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I am going to be gone over the weekend, and I don't know if I will have internet. I am going to extend the interval to 48 hrs until I get back. Quickhost will remain on, just in case I am still able to access things.

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Hosting has been postponed 48 hours at the request of Executor.

In other news, contrary to Cleveland's predictions, the Good team is kicking a*s! Patala is under siege, Agartha is weak after staling, and Pythium is out. Bogarus is dealing with two players, and Abysia seems to be the only evil nation relatively unscathed.

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We'll so much totally want rematch ;)

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So are we done with LOTR?:confused:

The last post on here was 2 weeks ago today (not counting mine of course).

If we are done then I will be free to join another game, if we are on hold for a reason I must have missed it.

Could someone explain the situation please.

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well the patch postponed everything, and I was enjoying the break too much to move up the host time. It is still on though, we're just waiting on Bogarus atm.

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It seems Bogarus is having issues, he's staled the last 2 turns. I'm going to delay the game 24 hours and see if he answers my PM, if he doesn't, I'll postpone again and see about lining up a sub.

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You can find me a sub as well. Lost all interest in this game.

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Okay. Would you prefer to find a sub yourself, or do you not care?

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qio, if you lose interest it's your own responsibility to find a sub. To ask the admin to do it is just not fair.

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Turning on AI is probably not really an option, as this is a team game. I would normally just do that. I will not submit turns from now on.

I am not going to find a sub for this game. Given the prolonged delays, I would not recommend for anyone to join.

The opposing team has a member that has staled several turns, and now a replacement is being searched for I guess. You can repeat the same process for me. Or do nothing. Maybe it will even make the game more interesting.

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Well I've got a sub for Bogarus, now I need to find one for Arco... Anyone reading this whos not in the game, send me a PM.

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Happily, we can now get the game moving. Ossa is making a return to take over Bogarus, while Sansanjuan will be taking over Arco.

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Why do damn monkeys have a 500 defense Fort???
Why don't they have a Giant Banana tree with 100 defense???

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So, there doesn't seem a terrible lot of point in keeping this game going does there? It's essentially 5:1 at this point, I suppose we concede.

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Ooh, what happened? Good won then?

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This is true I suppose. If everyone else is winning its alright with me. Thanks a ton for playing Baalz! :) And I'm personally glad that we beat Cleveland's expectations :D Any thoughts on what allowed the good guys to dominate so much? It seems like much of it had to do with the game being much more of a blitz style than a regular one.

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Well, team evil pretty much imploded before we ever really got to the point to work together. We lost Pythium on what, turn 3? I didn't really get too much direct visibility as to what was going on to the East, but I never really got too much opportunity to help out because of my slow start. I personally had a lot of trouble getting traction initially because of my initial placement. This placement would have been super sweet for another nation/build or in a game with a longer horizon, but about 80% of my options for immediate expansion were high population farmlands with knights - while I had high resources troops and wanted to blood hunt! :) Even my lich pretender (Sauron) couldn't really take many of those provinces without some research being done and by the time I got on top of it I had managed alright by my strongest ally had 3 provinces left. I'm doing ok, and could even conceivably put up a fight on the 2:1 war going on now but it seems kind of silly with 3 more enemies growing unmolested in the mean time. :)

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I see you conquered the shire though. :)

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True, but the Hobbits had already relocated, and are currently having their revenge. It seems like one of the main issues was the evil team's focus on later game power, while good was a bit more set up for the early/mid game. Also, those good nations in the line of fire seemed to do a much better job of surviving. I'm looking at you GB, NICE job;)

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I definitely went for an early/mid game strategy. I had a phoenix pretender for expansion, +3 productivity scale, and researched evocation almost exclusively.

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Well, I was looking for my ring!

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Thanks....As I was smack dab in between Argatha and Abysia my whole strategy was to run one way and take a undefended province and make a show a force...

Then run the other way and take a undefended province and make a show of force...

And try and delay those two from hooking up.

Thanks to all for sending the Money, Gems, and Weapons.

Executor, you did a real good job of coordinating.

Truman, Statttis, All I could do was hear the sounds of you guys fighting, but you did it well.

Sansanjuan...thanks for filling in, you where a great asset.

And Finally.....Thanks You Baalz for not squashing me like a bug and making me the sacrificial lamb I thought I was going to be.

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Had a really great time playing this game. The 30 Agartha cave drakes gave me fits until I was able to spam paralyze. Nice defense Agartha. I was not looking forward to fighting in the dark in your cap.

I really wouldn't mind playing again and switching sides (good to evil, evil to good).... we could also mix up the teams a bit if desired. The smaller map and player count made it really fun. Thanks for pulling me in Tru.

-ssj


BTW for those of you that haven't seen it.. that is the best looking map I've ever played. Kudos to the original designer and Cleveland.

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I take it the game is over so I am not submitting my turn unless notified otherwise.

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I (Patala) started in a corner, which is good, but my neighbouring provinces where exclusively deserts! My closest neighbour was new ulm which is quite scary in early game, whereas Patala only has elephants.

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Hey there! Nice game all guys. Sorry if lately I'm not on the forum often, things are getting complicated (but no reason to worry). Please feel free to sign me in to an eventual rematch, Baalz was a great coordinator, we just had a very bad star in our evil sky ^^
Oh and gratz to Arco. You were great researching and putting in the field good magic counters for my troops, be it Banish spam, Paralyze and the like (well to be fair your troops sucked instead, all those yummy barbarians and elephants for my drakes and wights! joke ^^ ). I enjoyed it a lot and I think I also learned much, even if the game was short and I basically had 4 provinces in the maximum moment of my empire xD
Thanks again everybody!

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Tifone,
Your wights and drakes did indeed eat many many barbarians. I made a very poorly coordinated attack acouple weeks ago where I attempted to teleport in my best four mages to join in a communion with others coming in by land. Amoung the communion master script was the 4th level bless fanatisism (attempting to overcome your very strong dominion and the ensuing barbarian routs) followed by juiced banishments. What actually happened was
1. my 4 teleporting mages arrived all by themselves :doh:
2. They were immediately eated by the drakes :hurt: as they attempted their scripts with no chaff in front of them (you'd think they'd realize "oh sh*t!" where is the fodder?!)
3. My Barbarian horde arrives in the next battle sequence with almost no mage support
4. The "Barbara Anns" ran away as soon as the drakes inflicted the smallest "owie"
5. My higher morale units were then eaten by your drakes ;)

This (above) was a four turn blunder on my part. Note to self: teleporters arrive before land movement.

They only way was I was eventually able to make the barbarians (and elephants) useful was touch of madness. They were my only units capable of melee damage on the drakes (minus a little trample damage contribution from the elephants). Fighting in your Caps auto Darkness would have been very very hard. Paralyze and large AOE spells are about it. Maybe berzerk elephants might have trampled some.

BTW In the last turn I was very very lucky to paralyze your Pretender. I got him on try #6 but think my odds were probably something like 1 in a 100.

I'm discovering these smaller games are *much* more to my liking. Impossible (for me) to do tactical scripting if I have more than a couple big battles in a turn. Also in the big games I can never emember what I was going to do from one turn to the next.

-ssj

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Well, the game has been officially declared over, with Good as the winner by concession. Thanks all for playing, and see you all in future games.

Now I can delete all those messages from my inbox :D

Edit: I posted this game in the Victories thread, so there's a possiblity that you guys could get at least partial credit for a win! W00t!

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Good Job Truman

Good game all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1