Delay
 

Ygorl is having some technical difficulties. He requested that I wait to host the HYDRANT game until Wednesday. So, I will wait until 9:00 pm Boston time on Wednesday.

Pasha

Turn 56
 

Turn 56 is out.

Deadline is Sunday night.

Pasha

Re: Turn 56
 

Waitaminit, I'm all for song, dance, *and* orgies!
And, I'd just like to point out that the nefarious half-beasts of Pangaea started it. I'd like to, but that would be slightly dishonest... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Turn 57
 

Turn 57 is out.

Deadline is Tuesday night.

Pasha

Re: Turn 58
 

Turn 58 is out.

Deadline is due on Thursday.

Pasha

Re: Turn 59
 

Turn 59 went out last night.

Deadline is Sunday night.

I won't be able to host a turn on Tuesday (Christmas)... well, maybe I will. Perhaps, that turn will be due on Dec. 26. Do other players have special holiday schedule requests?

Pasha

Re: Turn 59
 

Today our forces proved their worth on the battlefield. They were starving. They were unpaid. They were humiliated as the land that was their's by heritage was ripped away from them, devoured by unimaginably powerful commanders. Yet despite all of these things, they prevailed today. The Atlantian scum may have been well fed and well paid, but they lacked heart. May this be a lesson for the oppressors of the world: Some nations will fight until the last man, and we are one of them. Our time likely draws to a close, but let our message reach to those who have lost hope. Hope will keep you alive when there is nothing else, but it does not win battles. Vengeance burns in our hearts. Oceania will take as many Atlantians down in our glorious death as possible. For Balborac!

Xmas for Pasha
 

I am hosting Xmas for my family this year, and it will take more time than I expected to be a good host. So, turn hosting might be a bit spotty this week. Thanks for your patience.

Pasha

Turn 60
 

Turn 60 is out.

Sorry for the delay. Let's play this turn by Tuesday, January 1.

Pasha

Re: Turn 61
 

Turn 61 is out.

Deadline is Thursday.

pasha

Re: Turn 62
 

Turn 62 is out.

Deadline is Sunday night.

Pasha

Re: Turn 63
 

Turn 63 is out.

If possible, let's keep the game on track. So, let's shoot to host this turn by tomorrow (Tuesday).

Pasha

Re: Turn 63
 

Anyone know how Pythium ended up owning a province with just a fire drake in it? Is it another strange bug?

Re: Turn 63
 

Erm, Pyth attacked me there. I didn't look at that battle but I can check it out later when I get back home...

EDIT: It's just the mercenary Dragon Tamer. Taking easy provinces since it's too wimp to take on the Real Threat.

Re: Turn 63
 

What are you doing on this side of the world, anyway, QM? Go back where you came from, you don't belong here.

Re: Turn 63
 

No no no, that's exactly where he belongs! QM doesn't live here in the east anymore.

Next turn
 

The next turn is out.

I might have called it Turn 63 by accident in the emails.

Turns are due on FRIDAY, to give everyone time to get their turns in.

Pasha

Turn 65
 

Turn 65 is out.

Deadline is Sunday night.

Pasha

Re: Turn 65
 

Uh, Agartha, it seems you have made a wrong turn and are now laying siege to my capital. I bet you feel silly. Oh well, you might as well return to the surface. There is nothing to see down here.

Re: Turn 66
 

Turn 66 is out.

Deadline is Tuesday night.

Pasha

Re: Turn 67
 

Turn 67 out.

Deadline is Sunday night.

Re: Turn 67
 

I think I've stumbled into a bug or issue with the game.

This turn (what is it?- 68 now?) I've had a battle vs. Agartha in Arco's castle. The battle replay for this causes dominions to crash on the 3rd round or so of the battle. The crash is consistent and happens both on my pc and laptop (win XP both).

Ygorl, may I ask if you had a similar issue?

Turn 68
 

We are on turn 68.

Shall we say the deadline is Thursday night?

Pasha

Re: Turn 68
 

I think it makes sense given the late stage of the game and the fact we got the turns yesterday.

Re: Turn 69
 

Turn 69 is out.

Deadline is Sunday night.

Re: Turn 69
 

I didn't have any problems watching the battle - though I do have problems with the result. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
This game has been plagued with weirdness for me, most of it not in my favor. I've had commanders turn into normal troops, or vanish entirely without explanation, and artifacts vanish similarly - things might have turned out differently, I think, otherwise... On the other hand, I did get one horse tribe cavalry leader who one month somehow gained magic paths as though he were an Arcoscephalean mystic (I believe), which was kind of nice... Still doesn't make up for my Jinn disappearing in the middle of *the* critical string of battles!

Anyway, it seems quite likely that WraithLord will win with this next turn. Congratulations in advance on a game well played! It's been a lot of fun...

Re: Turn 69
 

The Djinn died of an acute poisoning, from what I saw. I'm not denying that there's been an awful lot of weird stuff, though, from eternally encased in ice Wyrms and Water Queens, to WQs that have 4 actions each combat round and whatnot http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Turn 69
 

Oh! So, Wraithlord played a Hey-Look-Over-There-At-Ygorl! while his hands worked overtime for the win! Grrrrrr!

If Wraithlord wins, I think he deserves a gold star, because he jumped in and played someone else's pretender. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Turn 69
 

Not just someone else's pretender... A newbie playing ME Ulm. That's a special achievement right there.

Re: Turn 69
 

The acute poisoning didn't show up in my battle replay. As far as I saw, he was around at the end of one fight (including not counting as dead in the summary) and gone at the beginning of the next. Stranger things have happened, though, it's true.

Wraithlord has played a politically very savvy game (and not too shabby militarily, either... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif) - I don't begrudge him his theft of my tenuous shot at victory at all... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

As an aside, Eweirl maybe hasn't been in an astounding number of MP games, but he's not exactly a newbie. He had Dom2 more than three years ago (I know because I gave it to him http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif)

Re: Turn 69
 

Hey, *Blushing slightly* http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif, thank you guys for all the compliments but it would seem its too early for them. Ygorl has a huge army besieging my (previously his) fort at Arco and has already breached the walls - so can storm this turn, and though I do hope my army there could stop him, its far from certain.

I think Eweirl had a sound game plan and I thank him again for asking me if I want to take over his place.

Also I must admit that up to this point this has been my most aggressive MP game, as I was involved in bitter wars all the way since subbing. First with Boron, I attacked him while still officially subbing and he came about to give me a hell of a fight. I wasn't at all sure I'll be able to survive him and it had taken all that Ulm had to bring him down. Then came skirmishes with Migaaresno and an all out costly and difficult war with Morkilus. This attitude is usually out of stance for me, cos if I could describe my usual playing attitude (in MOM terminology) it would be pacifist, opportunist.

It is very restricting to play as ME Ulm in terms of research and magical versatility so actually I'm truly surprised I had the luck to even get to this point in the game. What's sure is that last turns are very exciting and I hope I won't get smacked in the face by the next player vying for supremacy http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Turn 70 / Wraithlord Wins!
 

Turn 70 is out.

Wraithlord Wins! Congratulations!

Pasha

Re: Turn 70 / Wraithlord Wins!
 

Very impressive, congratulations! That last fight with Agartha wasn't even close, though.

Thanks everyone for the game!

Re: Turn 70 / Wraithlord Wins!
 

And Oceania survived to see the end! I consider that a personal victory.

Here is the turn file for the first fight for Oceania's capital. password: encase

Re: Turn 70 / Wraithlord Wins!
 

The last turns were very tense. When Ygorl moved to Oceania's capital I was sure he was going to win. The next email I got from Pasha with the turn file (instead of Congrat Ygorl) I was amazed. Your efforts to stop him were heroic and ultimately successful. I really had no way to intervene (research limitation) so all I could do was cross fingers and move two armies towards Ygorl's VP points. Those same armies are the ones that actually gave me the victory although a lot of luck had to do with it.

Thanks everyone for the game, I'm looking forward to seeing you in future games.

Re: Turn 70 / Wraithlord Wins!
 

I knew it! The plot to perma-encase my poor WQs was a clever machination planned from the very start!

And of course congrats WraithLord, I can't say I'm unhappy to say goodbye to my crippled-but-a-very-long-way-from-actually-dying-empire... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif