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Have you ever played Diplomacy in your fucking life ever? Yes I have, and I think that while it's a decent and quite educational modeling environment for all kinds of multi-party interactions, it does a piss-poor job at being a game. I mean really, there is an entire subsection of diplomacy discuss...

If I feel like dedicating part of my victory to one or more other players, I can do that. And it would have exactly the same force as your agreements with Rlyeh. No more, but no less. -Username17 R'lyeh and Pangaea are allies insofar as and for exactly as long as it is to our mutual advantage. For ...

There are no victory conditions at all. Yes there are. The player who gets 19 VP first wins. Everybody else loses, period. That's precisely what's in the game code, and nothing else. If someone wants to cut down all their castles while another player teleports onto their victory points and ends the...

Shit, my first stall... Edit: Shit, Jotunheim has Acrane Nexus... Yikes! I somehow missed that in the flood of messages. All right, everybody send me all their pearls and I'll empower a Sage to do a massive Dispel in three turns. And don't you dare to cast a ritual! More seriously, I'd be willing t...

On a much lighter note, Marignon does NOT have the Gate Stone. It's hilarious. Yeah... After that blunder, I'm pretty sure I've covered all possible interactions between army movement, forts, and magic phase battles. Now if only I didn't have to learn that through the school of hard knocks :P And I...

Yeah, but my question was a different one. I want to know if it's the general consensus here that whoever gets 19 VP can name co-winners who are then 'officially' -- i.e. in terms of bragging rights -- regarded winners. I think that's nonsense for the reasons I lined out above: - There should be no ...

If Pangaea or Abysia claimed they had less Blood Stones than us, I would laugh and call them a liar. Given how this game is full of newbies who have issues with even basic strategy and apparently zero idea how important gem gens are, I wouldn't bet on them lying. I'm pretty sure Pangaea has more Bl...

Shared victory? Did I miss something? AFAIK, the rules say 19 VP wins, everybody else loses. At 19 VPs, one person wins. How they wish to share the credit is up to them. That is how the game handles coalition victories. Some people play by house rules that if an announced coalition has X victory po...

Shared victory? Did I miss something? AFAIK, the rules say 19 VP wins, everybody else loses.

Well, this is certainly an interesting read. Let me update y'all on the situation as seen from Pangaea. Our expedition into Marignon is over for now after the Darkness gamble failed; see the discussion further above in the thread. Marignon has reconquered his VP province with a pretty massive army. ...

So, how about the deadline extension to 72 hours. It seems Zine and I are for it, Ancient History has a caveat, and the others haven't replied. I mote to use AH's suggestion to extend to 72 hours and make it a hard deadline. @Jotunheim: Funny. The Ice Devil got killed by my PD. Be careful you don't ...

Thanks for the info on Holy Pyre. However, if you confirm that I need 100% FR even though that spell is mostly holy, then I see no way to put an elf bane on the WL, barring having Barrrier or other artifacts. (I needed the shield slot for MR.) Well, nuff said about that. Time to prepare for some def...

Hmm. I've thought quite a bit about how to equip my SC, and I'd like hear your opinion about this here rationale of mine. I took the F brand not for the AoE fire damage, but for its 50% FR and AP qualities. The overall requirements for defensive gear were quite demanding: - 100% FR and SR each to gu...

Heh. I had 10+ or so commanders in there, the majority of them chaff, and your two Earth Attacks landed on my two main casters for the battle. Great. Then the fuckwits pretended to be Prussians instead of Pangaeans and slavishly stuck to their massively gem-intensive battle scripts: Darkness and Cur...

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What does annoy us greatly is the fact that most of the recently vacated Ermorian provinces are still not occupied by anyone. We only took 2 provinces because we didn't really "help" in killing off Ermor, and hence are not really entitled to the spoils of war. But if the great powers are ...

Pangaea would prefer Jotunheim to abstain from serving our Maenads. The girls are quite used to doing all the shit work, and we fear that sudden exposure to a life of luxury with daily facials and werewolf-skin muffs will overtax their tender psyches. Besides, Jotunheim appears to be serving Marigno...

Well, that was not so bad. Looks like us Pans can actually give Marignon some sport, for all our noobdom.

Pity the Angel of Fury escaped, though. Tough bastard. I'd have much preferred giving him a chest wound instead of that stupid limp.

I won't be able to get my next turn in on time. Can I have a 24-hour extension for turn 58?

Also, considering the number of stales/extensions recently, I would like to call a vote on setting the game on a 72 or 75-hour hosting schedule.

So you're probably going to be held at arm's length for some time while we deal with the Pangaea menace. Always the optimist, aren't you? :) Looking at your gem income, you're probably right. Looking at your bless, there is probably a nice stack of clams piled up on top of that. Still, nothing wors...

Pangaea has taken the fight to Marignon and injected an expeditionary force deep into their, umm, hinterlands. Apparently Marignon had a similar idea and has done the same to Ermor. We exhort all right-minded nations to give up their stance of appeasement and let themselves be cowed no longer by ang...

You mean everybody can attack you right away?

Sounds good to me, and it does confirm your assessment of your MP skills.

Seriously, maybe you want to reconsider that last statement and cancel NAPs as the need arises like the rest of us.

you can get a resend from llamaserver. there is a link on the game status page (http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=VaeVictis).

My end of things: I wasn't at all sure the attack would work, as I just cobbled it together from what was available to reach the province on that turn. Plus, my guys were still geared to fight Abysians, not Marignon. However, I was afraid that waiting would probably not make you any weaker, so I dec...

Thank you. I tried quite hard to come up with a plan that wouldn't expose me to one of your scathing AARs.

But my, you've got some impressive indie mages.