VaeVictis, a Dom3 MP

Shiritai · Post by **Shiritai** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 8:46 pm

Frank's already got his turn in, so it looks like we're golden.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:06 am

Shiritai wrote:Frank's already got his turn in, so it looks like we're golden.

For now. I'm in the Amsterdam airport and I am being sent to Belgium against my will. It's complicated. I may be... late... on the next turn.

-Username17

tenuki · Post by **tenuki** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:04 am

FrankTrollman wrote:
For now. I'm in the Amsterdam airport and I am being sent to Belgium against my will.

Oh, dear. I am firmly convinced that's how they populated the area in the first place. Be careful, will ya?

Gnosticism Is A Hoot · Sat Jul 02, 2011 1:06 pm

Contrary to my earlier assurances, I'm going to have to drop out of the game. Between work and personal circumstances, there's no way I'll be able to reliably submit turns for at least another week. If someone wants to sub in, that's fine by me, otherwise I can just go AI or something.

Apologies to all.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 2:22 am

Okay, I pushed the game back because I was running behind, now I've done it again so we can find a sub. Anyone interested? Anyone know anyone who might be interested?

tenuki · Post by **tenuki** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 7:07 am

Gnosticism, would setting the game to a 72-hour schedule help? If yes, I'd be okay with it.

Or maybe Zine is up for another job?

Zinegata · Post by **Zinegata** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:46 am

Which desperately doomed nation is in need of a player to negotiate its unconditional surrender again?

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:02 am

Zinegata wrote:Which desperately doomed nation is in need of a player to negotiate its unconditional surrender again?

Ctis.

In other news, three Belgians tried to rob me and I had to push their leader over and tell them to fuck off. But now I am back in Czechia.

-Username17

Quantumboost · Post by **Quantumboost** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:21 am

Are the Anti-Abysian Coalition willing to discuss terms of surrender?

Zinegata · Post by **Zinegata** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:01 am

Does anyone have a quick summary of what is going on? As I feel C'Tis is on the complete opposite end of the map as Caelum.

tenuki · Post by **tenuki** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:23 am

Maybe we should put the game on hold until we've got the subbing sorted out?

My take on C'tis:
- center north of the map
- neighboring nations are Atlantis (W), R'lyeh (SW; a narrow corridor of land, behind which lies Marignon), Pangaea (SE), Ermor (E)
- had a long war with Ermor through much of the early/early mid game without significant gains for either side. However, a number of creatively named Lizard Kings are still hogging the Hall of Fame as a result.
- not currently at war with anyone as far as I can tell; NAP with me (Pan) and very probably others as well.
- for scores see the tables on the game status page

Pan

Zinegata · Post by **Zinegata** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:24 am

I have already looked at the Scores page. I'm wondering more about its diplomatic status.

Korwin · Post by **Korwin** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 4:50 am

NAP with me.

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R'ley

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 9:47 am

Marignon has no diplomatic contact with Ctis.

-Username17

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 9:58 am

To the nation of Man, C'tis is a myth.

angelfromanotherpin · Wed Jul 06, 2011 12:17 pm

C'tis and Atlantis have an NAP.

Quantumboost · Post by **Quantumboost** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:17 pm

Abysia has no diplomatic contact with C'tis that I'm aware of.

Red_Rob · Post by **Red_Rob** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:05 pm

FrankTrollman wrote:In other news, three Belgians tried to rob me and I had to push their leader over and tell them to fuck off. But now I am back in Czechia

I find myself mildly disappointed this post didn't include a breakdown of their poor strategy, showing how if they'd attacked from a different direction they would have won

Seriously though, being attacked is never nice. Glad to hear you walked away unscathed.

Zinegata · Post by **Zinegata** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:40 am

Well, C'Tis to me is more myth than reality at this point, but sure I'll sub.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:47 pm

Zine, PM me your email. It's possible you did this once already for Dominions of Denizens, but if so, I no longer remember which one is you.

Zinegata · Post by **Zinegata** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 2:06 pm

*sigh* Okay, looks like I'm now in charge of a new Third World hell hole. At least this one is at peace with its neighbors.

C'tis would like to reaffirm its current peace commitments to our neighbors. We are now currently taking stock of our inventories, but we seem to have decent stocks of Skull Mentors. We are willing to sell these in exchange for Water gems or Earth gems.

Also, please PM me with specifics as to our current peace deals or any pending trade deals with the previous administration.

tenuki · Post by **tenuki** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:59 am

Pangaea Announces Victory Over Abysia

Pangaean forces under the leadership of a committee informally known as the Mayhem Cabal have taken control of the Abysian capital today. Abysian resistance under the command of Furcas the Arch Devil was reportedly fierce, but proved ultimately futile. A number of high-ranking Abysians fleeing the site of battle were shot at the border, including Furcas.

The final assault on the capital was preceded by attempted remote attacks on the minds of several Mayhem Cabal members. However, these attacks were defused by a Pangaean counterintelligence expert who had flown in specifically for this purpose, at dear cost to the sanity of the perpetrators.

When asked about the key factors contributing to this relatively swift victory over formerly quite powerful Abysia, the Prophet's office failed to provide a salient explanation, as usual.

'We had this strategy going, you know? Poke 'em in the tummy with the blunt end of a stick. Sharpen the other end. Reverse stick.'

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:17 am

Obviously the Feeble Minds didn't help at all. But really, what I was looking at just didn't look like someone who had adapted to the Evocation 9 world. I mean, obviously Pan is going to dump a turn 2 Army of Gold, and a Relief, because that is how they roll. They were just lucky you didn't back that up Fog Warriors and Mass Regeneration.

The Abyssian position called for either a short battle strategy, a long battle strategy, or a hybrid. Having all your devils in a big pile with no commands doesn't count as a hybrid - that's just weakness.

Short Plan: as the defender, you have two turns to lay down the smack before Fire Resistance comes in. You have a couple of Fire 5 casters, lay down the flame storm. Outfit Furcas and Baal Chozron with Fire Gems and put them forward so that they can lay down giant fire blasts on turn 1 or have them Summon Fire Power and dump the fire on turn 2. In either case, you have a fuck tonne of fliers and they should be in small groups set to attack rear or one of the Pangaea-leader specific maneuvers like attack large monsters or attack fliers, because you want to paralyze the enemy casters fast. You also have a bunch of powerful blood mages, who can an should have blood slaves to sacrifice on the first turn. Yes your blood mages are "on fire" and that will kill the blood slaves eventually, but you're going to sacrifice them to dark gods long before that comes up. I mean for fuck's sake, you have blood 9, you just cast Infernal Forces, you can lay down any crazy shit you want. Life for Life? Infernal Prison? Why Not? Any central blocking required (and you do need some), can come from imps you summon in the battle.

The short battle plan causes enough damage in the first two turns that the Pangaean forces break completely or lose enough mages (or have enough mages distracted by close combat). It's not cheap, and if Pangaea is ready for it (hint: they were not), it can backfire badly, but it's a chance.

The Long Plan: You're inside a castle and you are fire immune and they will at best be fire resistant. The long plan involves setting up the battlefield to burn to the ground and hold the enemies outside the castle. Again you're going to want to summon some imps on turn 1 to tie up the enemy's advance, but this time your fliers hold in reserve. You lay down the Fire Storm on turn 1. That's the battlefield enchantment where falling fires fall on the battlefield every turn until someone kills Furcas. Army of Gold or no, that is going to hurt.

And you play the long game with your blood as well. And that means Horrors. Your Astral casters are scripted to Astral Geyser every turn, and you script some horror summonings on turn 3. Remember to take your own horror marked characters and put them way off on the side. But full sized horrors should run amok on the severely horror marked leadership of the Pangaeans.

But it's basically inexcusable that Abyssia went into the battle for its capital without battle gems on its leaders. That's just silly.

-Username17

Quantumboost · Post by **Quantumboost** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 3:29 pm

Yeah, I... actually hadn't scripted them with the expectation that the battle would commence this turn. Meaning that I hadn't actually changed their scripts at all, or allocated resources at all, or done anything really. That was probably my greatest mistake and what led to... most of the others. The devils weren't the only ones with no meaningful commands, I think that was pretty much everyone else.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 8:12 pm

You know, I think my lack of magic sites of any serious power or quantity may possibly slightly interfere with my long-term plans just a bit.