New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy

[Whollaborg]

Thank you PashaDawg! You made enormous effort to serve us this wonderful game! It will be remembered!

The game was first email multiplayer ever for me and as such it gave me some confidence as i struggle against fellow countryman Jurri in the game of Invisible Swarm 4 as well.

Congratulations Jurri! (sigh, what a blood economy that is!)

It is splendid that you won this very exciting game! I should have attacked you much earlier but i though i could delay it a turn or two untill it was too late

But then again i am happy to live with Ulm this far
(I gasped in terror when i found out that i got the Ulm which i thought could not do anything from Middle game forwards, but then i found out couple of tricks that include having a rainbow pretender and forging the lightless lantern..)

As some have already (with a good reason) asked why i didn't attack Marignon earlier i think that there is three reasons for it:
Greed,
Fear and
Greed

...I tried to get that army of lead (a spell that i haven't tried ever before) and just a couple of death items more to spam Marignon with the Ghost riders.
Recently found -20 forge site and utilizing that delayed me a bit more.
Too greedy, too greedy...

Thank you all!
Whollaborg

[Jurri]

Interesting reasoning Whollaborg! It's definitely a tough question when exactly is the right time to attack, as a premature assault might lead to someone else reaping the rewards while a late one won't do any good either. Scouts should be utilized, at least so that you have second order view (as in, a scout in a bordering province) to every province by late game. I never have the discipline to buy enough of them, which I think would be awesome if Dom3 solved somehow: it isn't fun to buy a hundred scouts just to see what's going on! If that omniscience spell wasn't a unique global and so easily removed it would be a good solution.

Tauren: At least I would be definitely in for another round!

[Ygorl]

I'd be excited to get in on a new RAND game too. Not that I was in this one for more than a few turns, but I really like the format.

[PashaDawg]

Hmmmm... maybe I will PLAY in the next RAND game!