Re: Utopia - new MA rich game! (closed, design pretenders!)
 

Perhaps provinces are no bigger that what you see on the battle map.

Re: Utopia - new MA rich game! (closed, design pretenders!)
 

Me too!

But no waltzing is required. The Sphinx just stares across the land with his unblinking eyes, daring all enemies to hit him for 75 turns, at which point they give up and go away, or vanish in a puff of logic and dead batteries.

Re: Utopia - new MA rich game! (closed, design pretenders!)
 

They don't have that order available, it's disabled. You can set them to patrol only with shortcut.

Re: Utopia - new MA rich game! (closed, design pretenders!)
 

maybe the bug is that the order isn't more easily available? not that they can do it at all?

Re: Utopia - new MA rich game! (closed, design pretenders!)
 

It's Christmas, so I will try to start the game at 27th. I have asked someone if he could not play if evilhomer does not show up.

Re: Utopia - new MA rich game! (closed, design pretenders!)
 

Well, if EH does not show up, and you don't get another alternate, I'd be happy to take Machaka.

Re: Utopia - new MA rich game! (closed, design pretenders!)
 

Zeldor has given me the secret signal, so ...

Rising high over the Savanna of Utopia, the colossal giant wanders mindlessly. The tribesmen shout, "La-la-la-la-la-la" in adoration, and prostrate themselves before it. And jellied tribesman muddy the the parched land, for the Machakan pretender does not hear their prayers, and they are crushed beneath his weight.

Re: Utopia - new MA rich game! (closed, design pretenders!)
 

Ok, let's get it going. Relaxed hosting schedule till like 3-4th January. So just ask for extensions and all will be granted.

Re: Utopia - new MA rich game! (closed, design pretenders!)
 

I'm not complaining about this game, but for future references for games with these zany settings... expansion rate will be surprisingly very strongly tied to how early and how adjacent the availability of "recruitable indie commanders" is....

as such i think starting with 3provinces is a mistake for settings like these, because randomly players will be given the opportunity to recruit 2commanders on turn1 or only 1... this can be a big bonus considering the earliest someone without that 2nd recruitable commander can expect to get him online is turn3/4 ... that means an extra 2-3 commanders early in the game with which to provide additional leadership for expansion armies/reinforcement lines...


if we all started with 1province... it wouldn't be a matter of randomfactor it would be mostly skill... the skill to decide which adjacent province is most likely to have a recruitable indie commander instead of knights or shamans

Re: Utopia - new MA rich game! (closed, design pretenders!)
 

If that game proves to be fun and we want a remake, I think we will go with NI version of the map. I did not notice that problem really, I was rather thinking in categories of getting recruitable commanders for fort constructions.