MP Land Rand - Jotunheim Wins! - Page 27

PashaDawg · #**261** May 13th, 2010, 09:18 PM

Hello:

Turn 73 is out.

Deadline is Sunday at 9:00 p.m. Boston time.

Thanks.

Pasha

Meglobob · #**262** May 22nd, 2010, 11:41 AM

Where are we concerning declaring a winner or a draw, if anywhere?

Also is the next turn due Weds?

PashaDawg · #**263** May 26th, 2010, 09:30 PM

After discussion between me and the various players, with no player asserting any unlimited objections, I hereby call this game for Jotunheim, which was played by Micah.

Congratulations, Micah! You may now choose one cookie from the jar as your prize.

Alpine Joe · #**264** May 26th, 2010, 09:54 PM

So it was the infamous Micah I was up against. I suspected as much, but it is still nice to know that I got spanked by someone with such a giant reputation. Congrats Micah, sorry I didn't put up a better fight, but I came away from our war understanding the game a lot better, so I still count it as a plus.

I can only hope QM isn't too mad that I didn't pull a win from his very strong position....

LoloMo · #**265** May 26th, 2010, 11:07 PM

Who played the other nations? I would like to know who helmed Ermor and killed all my stealthy Sidhe lords with mind hunt!

Meglobob · #**266** May 27th, 2010, 03:46 AM

Well done Jotuns / Micah

WraithLord · #**267** May 27th, 2010, 04:00 AM

CongratZ Micah

So who played what?- Do we have a full list?

Can we see some late game turns?- I missed that fun after being kicked out by Mictlan.

Oh and BTW a short Machaka AAR.

I based my strat loosely on Baalz guide. So no hvy bless, good scales* and a S/D master lich.
*Took O3Mft2 and I came to realize msft 2 is bad in CBM - My early game expansion was marred by countless indie attacks.

Then Van attacked me and somehow Machaka managed to turn the tide and gain the upper hand in that war.
Alas, at the moment of its glory it got attacked by both Mictlan and Ermor and as a result it became evident that the only thing Machaka could hope for is to die with some manner of dignity

Ermor went another way and Mictlan proceeded to mop up Machaka. Bad luck also gave Mictlan Machaka’s VP much easier than it should have since my lich got an ½ paths affliction and couldn’t put up storm

I’m looking forward for another RAND when Pasha would feel up to it :-)
hehe, and I hope to got a solid nation next time

Good game all. I had lots of fun.

Meglobob · #**268** May 27th, 2010, 04:04 AM

Full nation list on 1st page of thread, simples

Zeldor · #**269** May 27th, 2010, 05:47 AM

Squirrelloid made lame move of attacking me, thus making sure Jotun wins. I was waiting for him to attack Jotun, so I could join and help [and C'tis was probably waiting for that too].

Squirrelloid · #**270** May 27th, 2010, 06:14 AM

I thought I might be able to kill Mictlan faster than Jotunheim could kill TC for a couple reasons. (1) Mictlan looked somewhat overextended. (2) TC had been turtling all game, surely they had something awesome up their sleeve that would hold Jotunheim for awhile (ha ha - no). (3) Mictlan had enough VPs to put me within a reasonable distance of winning - figured I'd finish of BL and Pangaea for the final two in all likelihood (BL would probably be the harder of the two). (4) There was no way in hell I was going to attack Jotunheim, therefore, only by attacking Mictlan could I get enough VPs to win.

There were two reasons I wasn't going to attack Jotun:

First, I was pretty sure Jotunheim was ready for me to do attack him, and it would be bad for me. In IRC Micah confirmed my fears that attacking Jotun would've been the death of me - not exactly how I thought, but probably even more brutal than I expected.

Second, Zeldor, you attacked me first (in former Van territory). I had no reason to believe you weren't massing forces to begin a real invasion, so with the likely threat of a war with Mictlan *regardless* of what I did, there certainly wasn't any way I was attacking Jotunheim.

Further, even if I do attack Jotunheim, why do you come in against Jotun and not me? Just like you could give me enough VPs to make victory plausible, I could do the same for you. So I see no reason to suspect people would join in against Jotunheim when I'd make at least as tempting a target.

Of course, when it became apparent that Mictlan was capable of stalemating me (ugg.. Undead Mastery everywhere!), it was pretty clear who the winner was going to be.