MP Game For whom the bell tolls ---- Started

[Boron]

GG Lebarjack . If i hadn't wasted my army stupidly perhaps the fight would have been more interesting .
I learned the hard way now that magma eruptions aren't so good too

[lebarjack]

Should your cavalry been backed up by your smiths on the first battle, it would be a very different story.
And the countless fodder and crossbowmen your smiths slaughtered don't think magma eruption are pointless .
All these battles were very tight.

[The Panther]

Interesting about this magma eruption thing. Since I have never played Vanheim before (but I have played Ulm), I didn't even know that Van could recruit the smiths! But these Van smiths are different than those Ulm smiths in two ways:
1. They get no forge bonus.
2. They come with 3 earth and 1 random.

I therefore discovered that magma bolts and magma eruptions just ain't gonna cut it for the Van smiths, as only 1/8 of the dudes get the fire random. But the 3 earth means bladewinds galore, even without the summon earthpower spell or the earth boots!

Anyway, I have always thought from my previous Ulm experience that magma eruption is a superior spell for the most part over bladewinds.

[Cainehill]

I've found both spells (magma eruption and bladewind) quite handy for different circumstances. Eruption is wonderful against heavily armored troops, but bladewind seems better for clearing out archers and mages and such; best of all, it isn't going to do much to your own troops, if you're Ulm.

[Cainehill]

Am I the only one who thinks it'd be nice to switch to 48QH now?

[YellowCactus]

Fine by me!
-Yc

[Knudsen]

Cainehill said:

Feh. Knudsen / Machaka apparently didn't understand what "immobile / human pretender" meant.

So, Cohen - what is your protocol for dealing with the inevitable pretender screwups in your flaky games? Frankly, all possibilities I see suck.

Gentlemen
As the long silent, and now probably long dead nation of Machaka, I belive an apology on my part is in order.

When I joined this game (my first multi player game) several unfortunate events coincided.

I was at the time unaware of this forum and new to the game, and thus didn't get the bit about pretender restrictions.

Equally unfortunate was that I had to leave town just as the game started which caused me to lose the first two turns. But at least that didn't put anyone but me at a disadvantage.

After my first battle with Cainehill, he sent an in game message about the Pretender rule, which I received in the same turn in which he killed said Pretender. Problem solved ;-)

But since I was then, A) In conflict with your rules, B) Missing a Pretender and C) Two moves behind, I decided to "Go Computer" to clean out the mess I had made.

Regretfully

Knudsen_

[YellowCactus]

Wait....
So I wasn't supposed to have a Vq? {Just teasing}. I think everyone has crashed a game or two as a new player. Cainehill has a right to be miffed, but he's not mad at you.
-Probably.

[Knudsen]

YellowCactus said:
Wait....
So I wasn't supposed to have a Vq? {Just teasing}. I think everyone has crashed a game or two as a new player. Cainehill has a right to be miffed, but he's not mad at you.
-Probably.

Since Cainehill was in an excellent position to take over my miniature Empire when Marchaka went belly up, I believe he was compensated for any inconvenience I caused. If anyone else hold a grudge, feel free to try to take revenge in future games

[Cainehill]

Knudsen said:

Since Cainehill was in an excellent position to take over my miniature Empire when Marchaka went belly up, I believe he was compensated for any inconvenience I caused. If anyone else hold a grudge, feel free to try to take revenge in future games

Not to mention that you did a wonderful job site searching for me.