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[Shadowlord]

Dear Machaka: You have So! Many! Troops! I can't train enough to get rid of you (despite an overabundance of gold - this map seems to shower everyone with gold). Did you just start summoning lions now too? You should just march into my capital and get it over with.

[DarkerDark]

When does claiming a throne take place in the turn order? Before or after battles?

[Delta Foxtrot]

Not sure about claiming -you can probably look that up in the manual- but I'm pretty sure that as of few patches ago, throne ownership and victory related to that is checked after battles.

[Shadowlord]

Yeah. You claim before battles but as of the latest patches, if someone takes the province from you before the end of the turn, you will fail to win the game now even if at some point during the turn you had enough thrones claimed. (IIRC 403 ended prior to this change, with just enough thrones being taken by tompliss, and then he lost one the same turn, but got the win anyways because it didn't care that he lost the province after meeting the win condition)

[AlStar]

Dear Machaka: You have So! Many! Troops! I can't train enough to get rid of you (despite an overabundance of gold - this map seems to shower everyone with gold). Did you just start summoning lions now too? You should just march into my capital and get it over with.

I actually get lions as a regular recruit for 20 gold 1 resource, same as I get elephants for 100 gold and 20 resources - I just don't use them that often due to the fact that their lack of any armor makes them rather susceptible to sharp and/or pointy things.

And you can blame yourself for slowing down my offensive - that assassination really messed with my plans.

[Shadowlord]

Yeah, but they're much easier to mass-produce and use as chaff if you summon them. 'Course you have to be at a lab to do that.

I was hoping to kill all your commanders and then just mop up, but alas, your prophet resisted assassination and that was enough to hold your forces together against two assaults.

[tompliss]

Yeah. You claim before battles but as of the latest patches, if someone takes the province from you before the end of the turn, you will fail to win the game now even if at some point during the turn you had enough thrones claimed. (IIRC 403 ended prior to this change, with just enough thrones being taken by tompliss, and then he lost one the same turn, but got the win anyways because it didn't care that he lost the province after meeting the win condition)

Exactly that.
So now, if you want to win by getting all the thrones in one turn, you'll have to deal with the fact that the thread will be flooded by messages telling to attack you if we do not want to loose

[Shadowlord]

With all the PD we've bought, we could be here for a good long time.

[AlStar]

Guards, setting them on fire, magma bolts - will nothing stop your assassins?

[Shadowlord]

They are very determined.

[DarkerDark]

Suddenly, Berytos spearmen. Berytos spearmen everywhere. Hundreds of them.

[Shadowlord]

I'm assuming that hundreds of everything everywhere and several times normal PD levels are par for the course on this map. (I don't think AIs in SP know what to do with the gold, though, since they were pushovers and I never met any effective resistance, which led to me assuming I could similarly faceroll the world in MP too. Silly me. )

[tompliss]

Suddenly, Berytos spearmen. Berytos spearmen everywhere. Hundreds of them.

You cost me a fort and me best mage.
I'll take those back from your income.

Best wishes, clarence, Ruler of Berytos.

[Delta Foxtrot]

Just out of interest, what kind of PD levels are you guys talking about?

[Shadowlord]

The kind of PD levels that enable battles like this:

Spoiler: battle summary (click to show/hide)

(There isn't a castle there, either.)