This may be cheap, but nothing prevents Om from doing this. I don't remember water being portal/teleport-proof.
Nakéen is correct. While it is less sportsmanlike than using armies or dropping mountains upon cities, it is in no way against the rules. I did however decide that an action like this could not be performed as a secret action ,
*New Rule* as that would not allow for Ardent Debater to block or retaliate to this attack. As far as I'm concerned, this attack is perfectly legitimate. And like any other attack, it can be blocked, reacted to, or subverted by several different means.
Xenrift hears of Zelthen's Racism and planned attacks.
I think I might A' well shut this down right now.
I Create a small Island Directly above Zelthen's portal and form it into a "Small Island sized" mountan that will be thrust into the earth at that spot.
soon afterwards he hears of the "Desert Demon".
If I might ask, might I Relese it because *I* Know at least two races that could use a good Desert, one of which is my own.
As far as the dropping of the mountain, at no point was it stated IC that mountain drop was designed to stop luminites from entering the portal. The phrase "Shut this down right now" in no way communicates that it supposed to be a preemptive strike. So any assumption that it would do that, is just that, an assumption. If killing a third of the population, destroying a holy cite/major city, and all orchards and terrain for miles around isn't shutting something down, then I'm not sure what is. Furthermore, 10 IP was spent on this attack while 9 IP was spent on the escape from this attack (the portals). That means for a difference of 1 IP, crazyabe killed a few hundred luminites. That is an
overwhelming success. However, in the case of the attack on the tortons, almost 30 points was invested in that attack between training the soldiers and equipping them with abuernite weapons and making the portal. And all of this occured over the course of multiple turns with multiple opportunities for subversion and sabotage. And yet, when its all said and done, only 200 tortons were killed and 100 captured. That is an
overwhelming failure. So I am finding it hard to imagine the logic behind being miffed about the results of the luminite campaign (Unless you happen to be Ardent Debater, who really invested a lot of time and effort for not a whole lot.)
Let me put this mathematically:
10 - 9 = 250+ dead. Which would have been even more if Slaeve hadn't chosen to attend to them first.
30(ish) - 0 = 200 dead and 100 captured.
Plus this means that the well trained, well equipped, and highly disciplined fanatacially religious army didn't manage to slay as many tortons as they had luminite soldiers. Not every soldier killed a torton. I considered that when a highly efficient invading force with fanatical doctrine appeared unannounced next to an untrained and unprepared civilian encampment with no defenses, or training, and didn't even slay one civilian per person to be very very generous. Silly me.
Sorry if that seems a little harsh, but I'm just wholly flabbergasted at this whole thing.