Mongoose - Starting (at last!)

[BigandScary]

I just want to clear up a few things. When I invaded you WonderLlama, it was because of and alliance I formed with Abysia and R'lyeh at about turn 40, mabye earlier. In this game, other than mabye Arco and Marignon(I didn't have much contact with them at full strength so I don't know) I was the weakest nation in this. it was my job to invade Caelum's and Marignon's northern borders when I did, mainly to draw their troops north, away from the real fighting. And I have to say WonderLlama, your army was impressive...41 caelian seraphs. Good stuff.

Thanks for a great game, especially to my ally fabio80mi and my greatest ally Sensori.

And thank you llamabeast.

[WonderLlama]

BigandScary said:
I just want to clear up a few things. When I invaded you WonderLlama, it was because of and alliance I formed with Abysia and R'lyeh at about turn 40, mabye earlier. In this game, other than mabye Arco and Marignon(I didn't have much contact with them at full strength so I don't know) I was the weakest nation in this. it was my job to invade Caelum's and Marignon's northern borders when I did, mainly to draw their troops north, away from the real fighting. And I have to say WonderLlama, your army was impressive...41 caelian seraphs. Good stuff.

Thanks for a great game, especially to my ally fabio80mi and my greatest ally Sensori.

And thank you llamabeast.

Oh yes, I understand. I'm not upset about it. I'm just saying that was my strategy. I was hoping I could send you back to being neutral, in your own self-interest. Wasn't bitter. But since your self-interest was for the alliance to win, not for yourself to end up relatively strong, that didn't work for me. Well, that and you held up way better than I expected.

[Sensori]

WonderLlama said:
But since your self-interest was for the alliance to win, not for yourself to end up relatively strong, that didn't work for me. Well, that and you held up way better than I expected.

Actually that's not 100% true. I only contacted him about the "ends when we are done with Caelum" part of the alliance very close to the end, mostly because the game was turning quite stale (at least for me ;p) and I didn't wanna go through another war again. I just wanted to end it, and since we had made that deal with Abysia long ago when he was in dire straits...

I like to think the way he acted was more related to how you killed Ermor (his ally) and then I helped him survive the war with Ulm. That made us a lot more inclined to help each other than you, methinks.

EDIT:

As for allied victories, they are always "allowed", just that some people really dislike them while others (like me) really don't care. I don't really care about playing this game very "competitively" like some others - I don't find that fun at all. Big wars between undefined multiple nations and uncertainty of victory/defeat is where I get my kicks from (and stress). I'm a fan of alliances because it makes the endgame far less tedious by removing that awkward phase where you have to fight your former allies, and it gives a certain clarity.

[BigandScary]

I was stting at home, wondering which side I would choose...whichever one I did would be the one who finished me. I much prefer the alliance victory.

[fabio80mi]

Thanks to llamabeast i'm starting a new game
You're welcome to jump in (suricate)