Sophistry - (Finished) Winner DrPraetorious!

[FAJ]

Alas, Helhiem has taken large casualties, and we face an opponent that outnumbers us 20 to 1.

We will do our best not to under-estimate you again .

In other news, I have a ton of gems but no way to use them (My gem income actually exceeds my RP) so if anyone out there has the opposite problem, I am eager to trade. What I really want is someone to forge me astral items in bulk. PM me if you are interested.

EDIT- After seeing the most recent turn, we may not get another chance to underestimate you Anyone wanna lend Helhiem a hand?

[Salamander8]

Well that was a sobering experience. Over 200 troops including casters backed up by some PD face about 40 giants and didn't even inflict a single casualty while taking grievous losses. My inexperience as Arco and MP games shined through on that one. I've never had that much problem with the giants before. A combination of their owner's skill and I usually don't play the more 'standard' nations mixed with my research choices. Dang SP games have me too complacent.

I have to say that even with that, the pegasus riders have performed miserably. Even vs the indies earlier and especially in this battle, they just have not done well at all.

[Lingchih]

Jeez, man! I can't fight that. How do you feed all those bastards? Oh, and for future reference, Antimagic ain't worth a hill of beans against a true horde of Aboleths and their spawn.
Azathoth is now looking for a large cave, preferably a very deep and well hidden cave, to hide in.

-Atlantis

[Sensori]

FAJ said:

EDIT- After seeing the most recent turn, we may not get another chance to underestimate you Anyone wanna lend Helhiem a hand?

You forced my hand by throwing crap on Pangaea the province. So, thank yourself on being stupid enough do that! ;p

And as I said, NOW'S the time to attack Helheim if you ever wanted to! Leerooooyyyy Jenkinnnnnnnssssss

[FAJ]

Aw, cant call me stupid for doing that. If revenge wasnt enough, certaintly my close proximity and weakened state was enough to provoke attack.

[Sensori]

Uh, I was perfectly happy sitting in a defensive position, waiting for my death, but then you started Blighting my home and forced me to attack so I can gain some income. ;p So I'd call it stoopid! I'm not doing this for vengeance, I'm doing this to sub for someone who was dying under your pressure and to slow you down. And I surely didn't expect your armies to just die like that.

[Velusion]

RPing is ok, but lets not get carried away with the name-calling eh?

[Saint_Dude]

Hey now, I lost a single battle to helheim (because my initial probe stumbled on about 60 hellherdlings) before I lost contact with the game. I in no way quite because of the outcome of that battle. I just ran into unexpected Internet issues during my move.

In actuality I went looking for a fight with helheim, fully expecting to grind them to dust. Not only did pangaea have vastly superior numbers, they had researched a number of potent area effect spells (to eliminate the glamour), and the pretender was well suited to either operate as an sc or cast support spells.

That pangaea is now in fact beating up on helheim is far from shocking (unless of course pan's pretender was scragged during the turns that I stalled).

[Sensori]

Well, by the time I got control of Pangaea he was inside the little walled thingie and all that was left was like 6 provinces. ;p Numerical advantage has never meant instavictory, which is why things looked very bad to be. But right now, they look oddly good.

And Velusion, I'm just joking around when I wuz "calling him names." It's nuffin serious. ;p But still, the blighting was a mistake, I wouldn't have started attacking if he hadn't started it cuz I had no idea what he was packing.

[FAJ]

Well, its only fair for you to crush me. in this game, we are one for one; killing eachother and being killed .

and I too was surprised by my troops just dying. I was watching the battle and all of a sudden everyone just ran and died. They seemed to be doing so well! I even saw my commanders escape, but they were reported dead. A shame .

And I didn't take offense at the stupid comment. No worries. I don't consider any moves I have done in this game to be smart per se. I have no clue what I am doing with this nation and I am trying to conceptualize a plan to recover, but Helhiem is hollow. No infrastructure, no saftey nets! My god just showed up and I am wondering wth I was thinking when I made him!

Also, just curious, does blighting multiple times in one turn stack the effect, or is it at max, one blight effect? I cast it 3 times on the same place crossing my fingers .