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PsiSoldier · #**291** October 2nd, 2009, 01:52 AM

Atlantis only has 2 turns left. Their last 2 provinces under siege, One being stormed this turn and the last one will be stormed next turn assuming my army can break through the walls on the first turn they arrive in the province which I believe they will..

Calahan · #**292** October 4th, 2009, 05:19 AM

@ All

By my count, I am able to claim the win in this game on this turn, as I have now held the required 7 capitals for 3 consecutive turns.

I will try to find an independent person with a well known good rep to confirm this for me asap. And many apologies for not doing this when the new turn came out, but it's been hectic since coming back from my trip, and didn't have chance to check everything over until this morning (when I actually found out I could have claimed the win last turn

)

Will get back to you all asap with the verdict.

Edit: In case the game does continue, Atlantis have been set to AI as of ths turn (kindly done by vfb. For which he gets my thanks)

tgbob · #**293** October 4th, 2009, 09:31 AM

Oh we had win conditions? Here's me paying attention for the last 87 turns.

Calahan · #**294** October 4th, 2009, 12:00 PM

Ok everyone, I've had my win claim assessed by an independent 3rd party, in this case lch, and he has confirmed that I have met the victory conditions of holding 7 capitals for 3 consecutive turns.

The capitals I hold are...(in the order they were obtained)

1. Yomi
2. C'tis
3. Suaromatia
4. Pangaea
5. Mictlan
6. Fomoria
7. Niefelheim

With the Niefelheim capital being the last one I captured on turn 84.

I will write up an AAR when I get chance, and post up a load of turn files for those interested.

I've also extended the current turn by 72 hours in case there's a need to keep the game going for whatever reason.

lch · #**295** October 4th, 2009, 12:04 PM

As Calahan writes, I can confirm that he was in control of the forts of 7 capitals for turns 84 to 87.

tgbob · #**296** October 4th, 2009, 12:06 PM

I demand a clam count!

rdonj · #**297** October 4th, 2009, 02:18 PM

Hey, go yomi!

Valerius · #**298** October 4th, 2009, 04:26 PM

Congratulations, Calahan. Like tgbob, I was unaware there were win conditions. I guess coming in as a sub I didn't pay as much attention to the rules as I otherwise would have so this was quite a surprise ending.

Calahan · #**299** October 4th, 2009, 04:50 PM

The win conditions were in the Original Post* under "Victory Conditions", since always find it's better to have a goal in a game rather than leave it to concession (as that could result in games going on forever). But maybe there was a bit too much info in the OP for the win conditions to be seen clearly. Although it was near the top so.......?!?

This was the first game I arranged as well, so got plenty of thoughts on how to lay things out better during sign ups for future ones.

This was also my first full game with graphs off, and must say it plays very differently to games with graphs on. Which probably explains why the end feels so sudden to the rest of you. Can't say the win feels sudden to me, as I'd only been one capital away from winning for about 15-20 turns, so knew the end was close unless everyone jumped me.

Although if the graphs had been on and capital VP's active, it would have been obvious to all how close I was to the win. So think I definitely benefited from them being off this time around. I had hardly any scouts all game though, so while I'd happily play graphs off games again, I'm not sure I'd go for it in an EA game.

* My thanks to Archaeolept for using this term today on the IRC. I'd previously used 'first post' and 'game status' page to describe the first post of a game thread, but didn't really like either. But like the term 'Original Post'

PsiSoldier · #**300** October 4th, 2009, 06:57 PM

WTF bull****. I didnt realize this was vp victory.. I had this game won. I could have taken out every one left in the game at once with no problem...

Grrrrr