I've resurrected this old thread since I want to say sorry to everyone in this game for suddenly disappearing and dropping out of it like I did. Wish it was an exciting tale to tell you all, but sadly it's not, although it is as good as reasons get. I've re-told this so many times in recent weeks that I'll keep it short and stick to the highlights, or in this case, lowlights.
I got sent to Greece due to my job last October, where I promptly got hit by a truck. Literally! Said I'd keep it short
Luckily I was in a car when I got hit (it didn't feel lucky at the time though!) although I still ended up spending the best part of a month walled up in a Greek hospital as a result
On top of that I had to spend an extra two months in Greece looking out for a close relative who was also in the car during the accident. When it rains it pours as they say. Every one and thing is ok now, although it's no surprise at all how disruptive such an event can be. It's taken me the whole of 2009 so far to get things even remotely back to some sort of normality.
But enough of my adventures. It's a shame to see that this game got called without a winner not long after my disappearance. Although maybe that was always going to be the end result since the wars I was involved in were taking ages to see any progress made (although that could chiefly have been due to either my lack of ability, and/or my opponents stern defence :-)) and it's more than likely the game would still have been going on now (although that doesn't mean it wouldn't have been fun to play
). I enjoyed this game a lot though, and can't believe just how much I learned from a single game. I'd happily play MA Pangaea again, despite the micro-management of all those Maenad hordes being the mother of all time consumers. Although next time I wouldn't make such a mess of my Pretender design.
Finally I'd also like to say a big thanks to everyone who played in this game and helped make it what it was. Be thy friend or foe :-) More than happy to play in future games with any of you. I'd also like to add an extra +1 thanks to Ossa for arranging the game. This was the first MP game I'd ever played in and I'm so annoyed with myself that it took me so long to take the plunge into playing MP games (had Dominions 3 for over a year before deciding to join the MP party
).
I'm sure I'll catch you all again soon now that I'm back. And it certainly feels good to be back
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