25% autoroute question - Page 2

Olm · #1 December 7th, 2011, 03:38 PM

In fact olm is English

It's the same word in German and English, look it up in wikipedia.

JonBrave · #2 December 7th, 2011, 03:44 PM

I didn't doubt it was. But Old English sounding. Not the sort of word we'd still be using these days

(And without looking, I'd have to guess you're Scandanavian, or at least North/East European.)

Olm · #3 December 7th, 2011, 03:48 PM

No, as mentioned: German.

And your language does still use the word. It's a small, blind amphibian creature with lungs and gills.

JonBrave · #4 December 7th, 2011, 04:01 PM

German counts as Northern/Eastern European

As for "olm" being an English word. Well, I stand corrected! But I'm pretty good at English and I have never heard of an olm!! If anyone keeps them as pets, please let us know...

Corinthian · #5 December 7th, 2011, 04:46 PM

You should play Agartha more JonBrave. They get olms both as a pretender choice and as heroes.

...Yea, Agartha is not a very powerful nation in vanilla.

JonBrave · #6 December 7th, 2011, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Corinthian

You should play Agartha more JonBrave. They get olms both as a pretender choice and as heroes.

...Yea, Agartha is not a very powerful nation in vanilla.

Oh! Are you saying they actually use a word of "olm"? I had truly never heard of it.

Knai · #7 December 8th, 2011, 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by JonBrave

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Originally Posted by Corinthian

You should play Agartha more JonBrave. They get olms both as a pretender choice and as heroes.

...Yea, Agartha is not a very powerful nation in vanilla.

Oh! Are you saying they actually use a word of "olm"? I had truly never heard of it.

Yes. The Ancient Olm is an SC pretender chassis they get, the heroes are lighter thugs. Or rather, the Ancient Olm is a low grade imitation SC wannabe, and the heroes are sacks of HP.

Starbelly Geek · #8 December 8th, 2011, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Knai

Yes. The Ancient Olm is an SC pretender chassis they get, the heroes are lighter thugs. Or rather, the Ancient Olm is a low grade imitation SC wannabe, and the heroes are sacks of HP.

The heroes are free mages! That are free and don't require a turn of fort time to hire! Also they don't cost anything to get! And Deepthought rocks on toast.

The Ageless Olm pretender's not too hard to make into a moderate rainbow. Never occurred to me to try to use it as an SC. Seems like there are much better options available to Agartha for that.

Knai · #9 December 8th, 2011, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Starbelly Geek

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Originally Posted by Knai

Yes. The Ancient Olm is an SC pretender chassis they get, the heroes are lighter thugs. Or rather, the Ancient Olm is a low grade imitation SC wannabe, and the heroes are sacks of HP.

The heroes are free mages! That are free and don't require a turn of fort time to hire! Also they don't cost anything to get! And Deepthought rocks on toast.

The Ageless Olm pretender's not too hard to make into a moderate rainbow. Never occurred to me to try to use it as an SC. Seems like there are much better options available to Agartha for that.

I am clearly remembering wrong. I'd forgotten that they had any magic power at all. Clearly I need to play more Agartha, or maybe just more Agartha that isn't the Golem Cult.

JonBrave · #10 December 8th, 2011, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Starbelly Geek

The heroes are free mages! That are free and don't require a turn of fort time to hire! Also they don't cost anything to get!

While you happen to mention that (sorry if hijacking thread!): Do you (seem to) get 2 heroes (perhaps on average) per game (I guess I mean random)? What sort of event actually fires them? (Doubtless the answers are in a file, but an answer summarising would be appreciated.)