Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [TC wins!]

[spacht]

DonCorazon said:

I have a really big nation. It is almost 8 inches long with a fairly nice girth. (zoomed in of course).

It will be swallowed whole by Pangaea nonetheless.

[sansanjuan]

DonCorazon said:
Tien Chin scouts have spotted a 1080 unit Pangean army at 264, 2 provinces away from the gates of the imperial kingdom.

The cavalry doesn't always arrive on horseback. I remember this John Wayne movie when the settlers circled the wagons as the Native Americans rained down arrows. Suddenly, out of the sunset came a thundering force of John Wayne and 100 men riding giant stunted rutabagas...


-SSJ

[cleveland]

DonCorazon said:
Tien Chin scouts have spotted a 1080 unit...giant shambling horde of rotting orange peels.

Your fear is rightly justified, Tien Chi. The "rotting-orange-peel" strategy is indeed considered vastly superior to the laughable "Chalice-Assisted-Tartarian-Supercombatant" (CATS) strategy your doomed nation has banked upon.

DonCorazon said:
It is almost 8 inches long with a fairly nice girth. (zoomed in of course).

It is Pangaean civic policy to spay and neuter all CATS.

spacht said:
It will be swallowed whole by Pangaea nonetheless.

Damn, that was good. I've got nothing. Bravo.

[Omnirizon]

atlantis has some balls.

their taking on mari, utgard, and me; and being pretty efficacious at it, considering.

[hoo]

I think I speak for everyone else when I say, Go! Go! Go! Crazy AI Atlantis. Maim, Kill, Thrill FishPeople!

[spacht]

I really don't know why Ylvali quitted. Even after that many turns AI Atlantis is still fighting back while beset on all sides by 4 players. Or is there someone secretly supplying the AI with money and gems?

[sansanjuan]

spacht said:
Or is there someone secretly supplying the AI with money and gems?

Only through the land they've taken from me.

-SSJ

[Omnirizon]

Pan is paying off the Atlantis AI to give us trouble. He sent them a small fortune and a bundle of magic goodies to do so.

[Randvek]

Omnirizon said:
Pan is paying off the Atlantis AI to give us trouble. He sent them a small fortune and a bundle of magic goodies to do so.

Sure beats giving up your land and losing your armies for nothing like a sucker, eh?

[Omnirizon]

Of course. I mean Atlantis is just a puppet; they can't be faulted.

Pan is the nation to be held accountable. Just because he can't be number one, he gives large sums of resources to a neighbor. Doesn't seem very pretenderly-like, does it? More of a metagame issue, I think. It seems that any REAL pretender, actually REALLY playing within the bounds of the game universe, would fight and claw to the last scrap of land; not give up and give away resources to a neighbor.

Strangely enough though, 'first past the post' systems are what breeds third party politics. Fighting for godhood is a bit different from constructing political power strategies though; as personal godhood rather than party power is at stake. As natural human players, it is tempting to create third party political fabrications; but I think it is probably metagaming given the goal of the Dominions universe.