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[gman8181]

Okay, so apparently the stupid AI decided to let my monkey mages use up the blood slaves assigned to my Dakini.  Thus the Dakini was unable to cast mists of deception for BOTH BATTLES (SERIOUSLY?) making for many more casualties than were most likely necessary.

Oh and curse you and your solar brilliance!  Totally wasn't expecting that to be honest.

By the way, your King of Earth got lucky .  Not sure why my undead didn't block him in.

[Endymion]

Philomena (The True Firebird) has overtaken Rhaux's single-battle kill record and instantly gained spot 5 on the Hall of Fame by simply being present for one of Lanka's offensives. (She, like many uniques, gets a battlefield enchantment spell for showing up. Hers does damage to undead and demons, and also can cause blindness. Also, I think it overrides darkness, which makes it slightly odd that I'm using it, but whatev.)

Shining Armor, meanwhile, manages to grab 15th on the Hall of Fame despite being scripted horribly wrong and nearly dying. He was supposed to run into melee and use his lesser earthquake attack to clear out 8 squares of enemies per attack. Instead he casted constantly and almost got killed due to fatigue. Luckily, his reinvig kicked in during his slow, crippled retreat, and once his fatigue was low again his regen overtook the damage he was taking. (If you undead did block him in, which they did once, he would have attacked to rout, which would have meant his lesser earthquake killing 8 squares of your undead)

Meanwhile, in sauromachia we find out that indeed the worst enemy of a Draconian is a giant boulder. See... this is why I like to field my boulder throwers as a homogenous army.

Thtb: Lack of astral nations? Hmmm.... I see what you mean. Alright, who did it guys? Will the person who slew all the astral nations please step forward?

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

So apparently I still live...   Go PD I guess?

[gman8181]

Is it just me or has the time in between turns actually grown shorter as the game's gone on instead of getting longer?

Endymion:  Yeah yeah, you must be so proud of yourself for killing off the astral users .  Hopefully we blood nations can still keep things interesting for you though .

[ThtblovesDF]

I'm being ripped apart with beautyful percision, armys just large enough to beat mine and not nearly enough resources to keep them all at bay, aha... where to make my stand? Every Gem I ever traded seems to come back as angry elemental assault.

The site search spell agartha gets => pure op

[Kebooo]

I warned everyone! At least, I think I did. In my mind I did and that's enough for me. "Tell them, tell them to band against Agartha before it's too late, show your sincerity by starting a war with Agartha". But no, everyone wanted to slit giant throats instead.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Agartha, you disappoint me! Why, Why am I still alive? Up until now you have been rolling over my provinces and now, I am finally down to one province and you have failed to take it twice now? What happened to the steamroller that rofl stomped my capital?

[ThtblovesDF]

It's hanging out around my capital and my other relevant province, but mostly shoting fireballs (372 units have been hit, 50 perished) x3

[Endymion]

I'm being ripped apart with beautyful percision, armys just large enough to beat mine and not nearly enough resources to keep them all at bay, aha... where to make my stand? Every Gem I ever traded seems to come back as angry elemental assault.

The site search spell agartha gets => pure op

Okay, first thing-- Agartha does nothing with precision. Our mages have 7 precision.

Secondly, the site search spell... Its good but its not purely OP. First off, it maintains the 2 gems per searched path ratio (it being 8 for 4), secondly it requires a turn my 'good' oracles (4E, which only 55% of them have-- and is important for something else), thirdly Agarthan anywhere mages are so weak they'd only be able to cast death and earth site searching normally, and finally it has a cost purely in earth gems, which for EA Agartha in general are much, much more valuable than death, water, and fire gems.

The really OP thing EA Agartha has is paths through the deep. It requires those 4E oracles to cast but for 5 earth gems it can warp an army (everything under the oracle) to another friendly lab. Scootaloo, for instance, around turn 24 or so in the game, picked up an army in my fort near Lanka.... used paths to get to L'iss, bottom of Tien Chi. Her army moved a bit, raiding 2 provinces before I saw that Niefelheim was going to attack me-- so she then used paths to move the entire army back home to deal with that. More often I use the spell to reinforce armies-- my production is essentially always only 1 turn away from being at whatever front-line I need it at.... I just have to build a lot of labs, use a handful of gems, and use my precious 4E Oracles.

   Agartha, you disappoint me! Why, Why am I still alive? Up until now you have been rolling over my provinces and now, I am finally down to one province and you have failed to take it twice now? What happened to the steamroller that rofl stomped my capital?

The steamroller that rofl stomped your capital was not composed of wolves. If you really want to know what happened to it.... it retreated north to respond to R'yleh and possibly pressure Niefel. Then it went about killing R'yleh. Then it launched the mentioned surprize attack on Pangaean forces. It might be worth mentioning that before it hit you it had started out being 2 separate expansion forces before coming together to respond to R'ylehs first attack with me, then break off and capture the area north of your old border. While it has been reinforced heavily, it is still has many of the same commanders (and the commanders that did the reinforcing, of course). It even happens to have 4 boulder throwers that have reached 4 stars in rank-- likely individual troops that have survived ever since back when we were all expanding.

[gman8181]

Yeah, Agartha's got this one in the bag.  All of my attempts to successfully pull off mists of deception by using hellpower have failed for one reason or another and to be honest I'm just tired of it now.  Regardless I'll continue on with the fight until the end and hopefully do better in round 12.

[Kebooo]

Nice, I like my new 83 income, several hundred below my upkeep.

[Endymion]

Yeah.... Monster boars are so annoying to deal with, so I decided not to and just inflict everyone with equal levels of super-low-income.

So yeah, I opened the seal. Utterdark + 3 awesome commanders + 30 umbrals. And everyone has minimal income now and non-darkvision units suck. Pangaea's remaining Pans have something like 3 precision-- it is hilarious to watch them try to cast spells long range.

[gman8181]

I'll take darkness over solar brilliance any day.

Edit:  I am rather interested to see these new commanders.  Does the global spawn umbrals constantly or is it a one time thing?

[gman8181]

Sorry to double post but...

Links to newly created rounds for all interested.

Dominions Round 13

Dominions Round 14

[Endymion]

The only ongoing effect of open the seal is the standard effects of Utterdark: Darkness everywhere, 10% income, random shade attacks. The 30 umbrals and the three uniques are just a one-time thing I gain when I first cast it. Oh, and don't worry Lanka-- you'll see one of the uniques soon.

Anyone paying attention to the List of Important Giants (Aka, the Hall of Fame), you'll notice that Diamond Tiara rocketing up to 789 kills (from a previous count of around 200 I think?). That is what happens when you cast earthquake in darkness against a horde of maenads. (Reminder: Earthquake uses an attack roll against defense. Darkness cuts defense in half, so the two spells LOVE each other. Destruction spam (to lower armor) would also synergize well when deploying these spells against armored troops. ) Anyways, that nuke quickly resulted in routing Pangaea's massive Zemike army, and I had moved another force to make it a rout-kill by taking his only remaining adjacent province.