Re: Turn 75 - Marignon Wins!
 

Heh. Know what you mean about frustrating - after some of my battles with you at my capitol, I wanted so much to be able to discuss it! Heh. Pangaea was a very costly speedbump for you - I bet you wish you had gone for dominion kill earlier, instead of assaulting twice. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Good, interesting game - thanks for hosting, Pasha!

And congrats Jurri!

Re: Turn 75 - Marignon Wins!
 

Yeah, dominion killing was clearly the way to go. To be fair, much of the time I had you under siege I was very busy attacking Caelum after they attacked Machaka and presented too tempting a target. But taking the time to finish you off before getting into that, or not trying to rush the thing immediately afterwards would have been far better choices.

Re: Turn 75 - Marignon Wins!
 

So... are we trying to play a second rand game?

Re: Turn 75 - Marignon Wins!
 

Then again, I don't think you anticipated how much I was able to build up before each of your assaults. Normally, someone gets cut down to just one province, that's it - especially after your first attempt at storming, you could reasonably expect I wouldn't be getting reinforcements. But in addition to the capitol income, I had extra earth (thanks to Caspar's cave appearing) and 2 death income a turn from my lich.

Would've been even better / worse if I had played the base theme, with maenads popping up all by themselves.

Edit : This being my third or fourth time hanging on for 20-40 turns after being besieged capitol only with Pangaea didn't hurt either - I had practice. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: Turn 75 - Marignon Wins!
 

Interesting reasoning Whollaborg! It's definitely a tough question when exactly is the right time to attack, as a premature assault might lead to someone else reaping the rewards while a late one won't do any good either. Scouts should be utilized, at least so that you have second order view (as in, a scout in a bordering province) to every province by late game. I never have the discipline to buy enough of them, which I think would be awesome if Dom3 solved somehow: it isn't fun to buy a hundred scouts just to see what's going on! If that omniscience spell wasn't a unique global and so easily removed it would be a good solution.

Tauren: At least I would be definitely in for another round!

Re: Turn 75 - Marignon Wins!
 

I'd be excited to get in on a new RAND game too. Not that I was in this one for more than a few turns, but I really like the format.

Re: Turn 75 - Marignon Wins!
 

Hmmmm... maybe I will PLAY in the next RAND game!

Re: Turn 75 - Marignon Wins!
 

Is is possible for you to zip all the turn dirs and upload the whole hosting to a server so others can download it? I would like to be able to walk through the turns and see how it developed, if the players don't object. Do you have a server with some storage, or should I look for a place?

Sill

Re: Turn 75 - Marignon Wins!
 

I am happy to send the turns somewhere, unless players object.

I do not have a server at this time, but I could send it somewhere. Or, I might be able to arrange for a download from my Mac. I know there is a way to do that, but I have never tried.

Re: Turn 75 - Marignon Wins!
 

I think Gmail accounts can handle huge emails. Whomever has such an account can receive all of the turns as one huge compressed file.