Newbie Slug Fest - Mose Hansen game - ENDED

[The Panther]

PashaDawg said:

*In spite of the fact that my ego is currently brused by such a swift spanking by the Panther-Meister.

It is my personal opinion that Ulm is the single worst nation against Caelum. Pretty much any other nation can deal against the false horror spam if they go the right magic or troop path. But Ulm is too one-dimensional to change its ways.

The fundamental problem with Ulm vs. Caelum is that the smiths always target the false horrors and kill their own troops plus a few horrors that would dissappear after the battle ends anyway. My son says they ougth to make the mages never target summons unless that is all there is left or the summons threaten the mage. If that were the case, Ulm could slaughter the back rank mages and archers with the power spells and eliminate the Caelum cheap false horror spam.

Just my opinion anyway. Had I been Ulm and you been Caelum, Pasha, I would have lost just as quickly as you did.

If we start a new game, whether PBEM or not, I would like to try my hand at Abysia for the first time in MP play. I have been testing that race in SP, and it seems a good race though hard to play. There are so many choices and paths Abysia can go down, that is seems difficult to know which is best. Abysia aslo has a difficult time doing research, unlike Caelum.

Anyway, if you want to host a PBEM game, Pasha, count me in.

[PashaDawg]

The Panther said:
It is my personal opinion that Ulm is the single worst nation against Caelum....

Anyway, if you want to host a PBEM game, Pasha, count me in.

Thank you for your nice words, Panther, but something tells me that the world is safer that YOU are the rocket scientist and not me.

I have a kooky map that we could try. My one reservation is that it might not be a perfectly balanced map. It's the Tyrande map on the Illwinter site. It's a very beautiful map (and that means a lot to me for some reason). What do you think? Dragonfire and I have been playing on that map, and we both like it (but, again, lawyers like pretty things).

But, it might not be totally unbalanced. I think the provinces near the middle of the map are very rich, while the provinces on the edges tend to be poor. This gives the players "stuck" in the middle of the fray the resources they need to survive. The large mountain ranges make the mountain passes very important.

[PashaDawg]

Another interesting map is Arduria (also on the Illwinter map page).

[Grim Knight]

I am currently trying to figure out a way to work around the whole firewall issue with the server, I have posted to the Technical Support thread in the Main Forum for advice on this.

If I can get the server to work through my firewall then I would be happy to host our next game, otherwise PBEM would be fine for me as well.

Grim Knight.

[Grim Knight]

Ok, deccan tested it and was able to connect to the server hosted on my system.

So if you guys want to setup another game, I can host it.

Should we have a vote for which map and what settings to use?

Would it be better if I arbitrarily deceided on the settings?

I think a vote would be the fairest thing and then everyone who has played in this game would get input into the next game.

In case we decide to go with the vote I am going to cast mine now:

Map: Cradle of Zen (Unless more than 10 players)
Mod: Zen's Pretender Mod v1.72
Victory: Standard Victory Conditions
Sites: 50
H o F: 15
Research: Very Difficult
House Rules: Play a Nation you have never played MP before.
Indep Strength: 9
Host Speed: 24h QH
Everything Else: Leave at Default

Grim Knight

[Steerpike]

Yes I want in on this new game please.
As to the map I like the sound of Tyrande, downloading it now.
Jotunheim would be my preferred choice of nation.
Preferred magic would be normal or difficult, though not too difficult.
Indie 9 sounds cool to me.
I havn't played with Zens pretender Mod, is it good?
And maximum Game fun is essential.

[Grim Knight]

Zen's Pretender Mod makes several modifications to pretenders to make them more balanced, primarily adding a little to the under powered / under used pretender's.

I am in a game with it now and it is working out well.

Grim Knight.