Jaguar - finished, Szumo declared winner

[llamabeast]

Whew, fixed. That was messy. I had to go through the back-up inbox (I get all the the LlamaServer e-mails to forward to a gmail account, and now I'm glad of it!). The LlamaServer gets loads of e-mails in a day now, it's quite hard to find all the ones for a particular game. Anyway, all done now.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Llamabeast, consider Thunderbird or something to back up your emails (leave copy or something), I use the filters to stuff all "Jaguar" games into a single folder.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

I seem to be the only chatty one, but here's a little report.

I spent 580 gold trying to buy mercenaries away from R'lyeh, and yet they still got ALL the mercs. I even cannibalized all my fire and earth gems. Fortunately, they don't seem to be nearby. I say fortunately, because I'm invading their virtually undefended provinces.

Before cannibalizing all those gems, though, I forged four Dwarven Hammers for 48 gems.

[llamabeast]

The game sent a message this turn saying that Man had cheated. Unfortunately it seems to do this from time to time - I think it happens when someone cancels units they had queued on a previous turn or something.

Anyway, although I'm certain Loren's trustworthy, just to be sure I took the considerable liberty of checking Man's turn, taking great care not to look at anything but the treasury section at the top and covering the rest of the screen (sorry for even doing that Loren). I can confirm Man definitely didn't cheat.

[llamabeast]

Anyway, i thought my fear+awe E9 F4 ciclops pretender would do much better against those o-bakemono...he routed much too early

I meant to say before - me too! Your pretender was very well-designed and solid, I was staggered he got killed.

[Loren]

llamabeast said:
The game sent a message this turn saying that Man had cheated. Unfortunately it seems to do this from time to time - I think it happens when someone cancels units they had queued on a previous turn or something.

Anyway, although I'm certain Loren's trustworthy, just to be sure I took the considerable liberty of checking Man's turn, taking great care not to look at anything but the treasury section at the top and covering the rest of the screen (sorry for even doing that Loren). I can confirm Man definitely didn't cheat.

I had several strange things happen, all my scouting reports are as if the canceled turn 20 had executed (I *DID* submit one before the rollback)--I see the provinces they were ordered to move to, I do *NOT* see the provinces they were currently in.

I'm thinking that perhaps the game also figured my expenses based on that canceled turn--they would have been slightly lower. I don't have the info around to confirm or deny this idea. Does anyone know how this might be checked?


Incidentally, my hero in Glimmering Fields was not an attack on whoever's province it was. That was some sort of random event I have never seen other than as LA Ermor. There's no note in my turn report about his arrival, just about him taking the province.

[llamabeast]

Ooh, Loren - I know why you're getting all this weird behaviour (although it doesn't explain the cheating report at all) - make sure to delete all 2h files in your Jaguar folder. Then look again, and it should be back to normal.

Surprisingly the 2h files contain information about the state of play. Being as you had your erroneous "turn 20" 2h in the folder (which is actually also a turn 17), it will have thrown things.

[Loren]

There aren't any extra files in there. It's behaving properly now anyway.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

The war between me and R'lyeh is going swimmingly.

My forces have been forced to go back upstream, but all is well. I couldn't be having more fun if a magic fish granted me three wishes.

R'lyeh has made his counterattack, reclaiming 67 & 75 Barra and Bhamot (though I may never have had either. He's got a mind-numbing amount of Illithids, and will probably take back 80, 85 next turn. I expect my measly forces will have to abandon the siege of the Crystal Fortress (85), but I hardly expected to take down a 1000 strength fortress with 40 something troops... I've pulled back my forces to friendly territory further inland, so I can defend fewer targets.

Lets see... what else isn't classified?
The war started with me making a _failed_ attempt at buying all R'lyeh's mercs away. Fortunately, they weren't nearby. At the same time, I invaded with a small force that probably consisted of twenty light infantry and some kind of independent archer.

This force took out amazingly undefended provinces, and allowed me to claim 80 and 75. Barra and Abi. At least one other force was involved, and prevented the Crystal Fortress from producing any reinforcements. All in all, a low investment for quite a bit of havoc. Somewhere around 450 gold for the one force, and perhaps I should have been a bit more careful about letting it die off, considering my miserly ways.

...
And now, I accidentally quit without saving. Damn you, window mode. Well, at least its only the orders lost, not battle results like in other games.

[Szumo]

This little war is starting to become fun for me too

Though i wouldn't call number of Illithids i have mind numbing, specially as they're not much help against golems - which according to my scouts are on the way in more significant numbers. And the Crystal Fortress was found by Astral Probing the same turn you decided to attack

I got a feeling you're downplaying your strength so you can lure my advance army into a trap

No worries though, soon i will have castles in all provinces of my small sea and then i can start out pumping out units in more reasonable numbers.

I was kind of surprised you decided to attack me instead of another of your neighbours, as MA Agartha can't really fight on equal terms with R'lyeh underwater... Unless you believe differently