Sophistry - (Finished) Winner DrPraetorious!

[FAJ]

Oh now common. I was anything but unsportsmanly.

I have been trounced by early rushers before too; it is frusterating. You explained your position; pillaging my provinces and bumping taxes in your own for a resource war. That is legit. I think scorching the earth for bitterness' sake is wrong. You didn't do that, so I don't know what the argument is.

I would have been upset if you started pillaging Marverni the turn we attacked eachother. You didnt even scuttle the lab, which was nice of you. (Your spirit lived on and a random event burned it down a turn later though ).

[Sensori]

I didn't? I swear I tried to!

Mental note: if breaking the lab and storming takes place the same turn, lab stays up. But at least the event broke it down, so... Just as planned!

FAJ, I was just kidding when I said that (about the sportsmanship). It's how Helheim's set up, you pretty much need to rush someone early on if you don't want to die. "Problem" is that people you'll rush won't wanna die, either. It's funny though that no one who had anything to do with the war had nothing negative to say about it. Just people who're God knows where on the map do.

Sure, when Marverni was besieged I was thinking I would've pillaged it if I had the chance (if you had broken the siege, THEN I would've started pillaging it), but seriously enough, it was my only bigger source of income for as long as it was free, so me pillaging it beforehand wouldn't really been very likely. I needed it as much as you probably needed it to pay for the upkeep on your crazy Helhirding armies. ;p

[tibbs]

As long as you are playing within the rules of the game(not cheating) I dont' have a problem with it. This isn't really a "sport" so sportsmanship doesn't apply. This is a game about war.

Did Hitler say Stalin was "unsportsmanlike" when Stalin burned down every village that the Germans captured during the Barbarossa advance?

[FAJ]

well, the pillaging isn't really gonna hurt me too badly anyways. It will hurt Pangaea . He will have those provinces soon enough. My "army" of ~15 valkries stands adjacent to his 1000+ legion of doom and in spitting distance of his gorgon.

In other news; is there any trick to dealing with a petrifying opponent when you have no mages/research?

[Jazzepi]

Conceding.

Jazzepi

[Sensori]

i no understand internets hjuumor

[BigDisAwesome]

Getting more mages and research?

[Rytek]

Well, Ctiss has done a number on my SC god using Horror mark, curse, a bless with bonus to causing afflictions. It hasnt killed her but its only a matter of time. I think if he had followed up with his earlier horror markings with more horror marks from shaman on every fight she would be out by now. His first attack on me was real nifty, though I think he was expecting an easy kill because it was rather early. He brought his hero shaman with 2 astral and a few Sauromancers in the attack. He horror marked, cursed and his sauromancers each summoned a few of those Lamshanka's which instantly went for the horror marked god. The turn before I had just completed research on construction 4 and had fully kited her out. End result was his dead army and shaman hero. But it was a real good early game try.

[Lingchih]

Jazzepi said:
Conceding.

Jazzepi

Conceding? Your haven't lost a province (I don't even have an invasion army), and you just took one of mine with your invasion army. I don't understand.

-Atlantis

[Velusion]

Jazzepi was replying to FAJ's question...