DomIII: Cosmic Team-Up

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Wed May 08, 2013 11:03 pm

For ease-of-use, moved stuff to the first post. Here are the teams:

Team 2:[/u] Dreaming Stones
FrankTrollman (Agartha) (6 VP)
Archmage (R'lyeh) (7 VP)
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Total: 13/20

Team 3:[/u] The Triple Alliance
Ancient History (Atlantis) (4 VP)
angelfromanotherpin (T'ien Ch'i) (3 VP)
Foly (Caelum) (3 VP)
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Total: 10/20

The name of the game is "CosmicDoubles" and the game page is here:
http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi ... micDoubles

[/edit]Stalling is no fun, and there's never any guarantee that I'll be around to do an extension. So we're going to be adults about this: if you need an extension, the password is "ancient1" - please post an announcement to the thread if you're going to do an extension, and don't change the password/muck with the game. Thanks!

We're using one of Frank's old maps:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showpost.php?p=795451

This is basic, no-mods Late Age game with default settings on everything. There are 25 VPs scattered around the map, including capital sites, and your team needs between you 20 to win (there isn't a teams setting for scoring, so we'll just declare a victor when that happens). I'll keep a running total on the first post.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Thu May 09, 2013 5:46 am

Late Age certainly has some interesting teams available to it. I'd be up for that. My suggestion would be to have the teams assigned randomly - and if your ally is Ermor and you're already a death nation then that is too bad.

My top faction choices are:

Argartha
Atlantis
Tien Chi

-Username17

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Thu May 09, 2013 6:33 am

Actually, I've been feeling like it would be fun to run some games more inspired by lore, or themes. I had imagined free-for-all, but maybe something with teams. A Mediterranean game with Arco, Pangaea, Ctis, Ermor, and Pythium. A Pan-Asian game with T'ien Ch'i, Jomon, Patala, Atlantis.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Thu May 09, 2013 6:57 am

Hm, I suspect what skillz I ever had have gone to rust, but count me in.

• Tien Chi
• Caelum
• Arcoscephale

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Thu May 09, 2013 10:38 am

Orion: Maybe next game can be a theme game.

My current top three are:
• Atlantis
• Man
• Abysia

We'll sort out a map when we get an idea of how many players we have - we need at least four for a proper doubles, but let's give it a couple days to see who else is interested.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Thu May 09, 2013 11:24 pm

My friend from the Shinuyama thread expressed some interest. We'd ideally like to enter as a team, if possible. I know Frank proposed random pairings to prevent coordinated picks, but maybe Foly and I could go with random picks instead? We could each put in three nations we'd willingly play and have Ancient assign them at random. I'm thinking:

Mictlan
Midgard
C'tis

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri May 10, 2013 1:22 am

I don't have a problem with that, unless anyone else does. That's five, so if we get at least one more that'll give us three teams.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Fri May 10, 2013 6:04 am

If we don't, Foly will drop and we'll roll with 4.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri May 10, 2013 12:27 pm

Well, I'd like at least three teams, but let's give it the weekend to see if we pick up more players, otherwise we'll go with 4. Meantime, assuming we have 4-6 players, anyone want to suggest a map?

Archmage · Post by **Archmage** » Sat May 11, 2013 3:02 pm

I'm not especially good and haven't touched Dom3 in months, but reading Orion's thread rekindled my interest in the game. If you want a sixth I'll play.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat May 11, 2013 3:03 pm

Nice. That would give us three teams. List your top three and we'll start hunting for a map.

Archmage · Post by **Archmage** » Sat May 11, 2013 4:02 pm

Am I correctly assuming R'yleh and Ermor are banned?

If not,
R'yleh
Midgard
Mictlan
Bogarus (3rd choice if no R'lyeh or an underwater nation is deemed a bad fit for the game)

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat May 11, 2013 4:16 pm

I'm not going to ban them, though I imagine Ermor would be a hard one to partner with.

Archmage · Post by **Archmage** » Sat May 11, 2013 5:20 pm

I can be convinced to strike R'lyeh from the list if nobody wants a teammate with popkilling insanity dominion.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat May 11, 2013 5:31 pm

I don't know, it might have legs with if allied with Atlantis - LA Atlantis does well out of water in amphibious assault, and LA R'lyeh does well with long-range astral and teleport attacks. With coordination, R'lyeh could have the oceans and Atlantis the coasts, and slowly make their way to domination of the world, maybe culminating with Burden of Time in the late game.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sat May 11, 2013 5:33 pm

Your allies don't have to have the same kinds of scales as you do. You are in the same pantheon, but you actually have non-overlapping territory. If someone wants to be Ashen Fields or Dreamlands, they can just do that.

-Username17

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat May 11, 2013 10:05 pm

If we end up with two water nations, I'm thinking this map: http://dom3maps.wikidot.com/system:pangaea

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Sun May 12, 2013 12:05 am

Rlyeh brings a lot to the table as a teammate, like easy ring of wizardry and the ability to hold water provinces. I don't think collaborating would be too difficult, especially if teamed with a blood sacrifice nation who can defend their borders that way.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun May 12, 2013 12:52 pm

Okay, since we have six players and no-one's commented on the map, I've set up the game on llamaserver.

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Sound good? Well, get your pretenders in!

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sun May 12, 2013 1:49 pm

Agartha Pretender is in.

-Username17

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun May 12, 2013 7:59 pm

Atlantis Pretender is in.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Mon May 13, 2013 12:45 am

Ancient,

Mictlan/C'tis/Midgard was my personal list of 3; I actually don't know who Foly wants to or knows how to play. I'm trying to track him down now.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Mon May 13, 2013 1:24 am

Whatever, as long as it isn't someone else's. You can walk Foley through submitting pretenders and turns to Llamaserver, ja?

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Mon May 13, 2013 3:01 am

He's played 3 games on the Llamaserver already.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Mon May 13, 2013 10:32 am

I tracked him down, but he was falling asleep. Says he can make his pretender tomorrow. Before he conked out he expressed interest in Caelum, and to a lesser extent C'Tis and Patala. We'll see how he feels in the morning. Meanwhile I'm going to go ahead and upload my Mictlan.