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Old September 4th, 2004, 09:52 PM

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and cohen was so kind of putting a small handicap at himself by taking abysia since they have a bit difficult starting position .

1) I think Cohen took abysia since he thinks abysia is one of the most powerful nations around ( they have good blood and decent troops -- a very powerful combination ).

2) The starting position on this variant of the map is not nearly as painful as on the full faerun map. In this map he has decent provinces around him. His nearest neighbor seem to be T'ien Ch'i, widely considered one of the less powerful nations. Jotunheim is also somewhat close. But not really that close.
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Old September 4th, 2004, 10:00 PM

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uh, I already called Caelum, Huzurdaddi, very sorry.

It looks like we might get this game started quickly, so I'll drop my work this evening and put together a new pretender (what was I thinking, getting work done on a saturday night!)
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Old September 4th, 2004, 10:08 PM
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I'd like to play Mictlan, I'll upload tonight sometime...
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Old September 4th, 2004, 10:16 PM
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and cohen was so kind of putting a small handicap at himself by taking abysia since they have a bit difficult starting position .

1) I think Cohen took abysia since he thinks abysia is one of the most powerful nations around ( they have good blood and decent troops -- a very powerful combination ).

2) The starting position on this variant of the map is not nearly as painful as on the full faerun map. In this map he has decent provinces around him. His nearest neighbor seem to be T'ien Ch'i, widely considered one of the less powerful nations. Jotunheim is also somewhat close. But not really that close.
Huzurdaddi Lex has already claimed vanheim some hours before so you have to chose another nation because it is first come first serve sorry .
hopefully you find another nation you would like to play .
i have a current players/nations list in my 4th or 5th post on page 1 .


1. almost every player has a nation he likes especially . almost everybody though thinks another nation is too strong .

as it is most nations are quite viable if they fit your playstyle i think .
the only nation which seems really handicapped is Atlantis and a few themes like Arco GE , Tien chi base / Bk etc. seem underpowered .

2. you are right i thought starting is almost the same in small faerun and old large faerun . in old faerun the abysian starting location was really bad . but in small faerun abysia starts in a totally different starting location .



but abysia is hard to play because you can do so many things quite good but you have to decide what you do .
abysia is one of the living nations which has really extreme gold shortage through large periods of the game .
abysia is magically not as flexible as mictlan .

depending on whom you have to fight is also important .
if abysia has to fight an airnation is extremely painful for them i think .

finally your blood hunters are hard to protect too or force you to spend lots of money in castling .

abysia is surely one of the stronger nations but there are lots of other fearful nations too like vanheim , caelum or lategame a magically extremely flexible nation like arco / pythium etc. .
lategame abysia is still good but not the best choice i think .
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Old September 4th, 2004, 10:19 PM
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uh, I already called Caelum, Huzurdaddi, very sorry.

It looks like we might get this game started quickly, so I'll drop my work this evening and put together a new pretender (what was I thinking, getting work done on a saturday night!)
yeah i go to bed now (3 a.m. here) if we have tomorrow morning already 14 players i will start immediately and if not then i will start hopefully at least later tomorrow

just everybody who is in so far try to upload your pretender tomorrow or today
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Old September 4th, 2004, 10:23 PM
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most recent players list :

- Thufir : T'ien Chi
- DragonFire11 alias Melkor : Jotunheim
- Boron : Ermor
- Cohen : Abysia
- Msew : Ryleh
- Puffyn : Pangenea
- Lex : Caelum
- Panther : Man
- FM_Surrigon : Vanheim
- Soapyfrog : Mictlan
- Huzurdaddi ???

probably also in from newbiegame 2 :

- Aku
- Klatu
- PashaDawg



wow already 10 players for sure .
looks good with 14 until tomorrow

i wonder that nobody has claimed arco so far
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Old September 4th, 2004, 10:47 PM

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most recent players list :

- Thufir : T'ien Chi
- DragonFire11 alias Melkor : Jotunheim
- Boron : Ermor
- Cohen : Abysia
- Msew : Ryleh
- Puffyn : Pangenea
- Lex : Caelum
- Panther : Man
- FM_Surrigon : Vanheim
- Soapyfrog : Mictlan
- Huzurdaddi ???


Boron,

In order for Lex to be able to upload Caelum two things need to happen:

1) Huzurdaddi needs to set his current Caelum position to anonymous
2) You must kick off all anonymous players.
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Old September 4th, 2004, 11:07 PM

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Too bad Caelum is already taken. I really wanted to try them out.

I guess I'll go for Pythium. I've played them before in multiplayer and I would rather go for something different, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
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Old September 4th, 2004, 11:26 PM

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I've played them before in multiplayer and I would rather go for something different, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
I hear ya. My plan is to play my first 17 MP games with 17 different races.
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Old September 4th, 2004, 11:38 PM

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Default Re: Newbiegame 3 on mosehansen . status : open

So on I reupload Abysya?

However I play Abysya not because I think it's powewerful (IMO it's very weak compared to every air nation - caelum, vanheim, pythium), but because I like the demon taste and (ipothetically) good army (that lacks in Mictlan).
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