Shared AAR Experience (pre-thread) (game initiated- see game thread)

[Corinthian]

EA Agartha gets darkness in their 20+ PD witch many nations have no counters for early. They also get severely underpriced earth elementals. On top of that they have gotten many other spells and troop changes that means that even without these things they are not underpowered any more.

[Roland Jones]

Actually, scratch Helheim for now; rethinking what nation to use. Will post my decision when I make it, I suppose. (Cant edit my post to reflect this apparently, so new post instead.)

[Warhammer]

Have we settled on Shadowshore as the map? I would like to do a test run using some possible builds. Also, to get a feel for how far apart we are going to be.

[Immaculate]

Okay, i've talked to feinne and he's agreed to set up the map for us (Shadowshore). It will have seven land starts and 1 water start. Everyone should start near or on the periphery so no one is sandwiched in the middle. The start positions should be like positions on a clock. There will be at least a few coastal start positions because formoria is in the game and they need a coastal start.

[Warhammer]

Thanks!

[LDiCesare]

Hesitating between various blood nations. Mictlan, Lanka, or Pangaea... The problem with Mictlan is I'd feel compelled to be an aggressive bastard. Pangaea could be funny, but the maenad micromanagement may well be a pain. I think I'd go with Pangaea.

[Immaculate]

Okay, so warhammer is working on some builds and we need to hear from GreyJoy.

I don't really like the placement of all nations that Feinne suggested- though i really really appreciate his work on this project so i am going to have a try with editing the map myself (Ldi suggested some stuff that should help). Once those things are done (hopefully tonight?), i will launch the game and the AAR thread.

At that point, you will all need to introduce yourselves and your nation, maybe trash talk a little, whatever. We'll play twenty turns (taking notes and screenshots as we go -or even writing the AARs as we go so they are ready to post), then when we hit turn 21 we'll post our turn 1 after action reports.

Looks like things are coming along nicely so get those pretenders designed and i'll get the map fixed up (probably tonight after the kids are in bed) and we'll be ready to go soon enough.

[Warhammer]

Alright, I'll go with Caelum. Cue up Ride of the Valkyries, ah... er... Helheim's in the game... right... OK, let's go with Thunderstruck instead then.

[Corinthian]

Hmm..... Fixed starts.... But if I end up on the Isle of Balor I will be crossed! No mater how thematic it might be!

[jotwebe]

Talking about cueing music -- the official soundtrack of R'lyeh is this:

http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/762727