PBEM game: The first step (Running)

[RibbonBlue]

Arg I am surounded by knights, I have to build up a huge force just to capture a province!

[Agrajag]

Hooray!
Internet Explorer has gone insane and now I have to use another computer to get my Emails
Its so much fun that now all of my turns will take longer to be submitted!
Or, in short, expect my turns to take longer untill I submit them.

[Molog]

If it's only internet explorer that is broken.

Windows explorer can also acces the internet.

If you still have a working internet connection and a ftp program you could download firefox internet browser from here: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...4/win32/en-US/

[Agrajag]

Molog said:
If it's only internet explorer that is broken.

Windows explorer can also acces the internet.

The Windows Explorer is broken as well :/
I'll try Firefox, or I'll just use my other computer.
*Waiting for the next turn*

EDIT: BLEH, exactly why Im thinking about switching over to linux, after one reset everything is working again, for no logical reason.
Not that I mind things working, but I dont mind it when they just randomly break :\.
Well, now I can happily submit turns, as long as I get turns to submit
And don't blame me for not thinking about reset straight away, Im trying to have this computer be reset free.

[sushiboat]

Turn 10

The province tally is: Machaka 9, Arcosephale 7, Ermor 7, Pythium 6, Marignon 6, Pangaea 5, Man 4, and Jotunheim 4. Over the last two turns, Marignon has had substantial income gains and has now overtaken Machaka (by a little) for first place in that category. Ermor found gems. Pangaea and Man lead in research. Ermor has taken over first place in army size from Machaka. Marignon now employs Dagan the Sage.

[Molog]

Turn 10

Not much important to report, except a strange whisper getting stronger.

[Ironhawk]

shmonk said:
I agree, and I love it. Now I can see why MP is better than SP, and to get into 2 or 3 games at a time to keep the interest in the game up.

Yeah shmonk, MP totally rules. I dont even understand anymore why people play SP. One thing to watch out for with MP games tho: as you move into the end-game your turns can sometimes get quite long (an hour or more). So if you have a lot of games all in the end phase you might get overwhlemed. Many MP players play in multiple games but stagger thier involvement. So once they reach late-game in one match, they will enter another match, knowing that the late-game will be over before the new game starts to take up too much time.

[Ironhawk]

RibbonBlue said:
Arg I am surounded by knights, I have to build up a huge force just to capture a province!

How many knights are we talking here Ribbon? Cause they usually range in the 5-10 area, which you should be able to counter with a handful of your own knights and the tactics I detailed earlier. Additionally, you can recruit some mages with 2A (2 Air) magic and script them to lightning bolt x5 and all your troops to Hold&Attack and Fire. One or two mages like that will really savage a knight block. Be sure to bring chaff. And I really mean chaff! What is your cheapest unit? Slingers? Militia? Use those to sacrifice on the knight lances.

[The Panther]

sushiboat said:
Ermor has taken over first place in army size from Machaka.

One problem is that the army size graph does not take into account the relative worth of the actual troop. An Ermor soulless therefore counts exactly the same as an Ulm knight in the graph, when the knight is maybe 50 times as powerful. So Ermor will skyrocket to the top of the army size graph and eventually squash all the other nations into the bottom of the scale such that it becomes totally meaningless. Ermor with 7 provinces and high dominion (assuming he is either AE or SG) is plenty to begin the exponential growth in army size.

[RibbonBlue]

Ya, problem is I dont have enough gold to recruit a bunch of air two mages, or knights, but I am slowly taking out the knights with masses of spears to repel em, and LBS to fire at their archers to cause em to morale and flee.