EPICNES [the Troquelet Returns!] New Nes, Eight Players in Merrie England!

[The Troquelet]

I'm Californian but I'm a student. LOL which means I get today AND tomorrow off from school!

 

[RoddyVR]

TOMMOROW???? what the hell for?????
thats just not right.
and then they wonder why the US education system is in like the 354th place. (98% of all statistics are made up, thats one of em)

there's a good joke about that, let me see if i can translate it and still leave it funny lol.
[joke]
guy starts a new job, goes in the first day and his new boss says:
"this is our schedule:
Monday- day off to get over the weekend (ie sober up)
Tuesday- day off to prepare for the workday
Wednesday- Workday
Thursday- day off to rest after a hard day's work
Friday- day off to rest up in time for the weekend
Saturday & Sunday - Weekend."

the new guy gets this supprised/appaled look on his face and says:
"You mean i gotta come in here and bust my ass of working EVERY WEDNESDAY????"
[/joke]

hope that comes across the way its supposed to. i'm never sure if my translated jokes come out right (keep thinking of it in russian even after i translate it, so not sure)

 

[The Troquelet]

It's not for us, it's for the teachers, they have PTS [parent-teacher-student] conferences all Tuesday And because I have good grades I don't have to go to any!

 

[uknemesis]

TO MORAY
FROM ANGLIA

Just because you support the gods of this that and the other(I mean really, can't you guys just decide on one god and stick with him?! Shows your indecisiveness!), it doesn't mean that we are the religious traitors.

In fact quite the opposite, our religion has blessing from the Pope himself, I myself have been appointed by God, and so will be my successor, and I am introducing Protestant religion as well to the normal people so that they can read the Bible for themselves, as I think the one true God must be felt by everyone.

And when we die we go to heaven so long as we have repented our sins, so we will not rot in hell, it shall be the domain of heathen like you!

Now we only hope that Yorkshire will see the light against such non-believing scum like you and realise that only within God's true light can they ever remain a nation!

King Arthur of Anglia

PS: Just because you are worthless scum, that does not mean that we must make war - indeed, my nation is founded on the basis of every man to his own. But we first need guarantees that should the South leave your islands that you will not strike against the Southern Alliance, and should they rejoin it, Yorkshire.

OOC- Damn I hate religious arguments lol, I suck at them!

TO YORKSHIRE
FROM KING ARTHUR OF ANGLIA, LORD OF CAMELOT(LONDON)

We see now that you have been fooled by the spies and rogues from Moray and Galloway. Please do not let yourself be fooled any longer, and join the righteous Southern Alliance.

I warn you, this is your chance to join the Kingdom of God. Turn your back on him now and he will strike you down forever to burn in the fires of eternal hell.

Arthur

 

[naervod]

I'm Californian and I don't get tomorrow off but I get today off. School was closed for me on Friday because of lost power and flooding. I live in the SF Bay Area and we got pounded bad by the storm.

 

[Jason The King]

I dont get off of school tomorrow either, and I am a Californian also. Naervod, I live in the Bay Area too, though in Concord where we did get a bunch of rain and power outage a little, school was not cancelled In fact, it was actually our homecoming game, lol.

Jason

 

[erez87]

well all i did is run scripts what to do in this turn and what will happne becouse of it, in all of them i loose (even in the ones i win...) so if anyone from the south cold land\give me 2 gold it will help a lot becouse:
"Yorkshire first Democratic system in the world have decleared a state of war against Northern Galloay"
In the news it have been informed that slaves, upper-class and regular people have ren away from yorkshire to the southern countries to find defense befor yourkshire is conquerd.
more have been writen is that yourkshire asks (befor next turn) if any of the southern nations could loan her 2 gold to be able to win atleast on victory befor the end will come. alo all orders to the armies and servents have been changed.


so now i have 3 marchex (3 knights moving) and i need money to buy some more... so who will give me the money?

 

[Giovanni Wine]

To: Yorkshire
From: Wessex

Rumors other your currently economical problems reached the lands of Wessex.
We are willing to help you by granting you the 2 gold needed.

Saluti

 

[erez87]

great!!!! we will use them wisly (already in orders...)

 

[Revolutionairy]

The great nation of Wales does not trust Yorkshire, if you use the money to fight the Scots than Wales will call off the bloodwar. If you do not extract a sizeable amount of blood from the Scots than it will be war between us. If you fight the Scots as well as a trained Welsh Longbowman than I will call you freind yet again. Till than I will watch you well

 

[The Troquelet]

Update coming, probably half an hour.

 

[The Troquelet]

So, some commentary:

ANGLIA didn't do much, just built a large ARMADA of 6 Fleets able to counter the Moray armada of same size. The seas hang in the balance - the fleet advanced up to K to protect Yorkshire's flank. 0 gold banked [0/2].

WESSEX also built a 7 Fleet armada on the Western seas, and moved it up the coast. 2 gold banked [3/2].

MERCIA built a new castle, also the troops in the Mercian Armada landed up the coast and attacked 70 and 71 with a Knight and Peasant each. 1 gold banked [1/2].

WALES attempted to build a Castle in 74, also a Welsh Armada of FOUR KNIGHTS AND THREE PEASANTS, a formidable force, loaded into the ships in E. 1 gold banked [2/2].

YORKSHIRE, I told you to read the rules several times. You only need ONE march to move all the troops in ONE province to another. Three knights moving one space together, or four, or infinity, cost ONE march.

YORKSHIRE's 8 gold were spent on a Castle, the rest banked. Meanwhile using the THREE free marches I moved the Knights from 38 to 33 and the Peasants from 32 to 35, then all moving together into 33. I just hope that Moray doesn't invade 35 or 32, but Anglia's fleet is moving up to stop them. 1 gold banked [2/1].

DALRIADA attempted to sink the Welsh Northern Fleet with two of its own. 1 gold banked [1/2].

GALLOWAY attempted to build TWO CASTLES, no can do, spent the extra 6 bucks on 3 more Peasants for your army. This is about the fourth time that someone tries to build two castles on one turn! Sorry, you don't have that many workers. A Castle's a BIG project.

Anyway, the rest of Galloway's gold he spent on Peasants, Galloway is playing rather cautiously. Fortunately there was no attack. Your borders are very well defended! 0 gold banked [0/2].

Finally, MORAY banked 1 gold [2/2] and with the other 30 - woah, talk about mobilization. 4 Knights, 4 Fleets, Moray is on a roll.

The 4 fleets were sent North to intercept the [very obvious] Mercian invasion - and the fleets luckily stopped Mercia before the ships reached the shore to land troops...

Meanwhile the other fleets spread out and a 1 Peasant suicide attack was launched against 38.

Map, Combat Resolution, and Gold to follow in 5 min!

The current battles are:

4 Moray fleets fighting 2 Mercia fleets in O.

5 Yorkshire Peasants and 5 Knights attacking 4 Galloway Knights and 2 Peasants in 33 [mountain bonus for defense!].

2 Dalriada Fleets attacking 1 Welsh fleet in B.

1 Moray Peasant attacking 1 Yorkshire Peasant [rearguard] in 38.

 

[The Troquelet]

It's that special time again - Battle Resolution!

4 Moray Fleets attack 2 Mercia fleets in O. All Mercian fleets sink with cargo of 2 Knights/2 Peasants. No Moray losses. Go Scotsmen!

2 Dalriadan Fleets engage 1 Welsh fleet in B. Welsh fleet sunk, but 1 Dalriadan fleet goes to the bottom with it. Province 74 is now surrounded by enemy boats - but help is on the way from E, if enough marches can be bought.

1 Moray Peasant goes on a Suicide Mission [aka Scottish Kamikaze ] against 1 Yorkshire Peasant. Both die! This lowers the York Peasants engaging in 33 from 5 to 4.

BIG battle of the year: 4 and 5 Yorkshire Peasants and Knights [total value 14] attack 2 and 4 Gallowein Peasants and Knights on a Hill [total value 10]. The battle swings back and forth, but as Peasant casualties mount the battle goes to the attackers. In the end only 4 Knights survive! But the enemy is entirely destroyed. There's a Peasant Wall in 44-39-40 however, so those Knights may have some trouble punching through.

Here's the map: gold in next post.

 

[The Troquelet]

I'm having some trouble uploading the file - I click browse, find the file, paste it in, then I click Upload - and it goes into hourglass mode - I've waited for 6 minutes and it still hasn't uploaded ?!?!

 

[Revolutionairy]

Is the Map meant to be in that post?

 

[RoddyVR]

i had that a while back. couldnt figure out a way to get it to work. just gave up. worked a few days later.

in your case, try zipping the file and attaching the zip. one of us (me even) will post it

 

[RoddyVR]

um...... so....... did we just give up on the map?

 

[Revolutionairy]

whats the story? Any hope or does it look bad?

 

[erez87]

i'll be waiting for the map...

 

[RoddyVR]

so troq, since you have today off school also, are you able to post the map?

if it still wont let you upload it, email it to me, i'll post it.