3921

Ah ha, the heat is on now! Marignon pre-empts the expiration of our peace agreement by attacking a certain strategic land I controlled after our armies met in a third player’s lands–I love the realpolitik! It’s shaping up to be pretty exciting in Banefire.

hohoho,

PAN

3922

i luv being the “third player”…

3923

Did my sneaky armies become revealed by Marignon as it entered the region, or were they revealed by Caelum patrollers? If the latter, why did my armies fight second, after Marignon entered Caelum’s lands?

Pangaea

3924

Updates on status for my hosted games:

QT3-Lanka: Gone off timer. wahoo requested a break in the schedule as his wife approaches due date. Hope you and the wife have a smooth time of it wahoo!

QT3-Jeff: Got all the pretenders now. Game will probably go up this weekend.

3925

So Ermor’s undead hordes have sieged Mictlan’s capital, but just as it happens their god awakens! Well at least we’ll get to have some hot god-on-god action.

3926

no idea - i wasn’t patrolling - which province?

3927

Tirannea

3928

…because the PC that was running it finally, well, died. I’m currently starting at a smoking motherboard so I don’t think it’ll be back up on my end anytime soon.

I thought I had a backup from around 2 weeks ago, I’ll still cast around looking for it.

Sorry everyone.

3929

Well Abyssia had the fire magic, so I’m going to blame them. It would be great to see if we can get it resurrected, and if not, I guess people will have to share their cunning plans for victory…

Thanks for all your efforts hosting Lum - especially since you didn’t even end up playing in the game (I loved that splash page you did).

3930

Yikes. @_@

What JC said. Thanks for all the trouble of hosting/constantly rebooting Hoplite – hopefully we can get it back up again. If not, well, I don’t mind spilling the beans. :)

3931

I was able to get the drive up and running on another machine, so hopefully it should be back up shortly. (I kind of needed the rest of the files on it, too :) ) I’ll have it up without a timer for the time being when I bring it up due to request; should I just leave it on quickhost? Looks like all 4 nations left are active.

3932

Hoplite is back up, sans timer. Hopefully fire magic doesn’t blow this one up!

3933

Hoo-Ha!


Take that, you hall of fame hogging bastards!

Sorry Mictlan (Nick?), but you had to go! No hard feelings!

3934

How many undead legionaires does it take to change a lightbulb?

Damn that was a whomping. Ermor still has some life in it yet i see (/pun).

/looks suspiciously at Italy…

3935

With Mictlan’s demise official, this strikes me as a good time to post a mid-game report. The map will tell you roughly current positions. The point of contention is where Mictlan was and several nations moved in. If a war break out, I expect that place to be the hot spot.

First, Consolation summaries:

Ulm - May he rest in peace. His starting position was defensible, but not particularly rich. Decided to test Van early and got soundly beat.

Mictlan - Just goes to show that a W9F9 bless is beatable. R’lyeh got the better of him early, but his starting position made him border many sharks who smelled blood in the water. Was soon over run from several angles.

In no particular order:

R’lyeh - controls the sea and has the highest research rate. Now also has control over several landed provinces. Armies are smaller the Ermor’s, but he’s gaining quickly. With the easily defended sea territories and void summons, R’lyeh is in a very strong position right now. Oh, and lots of gem income.

Ermor - actually has the largest number of provinces in the game right now. Plus, many Fortifications. Largest armies, but a good portion of it is chaff. Doing very well in terms of research despite being ermor. Also has a lagging income.

Midgard (Van) - slightly trails Ermor in provinces, but is far and away the strongest economic power house in the game. Easily beat Ulm early, but that was probably because Ulm wasn’t that strong to begin with. Also is second only to Ermor in Fort counts. Research is pretty bad and army counts are pretty small.

C’Tis - Has the uneviable position of being between a rock and a hard place (though whether ERmor or Van is the hard place, I don’t know). Still, is doing a phenomal job with research, second only to R’lyeh. Plus has the third largest army in the game, and when first and second have free spawning chaff, thats saying something. Lowest income in the game.

Man - Also stuck between Van and R’lyeh. Similarly situated as C’Tis, but is number two in terms of income. Man has the worst research in the game, currently.

Edit: Grabbed the wrong hot link. Considering the size of the map, a thumb nail is much more appropriate.

3936

F9W9 is beatable, but goddamn did I do a lot of damage going down. It took a big proper gang beating plus me staling turns to get me to finally die. I was impressed with just how much hurt I was putting out.

3937

Yay!

BTW, you will need to put up a timer (or force-host, or set R’lyeh AI) after Jonathan Crane gets back and takes his turn – R’lyeh was only eliminated this turn, so he has to log in to see his ‘you’re out of the game’ message.

Whoa, that is a lot of Mictlani commanders in the hall of fame! How’d you get that many, Nick? Were they battlemages, thugs, or what?

3938

I’m just curious where you’re getting your numbers from, since score graphs are turned off, right?

Also, R’lyeh’s box isn’t anywhere near big enough.

3939

No, Score graphs have been on for the entire game, and thats exactly where I got my “numbers” from. Though numbers is a little precise. I just looked at the things and eye balled it.

As for the boxes, they’re more rough approximations.

3940

You did? to whom? The only highpoint of our war was the oneturn conquering of my homeprovince and i seriously believe thats where i won the war, i was able to attack your army peacemeal, after that it was only mopping up with chaff armies.