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Total Members Voted: 8

Voting closed: June 02, 2014, 04:59:26 pm

[Il Palazzo]

Arglebargle. This turn suddenly is ten and half gazillion times more demanding than the ones I got used to, so I'm giving myself extra few hours to cope.

[Mindmaker]

I really hope nobody noticed that I forgot to craft Jars of Fire until now.
That would be embarassing.

[AlStar]

I really hope nobody noticed that I forgot to craft Jars of Fire until now.
That would be embarassing.

Well, you were obviously too busy using those gems to buff up your mages in battle. There's no time to create items that give you free gems every battle!

[Mindmaker]

I'm not even talking about that battle.
I just needed to restlessly destroy those giants, without losing to much on my front.

Mainly talking about all the battlefield enchantments I'm using every fight.

[Il Palazzo]

Do try and get your turns in earlier than that, though. It's often the case where some people treat the longer interval as an excuse to procrastinate, which drags the games out without any good reason.

I'm eating those words! I'm eating them with Marmite to kill the hypocritical taste, but it won't go. Oh, it won't go.

[Il Palazzo]

Alright, I think that was the most intense battle I've ever seen. The rollercoaster of hope and despair almost gave me a heart attack several times in the span of a few minutes.

[lijacote]

You should upload it on YouTube ;P

[Ragnoff]

Now i am afraid to even look

[Ragnoff]

My fear was justified. 

I haven't watched the battle, just looked at the results,  but that may have been the decisive victory.  I thought I have far more magical firepower there than you did.  If that force could not win, I doubt I can stop you.

[Il Palazzo]

You should upload it on YouTube ;P

No can do. Not with my consumptive laptop.
Best I could possibly manage is some screenshots.

Maybe Ragnoff will fancy making a double feature with the earlier battle.


@Ragnoff: frankly, I was thinking the same thing - that if I lose this one, I won't be able to stop you.

[lijacote]

Whoever wins, we lose.

[Ragnoff]

I still out produce you, so I am not throwing in the towel yet, but the amount I lost there for Not nearly enough hurts badly.

In our former battle even though you lost you took out a bunch of my best mages, In this battle I don't think I took out anything you cannot instantly replace.  That is why I think the balance of power just shifted.  I lost several SCs, the pretender god, and many of my remaining top smiths and shaman.

I see the difference was army wide spells/buffs. I was relying too much on attempts to eliminate your casters, and some of the mages that provided my own army wide buffs in the previous battle died.  Your troops are so much better than anything i can get that having those buffs and not having the counters was more than i could overcome.

I do think scripting choices hurt me. played again with the same forces i don't know that I could have won, but maybe I could have killed enough to make my position better.

[Il Palazzo]

It was a close one, though. Very little extra muscle on your side would most likely shift the outcome to me losing everything I've thrown there.
A flier, like in the previous battle, to land in the rear and slaughter the mages. A nature mage casting relief and regen to prevent your water elemental hordes from getting whittled down by all the fatigue and damage from fire, cold and lightning. One more flames from the sky would conceivably remove enough forces to cripple my battle plan(siddha started the battle half-dead after the one volley).


Oh, and nice snipers you've got there. Picking out nearly all the tartarians in the first couple of rounds or so, no matter where they stood.

[Mindmaker]

After what feels like a year of sieging, the last bastion is finally going down.

[Antur]

After what feels like a year of sieging, the last bastion is finally going down.

My engineers will blot out the sun!^{by building roofs}

So yeah, still have no idea what how to make effective armies as Arco. It's depressing only semi-working idea i had was just massing of pegasi riders.