Human Pretender Screenshots
 

I thought I'd go ahead and start a thread regaling the fun and good times to be had with Human Pretenders.

Qualifications:

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• <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Human Pretender, No Demigods or Undead</font>
• <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Played in a Game vs Hard or Impossible</font>
• <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Turn 1, Middle Game, and (if you are there) End Game Screenshots</font>
• <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">List your Nation, Scales, Dominion, Castle</font>
• <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Optional: Some fun or interesting stories about the game or Pretender choices/trials you faced.</font>

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So here we go with mine:

Pretender: Enchantress named Yna
Nation: T'ien Ch'i Spring and Autumn
Scales: Turmoil 1, Magic 3
Castle: Watch Tower
Dominion: 4

Turn 1
http://www.techno-mage.com/~zen/yna.jpg

Turn 28
http://www.techno-mage.com/~zen/ynat28.jpg

In order to keep this thread from loading slower than sin, I have some links to some other key players in the game.

My Prophet who began preaching the Will of Yna from Turn 1 (Picture at Turn 28, same as Yna)
Rhuax the King of Magma, was summoned on Turn 24
Golem Brother 1 (summoned on Turn 20)
Golem Brother 2 (summoned on turn 21)
1 of 3 of the HoF Celestial Masters (have been in since turn 6 or 7)
2 of 3 of the HoF Celestial Masters
3 of 3 HoF Celestial Masters

[ June 23, 2004, 00:26: Message edited by: Zen ]

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Double post. I am filled with shame.

[ June 23, 2004, 04:16: Message edited by: Vicious Love ]

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Wuzza? Not to go TOO off topic, but that broken sword icon on Yna part deux is... unfamiliar.

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That is the Broken Armor symbol.

From the massive amounts of Acid Rain that are cast. It effectively reduces Prot to the Natural Protection (Non-Armor Protection).

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prolly a dumb question Zen, but how are you grabbing those screen shots ?

Spiro

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">How come she still has a protection of 10? It doesn't affect magical armors, or it only applies to body armor?

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Applies I believe only to Body Armor. Also when you get overland if you have a province with like 20ish resources it will heal it.

In order to get the Screenshot I used Gimp, which has an aqquire function.

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And here's mine. Egira the Great Enchantress, goddess of Pythium.

Her scales are order 3, misfortune 2 with a wizard's tower.

Turn 1:

http://homepage.usask.ca/~gdd851/egira.jpg

Turn 25:
http://homepage.usask.ca/~gdd851/egira25.jpg

Of course, this picture doesn't tell the full story, which is the mass of communicants that I'm toting around. There's about 30-40 of them in total now.

A typical battle.

[ June 25, 2004, 02:20: Message edited by: Graeme Dice ]

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Heh. If I still had one of my human pretender games to post the results of, it'd be a Great Enchantress also - SG Ermor, so 4s and 5s in 6 magic areas or so.

Odd nobody has a Hag or Freak Lord to show. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Although I also had a Druid with Machaka, until Norfleet's server ate the game (generating gigabyte files and all). The extra vine men / vine ogres were occasionally helpful in the beginning, but rapidly lost their appeal.

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I'm writing a blog/diary of one pbem game in which im using a Rainbow human pretender. I wrote a couple pages on my thought processes of just picking the paths out http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif but im not certain i should publish it since i don't want to fubar my chances at the game just yet. OTOH, i doubt the game will finish in this year (honestly).

Anyone here playing in Anaxagorasis' Cradle 2 game?

PS Resize those first couple screenshots. No need to be that big, we know what pixels look like. Back to the land of VGA with you!

[ June 25, 2004, 05:38: Message edited by: SelfishGene ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Arch Seraph Count?

[ June 26, 2004, 03:03: Message edited by: Anglachel ]

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Anything humanish. No Ghost Kings, Vampire Queens, and Demi-gods.

Also I have been informed that webspace may be an issue for some people to post pictures, if you'd like I can use some availiable space to host some pictures.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">1 HP and 4 Strength? How much negative dominion does that take?

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Gurgelor, the Smoking Mirror in my first game as Mictlan, started out before I had even looked at the national mages:

Fire 4, Death 3, Nature 2, Blood 6, Heat 2, Luck 3, Dark Citadel, Desert Sun, and whatever dominion strength that allows (4, I think).

It's been an excellently fun game. Full of Impossible and/or Hard AI's jammed onto the Aran map, I started with only two land provinces adjoining my capitol, and both the Pangaean and Miasmatic Ctis capitols three provinces away. Both of them attacked me by about turn 7, and I ended up in a long see-saw war with Ctis and its deadly dominion for a long time.

My Luck 3 paid off nicely, giving me gold and magic items, the best of which was a Soul Contract, which I nearly lost when Ctis ambushed the carrying priest in a surprise attack and killed him. It was found and saved by Popocatepetl the Mictlan priest, but he caught the Ctis fever and had to be recalled and kept alive with regeration magic, slowly disolving anyway from the disease into the most afflicted character I've ever had (see the Affliction Record thread!). Eventually we cast Gift of Health and he recovered fully. His demons provided a flying army that turned the tide and proved a nearly-unstoppable force (as long as it doesn't try to stop anything too huge).

I had a great prophet sun priest Tonacatecuhtli who got diseased but fought on, surviving through heroic toughness and so on, leading the diseased corps and capturing the Ctis capitol, but he eventually died, with 73 kills to his name (mostly via Smite). He died with disease, lost an eye, weakenned, chest wound, limp and battle fright (but morale 30 anyway since he was prophet). I think I will try reviving him, when I can.

This is also the game where I set fire to my own unique heroic unholy mummy priest, by trying to guard it with devils, who caused a fatal spontaneous combustion with their heat auras!

Just as I defeated Ctis, Caelum defeated Pangaea, and then rushed me from the north with its Manticore god leading a huge army, which we barely managed to defeat, at the expense of a lot of good crossbreeds. Using a succubus on them won me a flying Air-2 mage.

My god Gurgelor himself has very rarely participated in the fighting, mostly staying at home and casting powerful spells and forging powerful magic items. He could be potent but he hasn't really needed to risk his neck. His current sheet on turn 89 looks like this:

http://www.latibulum.com/pvk/pix/Gurgelor89.gif

We have a nice arsenal of magic items, so he could be a tough fighter, or have different magic levels, if he wanted to, but there's little need for him to bother. He may show up for some battles to set off some serious fireworks later on. There are still more powerful empires to deal with out there.

PvK

[ June 26, 2004, 22:29: Message edited by: PvK ]