MP: Silicon Wolves, GAME ON! (again) See OP for additional details

[Kobal2]

Originally Posted by Hylobius

The rest of us would be in a world of hurt if you hadn't thrown in the towel a while back

Well, that's one of the... no, it's the *one* advantage of knowing you're already dead : you don't fight to win, but to take the other guy(s) down with you. Any losses become acceptable, no matter how ridiculous. E.g. I lost 20 mages, three irreplaceable kings and my god but I cost Caelum 44 of his mages including 6 geared thugs, that's a win in my ledger. ~200 more gems thrown into the Great Beyond just to take one castle of mine down, that'll learn ya ! Hope your accountants have a heart attack !

My only regret will be that I didn't cost Atlantis quite as much as I would have liked to. Since the war started I think I only got to kill two or three geared kings of his, maim a couple more, and of course I couldn't raid him for beans. Despite him being the guy who started this mess and the one I really, really wanted to focus on, I reckon he's going to be the big winner of this war. Pity.

ETA @Tryfan: yeah, I guess the battle replay got FUBAR'd and didn't show him getting charmed, something like that. Since Sinann was set to Cast Spells and there's not too many useful spells she can cast once she's out of W gems, makes sense.

[Tryfan]

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Originally Posted by Hylobius

Well, that's one of the... no, it's the *one* advantage of knowing you're already dead : you don't fight to win, but to take the other guy(s) down with you. Any losses become acceptable, no matter how ridiculous. E.g. I lost 20 mages, three irreplaceable kings and my god but I cost Caelum 44 of his mages including 6 geared thugs, that's a win in my ledger. ~200 more gems thrown into the Great Beyond just to take one castle of mine down, that'll learn ya ! Hope your accountants have a heart attack !

I think you perhaps overestimate how much I lost there. Five thugs were lost (not six), unless you were counting the prophet who was a first turn holdover without gear. The gear was the main loss, but it wasn't 200 gems; I was pretty cheap with the eagle kings (and I just got a bunch of it back, along with at least one artifact). The guy with the storm staff survived too. And I think you would be discouraged a bit if you knew how long it takes me to replace the seraphs. Heck I was just happy to be getting a real income again; it was getting annoying to have to sacrifice population to patrolling or wait three turns to buy anything interesting. Trust me, those seraphs aren't terribly mourned. Heh. Expect to see them suicide into armies in the future as well.

Losing the sea king was disappointing (and represented probably the biggest single loss in gems) but he was a bit of an experiment (to see how much regen I could pile onto one guy). You'll notice the one that followed behind and participated in the death of poor Sinann had more standard gear.

It was a costly fight, but not decisively so.