[Spoilers] A Grand Ol' Adventure: Dain the Caswallawn of the Grigori

[Sciz]

Obviously im going to conquer barbs, I meant defensive towards the real players.

And yeah i know that about the adventurer. Just played a quick no-settler game with Dain of the Grigori, and getting adventurers was no problem, had four at turn 150, and that's without casting ardor, which resets the GPP count. I did lose though, because there were absolutely no barb cities to capture! I played with barbarian world on, and raging barbs and whatnot, but only one single barbarian city came close to me, and it was gobbled up quickly by Os-Gabella before I had a chance to do anything, and after 200 turns or so I was run over by her pyre zombie led by Rosier the fallen army, while I still had one city. I had no mana nodes either, lol. Made two adventurers into mages, and two were horsemen, I was going to make them mages as well, but when os-gabella came knocking I had to upgrade them to something decent quick.

And I'm aware Tower of Mastery is tough, but so are all the different victory types. I don't i'm gonna have much of a chance against some of the other civs militarly, especially the Sheaim, and Altar victory is even harder than Tower. We'll see what happens though. First of all i'm just gonna have a fun game and if we get far enough I think the tower is the most logical choice.

[Sciz]

New plan: i'm gonna summon Basium

Want to play as the Mercurians, Dave?

[DaveV]

Want to play as the Mercurians, Dave?

I'd like to, but it would be likely to mess up the game since I might go several days without being able to play.

[Sciz]

Hmm.. Well we'll need to find someone that can play regularly that isn't spoiled. I can't really ask anyone either because I obviously don't want people to know what i'm gonna do. In my opinion, I should be able to play turns for you that you miss, since Basium is always in the team of his summoner anyways, so it shouldn't really matter, we have the same research and objective and everything. I can't ask the other players what they think about that though, since again, that would reveal my plans. Boo.

[Sciz]

can any lurkers (if there are any in here) say what they think? Would it be okay for me to play turns as another civ, considering he's on the same team as me and we're gonna be very tightly linked anyways?

And second; if not, is there some way you could find some person who hasnt globally lurked this PBEM yet to potentially play as basium? without alerting the other players of course.

[Cyneheard]

I think the other players would all have to approve you playing as both the Gregori and the Mercurians for you to play both teams.

I've already globally lurked, so I can't be a dedicated substitute. I'm sure you'll find somebody in plenty of time; it's a good-sized forum, and there's so many games that it's hard to truly lurk all of them.

[DaveV]

I think there's some question whether it's even possible to add an additional player while the game is in progress. You may have to decide between playing as the Mercurians or Grigori, and let an AI play the other.

[Sciz]

Yeah no one has done it yet, but there's been discussion of switching the game to a pitboss or something for the turn that the mercurians/infernals are summoned and then you are able to add a player or something. Idk

I'm just gonna continue on with this plan and see what happens. If it turns out a player can't be added, and i have to decide which to continue with, i'll prolly go with the mercurians. One problem with that is the lack of good civs in this game though. Only units that are of Order, Empy or RoK religion turn into angels when they die or something.

[Mist]

Your starting position. Stacks with settlers circled. Also two tiles signed have fish, too low on the screen for resource indicators to show.

[DaveV]

Suggested city sites:



City 1 would be better as the capital, since it has more good tiles in the second ring. Unless I misread the map, both cities are on fresh water plains hills, important for the extra health (especially with all the floodplains) and production. There are two overlapped tiles. City 1 has a lot of overlap with the barb city, but I'd hate to give up the plains hill.