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[Cerlin]

I wanted to say thank you to everyone for doing their turns in a fast manner. we have had fews stalls and this is awesome. I think this is the fastest Ive ever done the early turns in a PBEM game.

[Wrana]

Probably because people are still new at this & hadn't learned an all-importance of stalling tradition?

[Cerlin]

haha I hope they never do! besides nieflehiem I dont think anyone major stalled. Which makes me a happy Tuatha.

[gowb]

Wow, what a fun game. NOT. -Borat

Seriously though that was way too fast. Victory point conditions suck. I'll know to avoid them in the future.

[johnarryn]

Hmm... well done for Sauromatia, I suppose, although for some reason I had thought there was more leeway in the number of VP's still necessary. Obviously this whole VP thign didn't work out too well...

[johnarryn]

Llamabeast will be back fairly soon, however, so if the folks in this game want to restart with the same (or different) nations we could also do that.

[Duncan_Frost]

Can we start on a different map? Maybe that Cradle of Dominions map, I always liked that one.

[Herode]

Well done Sauro, a neat rush victory ! [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon09.gif[/img]

Of course, as anticipated in the very first turns of our game, something like this had to happen due to the VP threshold. I thought that one would reach the conditions between turns 20 and 25, you were faster than my guess !

The fact is the VP threshold condition has to be carefully balanced. This game is the first VP game I played. It took me 2 tries on an Orania solo game to understand that the map contained 15 VP by itself on 14 provinces + the capitols VP (if set) + if I am not wrong, the VP set in the 'set victory screeen' with the slides at the bottopm of the screen (nbr of 1 VP province & so on...). Hence, for a standard Orania with Capitol-VP set & 10 players, we have 15 + 10 + 5 = 30 VP. The threshold must be > 15, more likely between 17 and 20 to limit rushes.

After some tries, I like the VP kind of game, provided the conditions are balanced. Enhances the strategic flavour of the moves. One just has to anticipate such rushes aas the one of Sauromatia.

Greets to Abysian warriors ! Your sacred are really tough guys, man. I'll consider this more seriouly next time I meat them

I'll retry Yomi soon with some updates in the pretender, this one was also my first try and not so good, but this nation is fun to play.

[zenphos]

I would play again, but with different nations, or at least I would prefer a different nation. And a different map. Cradle of dominions would also get my vote.

[Kadelake]

I apologize for ending the game so early. I figured that if I didn’t someone else would. It would have happened sooner or later and since llamabeast returns today it seemed a good time to restart the game

I had insane luck this game. Found a free fortress on turn two and found some other good sites like a forge-bonus one. Had Niefelheim three provinces away with low dominion and a dormant pretender. My awake dominion 10 pretender could dominion-kill him easily
It would have been great to continue to late game.

I'd love to restart with the same nation. The map was really fun as well, the only problem was the VPs. Is it possible to deactivate the VPs in independent provinces? Or that we simply say that the victory condition is to control half of the capitals and don't bother with VPs?

By the way, this game was kind of messed up. Does it still count as a victory for the hall of honour?