MP Game - Full HowtheGodsKill

[Reverend Zombie]

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Please double-check that your turn was uploaded; removing quickhost required the game to be restarted, which wiped out any uploaded turns at that point.

I tried to do it as quickly as I could after the most recent hosting, so as not to inconvenience too many; one or two of were connected, though, I think.

[Pirateiam]

Well I see the first casualty is Cohen (Abysia). From the graphs it looked like he was strong but Arco (Merciful Mark) put the smack-down on him. Any of you two willing to share what happened? I must say this is the first time in my multiplayer games that Abysia went down early. Mark tell us your secrets

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Pirateiam:
Well I see the first casualty is Cohen (Abysia). From the graphs it looked like he was strong but Arco (Merciful Mark) put the smack-down on him. Any of you two willing to share what happened? I must say this is the first time in my multiplayer games that Abysia went down early. Mark tell us your secrets

Mark doesn't need to have a secret. Clearly, you don't play in very many games with Cohen in it, because he's nearly always one of the first against the wall in EVERY game....regardless of the game settings. Cohen gets wiped in even his own overly house-ruled settings. From the very first days when he brought us Very Difficult Research, he got wasted and gave us more and more convoluted rulesets. This is just the continuation of the Dead Cohen Saga.

Hell, Cohen's being first against the wall is something that I would BET MONEY ON, and I am not normally a gambling man.

[ June 29, 2004, 07:01: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

[Zapmeister]

Actually, Jotunheim was the first casualty.

Originally posted by Pirateiam:
Well I see the first casualty is Cohen (Abysia). From the graphs it looked like he was strong but Arco (Merciful Mark) put the smack-down on him. Any of you two willing to share what happened? I must say this is the first time in my multiplayer games that Abysia went down early. Mark tell us your secrets

Elephants.

More Elephants.

Many Elephants.

As this was my first MP game (that's got beyond turn 6, anyway), I really didn't want to start fighting that quickly. But Cohen took a very hard line on border negotiations, and told me that if I didn't like it I could always start a war. When I did, it turned out that his army was quite small and pretty squishable. His SC Virtue was a bit a pain, but in the end we worked out how to deal with her too.

Too many resources committed to fighting indeps is my guess; I'm pretty sure that two of his Pretender's four deaths came fighting indeps for example.

Anyway, Jutenheim was first down. Who's claiming credit for that?

[Cohen]

I lost my Virtue first on indies, and me and Mark had some border war for certain farms.

The war went so so for me, losing more troop than my enemy, using elephants and other stuff.

However Caelum exploited my military defeat on the northern front against Arco, striking into my southmost territories, dunno if in coordination with the Arco armies.

Once my Virtue got killed about 5 times by superior odds even if equipped with what I could afford, and my troops were beaten by hoplites and helephants (devils and fiends too, didn't though that! I hoped in the to revert the downside) I choosed to give up.

With Abysya I cannot recruit troops quickly enough, and the first blood devil/fiend army I raised was killed by mere hoplites, the second got the commander killed and was in bad position trying to repel the mobile caelumnian invasion force.

Probably now Arco and Caelum will have the leftmost side of the map.

[Reverend Zombie]

Originally posted by Mark the Merciful:
Anyway, Jutenheim was first down. Who's claiming credit for that?

Credit is due to Ulm (Zap) and C'tis (me).

Our corner of the map was crowded.