[SPOILERS] Lurkers Thread - Well someone has to do it

[Brian Shanahan]

I've seen you post the same crap about my PBEM I performance again and again, and I've kept silent about it because, hey, I'm an occasionally nice guy & have no interest in causing Internet Drama over a game which concluded months ago. And RB is a friendly community, and I'm not currently looking for enemies online.


But you're pushing me, man. Maybe you should try demonstrating a semblance of competence at playing the mod before you decide to launch into yet another ill-informed critique of my game the second you see anyone mention "Calabim" or "Vampires!". I'm a Big Boy, and I can take (and appreciate!) constructive criticisms of specific plays. But these factually bankrupt insinuations that the game was mine to lose from turn 0 if only I hadn't allegedly fucked everything up forever are really starting to test the limits of my civility. Okay?

Seems like you're not that big of a boy, because you're just throwing insinuations at me because you don't like what I'm saying. Well as what we say as Gaeilge "Bíonn on fhírinne searbh", so go back and look at what you did and learn from it, it's all part of growing up.

[NobleHelium]

If I can get Archmagi trained, the main interesting attack spells are:

Ice 3 - Snowfall, if I can conquer the Letum Frigus city (a difficult area to hold - and probably redundant given that I already have Crown of Brilliance, Chalid's Pillar, Rust, Destroy Undead)
Metamagic 3 - 16 strength Djinn
Mind 3 - to Dominate the top enemy units
Water 3 - Splitting Elementals with water walking. Good for naval action.

I was wondering if anyone would remember the genies considering how much mana is in play now. I want to see some.

[Selrahc]

See, this is kind of why I said Djinn aren't that bad in their current form. Paring mod buffed them up to S5 base, which would mean Uberfish would have S20 Djinn, which is an easy choice for best.

Djinn are a summon for a late game empire with a decent number of mana, who can't afford to give over multiple nodes to affinity. A perfect summon for a tower of mastery victory basically, if kind of weak in most other situations.

[Selrahc]

I think Amelia has the potential to deliver a hell of an upset with her world spell. If Darell sits 50, 200 or 2 million vampires and spectres next to water, a few cultists and the worldspell will remove them from the equation. And a large force of raider horse could take advantage of the situation.

Whoever fights Amelia first is stepping into a bear trap. They're going to have to do it very carefully. Even a small lapse in judgement could see an army washed away on the tides.

[Square Leg]

and to think she almost cast it really early on to deal with Orthus...

[Bobchillingworth]

Pretty sure she didn't have Optics on turn 50

[Square Leg]

Pretty sure she didn't have Optics on turn 50

Well - she almost cast it in - wanted to!

[cesium]

I think Darrell would be better off if he offered war-vassalization to Amelia rather than just trying to kill the Lanun (a la a certain other PBEM). At most, killing the Lanun would give him a few more vampires (he can't stop her from self-pillaging the coves and the vampires don't really need the XP), while her large HA stack should be more useful vs uberfish. I guess the question would be whether Amelia agrees to try for second place...

[Ichabod]

Well, it seems like Uberfish won. I really think it was deserved. As much as I think that all the players performed well, Uberfish knew exactly when to keep a low profile and tech/develop the land and when to attack and conquer territory, while keeping a solid diplomacy that helped him achieve his goals.

It'll be very fun to read the post game thread.

[Ravus Sol]

You can see why some people can be put of by FFH. One miss step and BAMN all those vampires lost. I wonder if the Vamps will continue to try to re put together a Vampi[re Force or just cede the game to the Tower building Elves?