[Steerpike]

You were upset by Deccans much loved army of Tomb wyrms and Bane lords biting the dust? man I cried for about two days.
I will respond to your points.
1. Totally agree, the name of the game is slugfest and that larger map just was not conducive to it.
2.The first slugfest was great but it was over too soon without a really clear winner (Abysia was just as powerful by the looks of it as Caelum) Caelum managed to get the required VP without too much trouble, I think flying horror spammers had something to do with this. I think half the provinces plus 1. The smaller map should take care of it going too long and we get a clear winner.
3.I think you are over reacting to clams and fever fetishes, I think that anyone who relied on them in a smaller map would die. However underwater nations as Boron pointed out have an decided advantage and we should take a map like Inland with no water or just ban water nations perhaps.
4.Yeah gotta love the Very hard research, it keeps national troops in the game for a bit longer.
5.Why? More the merrier in a slugfest. Only trouble with more people is the potential of stales.
6.That's a lot of emailing for one person to do, otherwise it's much of a muchness.
Add a few of my own.
7.Stats should be visible, I think this will encourage the blood to flow and its fun to see how everyone is doing for trash talking purposes.
8.Indies 5 or 6 to make it even faster.
9.Magic sites at 10 or 20 to encourage more troop fighting, I am not sure about this one due to it giving blood nations a bit of an advantage and also crippling some magic nations.
10.Try to keep Pasha alive longer, the thing I regreted most in the last game was wiping Pasha out, keep him down to a province or two but keep him in till the end to make us laugh.

I think in three weeks time you may have a taste for it again, let the memories of this game become good ones and we will start again with a reborn slugfest.

One more thing, maybe I am still a newbie but dont think it applies to all of us now, should we just call it Slugfest or Sluggo or something?

I really hope Grim is Ok.