuan so, please, PM me any things that need to be said. Thanks.

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+24h for Abysia

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Hi,
I'll play the current turn, and leave for two days.
I won't be able to play the next one before satursday evening.
Could you ad 24 hours to the next hosting interval.
Thanks in advance

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Guys, with all respect to each of you, I think it's better to stop the game because it became pointless. Even if you manage to win some major battle or two, this will not affect Pythian war machine much. Actually, this machine is growing more and more powerful each turn - you can easily see this from graphs and, believe me, there're a lot of things that graphs do not reflect. Of course, we may continue this for another 90 turns but it will just become boring, in my opinion.
Ulm - loses fortress by fortress and doesn't seem to even try resisting
Man - lost a lot and keeps taking losses. Lost the goddess this this turn. Even if you take that besieged castle, it will decide nothing.
Machaka - is in fairly good position but is with no doubt way behind.

If you do not want to continu, then I require increasing turn time. 72h on turn 95 for a 127-province empire is just funny.

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Meant "do not want to stop", of course :)

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I've just seen your post, I recognize you're certainly gonna win.
So if Man as no hidden trick in is hat, I think we should stop. I'll do so if Man agree.

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Ok then. Let's pause the game until the issue is decided

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I think it is long overdue, Pythium has this. Fighting with Machaka is fun, but this game is already decided, I think.

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If Man doesn't answer, we'll continue to have fun together

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If Man doesn't answer, this means he will be staling. I think it is even more pointless to continue in that case.

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I did what I could and Pythium really grew in power during my 5-turn reign. Now I have no interest in pointless blood spilling.

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I agree with the group. Good game Pyth. I could not stop you.


Man

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Ok, fine.
Thanks for the interesting final turns, guys. I learned a few fine things from this game. Thanks, sansanjuan, for the ability to play this late-game Pyth.
Btw, Strands of Arcane Power is a very good spell (people tend to underestimate it). Not only it mind hunts\feebleminds mages in your dominion, but searches for magic sites pretty well after having wished for the Magic Power. And it requires nothing from you, only spreading dominion. 8 sites found and 8 mages killed\feebleminded this turn. My main goal which I succeeded in was spreading dominion as much as possible and then casting wish.
Once again, thanks and gg.

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Alright then since everyone with more than 10 provinces agrees we'll call this game finished then.

Well done Ano (and sansanjuan) and thanks for playing everybody.

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Thanks again ano for taking the helm. You are welcome to claim this one in the hof if you'd like.

All : The micro was too much for me without requesting 6 day turns. Crafting 8 communion battles is fun but.... I am very slow.

Also, I learned a lot watching ano's approach. Some things I might have done differently but no one can argue with his brilliant plan for wishing power on the guy with the mindhunt/ search global and then pushing dominion HARD. I may write more later. Typing on iPhones sucks.

ssj

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Oh, no. Playing 5 turns is definitely not enough for the HoF entry. If it lasted longer, maybe I would like that but not in this case. Just mention that I was here when reporting, thanks.

In case anybody is interested, I may tell you that you could tear the Pythian empire to pieces. You were perfectly capable of doing that, in fact, and that would be very hard to counter. Most probably, Pythium would win anyway, but definitely not this easy.

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ano,
you should. AARs are all about making stronger players. We should post a trn. I have some points too. The others made a number of VERY good moves but sometimes did not repeat or follow up a very wise strategy.
ssj

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Ok, I'll post the turn later and write something. This isn't going to be an AAR, of course, just some notes. Also, from my experience, people are rarely interested in such things after the game ends and they don't win.

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Perhaps there will be no AAR, because nobody except you, sansanjuan, seems to be interested and with you I talked a lot regarding the situation. And I'm really tired now. Sorry.

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This was a fun game. I tried out what I thought would be a decent strategy with Jotunheim, and it turned out okay, except for my inability to apply sufficient force to my enemies, and a general screwup of my blood economy. I kept waiting for B1 Vaetti Hags instead of just recruiting Skratti to blood hunt. Had I had a better economy, I would have had more of the skratti thugs that were working so well.

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Here is the last turn for Pyth if anyone is interested who was where.
-ssj