MP Game, Early Era, Random Nations, Victory Points

[Agrajag]

I would'nt mind increasing the time between auto-hosts to avoid\decrease stales.
Especially since I'm usually one of the last to submit their turn :X

[Baalz]

The Eastern Blood Wars are starting to heat up. The giants have learned a great respect for our holy warriors, and likewise we have learned the power of their ally’s communions. We both consolidate briefly, fearful to tread too aggressively into our opponent’s land as we have each had dire results with such aggressions in the past. We both however have been working on new plans in an attempt to unbalance each other.

Hearing Angerboda’s brash claims to have her own allies in the lower planes, I have ordered spies to report on the giant’s activities. Our scouts have mapped out their lands, and report that there is indeed a portal open in the giant’s capitol providence through which fiends enter the world. This has enraged the bloody god, though it should not be surprising that some of the weaker enemies of our demonic allies choose to accept the thin blood offerings of the giants. The weaker fiends are not picky. I have ordered a cabal of priest kings to drown this offending province in a sea of toads, making productivity impossible. Sadly this has not stopped the summoning of fiends, but it has sown disease amongst the conjurors and made it impossible to recruit new conjurors. I have ordered that the cabal redouble their efforts and drown every fortress in the giant’s lands under a mountain of rotting toads. There shall be no further mage reinforcements for our adversaries.

As the rest of our sorcerers turn their attention to summoning a force with which to invade the giants land for once and all, our scouts report dire tidings just east of our border. A huge army of fearsome undead marches on us, supported by a handful of fiends, presumably the fruit of the giant’s alliance with the weak-blood demons. Not the ordinary shuffling longdead, nor even their giantish counterparts, but undead horsemen and rotting, animated elephant carcasses. Presumably the remaining amazons will support this wall of rotting flesh with arcane might in a fearsome attempt to once again gain a toehold in our proud nation’s lands.

I have ordered our border guards pulled back, this will not be a fight that jaguar warriors can win. I have also ordered some raiding forces forward to invade the giant’s lands away from their large army. They cannot hope to conquer our lands by taking one province for every two of theirs which are taken, and they dare not split up the lumbering mass of their army. Come forward into the killing lands with your menagerie of monsters if you dare, Angerboda. You will not find the price of Mictlan lands cheap and I am curious to find if my counter to your undead will be as effective as I hope.

[josh_f]

I will be away from 12/22-12/26 but would not mind seeing the game paused until the New Year.

[Graeme Dice]

I will be putting the games on quickhost only today, until the first week in January.

[Agrajag]

I'll be unable to make a turn 4.1-8.1 :X
(Though there is an uber-tiny chance I might be able to make one)
I'd appreciate it if you waited, but I wouldn't hold it against you if you didnt.

[Corwin]

Graeme, could you please double check what version your server is currently running?

This turn very wierd thing happened. My armies stormed Helheheim's capital or the 2nd time, and this time they killed their god and all people inside and won the battle, according to battle replay. Yet battle results said that the battle was lost for me and Hehlheim's god is still alive.

Both me and Maltrease (Helheim) ses the same battle replay and battle results. We both are running 3.04 verion of course.

I am goinmg to report is a nasty bug, but before I do it, I would like to confirm that you are running 3.04 patch, since the very same "bug" happened to me in other game earlier, and the reason turned out to be that our host was accidently running older version of the client.

So could you double check it please?

[Graeme Dice]

I'll check what version I'm running. I've also started up the timer again.

[Graeme Dice]

As far as I can tell, the server is currently running version 3.4 It's possible that the last turn ran before version 3.4 came out, since I don't remember the date.

[Corwin]

I see.

[Corwin]

Ok, our thread has been awfully quiet recently.

So in an attempt to break the mood and to add back a bit of RP/AAR flavor, here is the copy of my recent letter to Helheim, which has been delivered to him this turn.



"To the Lord of Hell.

Know that the adamant resistance of your capital's defenders has finally dried out the endless well of our divine patience.

The wraith of Heavens is upon you and your doomed city. From this day forward, the city that was known as Helheim will bear a new name, and this name will be spoken by mortals in terrified whispers for the centuries to come - "Gomorrah"!






(As you've probably guessed, the message was accompanied by multiple Fire From Above spells from every fire mage that I had capable of casting it. Too bad I didn't have "rain of brimstone" spells, or I would cast it as well, to stay closer to the original story. =) )