2721

thanks for the congratulations.

So here is what happened on the ermor side:
I was involved in a war against arco, tien´chi and ulm pretty much from the beginning, but I managed to build two castles with my starting money.
The next 20 turns I had major fights all the time, I had a lone duskelder summoning wraith centurions/researching in my capital. What kept me alive were the wraith centurions.
In the early game they are godlike. They don´t fatigue, have enough mr to resist banishments, are ethereal and a high defense rating so they are very hard to hit and they rout other troops with their high fear rating.
Oh and they are immortal =). All that for the very low price of 15 death gems.
Luck was on my side as well, with ulm dropping out of the game soon, and my besieged castle walls often getting reinforced by militia events.
After tien´chi´s and arco´s forces were destroyed I finally started summoning other mages to get some research going and I concentrated completely on conjuration after I had construction 4 for skull mentors.

At one point in the game I held 12 of the 15 hall of fame spots, which is a nice indicator that wraithcenturions are real killers. The ghost troops sg ermor gets are pretty worthless though. Their attacks are bound to a MR check, so they can´t hurt any thug with decent MR(16+) .

The endgame happened as guildboss described it, pythium my other neighbour dropped out too after a while, so not much was happening on that front. But guildboss didn´t mention the hilarious battle we had, where he won with one voice of the lord still standing on the battlefield. That was definitely the most amusing battle I have ever seen in dom2. Fortunately I saved the .2h file.
At the end my gem income was ~45 per turn and research speed was 400 rp.

Good game from all of you

faeruntest(marignon): my research was 800 rp last turn, that´s nothing compared to c´tis research though. I know for sure he has at least the following:
conjuration9(ghostriders) , alteration 6(darkness, phoenix pyre spell) , evocation9 (strands of arcane power, construction 8(artifacts), enchantment 7 (a treelord), blood 8 (heliophagi, send horror spell) .

2722

Let’s remember a couple of things:

  1. He’s a proven liar. He made treaties and then disregarded them. As opposed to someone like Graeme Dice who to my knowledge does not make them since ( again conjecture ) he does not think that they are worth much.

  2. He is writing that he feels outclassed. Wow that’s some strong stuff. How about we see how it plays out. He has the well of misery and he is by his own admission making 800 research and he has been flinging around Earth attacks for 2 turns which mean he has ghost riders this turn ( or next if something weird has happened ).

  3. This is an aside: I really want him dead.

2723

Glad you saved it! Aye, it was funny. But it got even funnier… so there’s my Voice of the Lord, alone on the battlefield after both of our armies had routed, trying to gain control of his bloodlust (he berserked during the battle and chased Turin’s prophet around for about 20 rounds). So he finally gains his composure and picks up some nice magic items and then carries out his original orders–storm the Ermorian castle–alone!! Which he does and promptly gets shot by a javelin from a tower. Oof.

Yah, I was ROFL watching that. Definitely the funniest battle sequence I’ve seen so far. :)

2724

I take offence at you calling me a liar. Don´t you think you take that game a bit too seriously?
You moved that disease spreader in my provinces, which provided me with enough of an excuse to go to war. It was not a strong case, but we are only talking about a game here.

Besides I don´t lie, you may call me treatybreaker, if you think I attacked you unfairly, but liar is insulting.

2725

Turin you seem to prefer some type of complex appellation for what occured. I perfer the simple one. I think it summarizes the events quite nicely and concisely.

And if we want to talk about how we feel I feel like I am going against a nation which is unconstrained by resources. I really look forward to the replay.

2726

Don’t make me attack both of you, now.

2727

Is PampleMousse II still active?

2728

I don’t think so, sadly. It got taken off timer and then it froze when somebody stopped taking their turn. I’d be happy to finish it if the disinterested parties want to set themselves to AI.

2729

Faerun Test turn 62: CRAP it looks like atlantis is going to stall.

If you are out there check your turn quickly you have 11 minutes!!!

2730

Huzurdoofus, I have a question. If you were to sit alone in a completely white soundproofed room (perhaps oval so you couldn’t contemplate geometry) wearing nothing but colorless clothes, and during that time of sensationless incarceration you chanced to contemplate your own stupidity, would your head actually, physically explode? Because I’m about half as stupid as you are and observing your stupidity from a vantage point of clinical detachment to boot, but even now my head is throbbing like an egg placed in a microwave.

Seriously, you must be the worst Dom 2 player in the universe. You make absolutely no allowances in games for allies to stab you in the back, despite the fact that you are playing diplomacy in a game that does not allow allied victories. Honestly, watching you call attention to your own lack of preparation by launching into jumping jack conniption fits everytie someone betrays you makes me wonder only one thing - who wouldn’t betray someone as unprepared and hilarious as you?

But look. Remember that time in grade school when you gave your friend Stephen a bitching roofie and then you both cut your wrists, became blood brothers and swore never to talk about it until after you were married? A pact made in a game concerning virtual elves on hex parade doesn’t carry the same level of solemnity. For most of us, strategy games are interesting not because of the Excel number crunching, but because of our attempts to strategize our diplomacy with unpredictable allies and enemies alike. Allies turning on you is part of what makes a multiplayer strategy game exciting. But just because Lutes launches a sneak attack against my capital when we’re allied doesn’t mean he’s really a liar, nor does a similar in-game betrayal mean that TurinTuramba is a liar. Because… Hello, Central? It’s make believe, you jackass.

2731

If someone broke a promise they made to me in a Dom2 game, I’d be sure to mention it in this thread, too. I’m not sure how I’d mention it, but it sure seems reasonable to mention it.

2732

Of course you’d mention it. That’s a totally reasonable reaction. What you wouldn’t do, however, is shrilly shriek about that person’s lack of morals and how it makes them the moral equivalent of the person who rapes your mother until you finally reach the signal-to-noise ratio of an air raid siren.

2733

You flame fest posts are as welcome as always DrCrypt. I don’t recall you having made a post sans flame.

I simply said he’s a liar. Which is perfectly correct.

And what, exactly, is the signal to noise ratio of an air raid siren? I would expect it would be quit high considering the sole purpose of an air raid siren would be to raise an alarm.

2734

He’s always funny though. That makes every post worth the trouble.

2735

I don’t think so, sadly. It got taken off timer and then it froze when somebody stopped taking their turn. I’d be happy to finish it if the disinterested parties want to set themselves to AI.[/quote]
Nick, go ahead and set me to AI. Shit ton of work to do, and unfortunatly I’ve got little time for Dom2 right now. Sorry for the inattention to this.

2736

I don’t think so, sadly. It got taken off timer and then it froze when somebody stopped taking their turn. I’d be happy to finish it if the disinterested parties want to set themselves to AI.[/quote]
Nick, go ahead and set me to AI. Shit ton of work to do, and unfortunatly I’ve got little time for Dom2 right now. Sorry for the inattention to this.[/quote]

Not my game, I’m just a player on this one. Backov can set you to AI or you can do it yourself if you have a free minute. Just log in. hit ESC, and there will be a menu option to set yourself AI.

2737

Great… something like 500 undead things including about half a dozen elephants… and you not only wipe them out while staling, but you don’t even NOTICE that they’re gone…

Well, that battle was an example of what not to do from my perspective. My troops managed to bog each other down while your banishments pounded us.

Fortunately on our other front, my prophet is proving to be quite the combat monster. Now that I’ve finally scripted him to actively seek combat instead of letting him fatigue himself out with buffs until he’s alone on the field like the first fight you saw him in.

C’tis and Marignon: Your guy’s research numbers are just insane. I’ll try to send a few scouts down your way to spy on some fireworks, want to see the high dollar stuff in action :).

2738

Congratulations, that’s the joke. Your signal? An unwarbling, self-righteous shriek about truthfulness and lapsed morality in a video game that looks as if it were outsourced to the local Down’s Syndrome group home. Your noise? Not even polluted by the sound of you pausing for breath as you spit and shudder personal insults like “filthy liar” at people who are obviously better strategic thinkers than you.

I mean, seriously, dude. Remember when JamesG stabbed you in the back because you sent him a nice little note that said, “Okay, I’m leaving my entire kingdom completely undefended! Don’t attack me or anything!” And then your only response was to start flapping your balled up fists at your side in impotent rage and give us all nice little quotables like “Tit for tat” and “the prisoner’s dilemma” and insisting that you would “meta-game” him for the rest of eternity. I’m not entirely sure you realize what an idiot you look like, not just for doing it once, but now for doing it twice…

2739

Congratulations, that’s the joke. [/quote]

Ahh my retarded little friend it seems the joke is on you! You see the signal to noise ratio of an air raid siren is high this means that there is a lot of signal and little noise.

2740

Well, um, touche. Not like I said that very thing a post ago or anythiing, and told you how it applied to you.