YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [7/24 players left]

[WraithLord]

Oops, sorry about that:
Provinces
Nation Provinces
T'ien Ch'i 80

Good to know that at least one person checks this thread

[rdonj]

It's hard to say too much without feeling like you might be crossing a line... even for me. So that probably explains why most people aren't saying much. It's too easy to say something that could be construed as being in poor taste as far as the rules of the game are concerned. That's the only problem with this sort of game, the near total communications blackout with your fellow players. I imagine that must be especially hard in a game like this one, that has lasted for a very long time and seems to be coming to a head.

[WraithLord]

you're right of course.
Do you reckon that posting a (perfectly publicly available)short update every once in a while is ok?- If only to bump the game thread so we know it's alive

[rdonj]

Somewhat. The problem is it still looks halfway like diplomacy. Of course, there's the chance that you could use it that way . But I know that you wouldn't, wraithlord. In any case I think what you've done is fine, but it's just really difficult to talk about this game. It's a bit sad, that's part of the fun part of the game for me, talking to other people about what's happening. But eh, what can you do. Anyway go ahead and make postings like what you've done. I can't condemn it and you're right, it's certainly publically available. Anyway, the game is certainly in interesting territory right now. I'm anticipating a possible ending now, and I'm still not sure what's going to happen. I'be b een sadly a bit out of touch with the players lately due to various events going on in my life right now, which I most certainly regret, but I realize there's not a lot I can do about that. It's just sad the game thread is suffering as a result.

[Dimaz]

Wow. Suddenly.
I'll write something tonight, it was pretty interesting game for me so it deserves some AAR

[don_Pablo]

As for me I was surprised when Fomoria attacked me (Arco).
I was going to attack TC when found myself at another war.

[Dimaz]

And you don't know how I was surprised when both nations I was sort of afraid of attacked someone else on the same turn. That was the turn when I declared TC as the winner to my wife

[WraithLord]

Yes. for me it was like that.

A. Finish game long war with Atlantis.
B. Lick my wounds a bit. look around. TC is winning but surely Fomoria would attack it since he can also be in good position to win.
C. The turns go by. Ok, deep breath. Any second now Fomoria would attack TC. For sure Arco + TNN would join in and by then I'd have enough AotF and summons to exercise power on land and join as well.
D. In the meantime I'll put some minor effort to take Ermor. I can't sit idly by. right?- too boring
E. Fomoria attack Arco. What???- And I was thinking - congrats TC. Fomoria's decision just won you the game

[Slobby]

Originally Posted by WraithLord

Yes. for me it was like that.

A. Finish game long war with Atlantis.
B. Lick my wounds a bit. look around. TC is winning but surely Fomoria would attack it since he can also be in good position to win.
C. The turns go by. Ok, deep breath. Any second now Fomoria would attack TC. For sure Arco + TNN would join in and by then I'd have enough AotF and summons to exercise power on land and join as well.
D. In the meantime I'll put some minor effort to take Ermor. I can't sit idly by. right?- too boring
E. Fomoria attack Arco. What???- And I was thinking - congrats TC. Fomoria's decision just won you the game

Heh I find all this Fomoria hands the game over to TC talk quite funny. I'll do a more in depth as to my choices in a follow up post/wrap of the game, but for now just going to concentrate on the Fomoria gave TC the win talk.

Point C of WL I'll take a stab at first - namely because with a no diplo game there is no guarantee that a team gank would occur, mostly because you don't know what the other players are thinking/doing. If I had gone after TC there was just as good a chance that they would come after me as TC, seeing how TC was the big bad wolf in this game and not I. Also you'd have to count on every player playing to win.

As both WL and Cal pointed out already the player behind TNN didn't do jack, and I found it funny that the turn after I attacked TNN the player went AI.

Also if anyone had an awesome chance to stuff TC from gobbling Ulm it was Rlyeh and not I, but you just sat in your beachhead right next to Mictlan with your big army, threatening me. I could also point out that Arco could have scored some of Ulm's caps as well, but that didn't materialize either.

Furthermore regarding TC they actually won when WingedDog bowed out and Ulm was subbed. The sub that came in played worse than the AI. I watched many a battle between Ulm and TC and got a measure of what each was about. WingedDog's defense was pretty awesome. Watching the subs defense well...I was pretty disgusted by it. Especially the defense of Ulm proper when it didn't even look like the Ulm sub scripted the army.

I knew then that TC had the game unless I could steal caps faster than TC could. And so I made up my plans and embarked on a 4 line/front assault on Arco/TNN with the plan to either get my fifth from Ulm or Arco. But that didn't go as planned on the southern front. Nice job Arco .

[rdonj]

Oh. I do know who the sub for Ulm was actually, but after a scathing post like that I am not so sure I should reveal who the player was unless they want themself to be known. But the sub did tell me they didn't really have time for this game, and wanted to pass it on to someone with more time on their hands. My sub search didn't get any bites though, so they decided to play on despite not being able to devote a proper amount of time to the turns.