[Spoilers] Cometh the Messiah - Varn Gosam and the Malakim

[Ilios]

Ah, the direct approach . Good show, sir!

Heh, thanks, not that it will change the course of things, ofcourse...

Anything interesting from the pages of the Grimoire lately?

The only mildly interesting thing that happened so far is turning my sole Adept Sundered, giving him an extra chance at gaining xp. Besides that it has mostly been summoning Pit Beasts, Spectres, casting Wither, and killing the caster (those Tiger summons sure are smart, reading the Grimoire and such!).

And now the AC is 60! Laugh! Laugh! The end is nigh!

Well, we are laughing, Varn has made his favorite Sand Lion a three star general, and has been foaming at the mouth at strategy meetings, scolding the staff for not willing to move non-existing armies on the attack...

I think you missed the memo, Ravus.

You mean the one ordering every living Malakim to pray for Varn Gosam's imaginary friend, Bigguns, who has fallen ill?

[Ilios]

This is the end...

[Brian Shanahan]

This is the end...

Are you still in Saigon or did you make it up-country?

[Selrahc]

So Ilios... back in the early turns before the Doviello came calling, Sciz and I came up with some plans for a Wood Golem invasion force.

The sandboxes were coming up with a potential invasion force of

13 WGs, 4 catas, 2 adepts at T104.

Plus Barnaxus, with around C3-4, and assorted dwarven warriors.

Think that would have been enough to cause real damage? I'm guessing, coming right on the heels of the "Coalition" it would have been quite devastating.

You did a really good job of pipping us to our early expansion plots by a turn or two, which wound us up enough to consider doing this.

[Ilios]

Well, obviously, I'd have been dead much earlier, no way I could have held off a 4-way-dogpile. Then again, I don't know if I really did have a chance in this game, considering every other team was plotting my downfall for pretty much the entire game.

As for grabbing the good land between us, yes, I did push expansion, which is pretty much the only thing I did well in this game.

With everyone starting this close to each other, border tension was bound to happen very early.

[Sciz]

You grabbing that place north of the mountain range with wines, fp, cows and other stuff was what really killed me

First you got that dyes/gold/incense spot, but then I was 2 turns behind you on the northern spot, so I had to found Mutanbo instead. It was my own fault of course, I went for Cotton Valley as my first city instead, because I needed the commerce, but in retrospect I should've gone for the dyes or wines site first, even though they were further away, because CV stagnated completely while those other two city sites were great all game.

[Ilios]

I went for Cotton Valley as my first city instead, because I needed the commerce, but in retrospect I should've gone for the dyes or wines site first, even though they were further away, because CV stagnated completely while those other two city sites were great all game.

I agree, your first settler should have gone east.