Sloth - LA game with KO and JK - started

[DrPraetorious]

Ah, that makes my weekend easier (the extension, not your ex getting married.)

[Kristoffer O]

Hi, how is the game going?

[Amhazair]

I'm still having fun here.

R'lyeh (me) and Ermor (Jazzepi) are the biggest nations, holding about 90 provinces each. Pythium (Llamabeast, but now being subbed by Dr. P) is smaller, with only ~45 provinces, but he has had the nexus on for a couple of turns now, so he must have the biggest gem income of the three.

What's remarkable is that all the smaller nations have been wiped out. (well, T'ien Chi has one province and one fort left) I have never before seen an endgame where there weren't at least one or two smaller nations surviving tucked away in some corner of the map, trying to influence events a bit, or just trying not to be noticed.

But all of that is just fluff. In the end The Hunger Without Thought will have devoured all opposition, and the population of this world will live in eternall blissfull dreams.

[Kristoffer O]

It is now possible for Ermor or Pythium to chime in with a merry :

'Dream on!'

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Nice to hear. 90 provinces seems quite bothersome to handle.

[Amhazair]

In a stunning act of betrayal, the patethic and cowardly leadership of Ermor have revealed their despicable nature to the world. In blatant disregard of established billateral agreements with the pinacle of insight that is the nation of R'lyeh hordes of Ermorian undead crossed the demarcation line of the agreed-upon borders to submerge our nation in a flood of war and death.

They will come to regret this mistake. R'lyeh has little forgiveness to give traitors.

The mindless undead masses will be ripped away from the control of Ermors weak-willed leadership, and help rebuild any damage they might cause to the infrastructure of our nation. Their thinking servants will be enslaved or destroyed, and their leadership will sit trembling in their dank and empty thronerooms upon their chairs of bones, seeing their once-mighty empire crumble around them. But their upstart pretender will not be put out of his misery so easily. We will not destroy him. We will not enslave him. No, we will pull down his supporters, destroy his lackeys, and convert his followers, until he feels himself fading away from reality, and he enters the dream as a powerless sceptre.

Ermor has now reached his doom.


The Hunger Without Thought has spoken.

[Amhazair]

Kristoffer O said:
90 provinces seems quite bothersome to handle.

Well, in general I find the day-to-day business of empires this size to be managable, if somewhat time-consuming. It does get harder the turn(s) after a new war start, when you have to start carefully scripting dozens and dozens of mages.

R'lyeh is a bit harder than other nations I played though, with all their freespawn cropping up everywhere, needing two kinds of leadership and food, and especially having to check all my mages every turn, to see who stopped doing what they were supposed to be doing due to insanity. That last bit is quite annoying. Still, once more it's an intresting nation to explore. That makes up for quite a bit of micromanagement headaches. And at least I haven't built any fever fetishes this game.

[Amhazair]

Kristoffer O said:
Hi, how is the game going?

Things just got very intresting. Ermor decided to attack me on the exact same turn I launched my attack on Pythium. And here I was, counting on having at least 3 turns to organize my defences if Ermor decided to intervene. (which I thought quite likely, btw. ) No such luck though, apparently.

[DrPraetorious]

Unfortunately, I had to send in an abbreviated turn last turn, and don't have much to fight him off, except the crates of gems. Here goes nothing, though.

[Amhazair]

Why, oh why did those frigging crazy starspawn decide to use gems in the battle at Pythiums capital? That's over 20 gems (might be 30, I'm afraid to count )used up against PD.
Including two, that's right, two! castings of will of the fates (we wouldn't want the enslaved PD guys to go without it, now would we...), while I didn't have it scripted at all...

Whispers from the void they tell me... grmbl.

[ano]

Maybe second casting of WotF is a bug. Why should a mage cast it when everyone is already lucky?
I just had the same problem in another game. Expected soulless stayed inside the castle and MY starspawn threw Solar Brilliance with penetration items on the enemy PD, group of crossbows and my own army that successfully got blinded even under Antimagic. That's sad...