MP Game - Try Something New

T77 · #1 December 23rd, 2004, 11:35 PM

I have no objection. Did we upgrade to the latest patch?

Cainehill · #2 December 24th, 2004, 01:32 AM

Good question - not sure if Esben has patched the executable there. I can't think of anything critical in this latest patch that's game altering (like the one where you couldn't have 2 fever fetishes or 2 clams on the same person) though.

T77 · #3 December 24th, 2004, 03:55 PM

OK, whatever Version you guys want to use is fine with me. I just wanted to make sure that we're all on the same page. Vanheim quit when I was battling him due to replay inconsistency.

Cainehill · #4 December 24th, 2004, 05:04 PM

Isn't a question of what we want to use - Esben hasn't upgraded to 2.15, at least not according to what the notes there say. So we're at 2.14, albeit I always recommend trying the other Version if you get a really strange battle result / playback.

Cainehill · #5 May 1st, 2005, 09:05 PM

This game is basically over - I've asked Esben to kill and bury it. At this point, there's only two nations left not gone AI, and Mark the Merciful hasn't taken a turn as Jotunheim in 15 or 20 turns.

Guess that makes my first huge scale game I've won ( World map; by the time everyone was demolished or quit (Atlantis was running a close second in some ways, using multiple Wish spells a turn for territory, but that only takes provinces that don't have fortresses, near as I can tell) I had the highest provinces, forts, gem income, and by far the highest dominion and army size), in my first game with R'lyeh.

quantum_mechani · #6 May 1st, 2005, 09:11 PM

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Cainehill said:
(Atlantis was running a close second in some ways, using multiple Wish spells a turn for territory, but that only takes provinces that don't have fortresses, near as I can tell)

Actually, it can take forted provinces. It was the only way I ever managed to take provinces from Norfleet...

Cainehill · #7 May 1st, 2005, 09:42 PM

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quantum_mechani said:

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Cainehill said:
(Atlantis was running a close second in some ways, using multiple Wish spells a turn for territory, but that only takes provinces that don't have fortresses, near as I can tell)

Actually, it can take forted provinces. It was the only way I ever managed to take provinces from Norfleet...

Really? Atlantis had as many as 3 or 4 of those wishes a turn towards the end, and never took a province of mine that had a fort in it. So - I'd take about 4 or 5 provinces a turn, and use spells to get fortresses in all of them right away ( using Living Fortress, Wizard Tower, and Three Red Seconds ).

R'lyeh isn't usually a big blood nation - but finding a province with the Summoning Circle ( 60 blood bonus ) next to my capitol, and one with the Black Tower ( cheap D1B1 and D2B2 ) also nearby really helped. Using a Void Lurker pretender for great starting magic and bringing him back mobile via Twiceborn didn't hurt either.