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[Sheap]

The server will be rebooted tomorrow morning shortly after the turn generation (or earlier, if everyone plays their turn today). This will result in a brief outage of around 10 minutes.

[Saarud]

I'm Agartha

Tips to everyone that borders Atlantis and Maverni. They are both grinding down my huge forces but in the end I see no way I can survive and I beleive that quite soon they will break through and exterminate me.

If you border either Atlantis or Maverni... beware as I go down they will turn their forces somewhere else... perhaps against you!?!?!?

[llamabeast]

I just attacked T'ien Ch'i again, only to be met with, at a first count, 13 mages! So obviously I lost again.

I took 4 mages with me, each with level 1 in astral, and a couple of astral pearls, and scripted all of them to do magic duel, in the hope of disposing of some pesky Celestial Masters. Three of them did it and died, and the fourth one did something else.

So, I have a couple of questions - was it just bad luck that I lost all three duels, or did the Catsby do something clever? And why did my fourth mage not do what I told him?

Cheers,

llamabeast

[Shovah32]

It was probably either bad luck/superior enemy mages that had you losing. Would you like to tell us what sort of magics were employed by both sides?

[llamabeast]

What do you mean? His mages were Astral 1 also. As for how he killed my army - blade wind, magma bolts, falling frost, acid bolt etc.. Bad things. On the plus side, the Catsby is now horror marked. Is that a very significant thing? How often do horrors attack? He'd probably just blade wind them anyway.

[FrankTrollman]

Magic usually targets creatures with more hit points first. Catsby has over 300 hit points, but is himself a pretty serious Astral caster, so your magic duelers targetted him preferentially and then exploded.

As to the Horror Marking, it's pretty obnoxious. Since this is a pre-patch game, Catsby will probably be attacked by Umor the Eater of Gods within 10-20 turns. That means that he'll have to be scripted to casting Returning pretty shortly, which means that he won't be appearing in a lot of future battles.

-Frank

[Sheap]

Public service announcement: The server has been rebooted. Regardless of the apparent "hours until hosting", the next turn may be generated at 10:10 AM Pacific time tomorrow (Monday), which would be the normal generation time. Or, I might forget, and then it will generate according to the server's own timer, which will be somewhere around 4:30 PM.

[Ironhawk]

FrankTrollman said:
Magic usually targets creatures with more hit points first. Catsby has over 300 hit points, but is himself a pretty serious Astral caster, so your magic duelers targetted him preferentially and then exploded.

Magic Duel always attacks the strongest enemy astral mage, it doesnt care about HP. If Catsby was the strongest astral mage you had then all the other casters would have attacked him and failed due to his astral advantage. Dangerous thing tho, putting astral on your pretender. Your enemy could have gotten a lucky shot and killed your pretender with one spell!!

[Sir_Dr_D]

Saarud said:
I'm Agartha

Tips to everyone that borders Atlantis and Maverni. They are both grinding down my huge forces but in the end I see no way I can survive and I beleive that quite soon they will break through and exterminate me.

Atalntis and Marverni will eventually break down the forces of Agartha, yes. But a tough battle it has been. With just 5 provinces Agartha is able to create the biggest army on the map. And Agartha has used Agartha's forces very wisely.

Such is the might and valor of Agartha, that it has most impressed Atlantis.Atalntis and Marverni will eventually win, but not without great losses. Atalntis would like instead to propose a truce with the mighty Agartha

Shub Chtug
King Regeant of Atlantis.

ooc

Saarud. Despite your comments earlier I thought you have been playing quite well.Your troop setup has been very hard to find counters too.This war of ours has been quite a challenge, and very enjoyable.

[Sir_Dr_D]

Sheap, if you are leaving for a week, what is to become of R'lyeh?