Yet Another Dominions Game - Game Running!

[Manuk]

Probably Vans are too good to be true.

70 gold is not that high since a Van have a decent defence and glamour helps there too.
They are fast and what they have lacking is damage what I resolve with a fire 9 blessing when the circle is complete making an all around unit.
Einheres are good too to make a bulk. Commanders are lacking because to get a priest level 2 is to expensive and so to use them as mages.

Dwarves are OK. I like them.

The moloch is superb as artillery and he comes with free imps who help a lot.

[Ygorl]

My first multiplayer game was with Vanheim, and I was amazed at how powerful they were.
I had a Moloch with fire9 and water9 - those Vans were amazing... A handful could clean out any PD you wanted cleaned.

[DrPraetorious]

I have reawoken the Rimtursar, securing the rapid demise of all the wretched peoples of the world, as well as their petty idols. Your end will be painful; I offer the prospect that it may be swift or lingering. The end of days is upon you! Naught but blood and icy damnation awaits the whole of the world!

p.s. abandon all hope, also, for it is a delusion.
p.p.s. bend over, the lords of the icy north come for you.

[Manuk]

Dr., thanks for this cold winter. We like it.

[CyborgMoses]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's see how your precious Rimtursar fare when they've got more crossbow quarrels than flesh in their bodies.

[Manuk]

No diplomacy includes no NAP. Just in case that anyone has tought of doing so.

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[Jurri]

Wouldn't it be sorta hard to make a NAP without communication?

Here's a couple of moves that would be technically ok but very un-sportsman-like:
-Name your god 'Machaka! NAP until 30!' or similar.
-Name your prophet 'Send gold first: slaves sold 15g per' or in the same vein. Kill your prophet and you can do it again.
-Rename scouts with diplomatic messages and suicide them on the receiver of choice. (Heck, I could name my scouts Entente Cordiale and most wouldn't even blink... But Alneyan would sure know what I want when the scout comes trashing! )

Here's another, not as severe:
-Send gems for somebody. What would you do if Mictlan sent you 5 fire gems? If he sent you 1 gem a turn? I would think twice before attacking him, since then he presumably wouldn't send the gem. Also, quite possibly if Mictlan sent me gems out of the blue I might send him back gems or money, in the hopes of it happening again. This could of course not work, too .

Combine the two: Name your prophet 'Send me slaves for these gems!' and send Abysia a couple piles of gems. Gets the message through, undoubtedly.

...yeah. I wouldn't appreciate tricks such as these, although the house rule doesn't strictly speaking ban them: after all, sending stuff is hardly diplomacy if no reason is given, right? And if you have a burning need to name your prophet 'Everyone dogpile Mictlan!', that's your business, no?

I play this one with the thought that you are all AIs to me.* Makes for a good attitude in many ways, since whoever complained when AIs banged him seemingly in concert, and who did ever want to send anything to AIs? (Aside from Gandalf who if memory serves sends herald lances to enemies of Ermor... Now don't anyone get any funny ideas! )

*Top that as a slur!

[Alneyan]

You cannot give a specific name to your Pretender, as everyone else will see it, and they would probably complain. The same goes for the Prophet, though the idea about the scout is nice enough. Next time, switch renaming off.

Note, however, that naming your scout "Entente Cordiale" is unlikely to work: anyone from England would likely get the meaning of the name, and both entente and cordial can be used in English. Naming your scouts "Auld" should work better though... but it is not good enough. You should just look up examples appropriate to the history of the receiver, slightly alter the name, and that ought to work well... perhaps too well though.