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After a LOOOONG week I just got power back this morning. As you can imagine, I'm gonna be pretty busy today. I probably won't be able to even get to my turn until tomorrow.

Doesn't really matter if it hosts without me. It'll only be a couple more turns until my empire is small enough to go AI.

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Congratulations! I'm still waiting to get power back at my home. Stupid trees. :(

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I'll pause the game a bit more. Once you are in, we will host

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Ashdod from now will be controlled by Dimaz. Please, contact him if you want any treaties be kept or something.

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I decided to postpone hosting by additional 12h for BigDis to be able to send his turn in. Pause appears to be great in total but still it is the hurricane we are to thank too.

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I missed the last turn. I don't have the time for these long turns right now, and I'm not exactly enjoying myself with this slow death.

I went AI this turn. To all my neighbors with NAP's, come take my capitol before Ulm or Machaka get there.

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Some players (including myself) are facing difficulties with completing the current turn so I'll postpone hosting by 24h. And also, as we are in the late game now, I suggest to permanently change the hosting interval to 72h.

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I'm currently facing a problem with my home computer so if it isn't solved today, I'll need the game paused until Saturday afternoon (36h).

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Guys, I'm really sorry but again I need a pause because I just can't complete my turn today. I hope that it doesn't really affect anyone but it is really a problem for me.

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I for one am shocked, absolutely shocked, by C'tis' use of Armageddon. Just because you are going out of the game, doesn't mean you have to ruin everything for the rest of us! I think it is up to all nations of the world to put aside our differences and destroy Ctis, while there is still some world left to rule over.

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I am confused, absolutely confused by your assertion that poor C'tis could do such a thing.

First, I have no mage capable of casting Wish, and second, I don't have it researched.

Maybe, just maybe, you could get over your shock and look at the person who cast Utterdark this very turn. Maybe it will all start to make a bit of sense then.

I am much more likely to pump every gem I have into summons, and turn my last castle into a meatgrinder for my assailant, than to do something silly like hurt everyone else with Armageddon. Oh wait, that's what I did. Ask Mictlan how fun the meatgrinder was, I'm sure he would be willing to attest that I had far too many summons there to have possibly managed a Wish, what with my 4E/3D/4N pretender, and my best Astral mages being a couple of Couatls with Starshine Skullcaps. Tremble, mortal.

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Well, it seems quite logical to me that it was you who casted Armageddon. Probably, it is better to ask JimMorrison himself if he did cast it. I seriously doubt it. The only nation that could benefit from it was yours

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My understanding of human psychology tells that AdmiralZhao is trying to cheat us. I understand it is so but I can't really see any sense in it.
Well, so be it. Let's try to do at least something

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It's a pretty funny gambit, really. I just defended my lone castle from Mictlan last turn, and barely survived. Maybe he would do us the favor of revealing whether or not there was an S9 mage present. :p

I agree, looks like Zhao peed in the pool, and pointed at me. ;)

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I don't think it is needed. Things seem quite obvious to me and I really see no need in lies.

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Well, as the only water nation left in the game, the pool is Ryleh's to pee in or not as we see fit. :)

As for S9 casters, I understand that they are not always necessary to cast Armageddon. Our thaumaturges speculate that if a casting of Solar Brilliance was to become corrupted, perhaps by long exposure to vast clouds of poison and stench, that the very solar sphere might be damaged or disrupted, causing all manner of dire portents upon the world.

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You're calling swamp gas? :shock:

Nothing to see here, and if there was, it's a matter of national security. Move along.

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Taking on account in-game (and real life) situation Shinuyama and Ulm would like to take a (at least) 3-day pause. We know that it is a lot and the game becomes very slow but we're at the stage when empires and difficulty are so huge that every turn may be decisive especially taking on account the last turn, armageddons etc.
It's mainly me who needs it. I have a lot of work now and I didn't manage to find a sub. I'm sorry but I don't think game is possible without me now.

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I'm fine with a pause. Also, if you need help finding a sub, I could do some advertising. Practically anyone is going to be an easier for than you. :)

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Hello again. Guys, it's really hard for me to play now and that's true. Sub doesn't really solve the problem because the empire is huge and even experienced player will find it hard to understand all the aspects and plans.
So we have three options now:
1) find a competent sub for Shinuyama
2) continue playing a slow boat
3) agree to a draw

Of course, I would choose third option not because I want to win here(I don't care how this game ends just because I'm extremely tired of Dominions now) but just because my ally will be most probably be doomed if I stop playing. But I understand that Zhao doesn't want a draw and thinks he will win. Let's discuss these options.
I will finish my current turn tomorrow that's why I'm making a one final postpone now.

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I kind of just want to be done opening this thread, and/or doing turns for this game. ;)

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Hi everyone. All 3 options would be fine with me. I have the next week off, so I have no excuse for not completing a turn except a certain dread of spending 4 hours moving around hundreds of magic items. A draw would be acceptable. Ryleh is quite strong in terms of magic (the gem income on the score graph is about a 1/10th of our actual income :) ), but my opponents have both magic power and many mortal armies, so I'm not sure how such a war would actually play out.

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Fine, I am very glad to hear it. Draw is the best choice, imho. We realized that your actual gem income and abilities are terrific but we also had a lot of things to show you.
But it is a too heavy weight for me now and, once again, I am very glad. It was a pleasure playing with you and I hope we will meet at the battlefield once when we both have a bit more time to spare. Nevertheless, it was a nice game.
Once we discuss it all with Mictlan, I will close the game. Sorry, everybody, but as draw is acceptable for all, I think it'll be the best choice.

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So be it. This game has been ended in a draw between mighty nations of R'lyeh, Ulm and Shinuyama. I wish I see you in some further games)

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Good game everyone! Now that it is over, would you mind telling what your plans were? For my part, I was hoping to continue using Burden of Time + Armageddon to wipe out all the gold, blood slaves, and enemy mages. I figured that if I could survive long enough to do that, then my steadily growing gem income and tartarians would be able to finish off the world. My initial battle plan was to just protect the sites with bonuses (20% of alteration, 20% of conjuration) while the globals wore down the attacking armies. I had some raids planned, and would have counterattacked a bit, but I wasn't planning to risk anything significant while you had dozens of mages with each army, ready to cast Weapons of Sharpness.

My primary worries were 1) someone had enough astral gems to Dispel Gift of Health, which had a lot of gems behind it 2) Shinuyama had masses of undead chaff, which meant somewhere back there were some dozens of undead priests re-animating the chaff, which meant that they would be more or less unaffected by my BoT and Armageddon.

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Well, I'm impressed. I didn't think that you would continue Armageddonning after GoH was dispelled. I must say that this combo (Armageddon + BoT) is not that impressive against Shinuyama because mages rarely get diseased and even when they do, they die rather long and they are also absolutely expendable. (I think that Shinuyama is one of the strongest MA nations but it has nothing to do with the discussion).
What our plans were... The main reason I didn't want to continue the game is because this turn would be terrific for me. I was planning a massive attack at many directions at once (20-25 provinces at least), preparing anti-tartarian sc's and protecting my artifacts (which I had many) against your potential further armageddons. Yes, I had a ton of reanimating priests who were generating about 400 longdead/turn, I also had full-power blood with average income of 150-200 slaves/turn and many powerful blood mages. Both of these could be heavily affected by armageddons because soulless and longdead never heal and slaves can't be gathered in empty provinces. However, I still had some nasty sites giving a lot of money, a huge fire gem income and about 8000 gold in treasury so I doubt I would suffer the lack of gold badly. My experienced DaiBakemono armies (great unit, btw. Many of them survived from the first turns of the game) backed up by 20-30 mages were also ready to march.
We also decided to cast some cheap globals to fill all slots so that you would have a chance of dispelling your own globals.
Also, this turn I saw that you had only a couple of weak domes and many clam- and artifact-wearing (probably) mages at your capital. We were going to dispel forest dome and cast about 20-30 earth attacks to reduce your clam income. We didn't decide for sure where to cast but everything was well-prepared.
It's all about me.
Karnoza should have done quite opposite thing. He was preparing a one powerful attack at your province with Alt bonus site which you couldn't teleport in due to your own domes. He had about 1400 sieging power and was going to break the walls in a single turn. It was a well-planned attack that he was nurturing for a long time.
But, all in all, I am VERY happy I don't have do all this. Frankly speaking, I am very, very tired of Dominions and especially of late-game) When I showed my empire to a potential sub, he cried "Oh, God! I will never dig it!"
;)

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As for astral gems, we had a total astral income of about 200 per turn so even if you did cast Nexus for 999 gems, we would dispel it. That was what I supposed you to do after you dispelled my gem-giving globals.