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[Il Palazzo]

'tis but a flesh wound.

[E. Albright]

...that picture is honest in ways you don't intend it to be. A single wheelblock does not prevent a vehicle from going in any direction but one, and only then if the vehicle's driver refuses to spend a moment pulling off the wheelblock and going around it. It's very obvious that most nations on the map are entirely okay with nations growing dramatically stronger as they're neither confronted or contained; it's even very obvious that they're okay with turtley, hard-to-conquer nations growing ever stronger as they're neither confronted nor contained nor have their multiple contentious globals dispelled (fish-people in glassy oceans should not cast javelins).

[Il Palazzo]

Oh, for fuck's sake, Oceania. I was looking forward to being put out of my misery.

[Hatman]

I just want to say I had a limbless monkey squadron before it was cool in game 414 (I think? Whichever game I was T'ien C'hi in) and didn't even take lazy shortcuts like "playing a monkey nation" and "invading disease dominion" to get there.

[ThtblovesDF]

I really am trying my best here, it'd be more easy if you stop killing my [everything] with fucking mindrays.

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Holy shit that was ugly. Maybe I shouldn't make my own casters berserk?


Also you stole my Arena Champion (with 1 million items) with a enslave mind that thats fair, since he only had 16 mr.

But still, ouchy.

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Overall, while I lost like 400 souls (do wolves have souls?) over a 32 income province, Arco and C'tis have expanded there holdings, marigon has far more then before, too.


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PS: Its nearly like a map where everyone can reach everyone does not play towards mindless aggression? Your back is never secure...

[Il Palazzo]

Arco and C'tis have expanded there holdings, marigon has far more then before, too.

I don't know about Arco or Marignon, but between you and C'tis, it's you who's expanding. More of the usual misinformation in the age of fishy news, eh.

Also you stole my Arena Champion (with 1 million items) with a enslave mind that thats fair, since he only had 16 mr.

That's probably a glitch of the replay system, as I don't actually have him.
(and 16 mr vs 3-5 penetration I was fielding there is not much)

[ThtblovesDF]

You get commanders as regular units if you enslave them, check your troops.

If you gift him a proper mind, you got yourself a ok caster.

[Il Palazzo]

Don't teach an old monkey how to eat a banana . I don't have 'im. You can see it yourself in the battle summary screen, which gives negative numbers for captured units and always reflects the real state of affairs.
It's not the first time the replay of a large battle glitched out. Although I had a vague recollection of it having been addressed in one of the patches (not entirely successfuly, it seems).

[ThtblovesDF]

Sorry you're right - well, he is gone - in my recap he destroyed far more of my own troops then yours, once taken by the spell. What a shame to know he is gone...

[E. Albright]

Il Palazzo, alas, battle replay error is a class of bugs, not a single bug, and by all appearances there's more-or-less an endless pool of of possible ways for it to crop up given how many times instances of it have been quashed...

On the plus side, do those troop movements mean the consensus is that the mouse is no longer entertaining and finally should be eaten? Am I at long last to be put out of my misery?

[ThtblovesDF]

Invading Emror is like mowing the lawn. It sucks, but it has to be done and sometimes you lose a few limps.

[etgfrog]

That went almost exactly like I expected, oh well. 1 turn remaining.

[E. Albright]

Whelp. I picked the wrong turn to pull in some mages (particularly the Antimagic mage) to do a bit more research. On the plus side, I'll be deader soon and can finally be free of this crawling abomination of a game in good conscience.

Ulm, you're talking like it's some dramatic surprise that a late-game powerhouse can stomp an early-game powerhouse. Since Arco finally is making their move (don't expect them to stop with Ermor, obviously, because why would they; have fun getting stomped by the monstrosity that's festered unchecked while you pointedly ignored it), I'll point out what I've been avoiding pointing out for half the game. Chaff not withstanding, Ermor's actual economy is not a freespawn economy; it's a gem economy, and gem economies never scale up as well as gold economies. Ulm just captured 5 provinces? Great, now they can afford to hire 2-3 more flexible and powerful smiths per turn. Ermor just captured 5 provinces? If they're incredibly lucky, after 4-8 turns of site searching they'll be able to summon 1 more worthless-outside-a-lab Revenant per turn. Probably not, but maybe. Oh, and did they want more proper troops that can kill the other side's proper troops instead of chaff that dies by the hundreds? That will be competing for gems with the mage summoning, TYVM. Your capital income is providing you with the wherewithal to hire several mages of various levels per turn by itself. Mine gives me enough to hire one tier 1.5 mage and cast a single lictor summoning spell. That alone pretty much tells the entire tale of why it's a ridiculous idea that Ermor's growth is unconstrained even if they're contained. Past the early portions of the game, research > chaff, for reasons you've been demonstrating for quite a while now (and Arco could have been if it wasn't entirely to their advantage to let everyone focus on "real threats") - if I had proper research I could counter what you're doing, but I don't because I'm Ermor.

[Il Palazzo]

Can somebody start properly killing me too, please?

[ThtblovesDF]

In the alternative timeline where my battle review came from, I did.

Review showed total slaughter of the enemy, map shows I lost somehow. Sigh...