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[notquitethere]

Just waiting on Evil and RoleP now.

[Rolepgeek]

I could be a couple hours, apologies.

Let me tell you this though, Maharadja. All you have to do to win is defeat Pictland. Considering you haven't been using your free population for whatever unfathomable reason, you could easily build up additional cities.

But in all honesty, I'm not worried, as your 'remaining units' are a swordsman and a spearman. As I can build Tier 2 units to support my King, I have little worry on that front. Particularly as it'll take you at least like half a dozen turns to get back.

On the other hand, I could help you defeat the Picts instead, thus securing your wincon and assisting myself in mine. Pictland didn't start out with a city, after all. Why should losing yours ruin your chances at victory?

In any case, I know my course of action, for the moment.

[Rolepgeek]

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<playerturn player="Rolep">
  <tileorders>
    <tileorder type="tClaim" x="30" y="31"/>
    <tileorder type="bImp" x="22" y="30">
      <improvement code="farm"/>
    </tileorder>
    <tileorder type="bImp" x="26" y="24">
      <improvement code="farm"/>
    </tileorder>
    <tileorder type="bImp" x="25" y="24">
      <improvement code="farm"/>
    </tileorder>
    <tileorder type="tClaim" x="28" y="24"/>
  </tileorders>
  <cityorders>
    <cityorder type="bBld" cityid="4">
      <building code="libr"/>
    </cityorder>
  </cityorders>
  <armyorgorders/>
  <armyorders>
    <armyorder type="conq" armyid="5" x="26" y="22"/>
    <armyorder type="mArmy" armyid="13" x="27" y="25">
      <step dx="-1" dy="-1"/>
    </armyorder>
  </armyorders>
</playerturn>

[Evil Marahadja]

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<playerturn player="Evil Marahadja">
  <tileorders>
    <tileorder type="bCity" x="20" y="19">
      <cityname>Last hope</cityname>
    </tileorder>
  </tileorders>
  <cityorders>
    <cityorder type="subPop" cityid="5"/>
  </cityorders>
  <armyorgorders/>
  <armyorders>
    <armyorder type="mArmy" armyid="8" x="21" y="16">
      <step dx="1" dy="1"/>
    </armyorder>
    <armyorder type="mArmy" armyid="6" x="22" y="16">
      <step dx="0" dy="1"/>
    </armyorder>
  </armyorders>
</playerturn>

[notquitethere]

Spoiler: 623 AD (click to show/hide)

Ireland:

10 food used to gain 1 free population
10 food used to gain 1 free population
11 food used to gain 1 free population
Tile (5,26) claimed
Farm built at (7,27)
Tile (6,19) claimed


Mercia:

42 food used to gain 1 free population
Tile (30,31) claimed
Farm built at (22,30)
Farm built at (26,24)
Farm built at (25,24)
Tile (28,24) claimed
Library built in Lincoln
Mercia army 13 moves to (26,24)
Coenwulf has conquered York!
   Population reduced to 2


Northumbria:

30 food used to gain 1 free population
City Last hope built at (20,19)
York shrinks to size 3
Eanred moves to (22,17)
Northmen moves to (22,17)
Coenwulf has conquered York!
   Population reduced to 2


Wessex:

31 food used to gain 1 free population
City Shorine built at (29,36)
Farm built at (24,35)
Spearmen raised in Winchester
Training Field built in Londinium
Training Field built in Southern Trek
Jutes moves to (27,32)
Egbert moves to (24,33)


Wales:

26 food used to gain 1 free population
Tile (15,37) claimed
Farm built at (16,37)
Training Field built in Lampeter
Smithy built in Machynlleth


Pictland:

52 food used to gain 1 free population
Horse Pasture built at (22,10)
Hunter's Camp built at (22,9)
Mott Fergusa grows to size 4
Raiding Group moves to (23,14)
Roving Band moves to (23,14)
Causantin moves to (23,14)

The Irish High surveys his growing lands. All this is good, but there are still many dales left to take. On the crowded mainland, in the north the disparate warbands begin to unify while the southerners call their banners.

Turn 10: 624AD

Player interface
Admin Interface

Spoiler: Win Conditions (click to show/hide)

For the wincons below: a nation is considered defeated if it has no cities and no units and no reasonable chance of completing its wincon. Ireland is considered 'taken over' if 95% of its tiles are owned by one player.

Irish Kingdom: Take over the whole of Ireland 
Mercia: Defeat the Anglo-Saxon nations (Northumbria, Wessex) OR Defeat the Britons (Picts/Welsh/Irish).
Wessex: Hold Winchester until the Danes come. You can lose and retake it, but if it's ever destroyed or if it's owned by a foreign nation in 665AD, you'll lose.
Wales: Survive until the Danes come. This means 'have at least one Welsh territory and one Welsh unit alive' in 665 AD.
Pictland: Defeat the Anglo-Saxon Nations OR take over Ireland
Northumberland: Defeat the Picts OR take over Ireland

The game can end prematurely if one faction wipes out all other factions, which is also considered a win. Win conditions are only checked in 665 AD and you only can win if you're not defeated.

Mercia - Rolepg
Wessex - Varee
Northumbria - Evil Marahadja
Wales - Zanz
Ireland - Lemon10
Pictland - Kashyyk

[Evil Marahadja]

Spoiler: Turn 11 (click to show/hide)

<playerturn player="Evil Marahadja">
  <tileorders/>
  <cityorders>
    <cityorder type="addPop" cityid="17"/>
  </cityorders>
  <armyorgorders/>
  <armyorders>
    <armyorder type="mArmy" armyid="8" x="22" y="17">
      <step dx="-1" dy="1"/>
    </armyorder>
    <armyorder type="mArmy" armyid="6" x="22" y="17">
      <step dx="-1" dy="1"/>
    </armyorder>
  </armyorders>
</playerturn>

[Varee]

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<playerturn player="Varee">
  <tileorders>
    <tileorder type="bImp" x="25" y="33">
      <improvement code="horseI"/>
    </tileorder>
    <tileorder type="bRoad" x="24" y="33"/>
  </tileorders>
  <cityorders>
    <cityorder type="bBld" cityid="6">
      <building code="smith"/>
    </cityorder>
    <cityorder type="addPop" cityid="18"/>
    <cityorder type="addPop" cityid="12"/>
  </cityorders>
  <armyorgorders>
    <armyorgorder type="nArmy" armyid="Varee15" x="27" y="32"/>
    <armyorgorder type="mUnit" armyid="4" x="27" y="32">
      <targetunit unitid="6"/>
      <secondarmy armyid="Varee15"/>
    </armyorgorder>
    <armyorgorder type="mUnit" armyid="Varee15" x="27" y="32">
      <targetunit unitid="6"/>
      <secondarmy armyid="4"/>
    </armyorgorder>
    <armyorgorder type="dArmy" armyid="Varee15" x="27" y="32"/>
    <armyorgorder type="mUnit" armyid="14" x="24" y="34">
      <targetunit unitid="19"/>
      <secondarmy armyid="14"/>
    </armyorgorder>
  </armyorgorders>
  <armyorders>
    <armyorder type="conq" armyid="4" x="27" y="32"/>
    <armyorder type="mArmy" armyid="3" x="24" y="33">
      <step dx="-1" dy="-1"/>
    </armyorder>
    <armyorder type="mArmy" armyid="14" x="24" y="34">
      <step dx="0" dy="-1"/>
    </armyorder>
  </armyorders></playerturn>

[Kashyyk]

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<playerturn player="Kashyyk">
  <tileorders>
    <tileorder type="bImp" x="21" y="11">
      <improvement code="farm"/>
    </tileorder>
    <tileorder type="bImp" x="24" y="9">
      <improvement code="farm"/>
    </tileorder>
    <tileorder type="bImp" x="21" y="12">
      <improvement code="farm"/>
    </tileorder>
  </tileorders>
  <cityorders>
    <cityorder type="addPop" cityid="16"/>
  </cityorders>
  <armyorgorders/>
  <armyorders>
    <armyorder type="mArmy" armyid="10" x="23" y="14">
      <step dx="1" dy="-1"/>
    </armyorder>
    <armyorder type="mArmy" armyid="11" x="23" y="14">
      <step dx="1" dy="1"/>
    </armyorder>
    <armyorder type="mArmy" armyid="9" x="23" y="14">
      <step dx="0" dy="1"/>
    </armyorder>
  </armyorders>
</playerturn>

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

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<playerturn player="Zanzetkuken">
  <tileorders>
    <tileorder type="bImp" x="15" y="37">
      <improvement code="hunt"/>
    </tileorder>
    <tileorder type="bImp" x="17" y="37">
      <improvement code="farm"/>
    </tileorder>
  </tileorders>
  <cityorders>
    <cityorder type="addPop" cityid="13"/>
  </cityorders>
  <armyorgorders/>
  <armyorders/>
</playerturn>

[lemon10]

Spoiler: Ireland Turn 10 (click to show/hide)

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<playerturn player="Lemon10">
  <tileorders>
    <tileorder type="tClaim" x="4" y="27"/>
    <tileorder type="tClaim" x="10" y="18"/>
  </tileorders>
  <cityorders>
    <cityorder type="addPop" cityid="14"/>
  </cityorders>
  <armyorgorders/>
  <armyorders/>
</playerturn>

Spoiler: Turn 11 (click to show/hide)

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<playerturn player="Lemon10">
  <tileorders>
    <tileorder type="bImp" x="4" y="27">
      <improvement code="mine"/>
    </tileorder>
    <tileorder type="tClaim" x="11" y="19"/>
    <tileorder type="tClaim" x="10" y="17"/>
  </tileorders>
  <cityorders/>
  <armyorgorders/>
  <armyorders/>
</playerturn>

Spoiler: Turn 12 (click to show/hide)

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<playerturn player="Lemon10">
  <tileorders>
    <tileorder type="bImp" x="5" y="26">
      <improvement code="farm"/>
    </tileorder>
    <tileorder type="tClaim" x="11" y="20"/>
    <tileorder type="tClaim" x="9" y="26"/>
  </tileorders>
  <cityorders>
    <cityorder type="addPop" cityid="14"/>
  </cityorders>
  <armyorgorders/>
  <armyorders/>
</playerturn>

[Vanigo]

I'd also like to know if there's a way I can create a building that acts as a unit during assaults on the city, and affects the behaviour of units besides itself, as well as the unit itself starting/staying only one tile in front of the rest of the units(I want to change the way Walls work, okay?).

Um... no. That would require a heavy-duty rebuild of most of the combat engine.

Ways to have magic/buffs that cancel each other out passively, or units that get big buffs against certain other kinds of units...

Buffs can overwrite other buffs - look at Dispelled. As for getting bonuses against certain other units, that's not doable, but you can give them debuffs that only work against certain units. The anti-undead abilities (which I don't think have ever been relevant in any game of this) work like this.

knowing what all the specials do exactly would be nice as well(what does Charge and Chargebreak actually do?)).

Charge and Chargebreak are among the more complex abilities. Here's the rundown: Normally, a unit can move or attack on its turn, not both. Units with Charge are an exception - if they advance into range, they'll make an immediate attack. What's more, if the Charge value is above 0, they'll get a bonus on that attack. However, if the defending unit has Chargebreak, they'll get an immediate counterattack, which can also have an attack bonus.

I think I can see how to make new buffs, but what are buff modifiers? I remember Vanigo mentioning them when he was talking about the order in which things resolve.

Most buffs have buff modifiers, which are just flat bonuses or penalties they apply to the affected unit's stats. A few, like Improved Health, have buff multipliers, which as the name implies give a percentage-based modifier to the affected stat.

Oh yes, and I'll probably implement flooding or something. Rivers become ocean tiles, the lands next to them become rivered Swamp tiles, takes some shit to undo but can also result in good things happening...I dunno. Big overhaul, probably, in a lot of ways, how I can.

That sounds like it's best handled by the admin, changing tiles manually between turns.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

I'd also like to know if there's a way I can create a building that acts as a unit during assaults on the city, and affects the behaviour of units besides itself, as well as the unit itself starting/staying only one tile in front of the rest of the units(I want to change the way Walls work, okay?).

Um... no. That would require a heavy-duty rebuild of most of the combat engine.

He could have walls be a buildable unit with a movement of 0, maybe with a ranged attack to get over them being unable to move in combat.  Maybe a custom ability to give them a defense modifier to units in the same army?

[Rolepgeek]

I was considering having a unit that gave debuffs to all non-flying enemy units that slowed them down significantly, which couldn't be produced and had a move of 0 or something similar.

That, and garrisons. Such units would need to be manually inserted and deleted in times of combat by the admin, though.

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<playerturn player="Rolep">
  <tileorders>
    <tileorder type="bImp" x="23" y="24">
      <improvement code="farm"/>
    </tileorder>
    <tileorder type="bImp" x="23" y="25">
      <improvement code="farm"/>
    </tileorder>
  </tileorders>
  <cityorders>
    <cityorder type="bBld" cityid="9">
      <building code="smith"/>
    </cityorder>
    <cityorder type="addPop" cityid="5"/>
    <cityorder type="rUnit" cityid="4">
      <unittype code="spear"/>
    </cityorder>
  </cityorders>
  <armyorgorders/>
  <armyorders>
    <armyorder type="mArmy" armyid="13" x="26" y="24">
      <step dx="0" dy="-1"/>
    </armyorder>
  </armyorders>
</playerturn>

[Vanigo]

He could have walls be a buildable unit with a movement of 0, maybe with a ranged attack to get over them being unable to move in combat.  Maybe a custom ability to give them a defense modifier to units in the same army?

Speed 0 units could work, yeah, and you could give them a defense buff aura.

As for garrison units... I think you could make them with speed 0, and a special ability called Garrison which gives a speed buff to Garrison units - a roundabout way of giving them nonzero speed in combat only.

[Rolepgeek]

Hm. That would actually work pretty well.

I was trying to figure out how to make Militia units and the like that didn't stay perfectly still in combat.