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Given that my entire nation is planning to move to being a giant ambulatory charnel house, with no use for lungs (water filled or otherwise), I am quite confident that we shall adapt successfully to your challenge!

Lady Esmeralda, First Consul of Ermor

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The people of Ermor are wise. Death is an appropriate way for the scaleless ones to contribute to the spread of the swamps. To become fertilizer is to participate in the great works of the Barnacle Goose.

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No worries; You all gonna be corpses soon enough :D

-Big Red

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Dear beloved friends and subjects

There seems to be some misunderstanding amongst you all. Like fishnanny once told me when i was little: you can lead a fish to water but it can't drink. But then she also told me that poor Julian had grown legs and went to live on the land when he was really eaten by that ugly squid ... so..then ... what I'm trying to say is that there is no need for these big words and for you all to have these armies all over the place, you are all welcome to live under the rule of Lucy. All praise the wisdom of Lucy!

May the years be as kind to you as they are to me
Lucy, Goddess of the Lake


PS. if anyone likes really horrid smells perhaps spottygoose can come and live with you, I told him to go away but he's still here.

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The peoples republic of Ulm always utilzes a policy that cares for enviromental concerns. We thus have to inform aquatic species in propable danger of extinction that Ulmish shores have some rather severe amounts of very heavy nasty metal(s).

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Well, I cannot deny that Lady Esmeralda has already adapted well to watery conditions. Hmmm. I may have to come up with a new way to deal with her.

But as for Ulm, I feel I should warn you, heavy metals do not float well. Except perhaps when they contain chunks of ice instead of soldiers, but that will not help you much, will it?

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As the old saying goes, "if you can't kill it, try mating with it". Think of the wonderful undead fishy offspring that Atlantis and Ermor could have! We could raise them on a steady diet of Ulmish proletarians :-)

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As a certain pretender can no doubt attest (after that certain pretender has been revived), attempting to digest the elite Black Guards of the Peoples Liberation Army of Ulm can lead to leg athrosis, non regenearting wound syndrome, chronic anal halberd insertion and death.

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After a slight diplomatic hickup, we have some pencil pushers to spare that would make a better job as Fertilizers, would you be interested?

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It seems that the landlubbers have fallen upon each other. It is good to see this; the Rising Water is fed by the blood of the hairy ones. All hail Shurp, Lord of the Rising Water!

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I think I am joining the club of people with weird things happening. Just got obliterated in a battle, yet conquered it and ended up with quite a lot of remaining troops :confused:

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Fishworm you treacherous, 4-faced, snake! Go away from my Castle!

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The world seems so evil and treachrous - but the giants of the world welcome all with friendship and warmth. why shouldnt we make the world together a clean, well-lighted and friendly place to men and beasts alike?

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I had a commander turn into a troops this turn, which was a problem another player had before, I believe.

Also, likely not errors just bad luck; even with zero order and 3 luck, I have only gotten 4 events the last 3 turns... all bad haha

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I should point out that I am a 2-faced snake, exactly the right sort of creature for backstabbing landlubbers. Especially landlubbers with large armies that threaten the minions of the Rising Water.

Fear not all you lesser mortals; those who are weak and do not attract my attention will remain unmolested by my minions. I am patient and can wait for the rains to bring you to me.

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That is nonsense! I GAVE you that sea to live in and unicorns can't even breath underwater. I'm not talking to you anymore.

Fishworm smells of wee.

Lucy, Goddess of the Lake

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Is it just me, or has Atlantis misplaced the bulk of their army somewhere?

If it helps any Fishworm, when I lose something I frequently find that I've accidentally put it in my sock drawer, or occasionally am wearing it as an impromptu piece of clothing. Either that, or the darned cat has eaten it again*.

Maybe you could try looking in the Atlantean sock drawer to see if your army is hiding there? And I'll check with my cat, to see if he ate them when I wasn't looking (he is rather fond of fish).

Lady Esmeralda, First Consul of Ermor

* One of the down sides of being a Great Enchantress is an obligation under union by-laws to own a cat of supergenius level intelligence and an obsession with world domination and eating important papers

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Fishnanny was wrong all along! If you cut one smelly fishworm in half you just get 2 dead worms.

HA!

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Wow, that worked spectacularly badly. Note to self: do not send good troops against elite troops.

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Hmm, that insight doesn't bode well for me... D:

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The one about not pitting good troops vs elite troops, or the bit about always remember to look in your sock drawer if you can't find where your Legions of Conquest (tm) have gone? Seriously, it works - at one point I misplaced an entire army of praetorians, and there they were right next to my work socks.

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Breakings news from Tartarus!
The Celestial General of Shinuyama and the Worm of Atlantis have sued the Pretender of C`tis for constantly occupying the Tartarian elevator!
In the words of the celestial General of Shinuyama: "Now I have to use the stairs, did you ever try to use the stairs out of Tartarus? Its such a long way up! And I am limping! Thankfully, I found a Black Halberd in my behind which I now use as a crutch..."
Meanwhile, Atlantis Great Worm has a problem of other kinds, with both halves of him now claiming to be the real Pretender! Stay tuned as a civil war of worm half vs. worm half may erupt in Tartarus!

Ulm News, Fair and Heavy!

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fishworm would have looked awfully silly in a pair of socks.

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I suppose I could wear a sock on each head.

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Whoa, I've done nothing wrong- I have a V.I.P (very important pretender) pass for that elevator. And I haven't died in at least 3 turns. These dead pretenders complain to much- "ooh, I got a black halberd up me arse", cry me a river. This one time, I got bludgeoned to death by creepy-druid-tentacle-trees; yea, try sitting down after that! So, anyone else want to reminisce about previous deaths....oh wait, you guys cant... because your not all awesome and immortal like me!

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Whaaa???!!!!!!

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CBM 1.84 has lost its mind... no wonder his knights chewed through my troops. Two broadsword attacks and two hoof attacks every turn???!!!!

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Protection 17 and defence 17 is quite nice also :-)

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Yea, it's a bug that affects a number of troops in CBM 1.84. I actually posted about it a few weeks ago: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=47746
There is a link to the patched version of CBM in that thread, though we cant fix anything in this game, since we have already started.

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I'm mostly using unicorn knights which don't seem to have the same bug. I'm happy to stop making those normal knights altogether if they are some sort of cheat.

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Nah, that's ok, this whole land thing wasn't working out for me anyway. I should let the water do my work for me.

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Now this is interesting:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=47550

"I'm taking the very unusual step of changing the mods on the LlamaServer, which means that all players also need to update their copies of the mods."

This might explain some bizarre behavior. If LLamaserver is using the corrected version of the mod, and we're all using the broken version, then our battle replays will show the knights chewing up everything in sight but on the main server the battle will run a bit more fair.

I'm going to check the zip file in that link and see what it does.

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Well, I can confirm that with the replacement 1.84 mod the save file does load. I'll let you know next turn whether Man's knights behave properly (I assume they will attack my troops instead of sitting idly inside their sieged castle)

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From memory, when the replay differs from the server version of the battle, the outcome from the server battle is the one that actually takes effect - is this correct?

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Yes, the battle replay has no game effect. What happened on the server is what is in the saved game file.

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ah. a lot more of those knights were dead after the battle than seemed to die on the field. I figured that was to do with poison

you can load an earlier turn and rewatch battles kr (assuming you didn't delete the email). turn 15.

seems to work. so we should update our mods ..right?

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Question indeed!

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I have been using the updated mod from the start (and My Black Knights only had one Morning Star per guy ;) ).

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Oh, I hadn't thought of that, you're right, I can load the turn file from my email.

Yes, that's more the result I was expecting when I read the battle report -- my troops held up well until they decided to rout, then they got chopped up in typical Dom style. I got kinda freaked when I watched the slaughter of the original battle view.

OK, so good troops can hold up to elite troops -- as long as you have enough of them. With morale support :)

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It seems that Abysia may stale this turn.

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Quite a brutal turn, looking at the charts. Both Shinuyama and Atlantis have had their armies smashed, and Pangaea also seems to have suffered a reasonable serious setback.

In other news, I have now used Dark Knowledge to search 10 provinces, and have found only one (!) magic site - and this site only produces air and astral, no death gems. Such is life! I will just have to take solace in my boundless hordes of undead, I guess :-D

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There was much splatting/bombing/killing near Shinuyama.
A nice little sorcerous artillery duel that was cut a bit short when Shinuyamas Magical Artillery suffered from a severe case of being dead.

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Fishworm's foolish fishmen frequently flop up to my fabulous fortress.

GO AWAY SILLY FISHMEN!

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Sorry for the Stale. I had a family issue arise (death on my girlfriend's side) and had to leave without notice. Completely forgot about this game. I won't get back to the game until later tonight. I will try to pick up the pieces of my stale from there.

Again, sorry for the missed turn. I know it unbalances the game, especially when someone being invaded stales. I hope Man and C'tis have not taken too many of my provinces!

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Very sorry to hear that, FAJ.

Dont worry about the provinces. I chickened out/ decided that Shinuyama was an easier target. But I'll be back ;)

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From memory you didn't lose any provinces etc at all this turn FAJ, so it seems that fate has favoured you :-)

Are you OK to do this turn on time, or should be petition the mighty overlord of T'ien C'hi for an extensions?

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I will be fine getting turns in on schedule now.

Glad to see it was an uneventful stale!

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Dear nether horrors, wherever you may be

I don't know what you think you are playing at but please don't interrupt our battles in the future. It was gearing up to be a great fight till you came and chased both sides off the field. Such childish behaviour is not acceptable!

Lucy, Goddess of the lake

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I haven't had a chance to look at the turn, but from the sound of it, I should have scripted less 'call horror' and more 'horror mark'!

Maybe I should just stop using soldiers all together.

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utter carnage. its quite a spectacle :)

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I'd like to salute the honorable, brave and fierce warriors of Shinuyama, the great nation that, alas, came to an unfortunate downfall. The people of T'ien Ch'i recognized their unique and interesting culture and shall forever remember the goblins as people that fought hard against the prejudices about their past or appearance.
Countless Followers of the Way have reportedly appeared out of nowhere in all places in our land to pay their homage to the fallen people. As my own sign of respect and as an expression of feelings of a whole nation, I, the Emperor of T'ien Ch'i, called Two-Spirited for my double-gender personality and Four-Handed for my most striking appearance feature, hereby share with you a song I personally helped to create.
Let it be that this piece of music art continues to carry the honor, strength and very soul of mighty Shinuyama for thousands upon thousands of years. Bakemono of Shinuyama, know that spirits of millions shall be with you in your final charge for your honor.

You shall never be forgotten.

Daichi Moyu, Ballad to the Shinuyama Bakemono

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Using less Soldiers? Heresy!
This would totally devastate the Peoples Republic of Ulms current 5 year plan, which plans on increasing domestic Popcorn production for export to feed the growing international Scout society.