MP: Asia Twist - Wraithlord Wins!

[archaeolept]

I'm quite sick of drama, but it seems pointless to work on a huge turn when the game seems to be being thrown. R'lyeh was completely capable of putting on a good defense of his VP (as I knew since he had a huge teleporting army that rdonj, while he was subbing r'lyeh a few turns back, had created under wraithlord's active help that countered my small assault force), but he left it completely undefended. There might be some explanation, though none strikes me as obvious, but he never responded to my pm's offering help.

So why put in time and effort for a fixed or thrown game?

It's too bad. This has, until now, been a truly epic game of Dominions.

I guess I'm interested in what the other players would like done? Of course I won't be playing any further games w/ Aristander (without some sort of good explanation), but I wouldn't be surprised if he's stopping playing. If I had done some dastardly backstab on him, or something, then I could understand it psychologically. But he attacked me; the only animosity he might hold would be due to me smacking him around some

edit: if players would like to continue anyways as is, I have the day off tomorrow and could do the turn.

[WraithLord]

IMO your comments towards Aristander are out of line. He is nobody's puppet and has the right to make his own decisions in the game. From what I know you two were at war and you were on your way to finish him and TC (like you did Eriu) had I not intervened.
Your fate is in your hands and while Caelum obviously works with/for you R'lyeh doesn't. If you wanted to make sure that VP is not taken by me you should have acted directly against me. We are at war after all so there's nothing stopping you from doing so.

Your expectation that R'lyeh do what is best for you is not reasonable, especially considering that you are at war.

I were in similar positions to your own in other games and never held anything against whoever might have refused to "see reason" the way I do or "stop the leader" the way I wanted. So I think that saying that you won't play with Aristander in the future is somewhat childish. You make a personal matter out of what is clearly circumstantial and limited to game politics and climate.