Evermore - MegaGame - Winner: AdmiralZhao!

[atul]

I've made many stupid mistakes in this game, but having the darned statue pick up that berserk talisman instead of some other commander was even worse. Oh well, next time I'll remember to fill every slot.

DrP, I'm not complaining, actually I thought the water nation placement was quite good. R'lyehs probably disagree, though.

[Jazzepi]

Baalz said:
Oh ouch. I was feeling sorry for my poor ancient kraken, 20 protection and over 100 regeneration and an inconsiderate 9s 9w sacred statue teleports in and soul slays me. I felt a lot less sorry for myself next fight when I see that statue picked up the lycanthop's amulet from my kraken. She *glared* very angrily at my army. Rough luck Atul...

Look on the bright side, your immobile pretender will eventually turn into a mobile wolfkin, I think Though will be useless for battle

Jazzep

[Salamander8]

atul said:
I've made many stupid mistakes in this game, but having the darned statue pick up that berserk talisman instead of some other commander was even worse. Oh well, next time I'll remember to fill every slot.

DrP, I'm not complaining, actually I thought the water nation placement was quite good. R'lyehs probably disagree, though.

In hindsight, I should not have moved my main force so far west. The plan was to plug the narrow sea egress with a fort to keep MA R'Lyeh and/or MA Atlantis out of the eastern seas. Due to the slow march back after your attack, I met you with too small a force and lacked sufficient flank protection to slow/halt your blessed knights. Even with these considerations, the main battle was worse than I would have expected and switched to AI.

[atul]

I would have been 100% behind that kind of arrangement if I would have had some opportune place to surface. As it is, Arco's elephants were a bit too strong early on for my tastes, so aquatic expansion it was.

As to our battle, I had the impression your mages spent too much time to self-buffs. My knights killed them before they were able to launch any hurt on my troops. Dunno what you had in store, you had quite impressive research speed.

[Salamander8]

Land avenues just did not materialize for either of us, 'tis true.

I can't remember the exact scripting offhand anymore. But I agree with your assessment from my memory of watching that battle.

My Polypal Queen was awake with a fair chunk of magic (I took Sloth3/Growth3 for scales), and she was the main reason I was doing so well early in research.

[Baalz]

Have to say, when I drew MA Atlantis as my random selection I was not too impressed, but at this point I'm pretty happy with them and retract my previous opinion that they're underpowered. I've had a lot of good luck in this game, but all said and done I'd be happy to draw Atlantis in another game.

[Salamander8]

I'll gladly play EA R'Lyeh in an MP game again as well. Even with the aquatic-only issues and magic item requirements/restrictions EA R'Lyeh suffers with, I find the nation very enjoyable to play.

[Ubercat]

So. Who's fighting who now? I'll start. Currently I'm at peace with all my neighbors.

-Ubercat

[AdmiralZhao]

I'm fighting Sauromatia, and have conquered about half their provinces. In retrospect, I probably should have researched Arrow Fend before taking them on. In futurespect, I think their remaining army is going to meet a swift and horrible demise in the next month.

Other matchups of note:
Atlantis is rampaging through Oceania.
Shinuyama was taking large chunks out of Lanka, but Lanka seems to have forged a separate peace with Atlantis, and is now taking back territory from Shinuyama.

[LoloMo]

Midgaard has been in a bloody duel against Niefelheim since the beginning of the ascension wars.