Setup: Impossible, Huge, Max Power, Fair Minerals (rest as usual)

Wizard:
4x Nature
2x Sorcery
Specialist
Archmage
Mana Focusing
Astrologer
Conjurer

Race: Halflings



The time of these screenshots is November 1404 and I have just banished Lo Pan (Blue). I'm poised to take his remaining two cities as well, thinking of saving them for extra spells (I know that went wrong in my last game). Merlin and Ariel are also fairly easy, I should be able to do a fortress rush on them with a combination of great lizards and giant spiders.

Up until now, the game has mostly been one big party of sprites beating lairs. This gave me massive mana and gold, allowing me to send settlers everywhere and summon even more sprites. I've taken 3 fairly easy lairs, and will be able to take many more once I'm able to focus on it. For now, my focus is on taking out the Arcanus wizards before they grow powerful. Right now they're manageable.

My cities are underdeveloped and small, but very numerous and growing rapidly. I've captured two neutral cities, and I really want to take the barbarian city over by the red player. I couldn't take it with sprites (he has 6 shamans there), and my giant spiders are busy fighting wizards. They'll be easy to wipe with spiders. Giant spiders have performed admirably, and with an upkeep of 1 mana using Conjurer they're an absolute marvel against other wizards. I took out a fortress of 9 sprites using 7 giant spider and 1 war bear, losing only 1 spider and 1 war bear in the process.

I'm going to abandon this game now in order to test some more. I'm not going to declare it won, but I am going to declare it winnable. With a position this strong this early, strong play should secure Arcanus in 3 years or so and let me clean out all the nodes rapidly. It would require an insane Myrran wizard to stop me. And since I'm curious, this is a sneak peek on Myrror using ALT+RVL:



Decent, but no more than that. He has dwarves and beastmen in his cities it seems.

With this game, I hope I have demonstrated that sprites can reliably propel you to a massive starting advantage. I'm going to try it again, this time without Sorcery (I never used it), and allowing myself to use heroes.

I've uploaded 6 save files in case anyone is curious or want a go at this start themselves.
http://www.filedropper.com/save6
http://www.filedropper.com/save5
http://www.filedropper.com/save4_1
http://www.filedropper.com/save3
http://www.filedropper.com/save2_1
http://www.filedropper.com/save1_9

We're often celebrating the power of spells and sharing exciting spell combos. Whenever debating the power of spells, we tend to concentrate on whether they are 'too powerful' and we're all guilty of this despite this recent post from Seravy:

Quote:-Every spell should be more than just useful, and feel "impressive". They shouldn't be overpowered on the whole, but they should be great at their intended function. 

Game Rules and Settings:

Server: pitboss.watto.no:2057

Game tracker: http://www.civstats.com/viewgame.php?gameid=2968

Claim your civ: (the password is sirian)

Game Host unified tech thread (for all Caledorn hosted games):
http://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/showt...p?tid=7117

Host: Caledorn
Admin: ???
Map maker: Tasunke
Starting date: March 4, 2017
Mod: PB36 Mod (religion edit only)
Leaders/civs: Combos
Turn Timer: 24 hours

Map Settings:
Monarch, ???

Rules:
Map type: Cylindrical
Speed: Normal
Difficulty: Monarch
Random Events: off
Barbs: on
City and unit trading: banned
Espionage: Passive only

Roster:
1. GermanJoey
2. Chumchu / CheaterHater
3. OT4E
4. The Black Sword
5. Mr. Cairo
6. Gavagai

Imm trying to write down the turn order but I am having a bit of an issue with narrowing down one part of it corrects.
bu turn order i mean what happens once you click next turn until you are aback to have control on the galaxy map

This is what i have narrowed down so far

1 Ship Combat
2 Tech infiltration
3 Science Discovery
4 Planet bombing (enemy first)
5 Planet invasion    / enemy Spy destroying you factories factories

6 Planet colonization
7 Planet status ( maximum factori/population/shield)





- its the "enemy destroys your bases with a spy" im unsure of. i know thats its before planet colonization but after space combat.
- also im unsure if planet invasion is the same tick as the planet colonization or if its a tick before

There has been much discussion lately about heroism. In the past other spells also come up as incredibly strong.

Heroism
Wave of despair
Sprites
Focus magic
Aether binding
Every sorcery very rare spell *cough*
Magic immunity
Summon Hero (Jaer)

Are there others that seem extremely strong compared to other spells?

Are there enough in each realm that the realm as a whole is still balanced, so its actually not an issue if that spell is outstandingly good?

How can one see the clue edible and not think Rabbit right away ? It's not only edible, it's delicious !
Pretty lucky by Jkaen to get all of Lemon Buck Chick and Rabbit on his grid

Hi guys,

HAK would like to step down from Civ5 PBEM. Are you interested in picking up his civ?

It's late medieval/early renaissance era; the game is not decided, but there is a clear leader. You would be playing as Inca and would be a relevant force in the game, even though your chance of winning would be low (but not impossible!)

Let me know

We need a sub to take over Ruff.

State of the game: it's T108 and things are still very competitive. The game settings are here.

Currently players can start with Arcanus races on Myrror, but can't start with Myrran races on Arcanus. Would it be feasible to abolish the distinction between Arcanus and Myrran races and have all races available to start with regardless of whether the Myrran retort is chosen?

Players would then get to play the previously Myrran races more frequently than they do now, raising player interest, and it would increase the diversity of races encountered in the average game. It would also reduce the value of the generally overpowered Myrran retort somewhat, since its sole benefit would then be to start the player on a plain with richer minerals and fewer neighbors, which would still be well worth 2 picks.

What do people think of this idea?

Does anyone knows if this is the file with the overland map tile graphics?
If yes, what can I use to edit it?
There is that one buggy tundra tile with the purple edge that should be fixed...
Unless I'm looking in the wrong file, the tweaker doesn't recognize the contents as image files.