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I occupy my time in these really long turns between sessions by micromanaging everything that I might have allowed to slide slightly during regular play. Mostly those aesthetic details, like making sure the squads of my commanders are in proper order, etc.

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Welp. It's time. Tommo hasn't checked in yet. He better not have gone AWOL. We'll give him about 15 minutes to show, then I'll declare him AWOL and write the server admin to bot him.

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Well, it's been over 20 minutes now. Still no show. Looks like he's officially AWOL.

If nobody has any knowledge of his whereabouts, and no objections, I'll send in the bot call in 5 minutes.

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And there's the buzzer. I do hereby declare that Tommo of Machaka is officially AWOL. Informing server op now.

Re: Epic 2.08 Game
 

Norfleet is the winner again.

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Yeah, them vampire queens are pretty mean, aren't they? You were doing pretty well in the water, but once on land, they're nearly unstoppable.

I'm curious, though: Your expansion seemed consistently sluggish throughout the game: Did Machaka entirely wall you off, even after he went AWOL and had to be botted?

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Yeah, The computer kept me bottled in since I was initially the path of least resistance, PD of 1 along the borders. By the time I took to the water everyone had left. So I concentrated my forces on attacking you.
How do you get the queens so high? Do you empower them in astral then start wishing?

Re: Epic 2.08 Game
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yup. Empower to Astral 5, wear items to total of +4 Astral to get the 9 astral needed, then start wishing. I'm surprised you weren't able to retain Dominion. Marignon is normally quite good at this. Had you been able to keep dominion in your provinces, combined with your early successes in pushing them back, I wouldn't have been able to safely deploy them. Did you take a low dominion to start? It looks that way.

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One of the reasons I'm really fond of the VQ chassis is that it has a host of innate abilities plus is immortal, so it's far less likely that my 1000+ gem and 17 turn investment goes down the tubes in a lucky shot.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm surprised that you wouldn't have used that many wishes for something more durable, since vampire queens are very low in hitpoints and are undead, so are extremely vulnerable late game. A single wither bones will kill one. For the number of gems to get a VQ to astral 5 alone you could have wished for 5 or 6 doom horrors.