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When I use eye sheld they never do anything, heh.

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Z, Tell that to an entire nation of blinded woodsmen. I think the Eye Shield is better than the Aegis. Now I have a bunch of expensive and useless crippled soldiers. At least the Aegis puts them out of their misery and off the payroll.

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Machaka has no fear of eye shields.

Spider-lost some eyes. Lost some more eyes. effect-none.

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MA Ulm has no fear of Eye Shields, as almost every MA Ulman is near-blind from the visors to the helmets they wear around the clock anyways. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

But in other news, the Bank of Ulm has withdrawn back to the borders of Ulm proper. Only LA C'tis ever bothered to actually withdraw any money. And I want that money back, please (though interest isn't necessary, it would be nice). No one, surprisingly, withdrew any gems. Obviously no one trusts the newb. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif

Also, if anyone cares, a new order of Black Knights has been created after the Mictlani massacre, headed by Anonymous the Black Lord (not to be confused with Anonymous the Head Banker, Anonymous the Voice of Monny, or any of the other disturbingly numerous Anonymous Anonssons in Ulm). Alarik the Black Acolyte has recovered from watching an entire army be smitten by giant bipedal toads (smitten with what? Love?). Finally, Calibrated Horizons has been killed with minimal casualties.

Edit: One last thing for everyone. I currently have an equal number of fort and no-fort provinces. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/stupid.gif

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1 and 1? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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A brief note:

Since I have received an email on this issue, I feel I do owe a public explanation. KO is playing Yomi. Yes he has staled 3 consecutive times. By rule, he should be set to ai.

However, KO is a developer. And he did inform me, prior to the game's start, that of the races not selected, he was interested in Yomi from a developer's standpoint.

I have no idea what that means exactly, but it means I am not pulling the plug on him. I have no idea what he has left etc. and have no clue what, if anything, he can get out of watching Yomi's last breath.

But I also figure he of all people knows how to set himself to AI when he is done looking at them. Aside from KO, there are no other developers playing(that I know of), so everyone else is bound by the rules.

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Unfortunately KO is no longer amongst us. Or, at least, Yomi isn't.

There was nothing changed by his staling actually. He was down to his castle, and it just took me all these turns to breach the walls. In fact, I didn't even notice him staling just for this reason: him not doing anything was the most logical thing to do. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Well, it's been fun guys, but I think MA monkeys have my number, really enjoyed the game, and as always the only thing to do is to go down swinging.

"If you want my capital, you'll have to pry it from my cold dead fingers,you damn dirty ape...indian god banjo playing things...DAMMIT!"

But yeah, thanks for the tips on playing the monkeys (i.e watching you destroy me) I'll be using it in my hotseat game with a friend of mine, p.s if you could provide any other information about how to play (generally http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif) Bandar that'd be great, I really want to trash him good, he's MA evil rome people.

Anyway, like I said really enjoyed it, and next game I hope to be a bit more of a challenge for...well...anyone.

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Stale turning typically does not help your cause when you are at war, though if you are new at the game, and are fighting a wily vet like Atul, it likely is frustrating. My scouts are not watching your battles, but if you are getting trampled by elephants, that can be very disheartening when you are on the trampled end of things.

There are a lot of elephant nations in this game, and you really have to plan your defense against them before the game starts(pretender selection). There are just too many of them to just hope that you do not start next to one of them.

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DaveCG, too bad it had to be you, but I've got a limited number of neighbours after all. But, you've still got more than enough troops to put up a fight, so it's fields of glory next. Don't stale anymore though, takes the fun out of fighting. (I can send you PM about Bandar later on, need to go to work in a minute)

Xietor, elephants are for wimps. :-P Haven't recruited a single elephant during this game, and since magic has kicked off probably won't either.