Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Meh do what you will. It's clear to me now you're incapable of managing this. I'm going AI. Enjoy.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

I disagree. The vote which moved for a change to 48 hours should be honored right away.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

The vote technically *lost*, but timer changed to 48.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Err... I asked for a 3 day delay on June 3rd (and again on June 13th). Which, if we had 48 hour cycles, would at most mean 24 hour delay (and none if the hosting cycle goes perfectly, ie I get in a turn right after hosting and just before I depart, then I'd have 96 hours-> no delay needed at all).

Really, it is not a week, at most 48 hours (if we are on a 24 hour cycle) or 24 hours (if we are on a 48 hour cycle) :)

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

I'll take over for Chris if need be but I would have managed it in just the same way he would have. Anyone who thinks he's being unfair should take a step back and relax a bit. Anyhow, don't have a chance to look at the hosting time but I can't make any proper submissions for until late monday possibly tuesday so if you can delay the game about 12 hours or so that'd be super (Ulm too if you're reading this Chris, also clean out your mailbox).

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Right, so who is now in charge? Fakey is the GM now?

I seriously hope the possibility for the 24 hour delay (if needed) still is ok, which is why I asked a couple weeks ago already (when cleveland gave an ok). Starting to panic here with all the recent changes, I so much hate staling and I thought if I take matters up in good time everything would be ok and good order, but now everything suddenly seem so fuzzy :(

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Jar, whomever is running this will give you your delay. Don't worry.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

FNN (Forest News Network)

*BREAK THE NEWS*

A glorious defensive operation saves the Pangaean army!

FNN reporters were present today to witness the Pangaean army under the command of the prophet Hippothoos rapidly retreat from its besieging positions outside the city of Marverni. Reports of a massive Tien Chi army advancing from south and southwest had apparently convinced the Pangaen leadership to pick up everything and move away.

"This is a great day for Pangea!" exclaimed prophet Hippothoos after the army had moved out. "With this masterfully executed operation we have shown what Pangaea is made of, the enemy was not able to catch us, and we will prevail!"

Some Pangaen observers were not as positive of the victoryt. FNN succeeded to overhear the discussion between a High Priest in the service of Pangaea and Hippothoos.
"Our destiny was there, but you decided we must run away!" the High Priest was heard claiming.
"We performed a brave and valiant military operation which has saved Pangaea from a massive defeat." the prophet Hippothoos replied.
"Ah, so we valiantly ran away?" the High Priest is claimed to have continued. Sadly for the continuation of the discussion can not be presented for the audience, because of the centaur guards efficiently removing FNN reporterrs from the scene at this point.

Hidden amongst the countryside FNN reporters were present when the apparently very disappointed Tien Chi army arrived to the field outside Marverni. Hundreds of demons of heavenly rivers, pegasii and warriors of the five elements were seen. Leading the massive army were a score of heavy duty battle-mages, including the Tien Chi pretender herself.

Will Pangaea survive the onslaught of the Tien Chi main army? How many valiant retreats can Pangaea perform before they have lost too many? Why does not Pangaea send its thousands of manikin to battle?

Stay tuned to FNN and you will be the first to know the answers!

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

zombie brains is my guess.

One, Two, hundreds.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Ok, I have sent in the next turn for Magellan. After the hosting on Wednesday evening, I would like to ask for the next hosting be delayed until Saturday 18 GMT please (ie a 24 hour delay unless you all suddenly get hyperactive), so that I get the turn in in time. Of course, if I just find a connection to the net somewhere, I will get a turn in earlier, but I don't think that is very likely.

Thanks again you all for the understanding on this :)

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Have fun Jarr!

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Actually, I find today that I am going out of the country from Friday noon till monday noon (more or less). Can we extend it till 9pm EST Monday night?

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Well you're the Admin.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Chris, your box is full and you need to send me the admin password, or tell me to go bug llama to send it to me.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Okay, it seems that we're going to be on a bit of a prolonged break. I'll delay hosting until tuesday morning just so chris gets some time.

If there are any more requests for delays PM me (easier for me to keep track) and I'll post here about the delays.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

C'tis is in the market for fire gems, can do a straight trade in earth, air, nature, or pay in gold/items (hammers/boosters/whatev). PM with offers.

Also, I'm feeling like I'm just having a conversation with myself in this thread. Someone better post soon for the sake of my own sanity.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

/me is staying quiet

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Just chiming in (to save Fakey's sanity) that I am here now, and currently making the turn for Pangaea :)

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Seems the next hostings are not that good for me. I've sent in the turn that is due to be hosted tomorrow afternoon. I will be without an internet connection after noon (unless I succeed to find an Internet cafe that allows downloading and sending attachments). Thus, for the safety sake, I would like to ask the hosting due around Monday evening to be pushed to about 19:00 Tuesday (ie not this turn yet which I've already sent, but the turn after that). Would be much appreciated :)

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Will do. But again, if people need delays or whatever as far as admin stuff goes, PM me. Far easier to get my attention that way plus easier for me to keep track of what I have to do.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

How do I go about getting a temp / permanent sub for Agartha?

I'm just too busy and the turns are taking way too long :S

Sorry guys.. i'll try to keep doing my turns but i just don't have time to put the effort required in to them.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Make a new thread saying the game name, nation, approx game turn and general situation and ask for a sub in the title. Also, make sure to link the main game thread (this one) in your post. Then ask them to contact you for further details (ie. specifics about your situation, pretender design, long term strat, current diplomatic agreements, etc.) and then get them to send me their email so that I can switch it for yours once they've decided to sub for you.

I'd also appreciate it if you kept up your turns until we found a sub so as to keep the game moving.

Edit: Actually I'll put up a thread since I'm on right now and people will have to contact me anyhow.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Fakey, will do so in the future, altough I hope there will be no need for the next couple years :) Thanks Fakey for delaying the hosting this time :)

Oh incidently, I am home now (we skipped visiting some relatives in Sweden), will start checking my Dominions games ASAP, so excpect the Pangaean orders in soon :)

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

I believe the tide in the Pangaea - Tien Chi has now changed for good. The fat lady has not yet sung so the show is not over, but I am going to blatantly assume the plot is now obvious: Pangaea will eventually steam-roll through the last TC provinces. Tien Chi still has two very great armies which would give me gray hair if I wasn't bald already, but the other one is not very mobile while the other one does not seem to have the mage support (and I can tell you this: Those TC mages are *tough* when they support the triple-blessed TC sacred troops!).

Anyway, I know it is customary (and very smart) to start to rip apart the losing side by the looming hyeanas following the war on the side-lines, but I would like to ask people to not jump on TC. Chris has been a superb opponent, and I would like to give him a honourable fight until the grim end. Of course there is also the slightly selfish fact that Pangaea has yet won nothing but some swamp-provinces from the war, and it would suck royally if others snipped all the goodies off of TC after all the heavy fighting we've gone through :p

Anyway Chris, it will be interesting to see what you will pull out of your sleeve still! You've certainly suprised me quite a few times already, and I don't believe you've yet boarded your last ace (what ever it will be) :) I've learned quite a lot of this game from this war, and I am grateful for all the lessons you've given me so far :)

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Oh yes, the fat lady is definitely warming up... Being 2:1'd the whole game has been .. fun, but not profitable.

Yes, I have a few surprises up my sleave.. I do believe you are going to discover one of them this turn.

As for why I have no mage support on the armies - First marvernia and then formoria were nuking my capital every turn, driving unrest over 200.... ever since turn 6 or so. So I literally haven't been able to build em =).

But I shall be avenged.. Perhaps I've been giving gems to ulm every turn...imagine what he could do with almost 1000 gems here to now.. and a forge bonus.

To the free people of the world - you are making a sore mistake to leave pangaeas globals up. Pangaea has been stockpiling death - with GoH up, and carrion woods he has two viable routes to overwhelming with either BoT or Tartarians.

Dispelling Moather oak is critical.. how long will you wait?

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

It appears that the monkey men of Kailasa don't quite understand what an NAP3 entails. It means that you have to GIVE NOTICE before attacking that person, at least 3 turns worth. But alas, you cannot expect the finer points of diplomacy to keep when dealing with primatives.

To that end, those with agreements with Kailasa, I'd urge you to reconsider whatever standing arangements you might have with them, as they have just shown that they do not hold honoring agreements in high regard.

Also, I have to delay the game a bit, weekend is quite busy for me. should have everything in order by monday.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

I wish I had been stockpiling death :) As Chris well knows, my 5 death-gems per turn have been going to first summoning a revenant who has then been chain-summoning Mound Kings so that I have *somebody* able to move the mindless manikin around. Sadly EA Pans have no inherent Death gem income and no deathmages to lead the manikin, so this has been a very interesting experiment (one that I don't think I'll try again; the micromanagement is bad enough with just maenads, and now I have double the trouble with manikin too, and not to mention my population is dieing off way too fast for my tastes in this game with slow research... wonder if somebody would be interested in dispelling CW for me?).

Tartarians sound like a good idea. If I change all my research to Conjuration now, then I would hit Tartarians 51 turns from now. I'll keep that in mind though if I happen to stumble on some death-sites producing death gems :D Of course I actually would need somebody to do the summoning, but if I ever got around to that, things certainly would be possible to arrange.

Burden of Time is such a nice spell in SP, but in the MP group I usually play in BoT would be the same as painting a bulls-eye on my forehead, and I don't think it would be any different here. Also, Thaumaturgy has so little to offer to Pangaea, but if I ever succeed to climb out of the cellar in the research department, I sure would eventually hit Thau 5 too :)

Anyway, eagerly awaiting for the next trick you Chris will have! :)

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

LOL.. you delude yourself my tartarian friend if you think with 5globals up you aren't already a target. As for 5-Death per turn.....

Snicker...

When I stop laughing, I'll publish a list of your death income sites = ).

As for dispelling things for you.. Certainly. Send the Requisite gems. I'll be *happy* to dispel them for you.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

the monkey nation of kailasa would like to correct that information from c'tis, as it is true that we have offered them a nap3 they never agreed to it so there was never a nap. But who expects truth from lizards.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

I won't have access to dominions for the next few days and would like to request a delay until monday evening.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

I will but again, any requests for delays PM me. I rarely check the actual threads unless I plan on getting into diplomacy or looking to pick a fight, which if you think about it is the same thing.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Hey guys,

I think there is a huge bug, maybe jarko you can confirm? My game turn shows my god, and commanders retreating from a battle in Black alps 282.

They have a valid retreat square (black alps) 273. Yet none of them retreated and they all *died*.

Jarrko, can you confirm the battle result? Do you see them retreating?
Anyone else?

Is it possible the game fubar'd because of the same province name? Can we pause for a bit on this?

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Haven't seen the turn yet (a thunderstorm phukked up my Internet connection at home on Sunday, and it wasn't working yet this morning). I have Dominions 3 on a memory stick though, I'll try to find a computer that lets me run the game here at work.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

The battle report says for me 6 of the 7 TC commanders died, 85 of the 150 regular troops died and 44 of the 50 magic beings died.

In the combat replay I see TC army beaten to pulp (while once again the Pangaea army takes about 2-3 times the losses of the TC army). The TC pretender is swarmed by berserking minotaurs and centaurs, while rest of the TC army is slowly grinded. Finally the TC pretender dies (after it runs to kill a Pangaean Imp, but the centaurs catch up and charge her down), and the rest of the TC rout, except the berserking TC units (which take a while to hack down). In this picture is the TC pretender just a second before she is the last final time by a centaur.

Ie to me everything seems to be in order.

I can send you Chris the combat replay I have.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Btw, a doom horror appeared (apparently due to Astral Corruption) and ate one of my pans who summoned himself a cat. Very un-cool.

Is somebody killing off Agartha or attempting to dispel the AC? If so, please contact Pangaea and I'll send forth what ever I can to help deal with the situation.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Abysia is likewise happy to assist in removing the vile Corruption

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Alright in the case of the conflicting battle reports I'm going to let the current results stand. Sorry Chris but a rollback would be the only solution and then it wouldn't be fair to Jarkko or anyone else who might have had a battle that last turn.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

kailasa is also willing to spend gems to dispel astral corruption, we would also be able to cast the spell if wanted.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

No I don't have any problem with that. Its why I asked. Different combat results are a fact of life. Its why I asked.

Sucks at *how* different they are.

Agartha casting AC. There's somethign you don't see everyday.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Yeah, last thing I expected from Agartha. Perhaps he gave up on the replacement and just hopes that people kill him off?

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Agartha has some serious blood magic this game. I've been fighting ice devil SCs since around turn 30.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Helheim will provide assistance as well. This cannot be allowed to stand.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

plese send your gems to kailasa, and we will try to dispel it.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

we will wait one more turn for gems before we cast dispel, as some players who pledged help did not send theirs yet.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Sorry for buggering around with AC :)

It was a parting gift and was going to go AI. I cast it with 350 ish blood slaves from memory.. but i could try to kill off my god who cast it by teleporting him into a large army if that would be easier for everyone?

I won't go AI till you guys let me know what you'd like me to do.

Cheers,

Bluff

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

That's really up to you rather than player consensus - many of us would obviously love to see it gone but I'm sure others (well, mictlan) are happy to keep it.

Damn 350 is a fair whack of blood slaves!

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Tir is prepared to chip in some gems for this, but yeah, 350?? - no mucking about it seems.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

So for dispelling we would need 250 pearls, but a dead caster would be much better. So you might want to jump your pretender to province 23 for dieing please :) .

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

I'd rather you didn't actually. Your untimely casting did me wrong and I'd be rather annoyed if it ended before it could do my enemies wrong as well. But whatever, fortune has been against me for the last dozen turns anyhow.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Running
 

Don't assume you were the only one to be backdoored by AC, gave me a nice sting aswell. The point is, I'd rather not have another one.

Proceed to your death at 23 with all haste!