[Baalz]

Well I for one am still having fun with this game (thanks in so small part to my wonderful opponents). I also think that people are a bit too quick to think this is a runaway game, almost any 3 nations (other than the ones getting the bad end of a war right now) could work together and have a credible threat to TC. Any two of the top half. This game is so far from being decided I just can't wrap my head around this sentiment. Sure, if you're in the bottom half of the power ranking you've got virtually no chance of a shot for the win *by yourself* just like every other dominions game that's ever been played. If you're lamenting your lack of opportunity why not sniff around for others feeling the same and make some opportunity. I have to agree with Executor - if playing for a win is what you are trying to do then you've got to play to win.

Victory conditions were agreed to be 50 VPs (out of 100) as tracked by the llamaserver as the game settings would only allow 25 to be set. Before lamenting how far we are from a win I wouldn't discount how fast some of that stuff can consolidate. For instance, Lanka and Abysia are at war right now with no other participants. Assuming that war goes to completion the winner will be at 17 VPs. I'm not super clear on what exactly the other wars going on are, but I think it's likely over the next game year or so there will be a couple players in the high teens for VPs. Keep in mind that once people start getting into the high twenties we get to the point that the game leaders start considering how to do a rapid blitz for several VPs in a short time frame. Not necessarily gonna happen real fast but we're to the point of the game then that it could theoretically end very quickly - particularly if the smaller players decide that they don't have a shot at all and pitch in to support their leading ally's play for the win. I hope this game doesn't just drag on as a never ending stalemate, but I don't see why it necessarily would.