MP: Lapis MA CBM Running 6/16 Players left

[Toran]

Almost traditional 24h delay request from my side...

[Toran]

Hey there.

After checking my turn, and talking to Kuritza, I would like to offer my conceding to him - thus ending my part of the game. Obviously, there's still other players left involved, so I need to ask you.

My position is weaker than Bandar Log's for sure, and I took two severe defeats this turn. Although I still have forces left (and know that an ending could be dragged out for a few dozen turns..), I want to honour the circumstances - and accept him as a winner.

If you are okay with that, I will end the game and declare Kuritza the winner of Lapis...

Toran out.

[AlgaeNymph]

If Pythium concedes then I will as well.

[Jarkko]

I have been hesitant at throwing my weight on either side, as it did seem to me both sides were pretty equal, and my plan was to step on the side who were losing. However, if Pythium is now effectively out (even if I stepped in), then it is obvious the game is over and the apes won.

I made a couple harsh errors (the first being I messed up my pretender thinking she would be able to heal afflictions from the undead; well she wasn't...) of which the mistake of believing that Agartha and apes were allied was pretty decisive. I had a war going on with the apes (I attacked, after duly cutting off the NAP we had) which I thought was going pretty well, then Agartha invaded and I had to divert every reserve to halt them which resulted in the armies fighting the apes getting steamrolled (both wars were pretty much fought under the waves, and I just wasn't able to craft enough UW breathin items to keep enough shamans with the hard-hitters on both fronts; many brains were fried by the apes...). When it dawned to me the apes are not actually allied with Agartha, peace was quickly made (by this time I had already pretty much stopped Agarthan invasion and was taking lands back, but my beuautiful southern armies with unique summons, unique items and whatnots were mostly lost), and pretty soon after Agartha was steamrolled. At this point it was pretty obvious to me it is now a match between Pythium and the apes, and only my miasma (if even that) will allow me to see the end of this game.

Well played Kuritza!

[Kuritza]

Merry Monkeys dont mind being declared a winning nation. ^^ Its good that humans finally agreed to reunite with the mainsteam branch of primate evolution.

[Kuritza]

Ossa, can you please confirm if you are OK with finishing this game too?

[Toran]

Well, although we could "over-rule" him by majority, a final response would be nice.

For my part - I had expected to be killed by mid-game, but the alliance with the monkey had proven to be one of the best (= most stable) alliances I've had before - thus allowing me to raise up in power parallel to Kuritza.

Approaching the end game, I had learned quite a bit about what one should do, but of course the monkeys had done so far earlier before -> lots lots of gem generators that I now was lacking.

Plus, I didn't know about the many counters to "obvious" strategies that players could use - I found them used against me, but was consequently limited to reacting to those tactics. I found Kuritza always one step ahead of me.

The only chance I had seen to win against him (knowing about his advantage in gems AND experience) was the possibility of him making fatal mistakes - but he managed his forces quite well, and I never really found weak points to exploit... so he really earned the victory.

I'd still love to get the turn file from when our hostilities started, and maybe the recent one. Plus, would you tell me how many gems were in the Storm and GoH ritual spells? Just for the experience

Great game so far -

Toran

[Kuritza]

I will send you some turn files when I have the time, no problems.

GoH is +999 nature gems. It was crucial for me, so I alchemised all my astral gems to finally secure it.
Current Perpetual storm is something like +60 or so, but I am not sure. It proved to be just ridiculously good against you, by the way, as my Rudras can fly during the storm, whereas your Angels cannot.

[Ossa]

Yep, of course I'm fine with bowing under the wise leadership of our hairy cousins.

I though I wrote an answer already, but I must have tried to send it to fast after another one so it got deleted.