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I'm not in a hurry; we're bound to find a sucker replacement eventually.

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Onward, even if we have a shambling zombie nation!

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Let it end, oh please let it end!

4 (80%)

You say you need a sucker replacement? Well, I AM that sucker replacement!

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Total Members Voted: 5

[Il Palazzo]

No, I mean a really long term unavailability. I'll have to quit playing everything for like, two months at least.

[Anvilfolk]

Doesn't sound like a ton'o'fun! I hope things are OK in life Il Palazzo!

Also, maybe we could destroy the Rehost game since it's still listed there!

[E. Albright]

All right then. So. It... sounds like we need a sub, as RL appears to be rearing its head for IP in a very ugly manner. So, um, I'll set the game on hold until we get someone.

Sub needed, experienced player preferred. Must like micromanaging. Currently winning by a modest margin, but probably hasn't hit critical mass quite yet...

[Il Palazzo]

I'll be happy to provide some general tips on the strategy used so far, should the prospective player need it. Just PM me.

And thanks for your concerns, guys, but the circumstances involved might actually, potentially, turn out to be happy ones

[ThtblovesDF]

Could the AI even handle this mess in any capacity, if worst comes to worst?

[E. Albright]

It would do pretty bad with it. It has a big enough base territory it could do reasonable brute force tactics, but we're late enough in the game that everyone else has access to the tricks that are needed to make simple brute force suicide. It would almost immediate go to war with everyone on the map, too, and start being picked to pieces just as quickly.

[E. Albright]

'Kay, so, we still have no sub. I see two ways out of the situation.

One, admit that Ag-M is in a strong enough position that continuing to play with them as AI would no longer be the same game, so we should just call the match.

Two, admit that Ag-M is in a strong enough position that continuing to play with them as AI would no longer be the same game, but who cares, it's not like this is for a league or something where the outcome counts outside itself, so we should embrace chaos and drive on.

I suppose I could try to recruit an outside sub, but that seems just wrong...

[Shadowlord]

It wouldn't surprise me if the natgen nations were the reason nobody has volunteered.

Personally, I would be fine with calling it.

[E. Albright]

Glorious poll is up! Or our five players can voice their opinions in a more straightforward manner.

[ThtblovesDF]

After EA mavernis madness, i stay away from clusterfuck nations, moving 1417 Boars around the map, 80 a piece max was hell.

[E. Albright]

...that was your own doing, turning a normal nation into a freespawn nation. 

B12R22, OTOH, is a micromanagement PITA to optimize, not to simply play.

[Shadowlord]

I've dealt with it by not training foulspawn, or when I did, not separating them out because they're just manning walls anyways. It's probably not the optimal strategy, but it reduces the amount of micromanagement needed.

Of course I have blood hunters to manage too, so...

[E. Albright]

Well, the players and/or peanut gallery has spoken, so this tragicomic farce shall be brought to an end.

I will again underscore my frustration with the map choice; be assured I've strong words with the idiot who proposed it. Extremely high interconnectivity maps seem good in principle because they reduce chokepoints and maximize viable start positions in terms of neighbors... but they tend to behave badly in terms of nation clustering. Lower connectivity plus dedicated start provinces has grown on me a lot over the past few games we've done here...

[E. Albright]

...any comments on Foulspawn? Any feedback? Are the Foulspawn recruitment outcomes too diverse? Not diverse enough? An embarrassment because they don't include hoburgspawn?

[Margrave]

There were no Hoburgspawn!?

I liked it just fine, my only two complaints would be commanders that start out with battle fright afflictions and the hassle of trying to group mindless/barbarian/normal formations units all together.
I routinely had to overbuy just to make sure I both got something useful, and could gingerly select which troops I wanted.

I loved the variety, was thrilled to see bear cavalry and then dismayed when I saw their price.
Would play again someday, just with a way to see what I was buying unit wise