Alpaca: 10 player game to test new server(started)

[lch]

Digress said:
While "footy" in Australia involves largish men, without much in the way of padding (it would be misleading to call it armour), smash into each other with bone breaking force.

Sounds like what they call "Rugby" elsewhere in Europe, too, where the men don't need those pads and sissy protection suits. Heck, even Hockey is tougher than American Football.
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[Xietor]

In response to a PM:

A Pyrrhic victory is a victory with devastating cost to the victor. The phrase is an allusion to King Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose army suffered irreplaceable casualties when he defeated the Romans during the Pyrrhic War at Heraclea in 280 BC and Asculum in 279 BC. After the latter battle, Plutarch relates in a report by Dionysius:
“ The armies separated; and, it is said, Pyrrhus replied to one that gave him joy of his victory that one more such victory would utterly undo him. For he had lost a great part of the forces he brought with him, and almost all his particular friends and principal commanders; there were no others there to make recruits, and he found the confederates in Italy backward. On the other hand, as from a fountain continually flowing out of the city, the Roman camp was quickly and plentifully filled up with fresh men, not at all abating in courage for the loss they sustained, but even from their very anger gaining new force and resolution to go on with the war. [1] ”

In both of Pyrrhus's victories, the Romans lost more men than Pyrrhus did. However, the Romans had a much larger supply of men from which to draw soldiers, so their losses did less damage to their war effort than Pyrrhus's losses did to his.

[llamabeast]

Hi guys,

I'm afraid there's no way I can get my turn done tonight. Organising new games has (as always) taken much longer than I thought, and I should already be in bed really.

I've extended the timer by 11 hours.

[llamabeast]

How would people feel about moving to 48 hours with this game? For me it's beginning to feel like quite a task to do a good job of taking it every day. If everyone else is keen to stick to 24 hours though I am happy to do that. I must say it's amazing how long we have stayed on 24 hours, this has been a really pacy game (in terms of number of turns at least - seems to me it must have been quite a quiet game for R'lyeh and Vanheim, and to some extent Ermor).

[Xietor]

I do not mind it moving to 48 hours. I will be gone for several days in July, and that will give Dr. P fewer turns to
backstab my allies!

[Tyrant]

48 is good for me, I've wanted it for awhile now actually, but did not want to ask since all you folks with more to do were ripping along at 24. (It's not that the turns take long, but the timing of GMT vs PST ends up making it so that there's a very small windoe of time for me to do turns.)

[Valerius]

48 hours is fine with me as well.