Byleswar (GAME IN PROGRESS)

[Carpetbagger]

Also are the druids even playing in this game? They have been very quite.

[licker]

The druids of marvani have been in a sort of mexican stand off with the Giants, where they spent their time staring across the fields at each other trying to decide what to do.

Of course this has only helped the little bird men since the massive might of the giant armies have not yet been unleashed.

Instead we send death angels, earth elementals, and hoards of ghouls to pick and poke at various birdy targets.

The success has been admittedly limited, but the cost is essentially zero. Once we are ready to unleash the rest of our forces surely the world will tremble under our mighty feet.

[rdonj]

Okay, I'd like to order a few more turns like that last one ! Two elemental royalties and eagle kings down, at a cost of 20 gems. You can believe I am celebrating that victory. Only low point of the turn is the dome being put back up over bandar-kadek. Oh well, I can accept that.

[licker]

Nicely done (or luckily done) my mage hunting hasn't been as effective lately, but that just means Caelum is hiding his mages again

Other than in the sea, which appears to be a bit of a lost cause for the giants at this point

[rdonj]

A little bit of both. One of my dai oni got lucky and, although it was routed and died 3 or 4 times, survived due to phoenix pyre and was able to bring down an air queen in single combat Also, in the same battle, a group of undead horsemen I summoned with pale riders killed two unequipped eagle kings. That was the luck part. The nicely done part was 3 castings of ghost riders running down the amphibious water queen and destroying her just before she could escape the battlefield. So grand total of my gem expenditure to kill them was 20d gems . The dai oni is pretty badly afflicted now, including being muted though so I'm not going to pull that off with him again. But for the moment he is still equipped. His deeds will be whispered of in awe for years to come in Yomi's darkest depths.

The sea is looking rather bleak lately. Only a matter of time until caelum's ownership of the oceans is complete, unless something drastic happens.

[Carpetbagger]

I regret I must go. I missed last turn and have been getting more 2 busy with spring. Sorry for the AI bomb but it shouldnt matter much. peaceout

[rdonj]

Not going to look for a sub? I'm not sure if you lost anything really important last turn... I killed a lot of sages and a few eagle kings, but that's about it. Anyway, if Caelum becomes AI I'm not sure there's much point in continuing. Marverni is doing a pretty decent dom push and is vaguely threatening niefelheim with it, but I don't think there's any realistic way for marverni to defeat both me and licker at this point. I guess that could change somewhat after the battle with caelum's AI, but even after the many years of war with caelum, niefelheim and yomi have plenty of resources at their disposal and are in prime position to acquire many of Caelum's territories.

[licker]

Yeah, that is a shame, but I can see it. This games turns take me a couple days to really do properly, and even there I feel I'm not really optimizing anything.

Though at this point the amount of cloud trapeezing Niefel Jarls I have supported by packs of skratti werewolves, and everyone can have most anything they want thanks to my forge makes it difficult for me to see where I would have any trouble with a Caelum on AI.

I haven't seen the last turn, but if it went as it probably did for me Caelum is starting to feel the pinch of some real armies in his lands in stead of just raiders.

Marverni and I worked out a bit of a deal again anyway, and though we have no NaP anymore also don't have any real build up on our border anymore either.

So unless he's got something up his sleeve (and he could, communions and lots of research...) I kind of agree with rdonj at this point.

I'm willing to play it out a bit longer though if others are interested, at least through the end of March when I again have to go on a trip for 3+ days.

[rdonj]

IMO, Marverni has a dompush strategy up his sleeve and is not really looking forward to fighting mighty niefelheim in a straightup battle. Which I could completely understand, given just how powerful Niefelheim has become.

That said, I can see how bringing Marverni down could be quite difficult at this stage of the game, with the right spells researched and careful scripting.



If Caelum goes AI I'll be spending the foreseeable future killing off that AI, which is more or less uninteresting in an mp game. But if you and RadioGibbon want to fight on for a while more I will continue playing. I may eventually just start sending in turns of nothing, though.

[licker]

Well it's up to him then, I've no intention of breaking my end of the 'deal' I have with him, but by the same token, if this becomes a 3 way race to see who can chew up the most of an AI caelum I'm going to win that race.

Not braggadocio, just my observations. I can basically put a LARGE army anywhere on the map I want to. ANYWHERE!

Not that I've been doing that, since Caelum could thwart it, but AI Caelum probably cannot.

From looking at the llama stats from last turn it looks like my full scale invasion of Caelum took alot of ground, and there are more forces already en route, not counting my shuffling of my CTing Niefel Jarls.

We all know the AI will suicide itself against any sieging forces, and I'm ready to put two big sieging armies on 2 calean forts, which will probably clear out any reasonable forces he has in the area after a couple of turns.

Yomi can probably do the same, but I think there are more caelean forces in his theater than mine.

Marverni is still slowly creeping south, but hasn't finsihed off the remnants of Sauromatia I left for him.

Anyway, let us know what you think RadioGibbon, if you want to play on for a bit I'll do it, if you want to try your hand in a war with me, I'll do that too

I don't think Yomi has any interest in a hypothetical war with me, but if you do we can try that one too