Victorious Nations/Hall of Honor

[Meglobob]

Teraswaerto said:
2. ImpendingIndustry/LA random nations or some such: won by LA Agartha (played by Meglobob). Research victory. It was kind of funny as several people, including Meglobob and myself, had forgotten that the game had research as victory condition. He actually set himself to AI 1 turn before winning since he was losing a war.

LA Agartha is strong too, powerful death magic, kind of obvious.

To clarify, ALL I had to do was press the end turn button to win, so it was a victory by me, the AI never really got to do a turn. It was funny that so many of us had forgot it was a research victory, although in my case I was in 10 MP's at the time, so perhaps understandable.

Also Teraswaerto forgets to mention that I was fighting 4 other players on 3 seperate fronts, LA Ermor, Mictian, C'tis and Ulm. I only went AI because the host/other players would not change the timer from 24hr (we were on turn 40+) to give me a chance to script my many multiple armies correctly.

LA agartha is a strong nation given time, but can easily be knocked out early in MP and IS NOT TOO POWERFUL. LA Agartha is a good, well balanced nation.

[Teraswaerto]

Well, that's too true. I didn't mean to imply that setting to AI made it not your victory.

Turn times aside, you were losing the war, quite understandably against multiple opponents. I did have the impression you'd have set to AI soon even with a longer turn timer, if you hadn't won the game that is , but maybe I'm mistaken.

[Meglobob]

Teraswaerto said:
Well, that's too true. I didn't mean to imply that setting to AI made it not your victory.

Turn times aside, you were losing the war, quite understandably against multiple opponents. I did have the impression you'd have set to AI soon even with a longer turn timer, if you hadn't won the game that is , but maybe I'm mistaken.

I would have been defeated against so many players, I did have a plan however, I had Undead Mastery, with 3 death mages able to cast it. So I was going to use it to steal LA Ermors 1,000's of undead and C'tis's 100's of undead then use them against my foes. Also I would have had Flames from the sky in another 2 turns with no shortage of fire gems or fire mages to cast it.

But I probably would have still lost, if I had not won of course...

[Meglobob]

Middle Era, Cradle of Dominion - Game ended turn 50'ish, with no conclusive winner. 3 possible winners were Ulm/Solo, Machaka/Twan and me/Man. I think both myself and Twan concluded MA Ulm/Solo would have probably won. He had 5 globals up and his army was virtually all summoned/magical troops, with a HUGE gem income.

[FrankTrollman]

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[Meglobob]

2 games I was not playing in:-

Concept of Creation - MA Pythium won, (Ironhawk).
Dawggie does Dominions - LA Mictian won, (Jurri).

[Tyrant]

It now occurs to me that mods will through a curve into this, but i think i'll just ignore them and go on since there's no money at stake.

[Redeyes]

Game: Rothfuss
Winner: Redeyes
Race: Pythium
Age: Middle
Players: 11
Mods: CBM 1.41
Map: Cradle of Dominion
Game Thread: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=42004

Ended with a concession, a couple of interesting wars for me early on led to me winning the Ultimate Gateway and Steel Oven, the rest was smooth sailing though a strong Ashdod (who had been trounced in the early wars) and I skirmished before the concession.

[Meglobob]

Dawnstrike - Finished with Jurri/EA Caelum the winner. I would not read too much into this as Jurri is a top player, any nation controlled by him is extremly dangerous. So its hard to say if EA Caelum is overpowered. Also it was culmative VP's which I and most other players in the game did not grasp the meaning of until it was too late. If it had been to the death, Jurri/EA Caelum may have been defeated by a multiplayer alliance.

[Teraswaerto]

To further clarify, I do not claim that EA Caelum or LA Agartha are overpowered, simply that they are strong.