Re: Ermor has revealed itself! Cover in fear morta
 

... I'm darn tooting tired. I hope to be awake before my turn stales, but if I can't, could the turn timer please be pushed back four hours? I'll get the turn in as soon as I'm awake...

If not, well... I'm not at war... so I can stall without any great drawbacks. Friday-Saturday are my difficult day, since I work a different shift.

Re: Ermor has revealed itself! Cover in fear morta
 

Turn in. Strategic advantage = gained.
Lasts, or dispelled?
Maelstrom...

Re: Ermor has revealed itself! Cover in fear morta
 

Heavy drinking... got a stale turn. No biggie, back in the game now:)

Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

Frozen Seas... back to sleep.

Re: Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

Frozen Seas? Interesting!
Solar Brilliance didn't seem like it was going off every round against you Ermor. Maybe it was a graphical glitch. Although the caster is now in the Hall of Fame with 300+ kills after one battle.

Re: Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

Frozen Seas has downsides, thanks to cutting off my sailing. But... don't have to defend the seas, either.

Since I'm investing in quite a few underseas temples to finally make my dominion dominant underwater, I figured it was just barely worth it.

Re: Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

Nice fight there again...:) I lost my pretender and at least one other high price unit + a load of chaff. Damn your SCs were positioned WELL, my troops just simply couldn't storm your castle, even though I had probably 2000 queuing their turn.... Well, in the end you routed (as I predicted), but neither of your SCs died nor got afflicted which annoys me:)

... next time I hit your castle with your SCs in, I'll just siege it..

Re: Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

My only hope was my SCs in that battle. My army wasn't that big. I don't have to worry about afflictions because one of my SCs is carrying the Grail. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Sounds like you came out on top though. I can't wait to watch the fight when I get home. I've destroyed thousands of undead and your army dipped a bit on the charts but now you are right back up to what you were at before. I don't seem to be gaining any ground here. **Looks around to see what Atlantis is doing**

It is very tough to storm castles with LA Ermor. I had that problem with them last time I played them.

Re: Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

I officially don't like your SCs...

Re: Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

What am I doing?
Maelstrom.
Well of Misery.
Frozen Seas.

I can't keep it secret any longer, but I obviously am profiting from your wars.

Re: Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

I officially don't like killing thousands of undead and not seeing any change to your army size in the charts! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I cast that fire king the turn before you sieged my castle. literally in the nick of time.

When there are three nations, the third wheel is bound to have a bit of an advantage while the other two duke it out.

Well one nice thing for Ermor. Poor Soferic, whom was carrying the artifact that auto-casts solar brilliance in battle has been ganked by the hunter of heroes. What a shame....

Re: Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

I request a change to 48 hour turns. I'll try and make them daily, anyways, but on Friday and Saturday I work a different shift, and it would be able to get some sleep, skip one day, and turn them in on Saturday evening.

Re: Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

I dont' know if Cooron is monitoring this game. You might want to PM him.

Re: Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

Well... I have two people who would need to agree first. I can keep up the current schedule if it is an issue.

Re: Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

I'm ok with any change, although I'd prefer for the game to progress as fast as possible - I can live with whatever.

Re: Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

Well, its only the two of us left, anyways, and I'm running out of energy. We'll keep it at its current pace.
Unfortunately, I staled. I thought I'd had till 8, but I was mistaken. I could have made it- the timers not at fault, just my morning mental math.

Re: Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

I'm afraid I have to surrender. My main reason is a lack of time and energy this labor day weekend. I got home, ate, and went to sleep. However, I feel no shame in declaring Ermor the winner. I waited far too long to attack them, and Tien Chi fell. With them controlling much of the world, and me stalling, I hadn't a chance.

You played well, once you got past your stally start. But I was too friendly towards you and then too eager to get all the globals in the world up.

Now just to decide what to do with my nation. I have one or two little tricks up my sleeve. I'll unleash them before going over to the AI, at least.

Forge of Ancients, here I come.

Re: Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

Good game all.

This was a diplomatic victory for me, I managed to make many of the right moves at the right crucial times. I was really hurting and even dying at times. But once I got to invade Man's land it was all looking very good for me at the time.

Yep Lazy, you should've just crushed me earlier when I was weak, after Man was down was pretty much the last time everyone should have focused on me. But somehow I managed to convince you all that Atlantis is the biggest threat(all the while keeping NAP with Atlantis;) and as such you shouldn't attack me - all the while I was amassing armies to crush everyone, everyone except Atlantis which I was saving for the last.

Luckily by that time my armies were Huge. And my thugs were ok, my casters pretty powerful.

In the end once Tien'Chi was down, there was absolutely nothing Atlantis could've done from giving me a dominion victory, base dominion of 10 and temple in about two thirds of the world means it's just a question of time once the rest of the dominions fall - there wasn't even need for a war.

Thanks all for a good game. Was the longest and most interesting for me ever this far.

Re: Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

Good fight guys. I had hope in fighting off Ermor but I ran out of steam when my capital was taken. I just didn't have enough armies to stop all of his.

I really started this game off on the defensive. First Marignon invades me and then shortly after Pangea. I was eventually able to beat them both back and defeat them, all while hoping atlantis or c'tis wouldn't attack me. I then spent a good amount of my gems empowering a mage up and forging magic items so I could summon some elemental royalty. I must also thank C'tis. He was also helping me out by sending me all his gems every turn.

The one change that I didn't like from CB was that the "Wither Bones" spell was increased from 2D to 3D to cast. Unfortunately I only get 2D mages so that hurt a bit.

Ermor caught me by surpise in our first few battles with his flanking skeletal knights. After I got burned once by them, I was always afraid they would get through my troops and to my mages.

I started having victories but I noticed on the army chart that I'd destroy a few thousand of your troops and next turn your army graph would be back up to where it was before.

I sent my biggest army to plunge into Ermor's territory to destroy temples. In hindsight I think I should have kept that army close to home instead and just continued to fight you off. But I think I would have fallen to your dominion eventually so it was my only recourse.

Ermor definitely chose right to attack me first rather than Atlantis. If I had 5 to 10 more turns I probably would have had 1 or 2 more SCs and they would have been better equipped with more artifacts.

This was the most fun I had in a game so far. Very LONG, but interesting battles /w Ermor.

Re: Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

Yep, your SCs basically cut through every single unit of mine. The way to beat them was a load of thugs and spellcasters combined on one-target-kill spells/attacks.

Well, it worked, but had you had more SCs which can single-handledly take out an army of thousands I would've been in trouble - since I only had one army that was somewhat capable of taking them down.

Btw, in the end I think your king of earth succumbed to a control spell. It was funny really, since it lost all it's magic and became a normal unit. A normal unit that _no commander_ could command, so there it was left idle in a useless province without items and magic skills:)

Re: Its a global economy in the new Ice Age.
 

I didn't see the battle where my fire king died but I'm sure those cold auras on your troops really did him in.

Interesting bug with the earth king.