VesperBat - LA newbie game - upload pretenders!

[Profanicus]

Ahhh of course, I checked and yes this is the case unfortunately for me!
thanks!

[Zogger]

jmb said:
I don't get it. Not that I'm complaining, mind but there's this battle where according to the replay my army was routed after inflicting heavy losses on the enemy (>50%) and suffering some losses too (~33%) and yet, the report says I won and I did keep the province. What happened here??

I don't get it either. My army was clearly the last one in the battlefield but still you kept the province, not nice

[gowb]

WORM! WORM!

The cry went up among the hirdsmen. The warband clashed their shields against their swords as their throats sang the ancient song of dragon's death. The men of Marignon, for all their fancy livery, tore their clothes in fear and despair. The once-mighty Nosphestes, Drinker of Blood and Bane of Men, lay in a frozen heap upon the ground. His great red wings fluttered raggedly, the taut skin between bones torn beyond all possibility of flight. His blood turned to slush in his veins, the chill of his tormentor giving no quarter. None of his fiery vitae could fall to the ground, so full of ice was he. The great red dragon was down, a shadow of his former glory with only a sliver of life remaining.

A massive foot lay upon the wyrm's slender neck. Its owner roared into the night, steam rising from his throat in great plumes. Sölve, Son of Neifel, raised his blade of cold flame to the heavens and cried his victory, outlined in the fires his enemies had summoned. His warband echoed his call, and their fury mixed with the cries of their opponents, until rage and despair rang out over the scarred, burning forest.

The Lord of Winter raised his blade for the final blow. In desperation, Marginon's archers loosed their arrows, each aiming for the giant's massive back.

In a twist of tragic irony, a barbed shaft found its way into the very skull of Nosphestes. The dragon's last breath escaped its jaws, and with a thrash it lay still. Sölve stood robbed of his kill, insensate to the arrows pinging off of his armor and helm.

The battlefield fell silent. The final exhalation of Nosphestes echoed across the forest, audible above the crackling of the flames and the screams of the wounded. A cold wind blew through the remaining ranks of Marignon, and to a man they shuddered.

In a moment Sölve was among them, unprepared archers falling beneath his boots and blade. Faster than they could react, he was on the Goetic Master and tore the life from their high priest. It was too much. The armies of Marignon fled for their lives, pursued by the hirdsmen of Utgard.

[Zenzei]

Okay, I've talked to edhel and his problems with his computer are worse than first expected, so he won't be coming back to this game. Furthermore, I'm already playing three other games and they eat my time pretty good so I won't be able to permasub C'tis in this game and I think finding permasub would be hard as C'tis' situation isn't so good(though I have managed to improve it a bit). Therefore I've decided to put C'tis on AI soon, in about three turns, but before that happens I really want to fight some battles with Man just because they have been quite entertaining so far and I want to crush those defenders who always run away just before getting killed.

[zenphos]

Well since Zenzei is happy enough to play the next 3 turns I think we should look for a permanent sub to replace him.
I might be able to find someone, there is someone playing in another one of my games who might be up for it.

[Arghaii]

Weaseling out? I don't stand a chance against such arguments, therefore I will stop arguing.

[zenphos]

I have found another guy to play and take over from Zenzei.
Is gowb the moderator here? And zenzei how many more turns do you want to play?

[Zenzei]

zenphos: I'll be happy to give C'tis over to the new guy as soon as possible, saves my time. However, you should make it perfectly clear to the new sub that C'tis has exactly 0% chance of winning this game and huge chance of dying soon because noone has attacked Man, as I had hoped, to take some heat off C'tis back. So Man has been able to put all of its' resources against the lizardmen. Even though I've beat Man's army three times now(I did lose some valuable commanders in the most recent fight though), conquered a few new provinces and build a second lab & temple for the nation, there's no way I(or the new guy) can fight prolonged fight against Man, who has the income and research and army size of C'tis three times over, without any help.

So if the new sub likes impossible challenges and still wants to sub, he can take over immediately and I wish him good luck.
If not, I'll put C'tis under AI on turn 36.

[gowb]

Yes, I am the admin. Send me this guy's email and I will set it up.

[zenphos]

I explained the situation to him. And I think he is still up for it. He has just started and only has one game going at the moment. Basically I said it will be good practice for fighting a losing battle in the mid game and he said he was up for it.
I will tell him to get in touch with Gowb and send his email address. And also to read the forum just so he is aware of the situation.
Hopefully he will be able to at least put up a better fight than the AI who can be woefully stupid at times.