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lol

Gotta give you credit for being self aware - I like that in a person! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Thanks for the tips, Aku, hope our game goes as well as yours seems to be going.

You're probably right, but even a small time block goes a long ways when you're turn 10 or less, so it's hard not to at least suggest. OTOH, I'm sure you're right that its not worth spending a lot of time trying to arrange.

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I can tell you right now that my schedule is such that a blitz will be pretty much impossible. Between a full time job, family, and graduate school, I'm lucky to even be able to look at the game every day. Hopefully this doesn't mean you all gang up on me to eliminate me first http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

I think talking (typing) about the game makes it more fun. C'tis has the most provinces - the largest empire in the world! Hahahahah... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Too bad it's only turn 4 and I can't research my way out of a paper bag...

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No worries - we'll wait a bit and gang up on you second http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif


Hope you enjoyed it while it Lasted - almost everyone's on the same province count now. Abysia looks ready to jump ahead tho - already getting 2 provs in a turn http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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Abysia is more awkward than anything getting 2 provinces a turn and then none the next two turns. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

I hear that Odin One-Eye fella likes to kick puppies when he's not racking up the kills. I'd keep an eye on him. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

bleach

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yeah, curious strategy that. you've done that twice now!

Grrrrr [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/mad.gif[/img] Is there no justice in the world?! You should do something about that!

But speaking about keeping an eye on people - did you notice Mictlan's research rate? Could be some kind of Manhattan project going on over there...

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Whoa...Whoa...Whoa...
You keep the empire of bloodsuckers out of this! After determining that with my nifty Drain 3, I'm in the paper bag too. So God has to be a Bookworm for a few turns until we can make skull mentors. (Not that we have ANY death gem income) BLAH!!!
-Yc http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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You know, even playing in SP, I have trouble getting provinces at a rate of 1 per turn, and you guys seem to have an indy setting of 8! Ouch. This means that you must be able to take indy provinces while taking next to no losses, which I find rather hard to do.

Just another sign of my newbie-ishness I guess.

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Funny how the truth gets twisted in the telling.

He is not kicking it, he is slaugthering it.
It is dog, it is pork.
It is not many, but the same, immortal one, every night.
And it is not for sport, it is to feed the troops.

How can you plan on ganging up on the wise allfather who takes such good care of his worshippers? Shame on you!

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Actually, at this point there's no difference between SP and MP, at all. It is tricky, and I'm still a newbie myself, but I'm beginning to work out how to do the opening expansion. One key is to make sure your initial army can do exactly what you just said - that is take indies with near zero casualties. A lot depends on which particular indies you go after, and estimating the toughness of a specific group of indies is an artform I'm still working on.