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Has this game stalled?

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Turn time is long and the server is getting restarted a lot.

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Abyssia needs to be set AI, they've had nothing but a sieged capital for awhile. After that, just waiting on Caelum.

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I put Abysia on AI for you.

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Do you guys need me to put anyone on AI?

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I don't think Caelum has done a turn in a while. But I thought he was in a decent spot. Maybe it'd be better to just find a sub.

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Gah, I was kinda hoping 4 earthquakes would be a little more devastating than that. Stupid lucky sword. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Did those guys who fled die retreating into enemy territory, or did they show up back in the original province?

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Huh, total wipe-out for Oceania. T'ien Chi's first turn master enslave grabbed 60% of my army, losing almost all my artifacts, mages, summons etc. And Dr P's giants wiped out a secondary force. He's probably the most likely winner now.

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Yeah, I have been watching his giants against you. Those guys are real nasty. Curse Argatha for taking the well of misery from me. It was my only real chance.I guess I will have to find another way to deal with all of your ocean kings other than spamming Ghost Riders at them.

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Damnit, I wanted that Aegis.
But holy $#%$# Master Enslave is really powerfull. I wasnt expecting the kind of success that I have gotten with that spell.

60 wights who have fog warriors/army of lead/will of the fates fighting in darkness = scary. I just need to fix that 1 script from aim to resist lightning.

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I can't connect.

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I am having trouble connecting.

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only 58 minutes left and I stillcant connect

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Yeah, Velusion is out of town so there isn't much to be done. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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Still appears to be down.

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Sorry about that... didn't realize the game was down (I've unavailable of late.)

Back up now!

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I have to confess, I'm having trouble motivating myself to keep playing. Doc P has probably won anyway.

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I'm certainly in a very strong position, but it is in my interest to prevent people from ganging up on me, so I'm willing to be generous with bribes.

Also my turns are so long and complicated that I inevitably make mistakes http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I can't connect to the server, or the status page.

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Only 3 of us are taking turns. It kind of seems a shame as we arent fighting each other, just feeding on those not in the game. How should we proceed?

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And oh, that was particularly ugly, I wanted to see what internal alchemy would do. Killed one of my best guys and old aged and diseased my other one. bleh. NOW I see it on the bug list.

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Well I'm in no position to win. I just don't have the means to stand up to Niefelheim.

I'm gonna go ahead and go AI just in case you wanna duke it out Rytek.

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Well fought, BDA. You didn't even see my real forces, it was just a little tustle between SCs http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Who else is still playing?

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Yeah I know.
I could keep toughing it out for a good while, but what it boils down to is that I can't keep up with you.

1 SC per turn, a near infinite supply of gold, and a much more efficient use of gems from Forge of the Ancients.

Eh, if Tien Chi decides they want a couple more turns then I might stick it out for a few to try and help them out. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

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I dunno, you tell me. I have -- I counted, 17 Tartarians all equipped who can cloud trapeze or teleport. About 10 more of the ones who dont have Air or Astral. I have 2 armies capable of teleporting hiding behind castles/domes waiting to attack. Both have about 10 cloud trapezing/teleporting mages in support who will cast doom/cloud warriors/ iron warriors, etc.. Each army has about 100 wights/100 river and celstial warriors and 100 or so warriors of the 5 elements. I am summoning 3 tarts a turn, gifting 2 per turn making 2 clams a turn and have had the chalice for a long time so I have a big reserve of tarts to gift. With all of that, I doubt I have any prayer of beating DRP

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I'm making 20 clams and 7 blood stones per turn http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif. I could make more but I can only forge 50 items per turn. I'm wishing for gems every turn, but considering how many I have I may start wishing for Seraphs or Mandahas, but not until my backlog of Niefel Jarls are equipped.

I'm outfitting communions to spam undead mastery and master enslave at huge penetration bonuses. The entire communion is made of Gygja and immune to cold and 75% fire resistant.

I've got a horde of earth mages ready to spam earth attack as soon as any army rears it's ugly head in an unprotected province. If the army isn't entirely fire immune I can follow up with enough flames from heaven to kill half the army right through almost any defenses, so troops are pretty well useless against me.

My main problem right now is organizational - turns take forever and I'm in a bunch of other games.

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Also, the server appears to be down.

Is the game over? If so, I'm gonna go ahead and proclaim victory; but I'm happy to keep going if the server comes back up.

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I think you are the clear victor. i am happy to have made it to the end game in this my first multi-player game.

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Grats Dr.P!
It was fun getting to the endgame, but most of my neighbors AIed so it wasn't exactly hard to gobble up their land.

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Unfortunately I see that in alot of games and the victor is the one who gets to gobble up all of the AI's. I was at war since turn 10 of this game, first C'tiss attacked me. And when the war with C'tiss was over Caelum attacked me. I finally caused Caelum enough pain to offer me peace and negotiate to attack Oceanus (who was the biggest power next to me) then Caelum drops from the map leaving me fighting the second biggest pretender by myself. Once I finally had fended off Oceanus I was too far behind in the build up war even with taking all of Caelums lands.

But-- congrats DrP. Well played. Your giants were unstoppable. I take a morale victory having my pretender with 1724 kills and top of the hall of fame. My pretender single handedly beat back armies from all of my foes with muscle and spells.

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What kind of pretender did you have anyway? I never got a scout on him.

Post a SS with gear if you don't mind. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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It was an awake dom 6 Lady of fortune with S6W4. Just like I suggest in the other forum. A very good pretender for the early-mid and late game. I had to bring her out vs Ctiss because he rushed me with alot of chariots and I went the Heavy infantry/composite bow route to expand. Luckily I had const 4 and Alt 3 researched and the pretender wiped 3 of his armies. Then Caelum attacked with 30+ eagle kings spamming thunder strike so I used my pretender to pin his army. Every time he split off and raided I pounced with my pretender-- Most of those kills are undead chaff killed on the charcoal shield and then later on ghost wolves.

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I had an imprisoned E9N9 cyclops, domstr 7. This is my favorite bless for Niefelheim.

He was maintaining the Forge and the GoNB, obviously.

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I was rocking an S9W9N1 Monolith myself. I used him once or twice to teleport in and mass enslave on Agartha.

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Sorry - I wasn't monitoring this thread. The server was hung. Do you want me to start it up again or is DrP the declared winner?

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I assume that means DrP won. Congrats!

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Sorry Velusion I forgot about this. Yep DrP won alright.

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Hello.
Don't you want to create a new game with similar rules (maybe, another era)? I find this idea rather interesting and would definitely like to take part.