No Diplo EA Game - No Wankers Allowed - Game Over, Baalz/Abysia Wins

[Baalz]

Thanks for the bang up job admining Calahan. Your efforts are making sure that a great game is had by all and its much appreciated!

[Calahan]

My spies inform me that the game is heating up, as the second nation was eliminated this turn. With Mictlan's demise coming hot on the tail of Arco's. So I can now reveal that Mictlan was played by your game organiser Executor.

(I will be sorting out the OP straight after I finish this post, so expect to see an update shortly)

Originally Posted by Baalz

Thanks for the bang up job admining Calahan. Your efforts are making sure that a great game is had by all and its much appreciated!

Thanks Baalz. I just hope my efforts as admin are having some positive effects on how enjoyable everyone is finding the game. I am very happy though that the game is this far in without any sort of problems having occurred, plus the all important zero showing by the dreaded AI

So while I have the chance, I'd like to thank everyone if I can for so-far sticking to the extensive set of player rules I sent out. I only ask that you all please keep it up, as it makes my job as admin a lot easier, and hopefully, the game more enjoyable for everyone. With the latter being the most important aspect of course

[Executor]

Well that was interesting.
I hope I managed to stir up some trouble at least before I went down.
Apologies to nations X, Y and Z for possibly depriving them of some provinces or getting them into war with my conquerors I hope?
To nation X, seeing my scout (quite regular) capture a province with 30 troops in it, given half set to retreat, but still, was the funniest and weirdest battle I have ever seen in Dominions.
I watched it over and over again, it was ridiculous. Now the reason I did that is because that was originally my province before the barbarians took over and I was forced to abandon it due to, well war. So don't hold a grudge.

To my main enemy, it is my firm belief that had you attack just two turns later you would have lost. Indeed I planned to attack you 2-3 turns after you started your attack on me, but by the time I managed to pull my forces together one fort had already fallen and I lost my archer backup and one part of my army sadly.
Perhaps I should have anticipated that with a large army on my border for several turns but it was only turn 12 or so.

Second, I curse the bastard who stole my merc army just before the main clash with my invader, they were a very important part of the army! BTW, you must have had crazy money to overbid on them.

Third, regarding that big battle, it worked out much better with my missing part of the army and my mages casting harm on someone that could actually be affected. (I won it in my test battles, go figure)
I'll just add that to luck, well misfortune rather.
And I was torn on whether I should have confronted you on a winner takes all in my lands, or make a move toward your cap while you chase me back. Wrong decision I guess with my army being weakened and getting attacked by another nation.

All in all, even with luck 3 I have never had such bad luck in a game, with 3 indie attacks, famines, migrations in my cap, constant unrest events and gold losing event and all other crap by turn 20.
The only positive thing I got out of luck 3 were gems, which proved to be unusable in the end due to lack of research, and mages...sigh
Heh, and it's quite funny when you pull all your remaining cash into PD, well rather alchemize ALL gems since you can't use them, to about 60-70 PD if I remember and than "the people suddenly revolt" and you lose that province. That, heh, that was nice...

Well good luck to the rest of you.

Also, Calahan is still the main admin and his word is the word of God for this game, however should he become unreachable for some reason I'm still here to sort out trouble, grant delays, look for subs, etc...

Cheers all.

BTW, OP updated.

[Baalz]

Originally Posted by Executor

All in all, even with luck 3 I have never had such bad luck in a game, with 3 indie attacks, famines, migrations in my cap, constant unrest events and gold losing event and all other crap by turn 20.
The only positive thing I got out of luck 3 were gems, which proved to be unusable in the end due to lack of research, and mages...sigh
Heh, and it's quite funny when you pull all your remaining cash into PD, well rather alchemize ALL gems since you can't use them, to about 60-70 PD if I remember and than "the people suddenly revolt" and you lose that province. That, heh, that was nice...

Yeah, I've had this same experience, and recently I've come to think it's tied to the conventional (and I think wrong) idea that it's a good idea to take luck-3 scales with awful other scales. The reason this ends up being a bad idea is because the best/worst events are tied to scales. If you have 4 good events they may be unrest is reduced, or your dominion expanded then you get 1 bad event that barbarians attacked or half your population died. You're getting many more good events but the impact of the fewer bad ones is much more significant. With crappy other scales I think you'll generally come up well head to go with neutral order/luck rather than turmoil-3/luck-3...

[Calahan]

@ All - Turn 39 saw the lizard nation of C'tis eliminated. Their ruler was Hylobius.


@ - Hylobius - "Thank You" for playing Hylobius. I hope you both enjoyed the game, and that you learned a lot from the experience. And also thanks for fighting until the very end, as that is much appreciated by myself as admin, and all the players, as it enhances the game a lot all round when nobody can gain ground by default wins against the AI.

[Hylobius]

Thanks for the game and thanks to Calahan for his excellent job with admin duties. I will refrain from making any comments about the game so that I don't accidentally spill any information.

[Calahan]

@ All

I've been informed that we have another man down, with last turn bringing with it the fall of Ermor's Sacred Temple of the Shroud. Ermor was led right up until the final battle by Aethyr.


Thanks for playing Aethyr, and for fighting it out until your last Principe fell. Much appreciation and thanks for that, as always. Hope you enjoyed the game, and that you're not yet too seasoned as a Dom player to have learnt a few things from it

[Executor]

OP updated, 14 players left.
Thanks for participating Aethyr.

Cheers.

[Aethyr]

Thanks Calahan for the absolute wonderful job you've done as admi in this game.

I'll refrain from further comments at this time other than to congratulate my persistent opponent, and to wish all remaining players good luck.

[Calahan]

It seems the attempt of the Witch Kings to rule the world has failed, as I have been notified that their elimination came last turn (turn 45). Sauromatia was played by GrudgeBringer.

Thanks for playing Grudge. Hope RL works itself out for you and your family.