Uakari - MA game (upload pretenders)

[Amhazair]

I've postponed hosting by 24h to give Xanatos the chance to look at his turn if he decides to take over.

I'm happy to see we found a solution for you, Johnarryn.

[Amhazair]

Xanatos will be joining us, and take over R'lyeh from Foodstamp.

Thanks for helping us out Xanatos, and welcome. I postponed hosting so you have time to familiarize yourself with your situation. The turn is now scheduled to host friday 14.55h GMT. If you need a bit more time for some reason, feel free to ask.

[Xanatos]

ok so im looking things over on his turn now, wow! lots to do...where to begin any thoughts or suggestions?

[AreaOfEffect]

1) Use your remaining assassin's (if you have any) conservatively. You've recently lost 7 in 2 recent consecutive turns do to preparation on my side.

2) You should probably do something about Thetis' Blessing, or not.

3) You have lot's of castles. If you also have a lot of laboratories then I would suggest putting up some protective domes, or else I'm going to keep pounding you with death spells.

4) Your pretender design is simple, a Kraken with very little magic power to lose. Place cheap but effective items on him and send him to battle. Use your other mages to boost his combat effectiveness. If he dies, use all those starspawns to bring him back quickly.

5) Your troops are positioned to jump my army in the place I'll most likely descend, The Sea Untamed (33). Unfortunately for you I already know this, so act accordingly.

6) You prophet is the Queen of the Lake (50 water gems well spent) with 100% regeneration that I haven't fought against yet, I've acted accordingly.

7) I have a triple bless (fire, water, and astral). This is something you would already know.

8) Diplomacy?

[Amhazair]

AreaOfEffect said:
2) You should probably do something about Thetis' Blessing, or not.

Very risky spell this is. I assume it was cast with quite some gems, but if you manage to dispell it while Mictlan has hundreds of guys swimming around in the sea... sounds like fun to me.

Otherwise I have very little idea of what's going on in the far east, but in general your big strength should be commuions/astral magic. If you can arrange for master enslave you're golden. The dreams of R'lyeh assessination spell is really good (since Mictlan is likely to have enough astral to stop mind-hunts)

If you need some more general advice, Evilhomer wrote an excellent guide about R'lyeh ( http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=525893 ) and Baalz one about how to use communions ( http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=577320 )
Both are excellent guides, well worth the read. (If you haven't already of course)

[Xanatos]

i suppose this is a bad time to mention i've never actually used a communion before?

oh..this is one heck of a position to get thrown into:P but ok, that information was helpful, thanks!

[Amhazair]

Eh, well... sometime has to be your first time.

Experiment, have fun, curse a lot when you manage to fatigue all your communion slaves to death, and in the end blame Foodstamp for your inability to win the game.