MP Game, Early Era, Random Nations, Victory Points

[Baalz]

Indeed, I briefly considered offering you a peace treaty so that we could each try and stop the Tien Chi juggernaught before he wins, but the bloody god has demanded that your head be mounted on a pole before the the celestial emporer ascends. He has decreed that he shall have your soul as a mount when he is imprisoned again.

[Meglobob]

Baalz said:
Indeed, I briefly considered offering you a peace treaty so that we could each try and stop the Tien Chi juggernaught before he wins, but the bloody god has demanded that your head be mounted on a pole before the the celestial emporer ascends. He has decreed that he shall have your soul as a mount when he is imprisoned again.

I too considered offering you a peace treaty, with a very, very evil idea I had (only blood nations would be able to survive it) but Marverni had already humilated Niefelheim and it was unacceptable for that to happen twice.

This is a game where I have roleplayed a totally evil, steeped in blood/death nation rather than tried to win. So I have had a fun game.

I was hoping, probably like most others, that T'ien C'hi/Helheim would tear each another apart in a bloody stalemate but it was not to be...

[Maltrease]

It might have been that way. But was we stated truthfully throughout we were utterly unprepared for Caelums alliance with Tien empire. Sadly were were not able to shift gears fast enough, and ULM not able to put up enough of a fight for a stallmate situation to occur. Except for a few battles the war was pretty one sided.

[Ighalli]

I don't know, Meglobob... If you were able to keep astral corruption up, you might still be able to win the game. It's hard to say, but I can't think of anything that would be more damaging.

I will intreprit any invasion of Arco lands as an invasion against my own. Attack me at your own peril; so far no nation has survived our wrath.

[Maltrease]

Thats just cause you are from Ohio.

[Corwin]

Meglobob said:

I think this translates as:-

I am so utterly powerful, I am going to stomp you all and win.

I know my nation, Niefelheim is in no position whatsoever to oppose T'ien C'hi's overwhealming power, its all I can do to knock Mictian out and I am struggling at that...

Well not exactly. It just means that I run out of enemies. And since I never break my in-game word, I thought it can not hurt if I would release nations with whom I have NAP from their oaths. I did not mean to sound arrogant, I simply offered it hoping that perhaps it might lead to more interesting endgame, rather than me stomping out poor Vanheim, since they are the only neighbor country with whom I don't have some sort of NAP treaty.

[Corwin]

Maltrease said:
It might have been that way. But was we stated truthfully throughout we were utterly unprepared for Caelums alliance with Tien empire. Sadly were were not able to shift gears fast enough, and ULM not able to put up enough of a fight for a stallmate situation to occur. Except for a few battles the war was pretty one sided.

True. The largest surprise of the war for me was that Helheim turned out to be very unprepared for it, despite the fact that they have started the war by traveling secretly across my entire nation to attack me with 2 raiders in the most remote corner of my Empire. But these two raiders were all Helheim troops that I saw for the first 9 or so turns of the war. Had Helheim positioned more troops over my territory before the start of the war, the outcome of the war might be different, since in the beginning of the war I totally lacked anti-raiders measures, and all my castles stood completely empty of troops. Besieging some them while pillaging my territory would cripple me.

Ulm also contributed to my and Caleum's victory - they chosen to surrender their entire nation without a battle, retreating to their capital for the last stand. Had they chosen to make a stand earlier, before I tripled the size of my army and got Flame Arrows spell, that devastated Ulm's horde, they had a good chance to repel me, or at least significantly delay me.

Don't get me wrong - both Helheim and Ulm were strong and challenging opponents. Helheim especially shown great generalship by repelling twice my attacks on his capital, against overwhelming number of my troops, scattering my armies to the four winds. Helheim also destroyed a lot of my mages with his spells and his improvised assassins between the storms, weakening my army significantly. And Ulm also put up a good fight during their last stand, destroying more than half of my army at the end.

[Graeme Dice]

The server should be back up, let me know if it isn't.

[Agrajag]

Its back up as far as I can see, and I haven't even missed my turn

[Shmonk]

The server appears to be down (and I wanted to bump this back to the first page).