Tourmaline - Mod Nations Game (Finished)

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Originally Posted by Ossa

Well... I'm ok with calling the game. THough I believe I would steamroll Agua... (sp) with all the stuff I took over from the previous player

Yeah, I agree. I think this game should be declared a draw between Itza and Stygia.

As for the game, when I took over a over turn 40 something, Alugra was a mess. Ferrosol's PoD gave me a pretty big empire, but the paths on it don't really contribute much. Also, Ferro hadn't really done much site searching either and the gem income was quite small and focused on absolutely wrong paths (only one hammer and +2 earth gem income, yikes!). I could see Ferro's PoD working out, but it seemed that he run into some really bad luck with his Librarians (over 12 GoR'ed and no W1N1) and sites.

So I did my best to get back into the game, but no mater what I did, I couldn't beat the 16% chance for a N1W1 Librarian. And thus gems that would have been better spent in making RoS and RoW's went pretty much to waste. When I finally managed to get decent gem income and forge 1 Blood Stone per turn, it was already turn 55+ and I had no clams, no RoS, no RoW, mages to can only get to pathpower 2 (no-real-late-game magic) = dead nation.

It's pretty depressing to play a nation that has no shots at winning, so I started to play in a more "fun" way. Not microing much and trying out some new crazy strats, which made situation somewhat worse, but allowed me to be motivated to play.

At least my war with Haida went smoothly, but that was mostly due to his suboptimal Thunder Bird-strat (if he had spent his mage-time and air gems elsewhere, I'd likely have lost).

But all in all, I have no one else to blame for my loss expect me (if I hadn't desperately tried to that W1N1 Librarian and instead focused on boosters, it could have gone different) and I learned a lot from this game. Alugra will likely get updated and put up to the llamaserver now that it has gone through it's "Trial of Fire", so to speak. Once he smiths get their nerf, I think it will a fun nation for MP with a unique gameplay.