Tempest - Random Nations, Early Era (Micah Wins!)

Baalz · #1 June 19th, 2007, 06:52 PM

But she's not wearing the armor of virtue, she's wearing the Monolith armor....?

Yeah, I felt a bit guiltily lucky on that fight...the only reason my devil was even casting blindness was because she was fire immune so he was ignoring the spells I had scripted (which most certainly were not what I would want to fight a mage bane wielding air queen that unexpectedly drops out the sky).

As to the MR buffs, poor planning and lack of late game MP experience led me to a couple big mistakes that compounded each other. My SCs were kitted for crowd control and by the time it occurred to me that I urgently needed MR boosting items most of my astral mages were dead/feebleminded from the BoT (I thought that even if I lost the GoR boots of youth would protect my old mages...not the case). Most of my guys have at least an amulet of antimagic now.... Oh well, live and learn...:/

Micah · #2 June 19th, 2007, 07:10 PM

"Unexpectedly" eh? I'd think you'd expect damn near anything to happen at this point considering I've been throwing pretty much every nastiness the game has at you. My personal favorite kill was probably the seeking arrow volley I launched at Magoth though, the general reaction to that one was "you killed him with WHAT?" when I mentioned it in the IRC channel.

The AoV casts Ritual at the start of the battle when it's worn. The effect doesn't wear off until used. She had it on in a previous battle.

Yeah, the boots of youth thing does suck, I found that out the hard way too. Might want to drop it in the bug thread.

And don't worry about the luck thing, I got off easy. The fight to beat as far as lucky hits against me is when one commander with a black bow managed to feeblemind my Aegis bearing Niefel Jarl that was wearing my ring of wizardry (to cast cloud trapeze) on round 1 of the fight. This kept him from getting off bless and soul vortex, which resulted in his untimely death, taking his equipment with it.

Baalz · #3 June 19th, 2007, 07:43 PM

Haven't noticed any lucky black bow hits to golems from the dozen I deployed to blood hunters... I kinda thought that'd be more effective after a few fights.

Heh, yeah the worst part of that BoT fiasco was when I realized it was screwing me over worse than anybody else...but it had been cast by a vampire count and my dominion was spread far enough that it took him a couple turns to sneak to where I could suicide him. The turn I gave him the move order into your territory you attacked the province he was in, he wasn't hiding because I had given him the move order, so you killed him and he reappeared at my capital! Aarrrrg! That was just the delay to disease the last of my mages...

Micah · #4 June 19th, 2007, 08:03 PM

yeah, Velusion mentioned that you were trying to get rid of it at that point, so I had a good chuckle about that. And the followup attack where he took a province over with fear.

I don't feel too bad about you not feebling any golems since you've killed a few of them off anyhow. The 50th turn explosion and my forgetting to script attack both sucked =(

Velusion · #5 June 20th, 2007, 02:25 PM

I am formally announcing that I am giving notice on my NAP with Helheim now and that I formally ally myself with Mictlan until Helheim has been destroyed.

I also offer NAPs to all other nations that will accept it.

Baalz · #6 June 20th, 2007, 02:31 PM

Anybody on the fence should realize he's pretty close to the point of being unstoppable. The nation of Mictlan seconds Ulm's offer.

Baalz · #7 June 24th, 2007, 05:13 PM

Hate to do this after just agreeing to help Ulm, but looks like I'm gonna have to bow out. At this point virtually all my SCs have been slain (I've got one left hiding in a castle behind all my researchers too scared to stick his nose out the front gate...), my last few gambits failed and I no longer have any credible way to even slow Helheim's crushing advance led by all the elemental royalty decked out in all the best artifacts. Well, that's not true, the lucky ones get to fight those 26 defense helherdling raiders or golem death squads.

Good luck guys, I think Micah may have already won.

Velusion · #8 June 24th, 2007, 11:05 PM

Yep. I'll go ahead and put myself to AI then this turn.

DrPraetorious - Sorry about getting you to take over the replacement! I was thinking there would at least be a climatic struggle to topple Helheim....

Velusion · #9 June 25th, 2007, 12:09 AM

So... to sum up...

If anyone wants to keep playing now that Mictlan and Ulm are going to AI please speak up! Otherwise we will crown Micah the winner and the game will be archived.

If anyone wants to still contest Micah's/Helheim's victory Micah will need to keep playing (to secure the win) until the challengers give up or he wins outright.

PS I want to thank Sensori and DrP who both filled in for players that left. Our plan came too little too late Sensori!

Also thanks to Ermor (cupido2) and Tien Chi (shovah32) who - even though they were in horrible shape in the end - still manged to play their turn regularly!

Velusion · #10 June 25th, 2007, 09:37 PM

Congrats Micah! I'll leave the game up for while to see if anyone else wants to keep playing.