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Lord in Hell that was an awful battle. Oh dear . . . I can't get out of my capital now . . . I think I might have to concede this one.

Anyone mind if I turn to AI text turn?

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif
You didn't protect your Crossbow troops good enough.
But a nice battle to watch http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: Suricate - pbem LA newbie game - (OPEN)
 

Very good idea!

Re: Suricate - pbem LA newbie game - (OPEN)
 

Well, I believe I am done. Please set me to AI.

For what it is worth, I suggest all nations gang up on R'lyeh right now. In 10 turns they will be pretty close to unstoppable.

Good luck all

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I'm sorry to hear that Net , i hope u had fun!


Since i am not playing this game is there anyone kind enough to relate the situation of the game ?

Is there any very big nation or some (public) alliance/wars going on ?

Re: Suricate - pbem LA newbie game - (OPEN)
 

You set yourself to AI.

Re: Suricate - pbem LA newbie game - (OPEN)
 

Indeed. Although I'm sure you didn't know, this is the one thing players say to me that most fills me with misery. It's very easy to change yourself to AI (go to one of the menus on the right - preferences or something - then it's at the top), but really quite hard work for me or a game admin to do it.

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I'll try to do a summary of the game. At least the parts I actually know about. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Wars
Ulm and I (Utgård) have had some border skirmishes but no real battles.

The undead war
Tien Chi and C'tis attacked Ermor and killed his armies. I joined in on a corner but didn't see much action. It seems like they are mopping up what's left of the evil undead horde right now.

Hordes from the deep
R'lyeh took the coastal provinces close to Man's capital and Man attacked R'lyeh in an attempt to conquer them. I don't know any details about the battle were the cyclops of Man was killed but it seems like Man got beaten bad. R'lyeh is now fighting a weak AI Man.

The fall of Maginon
I've very little details about this war but it seems like pangea crushed Maginon with very little effort.

Power situation
This is basically just taken from the score graphs.

Land
I'm largest in size but most of my land is very poor. The second largest one is Pangaea who is by far the richest with R'lyeh holding a good second place.
Pangaea and R'lyeh also have and insane amount of forts, 6 and 5 respectively, with the rest of us having 3.

Magic
It seems however that Pangaea have sacrificed research in order to gain all his lands and wealth. He's holding the last place in research but do have a very high gem income.
Tien Chi dominates research but R'lyeh also have a very high spot.

Re: Suricate - pbem LA newbie game - (OPEN)
 

Thanks, I did so shortly after the previous message. I had never done it before, so I had no idea how to do it.

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I can fill in the details on the Man/R'lyeh battles:

- My Cyclops was killed due to R'lyeh reinforcing a territory with a large number of freespawns and Illithids supported by his Wyrm on the same trun I attcked it with a small conquering force of Defenders/Longbowmen/Heavy Cav supported by my Cyclops.
- R'lyeh then took that same force and conquered two more territories while I retreated to my castle to assemble a larger force.
- I then attacked R'lyeh with a force consisting of 25 or so Grand Thaumaturges, approx 50 longbowmen, 20 defenders, and 20 Heavy Cav. I was summarily crushed.

Unfortunately, I was not able to research thunder strike before R'lyeh began their land conquest, so my best offensive spell was lightning bolt. As R'lyeh essentially destroyed 80% of my army as well as 50% of my research force, there was no point in dragging out the inevitable.