Happy New Year, New Game, New Players (Finished: Dojango/Mictlan Wins!)

[Immaculate]

I require an extension.

[Excist]

Lacking details, I have postponed hosting by 12 hours. If that is not enough, let me know.

[Torgon]

All,

Unless anyone has any major objections, I'm going to go ahead and set AI. I'm pretty much down to nothing and have been for some time. I'm going to script whats remaining in my capital to produce something nasty for whoever tries to take it.

If people have major objections I'll keep playing my turn, I just don't want to leave people waiting if I happen to stall, and there's no chance anyone would want to sub for me in my current position.

Overall it's been a great game and I've really enjoyed reading everything. I'll write up one final story about Balor and the kingdom of Fomoria, their unlikely truce with the Giants of Argatha after a bitter early war, their near defeat at the hands of their ancient enemies the Tuatha of Tir Na Nog. And finally the Armies of Argatha coming to liberate the brave realm of Fomoria with Balor swearing allegiance to the Argathan Lords.

[Excist]

Well, I'd personally rather people wait until they're down to their last fort is sieged to go AI, but don't want to be heavy handed about that if you have limited rl time.

In Fomorias (and Hinnom's) case I could understand an argument that there would be little to no difference to the turns whether done by an AI or a human at this point.

Whether you stick it out a little longer or go AI it was great having King Balor in the game and I was impressed with your use of Fomoria's ingredients to cook up some painful surprises. I hope you'll be part of my next RP game.

[Torgon]

I agree, I'd rather wait until I was down to last fort as well. But it looks like that still might be a few more turns which = about a week. I'm looking at a pretty crazy week and given what I'm doing I probably wont have access to a computer most of the time.

But as it stands, there's absolutely no reason to hold up the game on my account.

[Immaculate]

we've all done that... now you get to go post in the 'doh moments'...


i summoned a big bad creature that cost me over 30 gems to summon, kitted it with 3 artifacts and other stuff, sent it against a ton of giant PD and had it zapped by the 50 turn timer after it beserked (wielding the heat from hell sword- forget its name)- even after the enemy had routed- there goes about 100 gems. i thought that cost me any chance at the game too...


also- i lost a poison golem with about 60 gem worth of materials (mostly death and water- i won't say what specifically) to acro's giant spiders earlier.



Yeah... bad stuff happens. you get to complain about it- but trust me- you aren't the only one who is making mistakes. (Not that mictlan is though- from what i can tell they don't make mistakes) dojango you are a way scarier mictlan than you are a patala.

[dojango]

Mictlan is way scarier than Patala. Also, not getting triple teamed by Atlantis, Marignon, and Tien Chi helps. As for mistakes, I make big ones all the time. In dreadful fates, I lost battles due to giving Ivan the gems and Igor the orders to cast the army-wide buffs. damn Russian names all sounding alike.

As far as "losing the war", the important thing is not necessarily how big the standing army is, but how quickly it can be replaced. Ultimately everything is disposable. With the resources of four nations at your command, you will be able to recover fairly quickly.

e: oh yeah, I saw that battle. Monolith armor, unquenchable sword and something else? Guy had a limp and couldn't make it off the field in the 25 turn grace period between auto-rout and auto-death.

[Immaculate]

no- i think he just popped cause he was beserking... he didn't rout.

How dare you question our honor!

[dojango]

I think everyone routs at 50 turns and dies at 75. this is to keep two teleporting sphinxes from staring at each other for eternity or something.

[dojango]

Wow, that was certainly a pyre-ic victory. Way to go, little dust priest.