Ascendant - Game On!

[kasnavada]

Wow. Ich is amazing. Well.

[Renojustin]

Sauromatia lays claim to the sacred Neck. The ancestral homes of Old Sauromatia lay on the banks of the vast Middle Sea. Once a proud people lived there in shining cities.

Then Stravinsky the phoenix god came down and took the form of a stork. He gathered the wise old men of the proud city together, and challenged them to a game. He showed the men his golden-red rubies the size of kiwis, and then they knew greed.

Stravinsky used the air itself to move his cards and trick the men, and before long, he had won all the men's monies. But Stravinsky was a cruel god, and he offered the men one last "chance" to get their gold and jewels back.

Goober the Witch King, the Swamplord himself, rose and took the trickster's challenge and bet the ancient lands of the Neck against the shadows and trickery of Stravinsky. The challenge was simple.

"Heads or tails?" Stravinsky squawked - the stork suddenly burst into flame, cackling and howling like a thing of both the fire and the wind.

And a tritoness was carried in screaming by four monstrous black apes in metal armors, their immense figures sleek and dangerous. They readied their razor-sharp falchions as she struggled to breathe through drying gills.

[Wrana]

To Ich:
I surely got your notification mail from May 03. Did the message you had quoted was from later time or did by "one turn" you meant earlier? For earlier I had one of your messages spamboxed, but after I notified server this didn't repeat. BTW, about "thing that sucks" I can only agree...

To Renjoustin/Sauromatia:
Well, and what these pretty words mean? You want to beat crap out of somebody? Just tell him:
"I want your lands. I want your gold. I want your women. Prepare to die!"
Or did you eat up too much Sidhe meat to be able to speak plain now?

[Darkwind]

"Two Birds With One Stone"? I assume you're warring with Atlantis as well as Kailasa. Or am I wrong?

At any rate, my war with C'tis is about to take a bad turn before it gets better.

[Renojustin]

I noticed that... they have freaky research and they're crushing your invading armies.

Kailasa gave me a smack to the face last turn as well, but I ended up killing a good 60-70%% of what I lost in gold, and still expanding. It looked pretty bad till the end, but then my archers fired one last time before breaking, and shot up a squad of Yavanas pretty well.

[Darkwind]

Renojustin said:
I noticed that... they have freaky research and they're crushing your invading armies.

I have great research too, I just focus more on the whole army thing, since, you know, gathering an army requires tons of gold for me.

[Mozkito]

Snakey Snake Slithering Soundly grins as he surveys what used to be a full blown invasion force, which, is now a pile of gore, mush and calamari. Tonight, the lizard slaves feast over the arrogant remains of the Mind Lords, but steel themselves over the the invasion towards Maverni...

Claire, feel free to take over Forest of Gun (#51), a gift to you, from your humble neighbor, the lizard peoples!

[Shigure]

Renojustin said:
Sauromatia lays claim to the sacred Neck. The ancestral homes of Old Sauromatia lay on the banks of the vast Middle Sea. Once a proud people lived there in shining cities.

Then Stravinsky the phoenix god came down and took the form of a stork. He gathered the wise old men of the proud city together, and challenged them to a game. He showed the men his golden-red rubies the size of kiwis, and then they knew greed.

Stravinsky used the air itself to move his cards and trick the men, and before long, he had won all the men's monies. But Stravinsky was a cruel god, and he offered the men one last "chance" to get their gold and jewels back.

Goober the Witch King, the Swamplord himself, rose and took the trickster's challenge and bet the ancient lands of the Neck against the shadows and trickery of Stravinsky. The challenge was simple.

"Heads or tails?" Stravinsky squawked - the stork suddenly burst into flame, cackling and howling like a thing of both the fire and the wind.

And a tritoness was carried in screaming by four monstrous black apes in metal armors, their immense figures sleek and dangerous. They readied their razor-sharp falchions as she struggled to breathe through drying gills.

This is the best manufactured casus belli I have ever seen. I'm not sure what the deal with the tritoness is, but everything you say about Stravinsky is absolutely true, especially the bit about the rubies.

Kailasa gave me a smack to the face last turn as well, but I ended up killing a good 60-70%% of what I lost in gold, and still expanding. It looked pretty bad till the end, but then my archers fired one last time before breaking, and shot up a squad of Yavanas pretty well.

Throw a large army of low-protection archers at a nation with strong earth mages, and the results are predictable.

[Renojustin]

We can afford these rates to conquer the ape people, whereas the flower of your demigod leadership falters and dies against easily replacable mortal men... your soldiers wane of disease and poison and fewer and fewer smile at your Phyrric victory over their cookfires at night.

Still we didn't expect our little probe to actually be repulsed. Though we are surprised you called it a large army.

[Zenzei]

I just checked the server and looks like Arco, Tir and Abysia are about to stale.