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[E. Albright]

Sum1won is handing over the reigns of R'lyeh to Boksi, so I'm pushing the current turn back 48h to allow for transition/diplomacy/etc.

[Il Palazzo]

I know we've just had an extra two days, but I need a bit more all the same. An extra 12h would do me good.
I'm so busy these days I really can't be arsed to do my turns. BUT. Fear not, it's only temporary, and by Thursday I shall be back to my usual schedule of having enough time on my hands to endlessly agonise about scripting shit properly.
Until then, please indulge me.

[E. Albright]

Pushed to 1500GMT.

[Boksi]

My first impression of the situation was: Oh jeez.

That was also my second and third and fourth and fifth impressions. This is seriously lategame stuff. I feel a little overwhelmed.

[Delta Foxtrot]

Now go kill Albright

[E. Albright]

Yeah, and the "happy" thought is that you're significantly more lategame than anyone else. You're wallowing in artifacts and elemental royalty, you've been throwing around armies that can drop 5-7 Master Enslaves in two rounds of combat for a year or two now, and you own as much real estate as anyone else on the disk (even though this particular turn I'm occupying slightly more than you for the first time ever). You've still got traditional squid problems, the south is fortified and united against you, and the north is an unholy mess of 5000-troop shambling armies and sprawling communions, but you're definitely in a preeminent lategame position to the point where all that's honestly issues moreso than problems.

I could offer precise commentaries on why we all don't already have tentacles braided into our hair at this point, but there's too much of a risk that this would turn into me inadvertently lecturing you on how to best peel the skulls away from our tender, tasty brains.

[lijacote]

There is a chance that I won't be able to do any of my (future) turns in the coming weekend, or even check in on the forums (not to even mention hanging out on the IRC channel). It's a slight chance, but it does exist. Just a heads-up.

I give myself permission to plagiarise this message.

[Boksi]

Discounting time spent sleeping, I'm spending almost as much time at Harpa as I am at home this weekend. I might be somewhat late in getting my turn in. Maybe.

[E. Albright]

With two players expressing concerns, albeit with reservations, I'll go ahead and knock things back 12h.

[Darkwind3]

Can I get a 6 hour extension? I hopefully won't need it, but it would ease my mind a bit.

[E. Albright]

Pushed to Weds 0845GMT.

[E. Albright]

Well, I promised Boksi I'd post these to provide the same sense of the ebb and flow of the game that the rest of us have had by watching the LS numbers every turn. I'm not doing myself any favors by doing so since they definitely make me look like a prime candidate for ganging up on. In mitigation, I'd point out that I haven't fought a strategically meaningful battle since around turn 69 or 70, and my recent surge represents raiders rampaging unopposed (?!?!?) through the drier, undeveloped portions of the Rubbery Marches rather than anything that feels like breaking the stalemate with the squid.

[edit: I appear to have somehow deleted the y-axis on the Provinces graph. Scale is 5, and the graph tops off at 50.)

Graphs as of Turn 74:

Spoiler: Provinces (click to show/hide)

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Spoiler: Forts (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Income (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Gem Income (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Research (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Dominion (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Army Size (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Thrones Held (click to show/hide)

[Mindmaker]

I'm sorry for butting in, but how often do you make those games?

[Darkwind3]

Curious. I majyyked a couple ghoul armies onto one of Bandar Log's forts, hoping to tie up any retaliatory forces attacking from there. Instead, the monkey army bypassed the ghouls entirely and continued on their merry way (where they were slaughtered regardless, but that's another matter). I had thought that besieging a fort in the magic phase would prevent the besieged from being able to leave the castle without a fight, but perhaps not!

Also lookit dat army size graph. The ups and downs in my army size are much less impressive with Ermor scrunching it all down.

e: for posterity:

Spoiler: a big image (click to show/hide)

[USEC_OFFICER]

I'm sorry for butting in, but how often do you make those games?

I have no idea, honestly. I think that people just make them when they feel like it.