Titan\'s Task - running 24hr qh
 

Fed up with thier constant bickering the Pancreator has ejected all the Titans from the heavens and placed before them a task. To redeem themselves, and be proven worthy in the eyes of thier lord, they must defeat three of thier brethren in the mortal realm. Upon completion of this task, the victorious Titan will ascend to heaven and rule forever at the right hand of the Pancreator. May the greatest Titan win!

Server
IP: 67.190.105.206
Port: 2004

Map
Inland

Settings
Starting Provs: 1
Indies Strength: 6
Site Frequency: 65
World Richness: rich
Random Events: common
Score Graphs: enabled
Hall of Fame: 15
Research: Normal
Victory: 7/20 VPs

Mods
Conceptual Balance 5.2

House Rules
1) All pretenders must be Titans (mobile, size 6, bipedal humanoids)

2) No population killing dominion themes. This prohibts Ermor AE/SG and Pan CW

3) 24hr Quickhost from start to finish

Players (10/10)
Jotunhiem - Ironhawk
Marignon - Truper
Caelum - Wish
Tien Chi - KissBlade
Pangaea - Jurri
Abyssia - Cainehill
Arco - Folket
Ulm - Tom Scudder
Machaka - Arch
Pythium - Peacekeeper

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

I'll give Caelum a try in this one

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

do cyclops count?

wait, they're only size 5... guess not

what about the shedu and the allfather? They are the right size, but lack the bipedal part?

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

Umm - "defeating 3" - that seems a little ambiguous. Killing 3 pretenders? Or destroying three nations? Or strictly a VP win (which 6 VPs doesn't seem to match defeating 3 - defeating 2, if capitols are 2 VPs each, or defeating 5, if VPs are 1).

Sounds kinda fun, but I'd like a little more clarity on the winning. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

i'll play jotun in this one.

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

The statement is ambiguous but I thought the victory condition would clarify it. My thought was that there would be 20 VPs: 10 capitals and 10 in the field. The assumption was then that each player gets a VP at thier cap and would grab 1 in the field and fortify it, meaning that in order to win you would have to defeat 3 other players to get enough VPs to win.

Actually, my numbers are wrong, it should be 8VPs (2 of your own and then 6 "enemy" VPs). But thats a bit on the high side. Lets just set the victory condition at 7VPs and leave it at that http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

Sign me as Tien Chi

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

Sounds fun! I'd like Pangaea.

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

Oh - I do want in. Bipedal mobile Size 6 humanoids - does that include shapeshifting pretenders with one form that matches those requirements? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Edit : Youch! Titans only, that really narrows things down for some nations, sheesh!

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

I want in on Arcosephale.

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

Shedu and the Allfather do not qualify, sorry.

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

Ironhawk : Only size 6 bipedals, size 5 need not apply?

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

Put me down for Ulm, please.

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

I'm in. I'll go for Marignon.

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

So does the great mother count as a humanoid, or as a big clay thingy-oid?

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

I would like to join as Ctis.

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

I really like games that have reasonable victory conditions - I'll tentatively put my finger on Ermor.

There are 3 borderline titan cases - the earth mother, who is mostly humanoid though a bit out of the titan mold, especially in respect to abilities, the natarajah, who is pretty well titanish but is just a special case, and the void lord, who has pretty well spot on titan stats but who's pictur indicates he may be tripedal... though, i guess to actually confirm that you'ld have to see whether he can accumulate two limps before going crippled ;p

personally, i think all are close enough and should be considered as legit possibilities. the earth mother is the most outside the mold i guess.

oh, and inland can handle rlyeh, though atlantis would be pretty sucky.

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

I think the shedu should qualify, mostly because he is cool. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif anyway great mother is a bipedal size 6. My question: does sacred statue count. or baphomet. Both are size 6, and the statue is carved to look like a biped. Baphomet floats, but hes size 6 as well.

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

wish, the statue is not mobile. the baphomet is not mobile. they are nothing like titans http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

I do think that the All-Father should be allowed - he's bipedal - he's just riding a friggin' horse! But I'm neither playing Vanheim nor running this game, and I guess part of the fun here is using some pretenders that don't get a lot of play normally.

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

Shedu ain't bipedal, sacred statue & Baphomet aren't mobile. Earth Momma I think you _need_ to have, otherwise Vanheim is stuck with two identical pretender choices - oh, air 2 or air 3!

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

change my tentative pick to arcos

edit: ah, [censored], arcos has been taken

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

Withdrawn. Vans open.

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

id like to sign up as pythium please.

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

ok machak, unless arcos frees up http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Titan\'s Task - open
 

Abyssia for me.

Important Update
 

Truper, along with the Artifacts game, has convinced me that when a game moves beyond a 24hr qh timeframe I rapidly lose interest regardless of my position. To avoid that happening here, this game will run strictly 24hr qh from start to finish. I believe that the victory conditions are still achievable under this new time restriction, but if people dont feel they can play thier end-game effectively under this time limit I will completely understand.

Edit: of course exceptions will still be made for people who need to go away for a weekend and the like. but when the game is running under time it will always be 24hr qh.

Game Full
 

Ok, we have a full 10 players. Arch & Peace I put you guys on the waitlist in case anyone else withdraws due to my new condition.

And with regard to the various questions about what pretenders are valid. First off, only size 6 pretenders are valid - you cannot take a Cyclops or any of the smaller pretenders who have wings and are thus size 5. As for the Great Mother: I almost ruled her out since she has regen and I fear that people will all just flock to her as an SC chasis. But as arch pointed out to not allow her would restrict some nations too severely in terms of pretender choices. Lastly, yes the Nata and Void Lord qualify for this game.

Re: Game Full
 

meh - Inland's huge - it can easily handle more than 10 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Game Full
 

Its only 150 provs. The 10 player limit was in order to give each nation a little breathing room before the first set of wars. Make it so that the first battle was not also the last.

Re: Game Full
 

i should probably step down for this game, actually. i just realized that i'm going away for 10 days, and already have 3 games on the go. i will be finding a replacement for those games while i'm gone, but it doesn't make sense to start a new game.

so arch or pk get the spot, i guess. whoever signed up first.

Re: Game Full
 

oh, and just to be clear, giant stone monoliths - are they considered bipedal?

Re: Game Full
 

nope http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Re: Game Full
 

Ok, Arch will step in for Cast then. Since no one else seems to have any issues with the time limit I will go ahead and bring the server up for uploads.

Server ready for uploads
 

The server is now ready for pretender uploads at

IP: 67.190.105.206
Port: 2004

Game will begin at midnight on Tuesday or when all 10 pretenders are uploaded.

Re: Important Update
 

Only saw this today. I'm sorry but I'll have to step down from this one. While the time limit is ok for the start game, for the mid and end game it is much to tight for me.

Re: Important Update
 

yah - i think ironhawk might not understand how things get - now, w/ this game, as it has reasonable victory conditions, its doable - though that's not the same as reasonable http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Important Update
 

Oh, I know exactly how things get. You arent talking to a rank noob here arch.

Sorry the timelimit is too much for you Wraith - I'll put Peace into your slot.

Re: Important Update
 

Sure.

Have a good game guys http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Important Update
 

I've decided to play Jotunhiem now that it is free. My pretender is up. Still 5 to go.

Re: Important Update
 

oh, yah ironhawk i was wrong about the size of the map - I remembered it as being larger (likely perspectival from having to siege a million of boron's forts one game). 10 is definitely cozy http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Important Update
 

Pythium has been uploaded. That makes 7.

Re: Important Update
 

Only waiting on Machaka to upload: get a move on, arch! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Important Update
 

oh sorry - thought we were starting tuesday evening - i'll upload when i get back from work - are we using an updated "fixed vine ogres" mod and have vp been set?

edit: seriously, if there's a beta 5.3 close to being out I would love to use that... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Happy Titaning!

I would like to point out that monoliths, being monopedal, somewhat humanoid (re.: the expression "stone-faced"), and pretty naturally teleporters, are fairly close to the definition of a titan... I mean, the Shedu, that's just silly, but the monolith otoh...

Re: Important Update
 

Even I could make a Vine Ogre Nerf... want me to post it?

Re: Important Update
 

sure - the simplest solution is just to increase the price of the summon vine ogres to 2 gems - dunno if the same should be done for vine men or not...

Re: Important Update
 

I have essentially never used the vine men spell once I had access to the ogres. Take that as you like.

Re: Important Update
 

ok got back late but all uploaded

was tempted to go w/ man, but couldn't stand the idea of vine ogre spamming http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Game on!
 

Server is up and running. May the best titan win!

Re: Game on!
 

And may the person who didn't take a titan, lose. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif