Poor injured catapults. :sad: Maybe you should bring them back home for some healing? Be sure to give them a sizeable escort too, you never know what might happen otherwise... :shifty:

GPS to General_W.

103 - GPS to Beorn

Looks like my catapults aren't winning the superbowl this year either - 1 in 5 again.

GPS Whomper

Darn you Beorn! you got me :gripe:

:lol:

Did we lose Whomp?

… not that I'm necessarily excited about Beorn taking over for a few turns… I seem to recall some stinging defeats last time that happened… :blush:

Sorry gone all day yesterday. GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

GPS Whomper

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

105 - GPS to Beorn

Rock rain over 4/4 vSpear: 1HP off
Rock rain over 3/4 vSpear: 1HP off
Rock rain over 2/4 vSpear: 1HP off
5/5 eLegion on 1/4 vSpear: eLegion 5/5

GPS Whomper

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

GPS to Beorn

The rocks rain and the vSpear holds its ground: 4/4
The rain falls and the vSpear holds its ground: 4/4
The rain falls and the vSpear holds its ground: 4/4
The vArrows rain and the vSpear holds its ground: 4/4
The eLegion walks in and the sun shines again: 1/5 Legion

GPS Whomper

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

107 – GPS to Beorn.

Beorn: Our catapults shall block out the sun.
Niklas’ Spear: Then we shall fight in the shade!

Since when do spears have tips made out of ... iron??

GPS Whomper

GPS to Niklas.

Beorn, it's the new cool thing, everyone does it!

Trebuchet bombs eLegion (5/5) => legion (4/5)
Trebuchet bombs vLegion (4/4) => legion (3/4)
vMace (4/4) vs vLegion (4/4) => 3/5 legion
vMace (4/4) vs vLegion (4/4) => 3/4 legion
vMace (4/4) vs vLegion (4/4) => 4/4 mace
vMace (4/4) vs vLegion (4/4) => 2/4 mace
vMace (4/4) vs vLegion (4/4) => 1/4 mace
vSword (4/4) vs vLegion (4/4) => 3/4 legion
vSword (4/4) vs eLegion (4/5) => 4/5 sword
vSword (4/4) vs eLegion (4/5) => 3/4 sword
vSword (4/4) vs vLegion (3/4) => 1/4 sword
vSword (4/4) vs vLegion (3/4) => 2/4 sword

108 - GPS to Beorn

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

Two trebuchets bomb legion stack, one hits.

109 - GPS to Beorn

Beorn? :faint:

Sorry, hard time keeping track of stuff lately, IIRC I played it and saved but must've forgotten to send. Be right on it.

It would be good to get a battle log too... I assume that stack of yours did something anyway. :ack:

... oh, did it?

I certainly hope not, but I didn't think I'd be that blessed. ;)

Sorry, hard time keeping track of stuff lately,

No problem – you're normally so fast, I figured that was the case. Hence the reminder.

My wife may disagree, but generally it's a rule of mine to try not to be annoying just for the sake of being annoying ;)

… and while we're on the subject… I hope I don't have bad news to report to the anxious families of the Northern Enkidu Battalion? :scared:

The news I bear them are always dire, but I learned that from the Russians ...

You guys talk too much....GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

GPS to Beorn

5/8 catapults hit

GPS Niklas the other Niklas.

GPS to Niklas (the real Niklas)...oh and hi Dubya. :D

111 to General_W.

111 - GPS to Beorn

Hi Whomp :wavey:

GPS Whomper

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

112- GPS to Beorn

6/10 cats hit

GPS Whomper

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

GPS to Beorn

GPS Whomper

3/10 cats hit

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

GPS to Beorn.
2 Trebs bomb and both hit that Curragh.

6/10 cats hit, Curragh headed towards the locker.

GPS Whomper

Iro 3/3 galley attacks Sum 3/3 galley--> Sum galley 2/3

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

115 - GPS to Beorn

My 3/3 Galley flawlessly sinks Beorn's 1/3 curragh. Promotes to Veteran.

7/11 catapults hit.

GPS Whomper

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

116 - GPS to Beorn

7/13 cats hit

GPS Whomper

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

117 - GPS to Beorn

Something like 5 catapults hit, I turned battles off and didn't count. It'll all be healed next turn anyways.

GPS Whomper

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

118- GPS to Beorn

:bump: Beorn?

Hope you had a good weekend!
:salute:

Yup! But I'm still single :lol: :p

Had a lot of work yesterday, just got back home today and I was gonna be right on it.

Only 4 catapults hit, today.

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

119- GPS to Beorn.

MDI enter battle for the first time - My 4/4 MDI gets a flawless victory over a regular 3/3 Legion.

4/4 vHorse against 4/4 vPike: vHorse 2/4
6 catapults hit

GPS Whomper

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

120 - GPS to Beorn

:bump: Beorn?

A funeral came up on my schedule, this week-end. I'd have been late regardless, as is becoming more and more of a custom, so I'm thinking of asking for a sub.

Will play tomorrow morning.

Thanks for the heads-up, Beorn.
Sorry to hear about the funeral - my condolances.

Thanks.

7 cats hit, GPS Whomp

Sorry to hear that B.

FYI I'll be gone from the 6th-15th.

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

Turn 121 – GPS to Beorn.

Battle Log:

4/4 Galley vs. 3/3 Galley -> 2/4 Galley

2 Trebuchets bomb Legion in Babelfish – both hit.

4/4 MedInf vs 2/4 Legion -> 2/4 Legion
4/4 MedInf vs 2/4 Legion -> 4/4 MedInf
4/4 Pike vs 4/4 Horse -> 2/4 Horse
4/4 Pike vs 2/4 Horse -> 3/4 Pike

Babelfish autorazes.

Catapults go 0011100000010 (as in 0 = miss, 1 = hit). I think this is as efficient and minimalist as a turnlog can be for that.

In other news, legions promote to 4/5 against 4/4 vMDI + tumbling wooden contraption (missed). The mind boggling contraptions are taken down and used as campfires. It made poor carving wood, too rough.

GPS Whomper.

GPS and sent to Niklas. :pat:

GPS to General_W.

Nice battle report Beorn! :thumbsup:

Just a reminder that I'll be out till the 15th so Beorn will be playing my turns.
Go get 'em B!

122 - GPS to Beorn.

And congrats on the Statue of Zeus :hatsoff:

GPS Niklas, yesterday

GPS to General_W.

ABC - easy as turn 123 - as simple as do ray me

GPS to Beorn

[with apologies to the Jackson 5]

Every catapult misses except for one, taking the ferry to 1HP.

3/3 rFloater vs 1/4 vFerry: Floater wins (don't remember HP, it's in your sights though)

GPS Niklas

GPS to General_W.

GPS to Beorn

GPS Niklas, with bad news I'm afraid :(

Now that's certainly demotivating. No warning?!? :mad: :confused:

GPS to General_W.

125 - GPS to Beorn.

Hey Beorn - does Whomp know that you're sending his units out to die? ;)

3 catapults fire, 2 miss and 1 tips the cattle on its side.

GPS Niklas

In another PBEM, I am the last player and was notified of an active volcano (with a screenshot of the volcano and 8 adjacent tiles) on another continent that I have yet to visit.
Ok, I think we need a clarification on this. Beorn, did or did you not get a warning on Whomp's turn regarding that volcano being about to blow? I've been assuming no since Whomp didn't have visibility there, but denyd's quote clearly contradicts that.

Whomp told me of a volcano that erupted, a couple of turns ago (right before he left), and I saw the eruption message at the end of his turn (this turn). I haven't seen the activation message, though he might have gotten it. Maybe he confused the activation message with an eruption.

So, obviously the last player, and only that player, gets the warnings. And should naturally pass them on to all other players. Whomp didn't do that in this case, presumably because he didn't realize he was the only one that got them, and as a result I lost a squadrillion units without the chance to do anything about it.

We don't have any admins to turn to for this game, but I'm definitely of the opinion that we should go back and replay (as close to the original as possible of course) from when that message first appeared.

No supprise here, but I’m willing to do that.
I believe it was an honest mistake by Whomp – but it doesn’t seem fair to punish Niklas for the ignorance of all of us.

I’ve got good notes, and can replay my saves exactly as I did before.

Well, I almost missed it myself. And I have squat for turnlogs. Would you guys really want to restart from 121?? I'll vote against that.

That being said, I'm fully ready to accept your resignations :p

Is 121 the turn when the warning appeared? That certainly seems a long time back, and if you prefer then I would be fine with playing from the turn just before the eruption itself. 124 then, right?

This seems to me a question of inherent fairness. If only one player gets warnings that all players should be privy to, then of course those warnings should be forwarded, how else could you consider the game fair?

If you don't have turnlogs, no matter. I'm fine with you playing the turns (or turn) "fresh", since we can't force anyone to keep a turnlog. I don't have one either, but my turns haven't been that complex so I think I can reproduce them rather faithfully.

:agree:

Just going a turn back is what I had in mind anyway. Going back to turn 121 would be a bit of overkill...

Then I'm waiting for your save.

Alright, turn 124 replayed and resent to General_W. :)

Beorn, look, the volcano is empty, now's your chance to claim it! :run: :D

Deja vu turn 124 to Beorn.

124 GRPRS Niklas

GPS to General_W.

125 – and we’re caught back up – to Beorn

Note: This turn I was able to capture one of Whomp’s workers that was left uncovered.
I didn’t do this last time I played turn 125 because the worker was protected by an MW. I thought about this, and decided (personally) that I didn’t think this was taking advantage of a re-play, because it was really a different turn with a different situation (units in different places). I noticed that the MW was apparently sent to a more strategic location (avalible to join the stack advancing on DerWall) – so it was a trade-off risk you made. (or else a mistake?) Either way, I sincerely think what I did was in the spirit of the game.

However – if you feel this is unfair, I’m willing to replay without the capture. It’s an odd situation, and I don’t want to make a stink over something so small.

Let me know what you think! :salute:

It was a mistake, I thought about it on the first go but was playing on the radar the second time and missed it, so yeah, I'm feeling short-handed there.

feeling "short-handed" ?
Meaning you needed the MW elsewhere and you're ok with what happened?

Or is that some kind of Chicago slang for you want a do-over? ;)

Make that a french mistranslation for short-changed ;)

So.... did you play Beorn?
Is the game waiting on you or Niklas?

Now, where's that button...
:bump:

So I don't get a replay for that :hmm:

I'm willing to give you a replay if you think it was unfair.

If we're giving replays just for making a mistake that an opponent exploited... then I've got about 10 turns I'd like to replay :lol: ... you seem to be very good at taking full advantage of my frequent stupidity!

Yeah, you should get a replay for that. So I'm waiting for a new save from you. :)

From my understanding, the only real change was that the General hijacked my worker, but if bureaucracy must be served, I'll replay it when I have a minute.

Well, I guess General_W could do things differently, but my understanding is that you would then have one more MW closer to the front. So I guess General_W could just replay his turn, if you next turn move that MW as if it had been on the forest. :crazyeye:

So I guess General_W could just replay his turn, if you next turn move that MW as if it had been on the forest.
Exactly.
Whatever you prefer Beorn.

I intended to do that indeed.

I intended to do that indeed.

I'm sorry if I'm just being dense here… but do you mean you intended to not move that MW next turn, indeed?

Which would mean that I need to replay the save without taking that worker.

Sorry I didn't see your post here till just now… and it'll be at least 12 hours before I can replay the save.

Assuming that you are indeed pledging to not move that MW next turn (or rather, only moving it to a location it could have reached from the forest) – then I'll go ahead and replay as soon as possible.

What a mess :wallbash:

Indeed, what a mess. But it's only this one turn now, after that we're going pristine again. :)

Sorry, I intended to use that single MW and wreak havoc all around your countryside, using it with unabashed impunity.

As I suspected!
In that case, I'm keeping the worker.

Seems like a decent trade :)

I loved this exchange. LOL

turn 125 - "third-time's-the-charm" - GPS to Beorn
:) ... well, that only took a week...

I'm back and it appears I didn't miss much. :p

2 catapults miss, 1 tips the cow over to its side. Next Iro turn goes to you, Whomper, I saw this after playing.

GPS Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

Love the message Beorn. :lol:

GPS to Beorn (last night)

5/5 eCreeping Death vs 4/4 vPharao's first born: Creeping Death 4/5.

GPS Whomp

5/5 eCreeping Death vs 4/4 vPharao's first born: Creeping Death 4/5.
Eh...? Care to explain that statement? :crazyeye:

A Jewish Passover reference?
But I don’t think Passover is till like the end of April this year…. so :dunno:

I just re-opened my old Metallica CD case, nothing more to it.

Howlin' Wolf says GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

:wavey: Hi Whomp!

Turn 127 to Beorn.

GPS Whomper

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

128 - GPS to Beorn

Treb takes a potshot at Beorn's curragh. All the rocks go into the water :sad:

:bump: Beorn?

I know the forums were down for a bit... wanted to make sure you saw this gps.

No worries, I got it, but it's Easter, so if I listened to my parents I'd still be away from home for another day, or month.

GPS Whomper

GPS to Niklas.

:bump: Niklas?
Pull yourself away from those books! You need a break ;)

Alright alright! :run:

GPS to General_W.

129 - GPS to Beorn

2 of the last 6 posts are me hitting the bump button.... does that make me annoying? :blush: Or just the only one obsessed with this game? :lol:

Oh well, what the heck....
:bump: Beorn?

I'm afraid it's not gonna fly tonight, but I have a good chunk of time tomorrow.

Catapult fires: 3/4 vPike
Ancient Cavalry feels lucky vs 4/4 vPike: 2/4 vPike
Catapult fires: 3/4 vPike
4/4 vLegion on 3/4 vPike: Legion 1/4
4/4 vLegion on 3/4 vPike: Pike promotes 2/5
4/4 vArcher on 4/4 vMDI: MDI 1/4
4/4 vArcher on 4/4 vMDI: MDI 1/4
4/4 vLegion on 2/4 vPike: Legion promotes 2/5
4/4 vLegion on 2/5 ePike: Pike promotes 2/5*
4/4 vLegion on 2/5 e*Pike: Pike 1/5
4/4 vLegion on 1/5 e*Pike: Legion 1/4
5/5 eLegion vs 1/4 MDI: Legion 5/5
5/5 eLegion vs 1/4 MDI: MDI 1/4
4/4 vLegion on 1/4 vMDI: Legion 1/4

GPS Whomper

oy veigh. :sad:

So my worker is now a slave also, eh?

Nah, he's got his very own banana republic right now. Or, well, since no one will research republic, maybe it's a banana theocracy. But then again, without the bananas. Just smoke and mirrors.

GPS to Niklas.

:bump: Niklas?

GPS to General_W. So sorry for the delay.

woof. Turn 129 took almost a week to turn around.

130 - GPS to Beorn :)


Battle Log:
My 4/4 Galley sinks Beorn's 3/3 Curragh. Galley = 3/4

5/5 vCreeping Death vs 1/1 cCity: Creeping Death has the city abandoned.

A slave is captured and the game goes to Whomp.

I'm sorry if I'm paranoid... but whose city did you pillage?

I'm starting to wonder if I missed seeing one of your units last turn :scared:

Not razed or pillaged, abandoned.

Thanks for that clarification... but that doesn't answer my question :lol:

Or is this just more of the heavy metal inside jokes? :crazyeye:

I think he meant one of Niklas' cities. Anyhow, the save is off to Niklas to view the rubble.

Niklas created the rubble.

GPS to General_W.

I thought Romans had a thing for building road networks, not destroying them. :gripe:

vMace vs vHorse -> horse retreats, 4/4 Mace
vMace vs vHorse -> horse retreats, 3/4 Mace
vMace vs (1/4) vHorse -> 5/5 Mace
vMace vs vHorse -> 1/4 Mace
vMace recaptures worker

Trebuchet launches rocks => (2/3) rGalley

Those were emo romans, building roads made them cry :cry:

I think he meant one of Niklas' cities. :) thanks

Those were emo romans :lol:

turn 131 - GPS to Beorn

The emo Romans have gone missing! I hope something terrible hasn't happened to them? :scared:

4/4 vEmo vs 4/4 vMace: Awful music gets promoted 2/5

GPS Whomper

GPS to Niklas.

Niklas? :coffee:

:run: Sorry, this time I thought we were waiting for someone else... :blush:

GPS to General_W.

vMace vs vMW => MW retreats, 4/4 mace
Trebuchet launches rocks => 2/3 rGalley

:)

132 - GPS to Beorn

Famous Bear Stories:
Goldilocks and the Three Bears – by Robert Southey
The Berenstain Bears – by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Teddy Bear - by Elvis Presley
When will the Bears Play? – by Waiting Forma Turne


:mischief:

Sorry, I played this within minutes of receiving but I forgot to send.

It's in the mail.

How about you Whomp?
Check's in the mail? :)

Apparently this was a rough turn! :lol:

Sorry kids. Life's been a bit o.c. lately and it will probably continue for awhile.

GPS to Niklas.

:bump: Don't forget you've got the save, Niklas

I believe I have now bumped this thread for every single move of this turn :mischief:

Whomp may be o.c. - but I'm o.c.d. :D

P.S. What is "o.c." anyway?
Wikipedia suggests: Organized Crime? Orange County? OxyContin?

Off course? That's how I read it anyway.

I've been busy all day today, got home not long ago. I'm going to walk the dogs now, then play the turn once I get back.

GPS to General_W.

Trebuchet launches rocks => 2/3 rGalley
rGalley vs 2/3 rGalley => 2/3 rGalley
vMace vs vMW in desert => 5/5 eMace
vMace vs 1/4 vMW on hills => 5/5 eMace

:D turn 133 - GPS to Beorn.

O.C. is out of control. I suppose I could've added another "c".

O.C. is out of control. I suppose I could've added another "c".
Or another "o". :p

But then we might have read it as Out of Character... :crazyeye:

I thought it was of coast, as in 20 tiles of coast to cover ...

GPS Whomper

I thought it was of coast, as in 20 tiles of coast to cover...

GPS Whomper

OC/TC? :dubious:
Wasn't that a famous rock band with hits like "Whole lotta Rocks here", "(trebuchet) bolts struck", "Shot down in Flames", "Fly on DerWall", "There's gonna be some rockin'" and "Let there be rocks"?

Right, right, right...pool, pond...pond would be good for you G_W. :p

Anyhow, I grabbed a Aztec slave that I'm naming...Whomper's Personal Valet. Outside of Contribution fyi. GPS.

Outside of Contribution fyi.
I would have thanked you for the info had I had a town named Contribution. :p It's Continuation

:shifty: Perhaps Whomp renamed it for you? :twitch:

I hope that wasn't supposed to be a GPS, Niklas? Because I didn't get the save ;)

Nope, haven't had time to play yet, I will within a few hours.

:mischief:

Niklas?

Bed time for me now... pestering will resume in 7 hours... ;)

Sorry sorry sorry. But you see cabal was all crazy last night, it persisted in installing bytestring-0.9.0.4 even though the core ghc-6.8.2 package cannot be upgraded past bytestring-0.9.0.1, so I got conflicting type representation errors in plugins-1.2. In the end I had to reinstall ghc itself and start from scratch, installing each package one by one and ensuring that bytestring-0.9.0.4 didn't get installed at any step. I swear that bytestring-0.9.0.4 patch has caused more compatibility errors than any other. And of course all of it was for nothing since the happs-hsp-0.1 package that I really wanted had a stupid dependency on hinotify-0.1, which naturally doesn't run on windows. :mad:

GPS to General_W now anyway. ;)

Oh, and a vMace upgrades to 3/5 killing that MW.

:confused: Was that some sort of weird Honor and Heroes GPS battlelog? :dubious:

:lol: Sounds like a good excuse to me! :crazyeye:

Turn 134 - GPS to Beorn.

GPS Whomper

A rock hits a Sumerian galley and the galley 2/3 loses a little buoyancy.
GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

Trebuchet hits => 1/3 rGalley
2/3 rGalley vs 1/3 rGalley => 1/3 rGalley

We mourn those brave worker men who had to pay with their lives when the enemy was sunk. :salute:

135- GPS to Beorn.

4/4 vGalley on 4/4 vGalley: Galley promotes 4/5
4/4 vGalley on 4/4 vGalley: Galley promotes 5/5

GPS Whomper

The RNG strikes again for the Bears! :wow:

My combat calculator says 11% chance for the first result, and 5% odds for the second.
With only a 45% chance to have won either battle - never mind the near flawless victories.

The 3 on 2 game continues... :lol:


EDIT: And yes... yes.... I know that complaining about the RNG is the last refuge of losers. What can I say? I'm feeling like a loser after that naval battle! ;)

As we used to say in my D&D campaign...

Tymora favors the bold!



(Tymora is the goddess of luck in the setting we used)

No Tymora for me...

3/3 galley hits 2/3 Sumerian galley and Sumerian promotes 3/4.

GPS Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

Wow, only 40.5 hours turnaround. :)

136 - GPS to Beorn.

Wow - great speed everyone :thumbsup:

GPS Whomper

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

Cutting it down to just below 38.5 hours this time. :D

137 - GPS to Beorn

Battle Log:
3/4 vGalley vs 3/3 rGalley => 2/4 vGalley

Expect delays for the next 2 weeks.

GPS Whomper

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

138 - GPS to Beorn

GPS Whomper

Game received from Whomp and GPS General_W. :run:

hey Niklas... I don't see the save!
Did it get lost in the mail? :)

Nah, I was just a split second too early with posting here. :mischief:

:lol: my bad. Got it now :D

Oops. Thanks for the catch Niklas.

139 - GPS to Beorn

Battle Log:
4/4 vGalley vs 4/4 vGalley => 4/4 vGalley

GPS Whomper

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.

Oh, and I forgot: two trebs launch volleys at that purple galley in the center lake, and leave it redlined.

140 - GPS to Beorn

Battle Log:
4/4 vGalley vs 3/3 rGalley => 1/4 vGalley

Whew! That was a close one :faint:

GPS Whomper

GPS to Mr. Crusader Aztec Boy Niklas. ;)

For the righteous cause! :ninja:

GPS to General_W.

141 - GPS to Beorn

Battle Log:
4/4 vKnight vs 4/4 vMounted Invader => 3/4 vKnight

We're Knights of the Round Table... we dance when ere we're able... :dance:

GPS Whomp, and the rush is essentially over: back to get-it-play-it mode.

TWO regular Iroquois galleys send TWO 2/4 Sumerian galleys to Davy Jones Locker and both Iroquois galleys get a promotion to 2/4.

GPS to Niklas.

I'm afraid I didn't get a save...

That's because the save is still taking a walk, it'll come.

GPS to General_W.

142 - GPS to Beorn

GPS Whomper

I'm going to my father's place for some major flooring action, might get a few days back but we're there until it's done. That could mean delays again, up until the 18-19.

GPS to Niklas.
Also, I'll be out of town on biz from Monday through Wednesday.

:bump: Niklas?

Now I'm confused. I had a feeling I was up yesterday, but when I looked around I didn't find a save, and I didn't bother to look here. I don't have a save in my inbox to play, it's not in my trash can either, did I really get it? Or did it end up in my spam folder, and I cleared it out by mistake? :confused:

Not your fault Niklas. It's my age thinking I sent it and didn't. GPS.. :blush:
Be back Wednesday night.

No worries, I'm just glad I wasn't quite that confused. :crazyeye:

GPS General_W.

143 - GPS to Beorn

Catapult sends a galley to 2/3 afloat, and the rest debris.

GPS Whomper

GPS to Niklas.

GPS to General_W.