MP Game - Live and Learn (newbie game)-running

[Yvelina]

I recall one of your solo Tartarians kicking my butt in a water province - he was equipped with a Scutata Volturnus, a blood thorn and various other equipment. I've not seen the Scutata in use a whole lot - is that particularly effective generally, or more so underwater?

It is one of my two favorite non-artifact shields. The other is the Charcoal shield. I use one or the other depending on the situation.

The Charcoal shield is great against mobs, and gives you fire resistance, which is why it was the shield of choice on the C'tis front.

The Scutata Volturnus's attack is better against single, powerful enemies, has better defense, and gives you electrical resistance. Using it underwater, against Pythium, was an easy call :-)

Would you mind telling us roughly what astral income you were getting from the Arcane Nexus?

Once I got fully into forge mode, I was getting about 400 absorbed gems, or 100 astral gems per turn. I would use them to wish for gems, which brings in 210 gems of all kinds, and use those to forge items. OF course, they would get absorbed back into the Vortex

In retrospect, things may have turned out very differently if I had turned north, instead.

Absolutely. But I was already prepared for a defensive war and you would have probably not have been able to unite everyone against me. At that time, you looked like the one to beat, not I. Although I doubt that anyone had anything that could beat Odin, Veni, Vidi or Vici, who already were equiped with the best artifacts.

... and now I am off to bed. I love debriefings, but what I need is sleep.

[bleach168]

I was very open to the idea of uniting against Vanheim before C'tis invaded Machaka. I believe Vanheim already had the 3 AQs, the Arcane Nexus, and a Tartarian factory going at that point.

But once C'tis attacked Machaka and triggered my alliance with them, we were doomed.

Pythium, Machaka and I were still really weak from our previous wars so I'm still not sure we could have defeated Vanheim had C'tis united with us.

[bleach168]

Oh.. now that the game is over, time to fess up!

Who kept sending those ashen angels against me? Grrr...

[Schmoe]

bleach168 said:
Oh.. now that the game is over, time to fess up!

Who kept sending those ashen angels against me? Grrr...

Heh, that was me. It turns out that Ashen Angels prefer horror-marked victims, and it just so happens that soul contracts horror-mark the bearer. Win!