MP: Celebrities MA game ended: Numahr - Ermor wins!

[ghoul31]

Thats a whole lotta troops.

[earcaraxe]

thanks for the feedback, its much clearer now.

concerning your fair question about my chances versus agartha, i have thought about it lot: i think the difference would have been that had u not attacked, I wouldnt have recruited (that much) anathemant dragons, who r expensive, excellent battlemages and bad researchers, and wouldnt have spent that much gold on training those humanbred platoons. I would have had money to build castles, and researching power to quickly reach 'Opposition' to stop the statues. that surely would have slowed the invasion, i wonder if i had been able to stop it still.

I had no intention of attacking soon but it sure wasnt written on my forehead.

On to a slightly more general topic: based on my experience, early 1 on 1 wars versus an at least average opponent with a healthy empire(regardless of nation choice) nearly never worth it. (I would even say that its a useful principle for every multiplayer strategy game.) Maybe i just havent encountered efficient rushes yet.

Originally Posted by Deadnature

You're quite right that tussling with you was a big mistake, however, I think you mis-interpret my strategy:

I realized that abysia would be a big threat to me and was frankly worried that you would invade my lands sooner or later. So I tried to aggressively raid your territory. (My neighbors were also powerful, but I raided them too) But a rush? Nope, didn't even try to get next to your cap. These multiple "invasions" that you speak of were really just on the outskirts of your lands. When you "beat back" those invasions was mainly because of my stupidity; the first time I forgot that all your armies have mapmove2 in MA! But surely I had no intention of going toe-to-toe with your mage-support.

Losing a bunch of my tigers to your fireballs early hurt, but the real shame is my 5 stales, which is what I think crippled me, sorry for that everyone.

But I don't know how this caused your downfall, from what I saw of those battles with Agartha, another 20 mage turns wouldn't have made the difference. Sure, he might have picked another target based on the scales, but why? Abysia is a good rush-target for Agartha once early-game is over...

But then again, this is only my third no-diplo game, so maybe I don't understand the intricacies of communicating with one's armies and position yet.

Good show earcaraxe! Thanks for setting this game up and for the feedback.

[Valerius]

Sure, hosting interval has been changed to 48 hours. Have a good vacation.

Btw, we've got a nice pace going and earcaraxe just listed 24 hours as hosting interval but if things get too be too much (maybe during the next round of wars) we can consider permanently going to 48 hours at some point.

[Valerius]

I'm also fine with either 24 or 48 hour hosting interval. I'm inclined to leave it at 48 because nobody is dragging their feet (as can sometimes be the case when the hosting interval is extended) and I think we'll want 48 hours once the next round of fights begin. But if everyone would like to go back to 24 let me know.

[Valerius]

Numahr is right. No diplo means no diplo - either private or public. Sorry about that, Numahr. Please, no more comments other than admin requests.

[Numahr]

Dear comrades,

I have troubles coming on the RL front for this week. I have already played the current turn; then I would request a delay until next Monday. Sorry for that and thanks in advance for your understanding...

Numahr

[Valerius]

Sure, no problem. I've postponed hosting by 6 days.

Also, it seems like everyone is still doing ok with 48 hour hosting (which is quite a nice pace for turn 54). But if anyone needs more time let me know.

[Numahr]

Could send my turn in.

[Deadnature]

I guess I could too...

[Deadnature]

sorry all... have to request a 24 hour extension because im moving to a new place

thanks