MP Lunar Sea - a second bout of modness. Closed - map selection underway. - Page 27

Zeldor · #**261** June 26th, 2010, 06:28 AM

I can certainly say that Pan lost his chance to win the game long time ago. He was top1 some time ago and then he stopped and let me and Lanka run away in power. He could easily acquire Kailasa and Ermor lands, maybe even Vanheim. He'd be in the race now still, maybe even the strongest conteder, with me and Lanka bleeding each other out heavily. Instead we've got big Vanheim which was pretty much dead in the beginning. And he still managed to kill Ermor and Kailasa, with Pan just looking and sitting.

I was quite lucky with magic sites, which helped me with diversity etc. Otherwise Abysia is so much weaker than Lanka... And I still think Lanka made strategic mistake of attacking Sauro at that moment. I think he had real chances of getting Sauro to help with me, if it came to that [and if I was really ahead]. Or maybe Dimaz just underestimated my ability to help Sauro, as we had no real border.

Gregstrom · #**262** June 26th, 2010, 06:48 AM

Okay, I think the outcome of the game isn't in serious doubt unless things change very suddenly.

I'm inclined to give it a couple of turns to see if any big changes do occur.

Dimaz · #**263** June 26th, 2010, 07:03 AM

Zeldor, I didn't take into account several things that should significantly change Lanka playstyle compared to vanilla. In particular, I lost too many thugs which are not so strong with Shishis and bells all over the place. In fact, the better strategy was to cut all that CT raiding and just spam SD like crazy with those Raksharajas, they are really cool when massed (in fact, in my tests it's the only thing that kills ELs, you somehow didn't give them LR items, so they kill them really fast.) And all the rest was the consequences of loosing too many thugs/items in the beginning, since I never was able to create some critical mass of them to finally deal with Sau. I was also lucky with sites, in fact I still have 40 blood and 20 alt sites, but that doesn't change a thing now.
And the conquering of water was the key to your success I think. Missed that part too.

Zeldor · #**264** June 26th, 2010, 08:06 AM

Yeah, I suspected that you may have big blood discount site. I did some calculations on your blood eco, etc and it was really suspicious to summon all B stuff in a fort there. But I had no way to destroy that summoning center. I have really cool stuff too