Cripple Fight! - And the Lame shall inherit the earth!
 

Disclaimer: The good jokes in this post are by Calahan. The bad ones are by me. I decline from taking any credit for the good ones.


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This game will only feature nations that have not yet won a single MP game, according to the thread on victorious nations (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=33275). If someone gives some info on a nation winning a non-blitz game, I'll remove it. This is your chance to play your favourite weak nation without some stupid niefels bounding you into dust in turn 14, although there are some nations that are consider pretty good in the mix. Well, there must be some reason for them not having won a single game.

Name of the Game - CrippleFight
Type - llamaserver PBEM (Play By EMail)
Map: Etruscae 158 land + 22 water (about 14,3 provs per land player and 11 per water nation)
Download link for the map: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showt...light=etruscae
Mods: CBM 1.4, Multi-age mod (Downloadable from this post:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showp...0&postcount=41)
Players: 13
Settings: renaming on, Large HoF, magic sites 40

Hosting Schedule:
24h per turn until turn 20, then 36h to 40, then 48h to 60 and finally 60h after turn 60

Delays:
-Each player will be granted a one day delay on request. If there are longer delays (especially in the first 20-30 turns), please try to find a sub. But if push comes to shove, delays are highly preferred over setting someone AI. If someone has trouble keeping up on the schedule, just speak up and can negotiate a better hosting schedule.

Victory Condition
- The surrender of all other losers.


Nations in the game:

EA

Ermor - Calahan - SURVIVED - But declined to fight like a man at the end, and instead wimped out like a little girl waving his white handbag in the air.
Abysia - Frozen Lama - SURVIVED - Fuelled the MA Atlantis war machine with Nexus gems for many turns, then got hit in the face with said machine. There was much pain.
Tir na n'Og - Valerius - SURVIVED - But never did find a cure for his arachnophobia.
Atlantis - TheDemon - DEFEATED ON TURN 11

MA

Machaka - Meglobob - SURVIVED - And is currently in the process of suing the J.R.R. Tolkien estate for inventing Elves in the first fecking place. -- Gregstrom won Joker with Machaka, so won't be in the sequel.
Vanheim - Burnsaber - AI, from turn 36 -- MA Vanheim won the Spellchecker game, won't be in the sequel.
Bandar Log - veto - DEFEATED ON TURN 32
Atlantis - Zeldor - WINNER - After taking over the ship mid voyage, managed to successfully steer the aquatic society through the Giant lands of Fire and Shade.
Eriu - Fakeymcfake - AI, from turn 16

LA

Arcoscephale - tgbob - DEFEATED ON TURN 64
Gath - viccio - AI, from turn 63 -- Gath won the Wildpansies game, won't be in the sequel.
Atlantis - Jazzepi - AI, from turn 27
Bogarus - Alpine Joe - DEFEATED ON TURN 68. -- Bogarus won the Artefacts game, won't be in the sequel.


OPENING SOON!

Cripple Fight II - The Lamepire Strikes Back.

Final Castings

EA Ermor - Fired their agent after an embarrassing final scene in the first movie, and are now looking for new representation in the sequel.
EA Abysia - The shocking finale to the original now sees these being hastily written into the script for the follow-up.
EA Tir na n'Og - The Elves are back girls. So start practising your fan-girl screams.
EA Atlantis - The script for the sequel has long been based on these, with the story revolving around how their peaceful, predator free life underwater, comes to a crashing end.

MA Machaka - Axed after Gregstorm persuaded them to appear in a Batman spin-off after stealing the show in the "Joker"
MA Vanheim - Booted out after demanding a huge pay increase after receiving an Oscar nomination for "Spellchecker"
MA Bandar Log - Monkeys! Monkey Magic! Can all Pigsy look-a-likes please leave your details with the producer.
MA Atlantis - In true dramatic, unforeseen, plot-twisting style, announced in the very last line of the original that they wouldn't be returning to the franchise.
MA Eriu - A safe bet to once again be partnering their cousin Tir-Na in the sequel.

LA Arco - There wouldn't be a film without them.
LA Gath - Got a shock 11th hour offer to shoot Wildpansies2 instead. So now won't be appearing again.
LA Atlantis - Well known to be down on luck and short of cash. So is certain to be snapped up for the sequel.
LA Bogarus - Signed an exclusive contract with award winning director Micah to spend the next 17 years shooting "Artifacts - The Movie", in Real Time and Split Screen.

Check you local cinema listings.

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (1/15)
 

EA Atlantis, and god help us all.

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (2/15)
 

I really really shouldn't play in another game, but have to give EA Abysia another shot, this time maybe with a chance ;)

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (2/15)
 

Winterstorm: winner LA C'tis
That's not a weak nation

As for me - MA Atlantis please

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (2/15)
 

Ok. LA C'tis removed from available list.

I know that some of these nations aren't *that* weak, but there must be some reasons for them having no reported victories on the sticky thread.

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (4/14)
 

Discharge was won by LA Patala, played by Revolution.

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (4/13)
 

Lets have a bash at EA Ermor.

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (5/13)
 

Fun game concept...:up::)

Can I have one of the weakest nations in the Dominions universe...Machaka. Its now or never for the cool but utterly useless spiders.

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (5/13)
 

Yeah, one of the best ideas I've had in a while.

And once this game is finished, we could start a new one (with at least one nation less, not suprisingly). After that, another one. Rinse and repeat until only there are only two nations left to compete for *not* getting the tragic "Worst nation ever" mark.

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (6/13)
 

machaka weakest nation ??? no way.... maybe even top5 nation in MA imo

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (6/13)
 

I'm interested to play with Gath

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (6/13)
 

EA Arco has won a game?

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (6/13)
 

Nevermind....I see they squeeked one by:up:

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (6/13)
 

Sign Veto as Bandar Log please :)

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (6/13)
 

Really?

Care to write a nation guide (in the main thread please) backing that up?

I rate them as the 2nd weakest in MA, Ma Oceania being the weakest.

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (8/13)
 

Great idea, Burnsaber! Tir na n'Og, please.

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (8/13)
 

I'll see if I can do something with Bogarus

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (10/13)
 

Can I get LA acro?

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (11/13)
 

I'll take LA Atlantis.

I think this game should be renamed CRIPPLE FIGHT!

Jazzepi

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (11/13)
 

And this post made me want to join the game, put me down for MA Eriu

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (12/13)
 

I will take the last of the losers - if you please.

Deathmatch of the Losers - Full, Pretender Design
 

Unfortunately, the last loser nation was reserved for my amusement. I'm sorry if it was confusing and got your hopes up. (Hence there was only 1 open slot althought two nations were free). Can I place you as a sub thought?

Okay, please make your pretender designs. The map and the multi-age-mod are in the first post of the thread. I assume that each one of you losers is skilled enough to get your hands on CBM 1.41 without guidance. Remember that there are some strong sacred nations (3 glamour nations & Abyssia) in the mix, so you probably should have plan for sacred rush.

I'm going to work in 10 minutes and after that, to a nice 13km long jog. Then I'll start mediating with the allmighty llamaserver and put the game up. Hopefully we can get this game started on saturday/sunday.

Also, all in favour of renaming the game to a cheesy South Park reference (CRIPPLE FIGHT), please speak up. If there seems to be other players than me & jazzepi who think that this is a good idea, I'll do it.

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Full, Pretender Design
 

Cripple fight is good :)

Don't fear the abysians, we come in peace! (shoot to kill)

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Full, Pretender Design
 

I joined this game in part because it should be called cripple fight. If it does not become so I will be sorely disappointed.

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Full, Pretender Design
 

I like south park too, so okay with me.

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Full, Pretender Design
 

I think it's now impossible to come up with another name for this game besides Cripplefight.

Re: Cripple Fight! - Full, Pretender Design
 

The game is up on the llamaserver, by the name of CrippleFight.

IMPORTANT:
All of you will need to download the new single-age mod in the first post!

Remember to have cbm 1.41 active when creating your pretenders!
/IMPORTANT

The game is (hopefully) due to start sunday. Here's a story post to get you riled up.

The awakening god rose and looked down on his people. It did not know why he was cast down to this strange dimension trough time and space. Why where these seemingly random people of strange nations also sent here? Using its highened divine senses the awakened one tried to divine the cause for this cosmic mayhem. But it could it be? The movement of the cosmic strands of creation are weak and hard to translate in this world. The Clues, cryptic. The prophecy, nonexistent.

But.. it realized.

Could it be? All these pretenders, all these people, even this world? All send down here due to some arbitary measure of war winning ability in alternative dimensions? It pondered this mysteria for long. But then it realized that it did not matter. The playground has been leveled. The bullies have been exiled. This is the time. Now is the chance. It will lead these meek folk to glory! Divinity is within its grasp!







The Cripple Wars have begun..

Re: Cripple Fight! - Send in Pretenders
 

Okay. I'm an idiot. The Llamaserver is thrice the awesome I thought it was. It apparently already support multi-era games.

So you just need this mod: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showp...0&postcount=41 + CBM to play.

If you downloaded some of the early mod I added to the first post way back, you can delete them. They'll do you no good.

Re: Deathmatch of the Losers - Recruiting (5/13)
 

Its a great idea burn..
However, while the player should go in the hall of fame, I don't think the *nation* should.

Just like in UlmishCivilWars, (where everyone is playing ulm), reporting a game victory as ulm wouldn't reflect one of the purposes of the hall of fame - to answer the question of which players and which nations were the strongest.

Re: Cripple Fight! - Send in Pretenders
 

Hmm, it looks like a pretender has been submitted for Hinnom. No fair picking on the cripples!

Re: Cripple Fight! - Send in Pretenders
 

Who the heck sent in a Hinnom pretender?

Re: Cripple Fight! - Send in Pretenders
 

You can just over write it by submitting your own.

Jazzepi

Re: Cripple Fight! - Send in Pretenders
 

Well yeah, but the thing is that Hinnom isn't supposed to be in this game.

Re: Cripple Fight! - Send in Pretenders
 

The Hinnom pretender has been obtilerated by my radioactive admin powers. Hopefully it was a honest mistake and not some guy trying to bully us.

I'll keep a close eye on the game and eliminate any other "accidents" when they pop up.

Re: Cripple Fight! - Send in Pretenders
 

We seem to be plagued by bullies - now Mictlan is picking on us. Niefel is sure to arrive any moment. :hurt:

Re: Cripple Fight! - Send in Pretenders
 

Hope to have my EA Ermor Pretender uploaded by the end of the day. It seems to be a tough Pretnneder build normally, but the small-ish map for this game is making it doubly so.

Guess they've heard that all their favourite cripples are going to be in one place at the same time! Bullies don't like running round too much :p

Re: Cripple Fight! - Send in Pretenders
 

Go away bullies, only cripples allowed!

Also, ignore Chris, anyone who wins a game with one of these crippled nations fully deserves there Hall of Fame place. Especially in a open-ended game with 12 opponents.

Will upload my pretender tonight.

Re: Cripple Fight! - Send in Pretenders
 

Sorry i'm the guy who sent in EA Mictlan, it was a complete accident, as I was signing up at the time for another EA game as well. I will send in my real [u]Bogarus[u] pretender shortly.
Once again apologies for slowing down the process.

Re: Cripple Fight! - Send in Pretenders
 

Sorry for the angry sounding e-mail.

I was just having a blast with this long pen & paper RPG session and was checking on the game while my lunch was cooking in the micro. When I noticed that the Hinnom joker guy had returned*. I was pretty annoyed to hold from my delicious meal and exciting RPG game for a moment to take precautions, hence the tone in the e-mail. I actually tought that there was some guy out there trying to pester us.

However, I've disabled autostart so that I can manually make sure that the right nations are in the game before starting. I'll probably be the last to put my pretender in sunday(due to complete lack of testing today). But I'll start the game right away once the 13 nations are in.

The first turn will be with 48h limit so that no-one is caught by suprise.

To Chris: You kind of have a point there, but since with this amount of players this is almost like a real mp game. I'd agree with you if this game had less than 9 players with "weak" nations. But I don't really care that much and Tyrant is the final arbiter on the issue.


* in retrospect that probably someones honest mistake too.

Re: Cripple Fight! - Send in Pretenders
 

Hey guys,

Out of the blue it seems very likely that I'll be away for 2-3 weeks in June sometime. In the interests of the game I'd better pull out before it begins, rather than risk not being able to get a sub at that time

Sorry for the late notice, just glad the game hasn't started yet

Re: Cripple Fight! - Send in Pretenders
 

Duly noted. I've contacted Digress if he'd be intrested in taking your place. I'm going to wait for his anwser before I start open recruiting.

Re: Cripple Fight. Recruiting 1 player. EA Abyssia available!
 

Update on the situation: Digress declined, so we'll have to wait for a player to appear.

Once a replacement appears, I'll negotiate with him on much time he wants to stragedize a pretender.

Re: Cripple Fight. Recruiting 1 player. EA Abyssia available!
 

EA abyssia? if you still need someone, i'lll take it

give me like an hour to make my pretender

Re: Cripple Fight. Recruiting 1 player. EA Abyssia available!
 

And the place is yours. Welcome to the game!

No need to rush your design. There are still 2 others pretenders yet to be sent. Remember to have cbm active when making your pretender, and the single-age mod to play. You can see the download links from the game page on llamaserver.

http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo....=Cripple_Fight

Re: Cripple Fight! - Send in Pretenders
 

well i don't take long. not expecting to last that long, but i never use fire magic much. may as well try. pretender sent in.

Re: Cripple Fight! - Send in Pretenders
 

Just waiting on viccio's Gath pretender now.

Re: Cripple Fight! - Send in Pretenders
 

I hope it wasn't him who submited the Hinnom pretender. You know getting mixed up between Ea Gath and La Gath.

Perhaps PM him if he does not send in a pretender soon?

Re: Cripple Fight! - Send in Pretenders
 

I'll contact him in the morning if Gath pretender hasn't shown up by then. But now, sleep.

Re: Cripple Fight! - And the Lame shall inherit the earth!
 

And the game is on! First turn is at 48h, and we will be going with 24h until turn 20.

I must say that I'm deeply hurt by the choice of pretender names. I refrained from naming my pretender "Timmy" just because I thought that everyone else would be doing that too. Not even a single Lord of the Underworld, too!

And it appears that all ages of Atlantis share the same flag. If people perceive this as a problem, I could whip up a simple fix for it.

Anyways, lets start bashing heads. Remember that it's okay to beat a cripple if you're one too!

Re: Cripple Fight! - And the Lame shall inherit the earth!
 

There's a mod for banners http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=39989, but I'm not sure how to use it when the game's already started.

I can imagine this will be confusing for those of us playing Atlantis assuming provinces are ours when they in fact aren't.