[PBEM game] Entwined Destiny (Over)

[Alneyan]

The nation picks are now over. I will be sending a mail soon asking all players to create and send their Pretenders: if you have received nothing within the hour, you should start to worry (I may have forgotten your mail, or the Internet Void has struck again).

The teams can now be revealed, as we will be playing with diplomacy on:
- Aku and Boron: Pangaea + Abysia
- Alexti and Izaqyos: Vanheim + Jotunheim
- CUnknown and YellowCactus: Mictlan + Ulm
- Dragon11 and PashaDawg: Pythium + Ermor
- GriffinOfBuerrig and TheBirthdayParty: C'tis + Marignon
- Tuidjy and Yvelina : Caelum + Arcoscephale

[WraithLord]

Can someone please point me to pretender 2.0 mod?

thanks.

edit: found it in first post.

[Aku]

OMG Why for the love of god did pythium pick ermor? Is there some reason a living nation wants a death nation?

(Don't mind me...I am just disgruntled over losing the Ermor pick of getting Pan CW + Ermor)

[PashaDawg]

Maybe the choice was strategic to prevent a super-death team. Hee hee. Or, maybe Tom and I are fools... lawyers, but fools in the Dominions world, nonetheless.... (Actually, I might actually bet on that conclusion, but I think Tom would beat me to it.) [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon07.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon07.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon07.gif[/img]

[Aku]

Now you two would really be insane if you do what Boron and I joked about with your two nation picks in regards to the themes you have available.

But yeah you did stop the uber death team. Boron and I were so close to getting Ermor. We did a big gamble and lost it big lol. We luckily got Abysia because nobody chose it for some reason. If we didn't get Abysia we would really be in terrible shape but it still will be very different from the game style Boron and I thought we would be playing.

Well Pasha you stopped also the Ctis team from getting Ermor as well so lets see how things play out. Will you use one of the undead themes of ermor? Will Ctis use Desert Tombs? Will Pangaea use Carrion Woods? Who knows we may all go death and make the game very chaotic lmfao.

Boron and I will submit pretenders tomorrow, we need another day to discuss wtf we are going to do lol.

[PashaDawg]

Gosh! You and Boron got it goin'!!!

Dragonfire and I might as well make flash cards with various magical paths, etc., throw them up into the air and base our pretenders on the pretty patterns the cards make when they land. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Target.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon46.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon46.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon20.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon46.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon21.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon46.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon22.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Target.gif[/img]

But, you better watch out!! I am still shopping for the right paddle to get Boron back for what he did to the Mad Spider Lord. < froth, froth, wheeze > Maybe I will find it in a Pythium Shop of Curiosities.

[alexti]

Overall, the nations picks were not what I expected at all:

I'm really surprised that nobody wanted to pick Caelum and Vanheim. Especially considering that the map could have been Theater of War, where Caelum could have probably been playing alone

Then, why Caelumites didn't choose Machaka as a pair? Not that Caelum + Arcoscephale is weak or anything, but how one would counter Caelum + Machaka? Machaka takes red dragon fire-9 and expands like crazy with their spider using Caelum's spare gold, who just keep buying seraphs and researching. By the time somebody can field against spiders (early on even pretenders has trouble dealing with spiders), Caelum's seraphs will start dropping all over the place with lightining and false horrors. Ermor/C'tis could try undead spam vs spiders, but unfortunately for them, Machaka's best squad leaders are priests

Interestingly, that despite of all air-hype, 3 pairs didn't choose air nations at all (unless Marignon will be conqueror's of the sea). Being last I didn't expect to get Vanheim.

Meanwhile, who deserves a point for style?
I nominate
- Rise and Fall (Ermor and Pythium)
- When the Winter comes... (Vanheim and Jotunheim)