Troubling Times: Game over, Marverni wins

[Verjigorm]

Ulm is doomed. There are only a few individuals left. Our divine lord, Pozceracz has fallen as has our capitol of Western Sembia.

If anyone is mounting serious resistance, you may have our trove of artifacts and gems. Send a message.

[PriestyMan]

Darn those tartarians that get away with 3 HP!

[Amhazair]

Originally Posted by PriestyMan

Darn those tartarians that get away with 3 HP!

Meh, he had phoenix power up and running, so the only thing getting through those last 3 hit points would have accomplished would have been to give her another chance to kill some of your adorable doggies instead of having to run away.

And damn, playing those turns is really starting to take ridiculous amounts of time now. Although I havent needed it so far, I do reserve the right to extend the turn whenever I feel I need it.

[Amhazair]

Priestyman is having/had some computer problems (his monitor died) and I've added 24h to give him the time to fix everything and play his turn without too much pressure.

[Calahan]

I've been asked to post on behalf of R'lyeh/Atlantis (Maerlande/Priestyman), to ask you all to consider doing the sensible thing here and concede an honourable victory to Marverni. As it seems Marverni have had this game won for quite a while now, and the only alternative to conceding is to play out a very long winded end game in which Marverni will certainly win without any doubt, and likely without suffering any real in-game cost. But everyone will suffer a huge out-of-game cost by continuing due to having to invest crazy amounts of time just to reach the inevitable conclusion that has been growing ever more obvious with each turn.

So can I please ask if anyone objects to saying "Well played Amhazair", and conceding to Marverni at this point in time. As this is not only the correct and honourable thing to do at this stage given the in-game situation. But it will also save everyone a huge amount of time and effort, plus allow players to join, or concentrate on, other games if their time commitments here can be freed up.

Maerlande adds that he recently went "all-in" to try and fight back against Marverni, but that his resistance was mercilessly crushed. So his ability and resources to resist any further is now minimum. (ie. There's one less nation that can fight back than there used to be)


Thank you all for your time, and sorry for the sudden intrusion.

Edit - Maerlande = Eximius Sus

[Aethyr]

I have no problem conceding to Amhazair, who has indeed played a masterful game. His forces are simply overwheliming at this point, crushing opposition on multiple fronts...its one of the most impressive feats I've seen in a long time.

Congratulations Amhazair!

[don_Pablo]

Agree to surrender to Marverni.
That was an interesting test of EMD-summons and I have to change my valuation of them.
Vanheim is almost defeated atm and waiting for a couple final battles.

Congratulations Amhazair!

[Amhazair]

I do believe it is indeed too late to stop me now, even with a coördinated effort from all remaining players. Having said that, as long as not everyone is convinced I'm more than happy to play it out. (Especially Mictlan is quite strong and has moved his armies into position to attack, so if he wants to test my resistance that's fair enough for me.)

I'll add 24 more hours to give everyone a chance to chime in.

[yandav]

I'm a little bit torn about this:
. on one side, I know that I'm going to be the next one on Marverni's list and I'd be happy to discover competitive late game (at my expense ) and have some real fight eventually, because my game was very peaceful (I'm really too passive)
. on the other side, I see that much better players than me failed to stop Marverni so I know that I won't stand a chance and I don't want to drag the game too long. So, I'm ready to concede to Marverni.

[Numahr]

I am ready to concede to Marverni, congratulations to Amhazair who makes a distinguised come back!

That was first time I got into late game. BoT + early wars with my neighbors had a very deep impact on me, and paradoxically, maybe more so against AI Nief through two disastrous battles than against human-controlled Lanka who was a fierce opponent but never inflicted me a disastrous victory. This meant that I did not have the means to take a conflictual stance with Marverni when it could have been strategically relevant to do so.

I was about to declare war, hopefully with Mictlan, now that Caelum had recovered, after the conquest of Ctis would allow me a better strategic position. Arcane Nexus was obviously the trigger to stop good neighborhood. But i was aware that this war would come too late (more so considering I would respect NAP) and would just be for honor, not for the win, and would probably just be an opportunity for Marverni to gather a nice collection of enslaved Amesha Spentas and Eagle Kings...

Also I witnessed Marverni's rise to power since its very early war against Bandar Log, and it definitily was a very nice showcase, well done!