Figment - Early Game (Started)

Corwin · #1 June 23rd, 2008, 02:05 AM

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AdmiralZhao said:
Wow. That was a violent turn. I think my favorite parts were:

* Banishing a Queen of Elemental Water to the Inferno
* The Epic Story of 3E2D, the doomed Tartarian Spirit, who killed one Tartarian after another in one on one duels, before finally succumbing to a pack of Tartians while only inches away from retreating to safety.
* Ending MossBeard's reign of terror
* Killing or sending to the Inferno multiple tartarians laden with artifacts

Lessons learned:
* Lightning spear doesn't actually cast lightning, and so doesn't cause fatigue when it hits the enemy.
* Even with Fata Morgana, Mictlan PD still sucks.

Less favorite parts include the whole-sale massacre of many noble Beast Bats, and the staling or going AI of my noble allies in the war against Sauromatian Terror.

You are not kidding, this turn was brutally violent. I had about 60 battles, most of them against your Mictlan armies, trying to halt their blitzkrig.

At this moment "Sauromatian Terror" is struggling migthly, forced to fight 4 fronts war.

All in all, after stalling last turn I have managed to temporally halt the avalanche of Mictlan hordes (for the most part), at least for 1 turn.

Many of my SC tartarians have sacrificed their lives fighting the endless wave of Mictlan's blood summons.

The largest loss for me this turn were deaths and banishments to inferno of 5 kick-*** tartarians/unique blood summons, and the fall of my critical fort.

I have to say that Mictlan turned out to be much stronger than I expected them to be. They seem to have recovered from our earlier war very quickly. Last turn they had more provinces than me, while their blood income is probably many times my own.

In fact I think most of Mictlan's forces were not really damaged in our earlier war, since they have wisely choosen to retreat them when they found themselves fighting many enemies at the same time. Ironically it is the very same position that I now find myself in.

Anyway, using most of the accomulated resources from the last 2 turns I think I have managed to stop the sliding of my nation in the graphs, for a moment. But I am afraid that with Fomoria's entering the fray on the side of my opponents it will tip the scales of this war against me.

Recently I have been putting a lot of resources into preparing a new strategy against Mictlan, for they have adopted too well against most of my current weapons. I hope that their troops will be less resistant against my new weapons and tactics that I will begin to implement this turn.

P.S. I have sent PM to our host regarding switching to 72h host, but did not get reply yet. Perhaps you may want to try to contact him as well if you like. Meanwhile the host is still on 48h timer (24 hours left until next hosting)

Corwin · #2 June 24th, 2008, 12:04 AM

Can anybody connect to the server? It seems to be down ATM.

AlgaeNymph · #3 June 24th, 2008, 01:05 AM

I can't connect either.

Rathar · #4 June 24th, 2008, 02:51 AM

Nor I but I thought it was just me as I can't connect to any dominions server.. I can do everything else internet wise but most annoyingly not dominions and I NEED to get my turn in.. I am going to try to attach my file to this and PM Velusion and hope he can stuff it in the right place.. Sorry if this doesn't work out.. Been trying all day and even my network admin brother in law is lost..

Corwin · #5 June 24th, 2008, 04:51 AM

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Rathar said:
Nor I but I thought it was just me as I can't connect to any dominions server.. I can do everything else internet wise but most annoyingly not dominions and I NEED to get my turn in.. I am going to try to attach my file to this and PM Velusion and hope he can stuff it in the right place.. Sorry if this doesn't work out.. Been trying all day and even my network admin brother in law is lost..

Same here.

My turn has been ready all day, but I could not connect to the server since this morning, despite trying many times.

I really hope that server is simply down and the timer is not ticking.

AdmiralZhao · #6 June 25th, 2008, 02:12 AM

Well, it looks like my third stale is coming up. I guess we all know what Sauromatia's new tactic is. =)

I would quibble with a number of Sauromatia's points, which are made so that he appears weaker than he really is. While Sauromatia is indeed fighting a 4 front war, he is gaining ground on three of those fronts, while holding the Mictlani front steady. Even on the Mictlani front, my forces have taken large losses, both in Tartarians and in Beast Bats and other holy warriors. And many of the provinces Mictlan has nominal control over still have Sauromatian forts on them, forts full of Sauromatian archers and mages. In addition, ownership of the Forge has switched to Sauromatia, which can only be viewed as a dark omen for the Allies. In short, we all have a long way to go before the Sauromatian Menance is crushed, once and for all.

Corwin · #7 June 25th, 2008, 04:35 AM

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AdmiralZhao said:
Well, it looks like my third stale is coming up.

Yours and mine both. I spend like 4 hours making last turn, and I could not upload it. And I haven't heard anything from our host yet. Has anybody been able to contact Velusion?

I can only hope that the server is down, and that the timer is not ticking.

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I would quibble with a number of Sauromatia's points, which are made so that he appears weaker than he really is. While Sauromatia is indeed fighting a 4 front war, he is gaining ground on three of those fronts, while holding the Mictlani front steady. Even on the Mictlani front, my forces have taken large losses, both in Tartarians and in Beast Bats and other holy warriors. And many of the provinces Mictlan has nominal control over still have Sauromatian forts on them, forts full of Sauromatian archers and mages. In addition, ownership of the Forge has switched to Sauromatia, which can only be viewed as a dark omen for the Allies. In short, we all have a long way to go before the Sauromatian Menance is crushed, once and for all.

As for your points - I did not nesseserly disagree with most of what you have said. And I am certainly not throwing a white flag yet. Nevertheless I was quite impressed with your blitzkrig - you have catched up with me in number of provinces in just 2 turns, even considering that I have stalled one of them. Still last turn I have thrown most of my reserves at you, and all I could do was to halt your advance (mostly), not even throw you back, while I still lost the castle and a many more SCs than you did.

I do hope that my Forge may help me, if it will not get dispelled quickly. And I can't wait to see the results of several of my new anti-Mictlan weapons and strategies, assuming I will be able to upload this turn and few next ones.

Basically I feel that the scales of the great war are more or less balanced at this moment (me vs you, Oceania and Marveni), despite our violent clashes all over the map. Graphs seem to confirm it. But with Fomoria's entry to the war on your side, I think I will likely to start losing ground again. But we shall see how it will go.