MP Game - Try Something New

Cainehill · #1 December 24th, 2004, 01:32 AM

Good question - not sure if Esben has patched the executable there. I can't think of anything critical in this latest patch that's game altering (like the one where you couldn't have 2 fever fetishes or 2 clams on the same person) though.

T77 · #2 December 24th, 2004, 03:55 PM

OK, whatever Version you guys want to use is fine with me. I just wanted to make sure that we're all on the same page. Vanheim quit when I was battling him due to replay inconsistency.

Cainehill · #3 December 24th, 2004, 05:04 PM

Isn't a question of what we want to use - Esben hasn't upgraded to 2.15, at least not according to what the notes there say. So we're at 2.14, albeit I always recommend trying the other Version if you get a really strange battle result / playback.

Cainehill · #4 May 1st, 2005, 09:05 PM

This game is basically over - I've asked Esben to kill and bury it. At this point, there's only two nations left not gone AI, and Mark the Merciful hasn't taken a turn as Jotunheim in 15 or 20 turns.

Guess that makes my first huge scale game I've won ( World map; by the time everyone was demolished or quit (Atlantis was running a close second in some ways, using multiple Wish spells a turn for territory, but that only takes provinces that don't have fortresses, near as I can tell) I had the highest provinces, forts, gem income, and by far the highest dominion and army size), in my first game with R'lyeh.

quantum_mechani · #5 May 1st, 2005, 09:11 PM

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Cainehill said:
(Atlantis was running a close second in some ways, using multiple Wish spells a turn for territory, but that only takes provinces that don't have fortresses, near as I can tell)

Actually, it can take forted provinces. It was the only way I ever managed to take provinces from Norfleet...

Cainehill · #6 May 1st, 2005, 09:42 PM

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Cainehill said:
(Atlantis was running a close second in some ways, using multiple Wish spells a turn for territory, but that only takes provinces that don't have fortresses, near as I can tell)

Actually, it can take forted provinces. It was the only way I ever managed to take provinces from Norfleet...

Really? Atlantis had as many as 3 or 4 of those wishes a turn towards the end, and never took a province of mine that had a fort in it. So - I'd take about 4 or 5 provinces a turn, and use spells to get fortresses in all of them right away ( using Living Fortress, Wizard Tower, and Three Red Seconds ).

R'lyeh isn't usually a big blood nation - but finding a province with the Summoning Circle ( 60 blood bonus ) next to my capitol, and one with the Black Tower ( cheap D1B1 and D2B2 ) also nearby really helped. Using a Void Lurker pretender for great starting magic and bringing him back mobile via Twiceborn didn't hurt either.

Soapyfrog · #7 May 2nd, 2005, 11:20 AM

I was wishing as much as 7 times a turn... As near as I can tell, Wishing for territory can convert to your ownership any province that does not contain enemy units. So it worked great the first few turns and then after that it was pretty much useless.

AND THEN! I pulled the biggest bonehead of them all. I really cannot beleive I did this... I wished for Armageddon. Naturally I assumed my beefy mages would be tough enough to survive and everyone else's mages would die in large numbers. taht turned out not to be the case, and I suddenly found that I had killed off my own wisher's, massacred my own clam/fetish/contract farms, and killed my very well equipped mages in large numbers.

I have no idea how it affected the rest of you, but I was basically defenceless after that point...

Heheh. Ouch.