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I R Loose.
Agartha has ALOT of Adepts of the Silver Order. Run for your lives!

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What're those? Indie mages?

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Yeah. Going by the database,something like 2 air, 2 astral, though I'm not really certain, since I don't use Edi's database for much other than sites (I've customized the database to load quicker AND have a custom sort on that page).

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wow nice database.
and you're right, they're A2S2...pretty awesome. They'd fit so well into my strategy too...
Nuts.

oh yeah, and at the monkeymen:
thbbbbbbbbt! :-p

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For anyone wondering what Valandil is talking about, or looking at Atlantis sudden drop in army size graph:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...929-battle.JPG

That's losses worth 3500 gold in regular units alone...

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I suppose the Poison Arrows are armor piercing, and this is what killed me. But the sad thing is that the army that was supposed to conquer another province for retreat failed.

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I don't think the arrows are armor piercing, but the poison is still applied even if the arrow doesn't do any damage.

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This is what i was trying to say

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Impressive. Overkill. Caution.
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...edOverkill.jpg

One axe to cause chestwounds. One dagger to inflict death poison. One astral serpent to inflict death poison. Boots for strength, a black steel helmet just because, a shroud for flaming weapons and extra accuracy, plus reinvig and protection boni, and bracers just in case.

Did I forget to mention the flying, just in case I'd try and track this flying assassin down?

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err, I have no idea who this guy is. Whomever he may be, he is not working for Abysia's interests but merely his own!

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LOL

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As now everyone is married, do we change back to 24h hosting or is everyone fine with 50h?

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I am fine with fifty hour hosting or thirty six hour hosting. But not twenty-four. Fifty hours does give me time to work on my AAR.

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how about thirty something?

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I don't think I can pull off 24 hour. School+work+wife=no time.

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I would be happy to stick with 36 or 48 hour hosting.

edit: EVERYONE is married in this game? Wow!

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I'm happy with 48h quickhost. And i'm a bachelor http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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No, just everone that had to posphone the game to marry http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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For what its worth, Im 16. Definately not married.

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WARNING! there is a severe weather advisory for the North Western most parts of the world. At least 4 seperate hurricanes converged on provience 182 yesterday. Some are calling it an act of god.

Travellers are advised to avoid travelling any where near Yomi.

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Yeah, the weather is a bit odd. The wise men of Yomi, wonder however, how could this a be act of Caelum's god? If the fake idol of Caelum would be truly for god, he'd have started to send the weather against us much more early. Yomi already has mustered the armies needed for Caelum's defeat, so why would this "omnipotent god" waste his magical resources on such stratedigally ill-adviced plan of attacking our production?

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The men of Yomi have a strong faith, indeed.

Caelums god no longer exists, he has abandoned them. They have not given up however. Many of the people of Caelum are now atheists, believing the gods tromping around the world to be nothing more than illusions, or perhaps tricks of the mind brought on by drinking too much fermented mountain herbs.

Caelum prepares for the coming storm.

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Its good to know its not all just old men playing this game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

By the way, its never to early to get married. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Well, legally...

I hereby announce that Atlantis is willing to trade gems of any sort.

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I spent forever preparing that turn. Why, even the last time I checked, I noticed I'd put the wrong bodyguards and my mages wouldn't have made it to battle. That was the most intense clicking of 'send' and 'end turn' ever.

I could have done better preparing, but I'll settle for avoiding any catastrophic mistakes and a one to one kill ratio against Blessed Abyssians. It slaughtered over half of my forces, but the entire Abyssian army, bar 7.

It cost me some very dear losses. ... But all in all, I achieved my goal. I put out some bait, they snapped it up, an the other half of their forces are still besieging my northern fortress.

Intelligence reports are spotty, but confirm that nothing really remains to threaten me. Abysia probably thought the same, so I wouldn't want to trust the same assumption.

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Caelums foes watch the skies in terror. ....
as they seige our castle. but terror!

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Yeah, it seems that there's a line forming up outside the gates of Caelum. Come outside and play little birds.. Those walls won't help you for long.

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Our walls are very sturdy. And they give great vantage points to launch spells from. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

I was sad to see how easily Argatha was defeated. You should sack them instead of me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Well, I've managed to make a couple of updates to my AAR play by play after a long absence. This was a rather interesting battle. Costly, (12 truly dead wights), but likely to turn the tide of war in my favor.

Now, I'm eagerly awaiting the next turn.

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Atlantis is hiding under the ocean, after a bungled war against Agartha, which has ended in peaceful traty with much grumble and talk of Honour from the Atlantian backbenchers.

No provinces were exchanged over the course of the war. It cost Atlantis much of their army, and Agartha lost about eight guys.

For some reason, Agartha has agreed to peace. We look upon them with utter disdain. Fear, but also disdain.

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How did you like those seeking arrows?

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Let's put it this way. The score in the game of Seeking Arrows vrs my commanders is 0-6.

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Thats sad. Maybe I should stop using those suction cup arrows.

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Hey! Its Nerf or Nothing.

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So guys, any gossip? I'd love to hear what's happening in the south, for example? Sauromatia and Vanheim still fighting?

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Well, in order to get gossip, one must also give gossip. And I'm now going to give others something to gossip about.

Recently we have had some diplomatic issues with Agartha. We won the race to the Caelum's capitol fair and square, but the greed of the Pale Ones is endless and vast. We, as creatures of gluttony (although we prefer the term "excessive consumer") could only watch in disgust as Agartha simply claimed, on no basis: "Give us the capitol, or it's war". Well, the people of Yomi are not completely unreasonable so even while offenced, we tried to reason with warmongering Pale Ones, but there is no reason that can be used against the greedy Agartha.

Agartha leads in every chart imaginable, but still they hunger for more. For the slighest moment were going to give in to their bullying, but then we realized that doing so would be akin to desecrating every Oni who gave their immortal lives for us to get so far. We are the undordog in the coming fight, but someone must stand against the Agartha menace.

We also advice his neighbours to strike now that his armies are divided. If he wins this war, my gold, gem income few kickass magic sites of mine will be added to his already amazing repertoire of weapons. He has apparently has found many indie magic sites and seems to have good if not amazing access to all paths of magic -> if we allow him to grow even a bit more he'll devour us all.

Come, fat and lazy ones, come from your thrones on damp caves and taste a real battle! Your bodies will make a great feast!

And now something completely different;

I'll be away this weekend from Friday to Sunday. Is there anyway that hosting could be delayed to say Tuesday morning, so that I could make my turn on Monday?

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Ah, what a nice piece of propaganda, Burnsaber. Wouldn't be nice if you have mentioned all of the facts, though.
I'll add a few interesting things that change the perspective:

1. It was your inititiave to attack Caelum together and split their lands. Then, after i started the war with them, you decided to wait a few turns, then swoop in from the other side and take Caelum's land while they're busy with me. Nicely played! End result - you take all their provinces but two. Wondering why i'm not happy about that result?

2. On your way to the grab as much Caelum as you could, you even sent a group of stealth troops through my lands, without telling me about it all. Those troops were detected by PD, and then defeated it. If conquering my province without provocation, need or warning is not a violation of NAP 5 we used to have, i don't know what would be.

3. You say you won race to Caelum's capitol fair and square? The truth is quite different. Our armies got there on the same turn, and it was mine who was there first and got to fight Caelum's defense, while your forces fought with mine later. That definitely makes "the right" to conquer that province contested.

4. Your unwillingness to resolve this issue diplomatically to my satisfaction, and the rumours i hear about you asking our common neighbours to ally with you and attack me, made me convinced you're not to be trusted. I believe the truth is simple, it is the Yomi who got fat and lazy after devouring Caelum, and it is my duty to kill em all while they're too weak to defend their fresh conquests.

5. Other races you call are definitely advised to stay out of this business. I think they've seen that i'm willing to deal fair, you'll be the first and hopefully the last to learn my wrath after your betrayal.

Oh, and i'd still like to hear the gossip from other parts of the world http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Perhaps you should have agreed on some terms before arranging an alliance against the poor Caelum. It seems to me, that a "race" towards nations capital to be the means of dividing conquered lands, can only end in disputes like this.

Well I will be happy to inform you that close by Argathan lands, Abyssian troops is fending off an unprovoked attack against the vile and evil C'tis forces. Lead by greed, and desire for destruction they are laying siege to one of our castles at the moment.

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I'd really love to hear from my neighbors down south, Arcosephale. I've moved my few scouts west to Abysia, and have settled for a simple patrol by freebie militia. I haven't heard anything from there. I have no clue whether they are in the middle of war or are on their way to wishing for Armageddon. Or Cthulu.

In Ctisian news, I'm attempting to lay siege to a mountain citadel, while they lay siege to a northern fortress of mine. Bit of defense there, though hopefully few troops inside. My swarms of lesser undead should help me tear down those walls. Either way, I won't hang around there much longer. I need to push deep into Abysian lands. I don't want to make the mistake of losing the initiative twice. Still, this castle is critical, because there is a site producing Enchantresses. Two nature, one astral, isn't significant for me with my shamans, but letting Abysia get ahold of astral magicians will severely hinder my plans. As well, this mountain citadel is much better than what I could produce- I look forward to claiming it as my own.

Although they are vulnerable to much killing, Falchioneers are great counters to Burning Ones- their relatively low attack (8 per sword) is countered by the elites' defense of a paltry 5. Bit lacking in penetration, but they're the best mundane option I have available.

I must conquer Abysia before their mages bridge the research gap. The spell of Darkness is an incalculable advantage, even when I have to spend 4 gems a battle, and even if I don't have undead. Even my regular troops benefit, since it hurts Abysian elites and mages much more than it hurts me.

Earlier, I had a force of 1 Bane Lord, and 14 wights. I sacrificed this force, in order to ambush an army of Ctis. I had expected them to live, thanks to darkness, but had overlooked the precision of banishment. Still, killing an entire army, and leaving their fortress unguarded was well worth it.

In other news, I purchased the services of Obscuro, the Hidden Master. Who, for utterly inexplicable (or obscure) reasons, has earth boots and a frost brand that I'm unable to use... A fragile air two mage, with boots that boost earth magic he doesn't have... And a frikin sword. WTF?

Abysia is raining flaming death on my forces. Interestingly enough, I prophetized my bane lord and am using him to raise longdead skeletons (of ctis) while I'm laying siege. Only produced a measly 14 undead so far. But it should help counter the loss of 20 unidentified soldiers from this flaming nation.

The pretender of Abysia, and ninety troops are near my forces. Can I guess their intentions?

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I staled turn 39. Because my spam filter kille the llamasever's message. I sent my new turn in, and fixed my email settings. Blurgh.

Argh. Gift of health?

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Yeah, I suggested that. You responded "Perhaps I'm intrested" -> that is not a "yes", without confiramtion from both sides, there is no deal. Besides, I said to you that I won't be ready immediately, I had to forge equipment for my Dai Onis´. The end result might have been poor from your perspective, but we are not to be held responsible for the actions Atlantis, who delayed you greatly. If they hadn't interfened, you'd probably have already busted the Caelum gates open.

Yeah, I did that too. But the item I gave you as a apology is worth more than one meagre poor income province.

The order on how the battles are resolved is ramdom. Random /= fair. At the start of the turn it was Caelums, we bot attacked it at the same time and in the end it was ours. You can't get more fairer than that.

If you ask us, you lacked the will to resolve this issue diplomically. I also heard rumours that you eat babies, all attack the baby-eating Agartha!

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Lazy_Pefectionists: Obsuro having those items is the result of my battles against Atlantis during our short war. He was in my employ at the time and grabbed the loot quite efficiently, even if he has no immediate use for it himself.

Burnsaber: Ah, but that is an obvious lie! Everyone knows true Agarthians do not eat at all.

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News from Caelum:

The powerful Eagle Kings set around and play cards and drink most of the day. The 'god' Ourboros has returned and it has become a favorite passtime of the mages to get sloshed and strike it with lighting bolts. Our walls are sturdy and it will be a while before Yomi can get in. Who knows by that time Argathia may have destroyed them.

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On the southern Front, kailasa is struggeling against the evil empire of sauromantia, we just put together our final army to try to repel them or else we will be defeated.

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2/3s of the way through my turn.

First third was deciding, strategically, what to do.
Second third was deciding, tactically, what to do, and setting the orders.
Third third will be the rest of my empire.

I finally paid attention to Sun-Tzu, and cracked open that book again to check a couple passages. It would have been better if I'd paid attention to it from the beginning (good generals pick fight only after victory has been assured, bad generals fight first, and only later look for victory).

Still, I think I'll come out victorious, unless Abysia has an ace up their sleeve. I'm not certain what their pretender has on hand, but I can guess from their nation page, chassis, and titles.

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Oh *bleep* *bleep* *bleeping* *bleep.

For ... I will inform Janlm that my Sauromancer was not scripted to retreat on the second turn. And while flare wiped out quite a few undead, it was nowhere near the autoretreat precentage as I'm aware of it. As well, he didn't take any direct damage.

ARRRRGGGGGHHH!!!! I'll have to review this *bleeping* *bleeping* battle until I figure out why this *bleeping* happened. As well as triple check the autoretreat amount, and each spell used.

I'm looking at Hellbind heart as a likely culprit, at this moment.

As well, my commander carryign spare death gems to the battle was ASSASSINATED! Argh!

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My scout saw that battle. I think it was 5 point hit from Blade Wind that made your Sauromancer flee.

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Except that abysia didn't cast any earth magic. I'm ctis.

Hellbind Heart- they likely got my twiceborn S1D4N1 mage. I'm pissed. And when I'm pissed, I get even.

Now, I haven't heard anything from Arcosephale. But around 130 units, containing Clockwork Horrors, Myrmidions, Peltasts, Slingers, Chariots, Oreiads sends a pretty clear message. You have one turn to back away from my border.

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You must have watched another combat replay http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif Abyssia's pretender is casting Blade Wind, and one missile hits your D4 twiceborn mage for 5 points reducing him to 7 after which he flees in the battle i'm watching.

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aw nuts...kinnaras get air magic?
that is so not fair.