Hilarity ensues post victory

AreaOfEffect · #1 August 15th, 2008, 06:56 PM

Download the attached turn file and watch the battle at Knightmarsh. The battle is epic, but continue to watch after the first army routs as craziness will happen.

This battle occurred in a llamaserver MP match. The game was Silvan and it only recently ended so I can now reveal to you the weirdest battle (as in funny weird not buggy weird) I've ever seen.

Edit: For spoilers, skip right to the naritive.

Edit: Link to the map. The game also requires two sets of mods. Conceptual Balance v1.21: Segmented Version and Worthy Heroes v1.8. For the CB Segmented Mod you only need the scales and pretenders.

Micah · #2 August 15th, 2008, 07:03 PM

Throw the map up too, please?

JimMorrison · #3 August 15th, 2008, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by AreaOfEffect

Download the turn file and watch the battle at Knightmarsh. The battle is epic, but continue to watch after the first army routs as craziness will happen.

This battle occurred in a llamaserver MP match. The game was Silvan and it only recently ended so I can now reveal to you the weirdest battle I've ever seen in my life.

That battle was nuts. Our hero the Vastness received a Silver Star for that one.

Not that it meant squat once the terror of Ermor was unleashed.

ano · #4 August 15th, 2008, 07:30 PM

Wow! I am impressed!)))))
Thanks for posting this.

ano · #5 August 15th, 2008, 07:34 PM

However, I didn't understand why didn't your troops retreat as well. Bug or do I misunderstand something?

AreaOfEffect · #6 August 15th, 2008, 09:27 PM

I posted the links to the maps and mods onto the original post. As for the why my troops didn't rout, I think it has solely to do with the skelly spam. The additional troops kept my total army hp above 25%.

By the way Jim, I'm not sure if you know this or not (I didn't want to say it during the game) but Vastnesses have astral 3 when you GoR them. It's like a silver star but better because now you have a move 10 flying commander thing with astral magic.

ano · #7 August 15th, 2008, 09:42 PM

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As for the why my troops didn't rout, I think it has solely to do with the skelly spam. The additional troops kept my total army hp above 25%.

It doesn't matter when the turns come to their limit. I don't remember the exact numbers but attacker should always rout on turn 50 and your troops didn't rout and died when the turn limit was over. And that is what I don't understand in this battle.

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By the way Jim, I'm not sure if you know this or not (I didn't want to say it during the game) but Vastnesses have astral 3 when you GoR them. It's like a silver star but better because now you have a move 10 flying commander thing with astral magic.

... the only problem being that it doesn't have any slots

AreaOfEffect · #8 August 15th, 2008, 09:59 PM

Watch again, my units rout eventually. My god retreated south of where the battle took place.

As for the slots, I do beleive it gets two misc slots. Also, the point is really more to reward the vastness for the good job it did. Besides, a mage who, for free, can be in any battle you need him to be in isn't bad at all. I wouldn't use it as a thug, but with a crystal coin and amulet of antimagic you have a really durable astral 4 mage.

JimMorrison · #9 August 16th, 2008, 01:05 AM

Yeah, there's a hero Vastness you get occasionally, so I knew they're pretty awesome. But Nature income was pretty tight since I didn't have a searcher for the first 3 years at all, so I mostly blew what I had on the GoH.

If our war with Ermor hadn't been starting so soon, I might have gotten him home for that eventually, but it just wasn't in the cards that game.

Was my first MP with R'lyeh (and I think second at all), so I really just wasn't aggressive enough at the start, or I mighta done some nifty things. Next time! So many nations to play.

And most of them don't get any Paralyzed Vastness exploits.

ano · #10 August 16th, 2008, 07:15 AM

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Originally Posted by AreaOfEffect

Watch again, my units rout eventually. My god retreated south of where the battle took place.

I didn't notice it. No problem then.

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As for the slots, I do beleive it gets two misc slots. Also, the point is really more to reward the vastness for the good job it did. Besides, a mage who, for free, can be in any battle you need him to be in isn't bad at all. I wouldn't use it as a thug, but with a crystal coin and amulet of antimagic you have a really durable astral 4 mage.

Once again, Vastness is (if memory serves) the only creature in the game with no slots at all.