Epic Heroes Mod MA game(finished) - Page 43

Xietor · #**421** October 22nd, 2007, 01:51 AM

I already delayed it by 24 hours-so i think it will host tuesday morning instead of monday morning as scheduled.

If the llamaserver is not fixed for a week-then the game will be delayed a week. We obviously cannot proceed until it is fixed.

LoloMo · #**422** October 22nd, 2007, 06:14 AM

I could use the extra time too.

Xietor · #**423** October 22nd, 2007, 11:31 AM

I have tried to delay it, but it appears it is not working(:

We may all stale except Dr. P who wisely got his turn done early.

Xietor · #**424** October 22nd, 2007, 02:19 PM

Do your turns. LLamaserver is up and running and I successfully delayed the host of the game for 24 hours.

LoloMo · #**425** October 23rd, 2007, 05:10 AM

Hi, I won't be home at the usual time, still at work and won't be able to upload my turn in time. Can we delay hosting by 6 hours? Thanks.

LoloMo · #**426** October 23rd, 2007, 09:21 AM

Ack, I was too late. Ah well. It looks like Pythium my ally staled also, and that nation's ownership is in question.

Therefore I concede defeat. I will put myself to AI this turn.

Regarding my Epic Hero, the Obsidian Medium, I set him to reseaching for most of the game. After my research was done, I empowered him in death (he started with 2D, I empowered to 4D), and set him to summoning Tartarians.

The other option would have been to set him to forging skull staffs or research skulls early in the game, but I chose to go the umbral route (which requires only 1D path to summon), which sucked up all my death gems and left him with only research duty till late game.

Xietor · #**427** October 23rd, 2007, 10:41 AM

Lolo-great game. Sorry I missed your post for a 6 hour delay as it certainly would have been granted. We had 72 hours for this turn rather than the typical 48, but I certainly would have delayed it another 24 for you. You have been a stellar player the entire game. As an aside, Pythium did not stale.

You did extremely well with Agartha-making it into the endgame with a race that is extremely vulnerable early in the game. The Epic Hero for Agartha is not as potent a fighter as many of the other races. If I had a free hand I likely would boost him-perhaps starting him at 3d? That would allow him to get to 4d with no empowering(skull staff). Since Agartha is weak early, maybe the Obsidian medium could be given a unique weapon as well?

Do you have any specific suggestions for the Epic Hero? Did you get any Worthy Heroes? Did you encounter any other race's Epic Hero to a degree sufficient to have a comment on him?

I have great respect for you as a player and your umbrals. To be honest, after Dr. P frozen hearted my Epic Hero to death, my main goal is to get this game over expeditiously and tweak the heroes. Then there will be an Epic Heroes II game before the final release of the mod.

It appears the Epic Heroes are a force early, but are just one of many thugs by midgame. Having an epic hero with a thug chassis allows some races to imprison that otherwise would never dare to imprison a pretender.

Thank you for playing Lolomo. And good luck to you in your other MP games.

LoloMo · #**428** October 23rd, 2007, 11:56 AM

Yup, I went with an awake wyrm to defend against early attacks. I only encountered Arco's Grand Elepantarch and its troop of war elephants, and he is very very tough to take out. Without umbrals it would be impossible I think.

To go with the theme of the other Epic Heroes, Agartha's obsidian statue should be able to function as a thug at the start, which he currently can't. He also can not summon any units, unlike most of the other epic heroes.

The Obsidian Medium wasn't designed to be a thug at all: 0 leadership, move of 3/6, precision of 5, attack only of 10, and never heals.

He does have Fear though, perhaps adding Awe and higher Fear levels would toughen him up without changing the theme of this unit. A stronger unique weapon would certainly help.

Or you can go the other way, and make him able to summon ghostly researchers. These are the ghosts of ancient agarthans ages past, reawakened to tell their story.

Nikolai · #**429** October 23rd, 2007, 01:03 PM

I managed to get branch through my windshield, and to tie it with a ribbon, my house is in mandatory evacuation zone. I'm staying at Tuidjy's place, and I could play - our plant's closed too. But I made mess out of Pythium, and feel unready for this game. So if Lolomo gives up, so I would.

My bet's Tuidjy wouldn't want to play, but he may change.

Xietor · #**430** October 23rd, 2007, 01:58 PM

Nik-where on Earth do you live? Why are you in an evacuation zone? I am the one that lives in New Orleans-the King of evacuation zones.