Myth - EA, CBM 1.92, no diplo - tratorix/Agartha & Valerius/Vanheim win - Page 11

Ossa · #**101** January 24th, 2012, 02:07 AM

I'm back

Sorry for the delay

Valerius · #**102** January 24th, 2012, 06:11 AM

Welcome back! I've added some time to the clock in case that helps as you get caught up on your games.

tratorix · #**103** February 9th, 2012, 07:36 PM

Seems like its time to either find a sub for ryleh or set him ai.

Valerius · #**104** February 14th, 2012, 03:13 PM

Sorry for the delay, I haven't been paying much attention to Dominions.

As regards R'lyeh, I was kind of hoping we could just ignore the water provinces and turn it into a land province only game.

I can certainly PM PriestyMan and ask him to set them AI but then the AI will just be annoying and launch random attacks as well as doing something stupid like leaving its capitol undefended for an easy VP. It's also not a very appealing position for a sub to take on.

Speaking of VPs, I realize I set the victory conditions for this game but I'm finding I really don't like VP games. What does everyone think about changing the game to normal victory conditions? I'm not saying this to benefit myself (the longer a game goes on and the more micro is involved, the less I'm motivated to play so I wouldn't mind getting killed off - but I won't just give up). If I'm going to get dogpiled that's fine but then finish the job instead of me getting down to 1 cap, some other nation gets 3, and then everyone shifts to attacking them. It's tedious. It would also solve the problem of R'lyeh since everyone could just grab some water provinces without any worry of an easy VP being at stake.

Of course changing the victory conditions would require all four remaining active players to agree but I thought I'd throw the idea out there.

Ossa · #**105** February 14th, 2012, 03:42 PM

We have victory conditions? I never bothered... I'm happy with fighting it out till the end or everyone else concedes.

Valerius · #**106** February 14th, 2012, 07:37 PM

Well, that was a lively turn!

Sadly, vanjarl defense doesn't fare so well against grendelkin offense when utterdark is up. And I don't know what I was thinking sending a vanadrott after a lychantropos' amulet-bearing shishi. You'd think I'd lost enough cap only mages to those damn things to remember not to do that.

tratorix · #**107** February 18th, 2012, 03:29 PM

Just popping in to say that it's complete bullcrap that an attack called "lighting swarm" isn't actually lightning.

Valerius · #**108** February 26th, 2012, 04:24 PM

Huh, that seems strange. I ran a test with some air elementals and they didn't do anything to a lightning immune unit. But once lightning immunity was removed the target unit was damaged and mistform popped. Note that in my test I made sure the target was large enough that it couldn't be trampled since air elementals will default to trampling rather than lightning swarm if the target is smaller than them.

Valerius · #**109** February 28th, 2012, 07:34 PM

Agartha has staled the last two turns. I PM'd tratorix but haven't heard back. I postponed hosting by another day but if we don't hear from him we'll have to decide how to proceed. It's kind of easy to just ignore the water provinces and let R'lyeh stale but harder to do with Agartha, especially since he's got two major globals up and, despite his setbacks, is not out of contention.

tratorix · #**110** February 29th, 2012, 06:45 PM

Staled once due to being busy and once due to being stupid, but I'm still around.