MP: Doomsday 4 [send in Pretenders]

[Ossa]

Then herewith and by the powers bestowed upon me as Admin I declare GFSnl the new god of Doomsday. May he show mercy upon his former opponent pretenders.

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Well played! I didnt know how hard it is to get through to the mages if there are 50+ cave knights in between. And I went for Con-8 before I went into battlefield clearing spells like flamestorm. Coupled with the fact that I never believed hordes of undead to be a problem with holy pyre spamming mages, but I forgot that I didnt have an earth bless for them, as I had normally.

I'm also impressed with Zmeys with lycantroph amuletes, it takes a horde of micromanaging to catch those things.

The game was decided right after the beginning - you expanded faster and research faster than anyone else. After you invited me to join the attack on Jomon I knew it would only serve to make you even bigger. So just for the sake of the game I had to attack you. Unfortunatly noone joined me, otherwise we might have at least given you a few problems before you chunked out too many SCs.

[vargr]

Congrats GFSnl. The expansion was indeed good - by the time I was boxed in at the corner Agartha didn't seem too nice as a target. So I attacked Abysia but after that was over it was too late..

Ossa: was the magic sites settings really at value 65? I searched quite vigorously and the yield was disappointing. Especially the lack of astral hurt.

[Admiral_Aorta]

Yeah, I had trouble finding magic sites as well. Congratulations to Agartha.

[GFSnl]

Tnx,

great game. In the beginning I saw we had a lot of space on this map with so few players. The best strategy seemed to be massive scales and an imprisoned god. The magic settings were indeed the normal 35 instead of the 65 percent as described in the op. I figured this out pretty fast and I rushed gem generating spells. With an enchantment discount site (situated in serpent's neck) I could cast most of these with 20% discount. I didn't put any extra gems in it cause I thought they would be dispelled or overpowered pretty soon. But that didn't happen.
With massive gems and lightening fast expansion I got another advantage. Nobody contested me in the water. Rich in gems and income this was a great boon. Jomon really should have gone underwater pretty fast as their best mages are recruited in underwater forts. Fortunately they remain on land and with a massive death scale time was in my advantage.
I asked Marignon to co-attack Jomon but I didn't see any troop buildup along his borders so I figured he had other plans. The fight against Jomon went pretty smooth and as you can see from the Army size graph there was one Mega battle in which I cornered his largest army and make it route. After this he went a.i. and my second front with Marignon could be reinforced. I was a tough struggle and I hate Infernal Prison. I think I have at least 7 SC's in hell. With these extra troops the mass was large enough to push Marignon back. Together with my Zmey's raiding this is what broke his back.

TC and Arco were just to late with any action against me. It's not only the Nexus but I have a sizable blood economy going too. The plan for when I would have been attacked by everyone was that I would conquer Marignon as fast as possible with the cost of less troops and maybe losses on my other borders. Then I would cast Utterdark and income is slashed by 90%. With me as gem leader with the Nexus and a blood economy I would have gained a massive advantage.

Anyway, I had a fun game and hope to see you in next games.

Greetz,

GFSnl

[tratorix]

Jomon really should have gone underwater pretty fast as their best mages are recruited in underwater forts. Fortunately they remain on land and with a massive death scale time was in my advantage.

Yeah, I spent way too many turns sitting on my hands and waiting for something to happen. I really didn't have a solid midgame strategy and so I started to flounder pretty quickly after the expansion phase. Also, the position of being stuck on the edge of the map bordering two of the largest powers in the game didn't help.

GG, GFsnl, you took the advantage early on and never really gave it up.

[odeoderok]

Thanks, good game everyone.

I had Bogarus pegged as my early target from the get go, since he was in the corner with only me as a neighbour. So I rubbed my hairy palms when the big armies he moved to my border attacked Gath instead! But then the war took way too much time for me to be able to pitch in against the trogs.

I also suffered from the 65% mistake, I thought I'd try Acashic Record for once - end result 120 pearls burned and 3 sites with total income 4 found

I hadn't done any site searching, just rushing to conj5 and then I was screwed.. Bogarus also taught me that elephants die to soul slay But that made me think that they could be pretty sweet decoys against anti-SC spells in the late game. Never thought of that before.

[Admiral_Aorta]

Yeah, I made the mistake of attacking Gath, who I underestimated, and then gettimg attacked by Arco, Gath and Abysia all at the same time. I also didn't have a clear idea of how communions work. I also lost my pretender fairly early when he retreated into enemy territory.