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Re: Dominions 3 PBEM
« Reply #375 on: March 13, 2011, 12:16:17 pm »

I would but I'm not really a caelum player so It'd sort end up as a disapointment, plus I did a PBEM game so I'd have to learn how to do it aswell, even though it seems rather simple. Didn't anyone get defeated yet? It seems like Ulm doesn't any any provinces anymore.
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« Reply #376 on: March 13, 2011, 12:57:00 pm »

Arco's dead.

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« Reply #377 on: March 13, 2011, 04:12:29 pm »

I would but I'm not really a caelum player so It'd sort end up as a disapointment, plus I did a PBEM game so I'd have to learn how to do it aswell, even though it seems rather simple. Didn't anyone get defeated yet? It seems like Ulm doesn't any any provinces anymore.
There's always Lorak's T'ien Ch'i(Early Era) in the other game, if it suits your fancy more than Caelum does.
That other game is roughly half as advanced turn-wise as this one.
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« Reply #378 on: March 14, 2011, 10:21:34 pm »

What era's this game? I pretty much have only played MA Caelum (really no other nations or ages yet, so it'll be lucky if it's MA...) but if you're looking for a replacement I could step in for a bit. I'll skim through the thread to catch up a bit.

Edit: Haha wow I need to learn to read or go to bed. Middle it is! I'm skimming currently and I'll watch the topic so I get email replies.
Edit2: Caught up. I'm a little... worried about taking over for Caelum, assuming of course that I'll screw things up. That's kind of how these things go though, and I guess this has already had 2 people swap and 3 go to AI, so it wouldn't be that much worse. I'm also a little concerned about how much "team up against Caelum, they're going to rule the world!" there was a few pages back in the thread, but judging by llamaserver stats it's only like 4th or 5th place right now in pretty much all of the categories. Definitely not the powerhouses that Agartha and C'tis seem to be.

Also, for those that are interested, there are actually a few really good Dom3 LPs out there. I know this was brought up almost six months ago and I don't think these were around then, but... links!
--From the LParchive. This one's told from the perspective of someone playing in a multiplayer game. They go through from beginning to end and narrate it as they go, talking about their strategies and about counters for stuff they're facing. They link to some other LP threads in the introduction but some of them are fairly old and I think the threads are lost.
--Pretty darn cool narrated one linked (and still functional) from the LParchive one. This one's told from the viewpoint of an omniscient observer and tells roleplays the whole thing with italicized notes from the person writing it about game mechanics. Unfortunately because it's an old thread about 1/3-1/2 of the images are missing. Not normally an issue because the narration does a good job, but unfortunate nonetheless.
  I guess these aren't really LPs now that I think about it, they more just well written battle reports, but it's still cool as far as storytelling-related-to-Dom3 goes.

Finally, is it possible to watch a PBEM game as an observer? I don't know how the person does it in the second thread, but I get the impression they may have just had the password to the game on llamaserver and just downloaded everyone's turns, which is a bit... awkward. I guess it'd be a bit weird as an observer anyway because of all the in-game messaging that can go on, but I just wanted to see if it's even an option.
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Re: Dominions 3 PBEM
« Reply #379 on: March 15, 2011, 01:57:33 am »

You'll note that only Il Palazzo has mentioned ganging up upon Caelum.  And Il Palazzo's Agartha is pretty getting ganged up on by all the major powers (Caelum included).

I guess C'tis Miasma has finally caused a few neighbors to seek its irradication.  But they're so far behind in research they really don't qualify as a major power.

I running the sucky version of Mictlan...Middle Age.  And my research is worse than C'tis.  Needless to say, I'd like to be your friend if you take over for Caelum.

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« Reply #380 on: March 15, 2011, 05:45:23 am »

See, that's why scoreboards are not perfect for assessing the state of the game.
Here's how I see the other nations:

Caelum is sitting sandwitched between my lands to the N, NE, E, SE, and S, Disaster!'s Pythium to the NW, Euchrejack's Mictlan to the SW, and bordering(colonizing?) a lake to the West. Notice that most of it's borders are with me, and this hasn't changed much pretty much since we started duking it out some 30-ish turns back. Lorak played Caelum's strengths very well, and while never managed to invade and hold his conquests, neither could I. He uses the Elemental Royalty of Air and Water as supercombatants, and flying squads of mages with an escort as the riding parties. My pd used to be completely defenseless against massed(~3-4 mages) thunderstrike concertoes. Much less so while I've got the Gift of Health up and running.
The elemental queens have proven to be superior to Pinocchios in a one-on-one combat so far, but I'm having some success with Mind Hunting them whenever I get a chance. They do get resummoned, though.
Currently, I find his birdmen to be the hardest to bite, and without much boasting, I'd say that if not for him pinning me down, I'd be knocking at the gates of C'tis 'round now. Or so my propaganda says.
Caelum is at war with Agartha.

C'tis looks like a powerhouse, and believe me, it's going to be one soon, as slMagnvox is a veteran player, and he's giving his nation the Chinese treatment, pulling it out of the dark ages with maximum speed. It still needs a few turns to come up to full ability, as it's research is lagging behind. He's also at a disadvantage, having missed a lot of artifacts and possibly a few unique summons.
His lands are fortified like crazy, though, miasma is spreading fast, and he does feel able enough to take on Pythium, which he did just a few turns ago.
At war with Pythium.

Disaster!'s Pythium is, as far as I can tell, a giant with clay legs. His armies are huge, but not very well supported with mages, which begins to matter a lot these days. He does have a host of good super combatants, and can be really dangerous, if he puts his many mages to a good use.
Currently at war with Agartha and C'tis.

R'yleh is a royal pain in the neck, but it seems that only for Agartha. The tentacled monsters took way too many Pinocchios to keep count. More than Caelian clever tricks and trinkets did, I think.
His ability to mount a counterstrike is limited, though, and his Dominion is on a brink of dissapearing - but slowly, very slowly improving now.
At war with Agartha.

Marignon is involved in a war with AI Ashdod, finally getting the upper hand, and sweeping through the giant's lands, burning temples, and not caring to build any themselves, which is most likely the major factor in R'yleh's dominion surviving(Ashdod and Marignon are occupying the shores of Ignus' "homelake".
What he's going to do after he's done with the giants is a big unknown. He borders Agartha and Mictlan, in addition to the underwater nasties.

Mictlan just took over, and is trying to pull himself out of the Dark Ages, but he doesn't have such an easy task as C'tis does, having much worse and economy(i.e. less land, less mages, and less forts - the previous C'tis' player turtled like crazy, unlike the Mictlan's one). He's currently at peace with everybody, bordering C'tis(?), Caelum, Agartha and Marignon.

AI Ulm is practically gone.
AI Arcoscephale is certainly gone, and has been for a while now.
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« Reply #381 on: March 15, 2011, 08:49:58 am »

Nice summary, thanks for that. I'd be up for taking over Caelum if you guys wanted. I'll send a PM to Il P with my info (which he can ignore if I somehow drastically misread things and you don't want a replacement).
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« Reply #382 on: March 15, 2011, 09:12:42 am »

No, we do. I'll get you your turn in a moment.
I don't think I had any plans for invasions on Caelum front for this turn, so you should be able to start off without much problems.
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« Reply #383 on: March 15, 2011, 09:17:44 am »

Alright, cool I got it. I've got work until 6ish EST but I'll get on it after that.
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« Reply #384 on: March 15, 2011, 09:19:13 am »

No rush, take your time to get yourself properly aquainted with your assets.
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« Reply #385 on: March 15, 2011, 04:52:52 pm »

Awww it all looks so fun, too bad I don't play caelum so I'd end up screwing up Agartha's main enemy apart from c'tis. :P
Meanwhile I'll be cheering for c'tis because they're a bunch of jerkface lizardmen necromancers being a pain to agartha, gogogogo.
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« Reply #386 on: March 15, 2011, 06:01:18 pm »

Not just Agartha...

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« Reply #387 on: March 15, 2011, 09:50:57 pm »

Alright, I've spent some time looking over what I've got to work with. It's... encouraging I guess?  I was a bit worried when I saw the research table on llamaserver but it turns out I just didn't know the scale they use. I mean, others definitely have more, but looks like I have some fun stuff to play with as I'm sure Agartha's seen. Just to be sure, I AM only at war with Agartha right? Has Caelum been stepping on other people's toes?

Edit: Also, is there a way to see pretender stats? I mean I can look at the pretender itself and infer dominion/scales from looking at stuff, but is there a way to actually see how it was set up at the beginning?
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« Reply #388 on: March 16, 2011, 03:29:58 am »

Edit: Also, is there a way to see pretender stats? I mean I can look at the pretender itself and infer dominion/scales from looking at stuff, but is there a way to actually see how it was set up at the beginning?
I don't think so. But what else do you need to know about your pretender than the dominion and magic scales?
Oh, about the magic scales - Harveybirdman died once, so whatever he's got now in magic powers, was one level higher initially.

Awww it all looks so fun, too bad I don't play caelum so I'd end up screwing up Agartha's main enemy apart from c'tis. :P
Meanwhile I'll be cheering for c'tis because they're a bunch of jerkface lizardmen necromancers being a pain to agartha, gogogogo.
First of all, why so much hate for Agartha? What have I done to earn YOUR resentment? Should you not cheer on my valiant struggle against nasty aggressors from R'yleh and Pythium? I've been sneakingly attacked by one, and betrayed by the other, you know.
I also sneakingly attacked Caelum. <cackle, cackle>

Also, there's no feud between me and C'tis. In fact, we're joined in a war against Pythium, which makes us technically allies.
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« Reply #389 on: March 16, 2011, 04:27:55 am »

Considering the current diplomatic situation, I'd be surprised if C'tis were to admit to being allied with Public Enemy Number One.  It would invite attack from all the enemies of Agartha.  Unfortunately, poor Agartha seems to have many foes, hungry to avenge themselves on weaker prey after getting trashed by those dancing dolls.
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