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Old March 23rd, 2010, 03:34 PM

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Default Re: YARG - Yet Another RAND Game [7/19 players alive]

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My personal discredit to Tien Chi player for total pacifism...
Believe me when I tell you that there is no toungue, mortal or divine, that can adequately express how thoroughly distraught I am to read this. Indeed, I suspect that the culmination of my entire existence has passed me by in complete ignorance.

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When I joined, I did so as a n00b with a solid understanding of tactics, a decent understanding of strategic movement, but little
to no appreciation of just how important a good long-term strategy is in this game.

I knew nation selection in this game was random, but I figured that with only three nation in the late era that I definitely didn't want to play as, I was safe. Unfortunately, late age TC was my least favorite nation. I've since discovered some things I like about them, but long after designing a rather poor build for this game.

On our first start, I had a great start position that I could have made work even with my poor design. The restart, however, left me starting in a pass (almost dead center of the map) and surrounded by terrain that completely neutralized one of the few TC advantages I was prepared to exploit: strategic mobility.

I eventually attacked Gath to the north and was rebuffed with only a minimal effort... I then ventured east against Utgard, taking the vast majority of his territory and enslaving much of his armies, but could never be sure I was set to take his cap without exposing myself to the other nations around me. Just a newbie's jitters perhaps, but there ya go.

Gath invade just a couple of turns before I was ready to cast AN and start an invasion of my own, but the game was pretty much decided before this.

Overall, it was a learning experience that was almost fun. Thanks guys!
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Old March 23rd, 2010, 04:11 PM
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Default Re: YARG - Yet Another RAND Game [Isokron's Midgard wins!]

Isokron, you did a find job getting to victory in this game. And there were those who thought bless nations would rule the day given the game's settings...

Thank you rdonj for agreeing to steer the next YARG. So far we have on board from this games player's:
- Dimaz
- Clahan
- WL

Anyone else interested in securing a spot?- I'll probably start enlisting openly tomorrow so speak up now if you're interested.

Edit, an observation re. bless nations in this game. They evidently didn't fare that well. From the finishing nations and in good state were at least three non bless builds: Pythium, Bogarus and Midgard. At indie 9, low income, no diplo and hard research that's quite interesting.
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Anyone else interested in securing a spot?-
Ummm... me. I thought I wrote about it.
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