Ascendant - Game On!

[Zenzei]

Heh, this was a fun game. It's unfortunate the server issue came up just when things started to really roll. Like other players, I have long since moved onto other games and can't really even remember what my exact plans were for this game.

Regarding the winner, I don't think this game was over yet. Sauro was the leader, no doubt about that, but the amazon people were still far away from the target capitol count iirc and at least Caelum would have required fair amount of punishment before yielding and I think Tien Chi would also had plenty of word to say regarding the outcome.

Renojustin: I'm curious, what makes you so sure you would have managed to kill some of my precious bird royalty next turn?

[Renojustin]

I had 3 seeking arrows on the one in Kailasa, killing him and retaking the province, and many scattered witch king thugs about to drain life on probably at least two more, which they would have fallen to. Your cyclops was horror marked 5-6 times, and T'ien C'hi had agreed to race us to the victory points from first meeting, which is why they were #2 in the game and not our first victim. They were about to hit you too.

But that was just Caelum. We were doing very well against Abysia and R'lyeh too, Abysia especially would have been pretty much squeezed out within the next few turns, and I don't think Lanka stood against us well either; we had thugs down there and he had nothing but normal demon troops with a weak vampire queen bless. We were also casting Fog Warriors with independent mages among other things.

We fought 6 nations and did well against all of them, completely wiping two out, and we were quite close against two more. Our income was over 5000 gp per turn for most of the game, and we had the 2nd strongest nation as an ally, one that was about to help us destroy our strongest competitor, Caelum. Our blood was starting to ramp up at an extremely fast rate, and overall, it was probably just a matter of time... probably.

I really wish that game had gone on, because in another turn, three of your Eagle Kings were going to die, taking the wind out of your sails, so to speak. I didn't expect to get the win because the game crashed, but looking back at it with some experience, if we picked the game up now there would be pretty much no way that I could lose that game, knowing what I know now.

Ascendant was sooo fun, and I want to just thank everyone for such an awesome and special experience for what was for most of us our first time playing!

[lch]

Sounds like a conclusion. I could make the game files available if somebody is interested to play this out locally.

[Wrana]

To Renojustin:
So I was correct to estimate that Tien Chi was your ally from the beginning... It's surely comforting. And as I've already said before, you were winning against him - as I've seen, he didn't have anything which would allow him to take VPs from you (he didn't look like having enough research to teleport something heavy enough at them, and in any case this could be stopped by Domes), and when he would attack Caelum, he would just allow you to take that VP faster. And with beating Abyssia & R'lyeh you would have enough iirc.
To Ich:
I at least am interested in them. Though they surely would take time to see through.