Fools Lament II - Ended - Mictlan wins!!!

[Soapyfrog]

Still, 30 death gems is a big investment to kill essentially nothing.

I moved off Ryleh becuase I did not think I could beat the water queens... need some specific equipment to do that!

[anatoli11]

Parting thoughts...

I thought this was a pretty good game!!!

Kudos to Mictain on the win!!! You managed to keep out of the fighting until it really mattered and built some really good armies.

The ghost riders did me in - I had a shot at winning about 4 or 5 turns ago, but the ghost riders broke the two seiges I had going and a big loss to Tien Che (good battle!) at the Caelum capital ended my chances. I think I did reasonably well in the early and middle game, but I still have a lot of work to do on my end game.

I thought the magic was a little high in this game - at one point I was pulling almost 80 death gems a turn and I would guess almost 400 a turn in total (and Mictain was pulling even more!). I guess I could have spent them wiser, but I really liked the packs of 30+ flying Bane Lord packs I made, but they were not well equiped enough to make them unbeatable.

Thanks to all for an enjoyable game!

[Soapyfrog]

Surely you arent out? Seems like you still have some clout, judging by the graphs. Edit: oh ah, I guess Mictlan got the 7th capital...

It is a high magic game for sure!! However without gem-generators you have to be a little more clever about how you use your resources, IMHO this tends to lead to a wider range of summons/equipment loadouts/spell tactics.

[Yossar]

Good game, everyone

I hope anatoli learned the importance of castles in the late game. It's just too hard to protect your provinces from ghost riders without them.

That Last battle at Man's capitol was fun. I don't know if it was just Man casting spells at it or other people joined in, but I got hit with everything. 10 ghost riders, a murdering winter or two, and about 4 flames from the skies/fires from afar. Killed almost all my ghosts and vine ogres before the battle even started.

I was very fortunate that nobody really attacked me until the end, when I was obviously the most powerful nation in the world. I never had to fight more than one nation at a time until a few turns ago.

Well, it's been fun.

[rex_havok]

for a true(1st game) newbe, never played marignon and a new map, i think i did very well. held pan off and to a significantly lesser extent tienchi(he never really attack me) but in constant multi. wars from very early on left me very poor shape for the end game.
i learned a lot and thanks everyone for the game.
i was dissipointed that (not to be named) was not Banned for his conduct.
i guess castle spamming is the way to go. should have would have next game.

well, its been fun expecially in early and late game.
thanks to all and to all byebye.

[Nappa]

Grats Yossar, well done. Boy did I learn a ton! I love the innate anti SC capability of CW. However, I have to figure out how to research with them at a much better pace. And I'm way to defensive. I had a bLast, thanks everyone.


Lets start another game up. Same map?

[baboune]

gg. I still have so much to learn.

I would be ready for a new game.

[anatoli11]

Peter Ebbesen: please post after you have looked over the game files - I'm interested to hear your comments on the game.

Other Players: Thanks for sharing a bit of a wrap-up - we invest a couple of months in each of these games and its interesting to hear your perspectives!

[Soapyfrog]

Ok the full turn files for the Last 14 turns (turns 65-79) have been posted at the game page:

www.soapyfrog.net/dom2/foolslament2.htm

The replays include that turns full set of orders for each nation since the save game utiltity kicks in everytime a file is modified, so it should be quite interesting to look at.

[deccan]

Congratulations on the win Yossar. I'll look into the savegame files for sure when I have the time.