World in Crisis - Started

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R'lyeh hopes everyone has spies in Sauro's cap, so that instead of being just a total and complete disaster, it will have been an entertaining total and complete disaster. Entertaining for the spies, that is.

Here's what the sneaky AI did:

First, it lulled me into a false sense of security by doing crazy stuff like kitting out commanders with hammers and clams and double blood stones, and sending them to their death.

Then, it vacates the capitol, sending its armies out to take back useless provinces, instead of securing the gates. Oooh! Oooh! Oooh! If I invade now, I could take the capitol, and those damn vampires won't have anywhere to come back to! Muuu ha ha ha ha ha! I thought.

So, land on the capitol, have to leave a couple muttering tartarians behind, oh well, no time to waste! And bingo! Walls ripped down the very same month. Time to invade!

Everyone's all set to storm, just a couple straggler Sauromatian armies in the neighboring provinces, nothing to worry about right? Where did all the vampires go? Bah, Agartha must have killed them or somethin'.

And ... BAM! Sauromatia flies its 60 Vampire Lords back to the capitol with accompanying vampire chaff army, and fights my army before it storms the castle. It's a frikking Disintegration machine gun. 'Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff' Only, not to worry ... I've got Antimagic up, so I lose my iron dragons, and a couple of Abominations, but almost all my SCs survive, and demolish the vampire army.

Except ... the buggers instantly resurrect inside the castle walls, and I only had ONE pearl on my Antimagic caster, and this time it's 'Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff Pff' again but I've got no more chaff and my MR bites and ARGH! All the vampires are just fine, sitting in the castle, the few stragglers of my army that survived are scattered about, and I'm not even back to square one, I'm at like, square minus nine hundred and fifty.

Curse you, evil AI! Curse you, Executor, and your vampire hordes!

Agartha, please stop mucking about with your Chalice-stealing, and just come kill me now.

-- R'lyeh

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Originally Posted by vfb

Curse you, evil AI! Curse you, Executor, and your vampire hordes!
-- R'lyeh

I don't know about spies, vfb.. but I laughed my a** off - well told.

[Executor]

Told ya, my legacy will endure!!!
Imagine what It'd be like if Quitti didn't start casting Armageddon and killed my blood income, terrifying right?

[Quitti]

What, armageddons? Where?

So, did anyone take the advice to visit north? The Calderas seem a bit hotter these days, having been pumped full of liquid iron, or something. I guess it was those big earthquakes a few years ago.

Anyway, as Lanka I see what it did for the blood income. Ouch. Oh and I wish I would've had a spy there to see the disintegrate-chaingun in action.

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Hot? It's the middle of the snowy season, Illwinter is upon the lands, and the seas have frozen over!

Where are these calderas you speak of? Please be more specific than just 'north'.

[JimMorrison]

Guh..... So Sauromatia retains their capital? Niefel is done for then. We don't have the stamina left to endure the thousands of vampires who can happily trounce over the half of our empire that is solidly Sauromatian Dominion, with no way for us to repel it.....

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Whoops ... I wasn't watching the clock on this game, and the new turn is due soon.

Since no-one else has their turns in either, I've postponed hosting by 24 hrs.

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Originally Posted by Executor

Haha, well not really, while you're dealing with at least several hundred vampires and a horde of vampire lords, I'm only fighting a couple here, but how goes the fight by the way?

I've got a single white candle on Sauromatia's capitol -- hopefully that prevents the vampires from resurrecting. Agartha is not killing me yet, he just keeps wishing for the chalice. Better than wishing for more Armageddons, I suppose.

R'lyeh hasn't really recovered emotionally from the crushing defeat we experienced the first time we stormed the Sauro cap. So we're milling about aimlessly, all depressed and just waiting for the Agarthan invasion.

[Quitti]

Waiting for the invasion? Fools! You must invade them first!

By the way, Kevätkukkanen wanders the land again, this time as a Tartarian Cyclops. While he has severly diminished in power, and quite mad, he should still be a formidable foe...

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Unless either Lanka or Nief would like to keep playing:

R'lyeh and Agartha have agreed that this game is not very exciting any more, and so we can have actual fun in some other games, we'd like to declare that this game ends in a stalemate.

Any objections?