I suppose you were planning to hand me back the keys to my old castle, right?
As to why - I recaptured one of my old provinces from you, so I could have enough income to avoid disbanding troops. What did you do to help me? Why, oh yeah, you re-re-captured it the next turn.
And as for Ulm - the provocation in your capital was in response to your parking your main army next door to my capital for so long. Such actions tend to make for poor neighbors.
Of course we could (possibly) have avoided all this with direct communication - but I’m finding this after-the-fact-in-public posturing (er, I mean diplomacy) to be more amusing than the game itself anymore, what with not having much left and all.
Enidigm
3222
So, let’s see.
Jotunheim just sort of hangs out and prays for luck.
Marignon is too scared of Ctis to fight them.
Ulm would rather hate Marignon than fight Ctis.
Well congrats Ctis! You’re going to win the game. All you have to do is beat poor helpless Man.
Enidigm
3223
Yea, well, you have to say “i need income”, you know. Man doesn’t have Astral, we’re not mind readers. I thought that province counted among those we “Agreed” upon in the past. I figured you were thinking about blitzing me with your SCs. Since, obviously, you’re not doing this against Ctis’ more southerly lands.
I have Man’s capital under siege, by the way! But with a Harvester of Sorrows who, rather than SNEAK into Man’s capital, somehow ATTACKED it. Again, foolish on my part. I must have been holding down the CTRL key or something.
This has been my favorite Dom2 game by far, and I say that despite the fact that 35% of my population is currently being bent over the couch by Vine Ogres.
I need income. There ya go.
Enidigm
3226
Or it got caught by PD :).
Enidigm
3227
It has been a blast! We are starting to creep toward the SC strategies of other games, but basically this has been quite fun! I’m glad i hung around instead of quitting. :)
Yeah, it has been fun. This is probably my 5th Dom2 game with actual humans. And let me tell you, you guys are a lot more chatty than the AI players. In all honesty, they are kind of cold.
Enidigm
3230
Cute Marignon. I hope you enjoy your inevitable defeat when your SCs get fatigued out by mass undead spam. You might win the battle, but we’re collectively going to lose the war.
Qt3 - The Dominionator
[B]Turn 72: C’tis
[/B]What a mess we have all made of this once peaceful land. I’d say the average unrest in the provinces I can see is about 40-50. Is there a single province that hasn’t changed hands at least twice? Perhaps the little island in the sea south of my capital…
Um… does that mean you are going to play your turn? ;)
lol, yes… I’m sorry… busy weekend! But I will definitely play the next two turns today.
Enidigm
3235
Qt3 Dominator
Man
Marignon is banking on SC Devils. I have a Spector of Death or whatever stalking my lands spreading disease and killing my people.
I’ve dealt some small blows to C’tis’ empire however, and scattered his armies running them around on goosechases.
The real wildcards now are Ulm and Jotunheim. I’ve noticed the Jotuns have regained their cursed lands from the rampaging independants. Ulm’s disposition is unknown to me.
Jotunheim
I’m still a cripple waiting to be shot… the funny thing is I might have been able to make a comeback but I lost a bunch of mages on some ill-advised underwater adventures. Oh well. Really I should have been dead a looong time ago!
What’s the status about the gloomy Lictor game? I can’t wait to send my armies through landscapes reduced to dust, towards a towering doom fortress looming on the ever grey horizon - sending my starved and forlorn men to their certain demise amidst a horde of bloodthirsty walking corpses and longdead mages of measureless unholy power.
You know, like I did in that game where I played Ulm and we all took notes for a great all-party AAR that never saw the light of publicity? (Which brings me to another interesting point, by the way…)
Qt3 - The Dominionator
[B]Turn 80: C’tis
[/B]By common consensus, the game is over. The land is not ruled by a single Pretender (in fact, five of the original six are still alive, remarkably so, on this small map). But almost every province has seen more than its share of strife, pillaging, and blood. Every soldier, every spouse, every child, every mage is weary, and all have agreed to share the land diplomatically.
Many congratulations to Marignon for having survived in the center of this non-wraparound map for 80 turns, and in the process fielding the most feared unit currently in the game: an Arch Devil armed with a life-leeching knife and a charcoal shield.
And many congratulations to both Man and Jotunheim for being pushed to the brink of extinction yet finding a way to scrape by–and, in the case of Man, return to become the most powerful nation in the game for a dozen turns or more.
Much applause to Pythium, whose 30 turn war with me was by far the most enjoyable sequence of Dom2 play I have encountered.
And finally, my hat is off to Ulm, who languished in the resource-poor southeast and managed to stay alive through diplomacy despite being a n00b player.
I have two Wraith Lords with charcoal shields and wraith crowns, an Ether Lord with rainbow armor, and a pretender on the verge of being able to cast Doom in his next battle. I wonder how they would fare, especially against Marignon’s Arch Devil. Perhaps they will meet someday, at least to play cribbage.
Hats off to all involved; that was the best Dom2 game I ever played in.
Enidigm
3239
Congrats Dave on a well deserved victory!
I never got to spar, except but once, against his Devils, with my kitted out Pretender ( i accidentally still had human troops attacked to her, causing her to rout); but i had high hopes for success! I was using two shields and no weapons; an Eye Shield and a shield of Cursing. With a ring of fire and a flying trident, and various +regen items, i hoped to spar with the Devil until it was blinded and helpless, and then let my Trident finish it off. Cie la vie, i shall never know if it would have worked.
My only real dissapointment was the actions of Marignon during this game. Why he decided to attack - and almost literally destroy me - at the very moment when i had finally gained some kind of measurable success against you (killing your Sages), can only be understood by the Ascended God. My huge armies of Vine Ogres, carefully crafted to beat the hordes of undead, were blown apart with losses 50, 100, or more, without a scratch to show for it against his Devils. He single handedly crippled me beyond repair. Why he choose to attack me and my “rich lands” instead of working with me to defeat you is, as far as i’m aware, the only real mistake done during the course of the game. He crushed my armies, let you completely recapture the Northwestern peninsula, and as far as i can tell, never even attacked you once. This completely baffling course of events led to my resignation. I couldn’t even hunt down and kill your Harvester of Sorrows pestering my lands because as soon as i tried to patrol a province, invariably a Devil would land squarely on their heads and kill them all.
In any event, it felt good to play and make a comeback from the position i had been in. Had we worked together - all of us - i think we could have probably killed you, although the last days would have been extremely bloody as you had begun to field Wraith Lords and other fun things. But there was virtually no effort at coordination by anyone. So, at this point, it’s pretty clear no one wants to work together instead of losing, so i might as well resign.
I will say though, it was a fantastic Dom2 game. S! to everyone involved! And Good Job once again Mr. Dave Perkins, on a well deserved victory!
It’s kind of you to say that I won, but I have to admit that I didn’t! There are still 5 out of 6 Pretenders in the game. Your Pretender and Marignon’s are both pretty powerful units. And an Arch Devil roams the land. I’d just as soon say that we all won. <3 <3 \m/
