Funny Fall from Heaven Screenshots!

[Rystic]

I felt like some kind of cosmic disturbance was balanced when I finally killed Acheron with a Dragon Slayer. Still, I think I may have stumbled upon some kind of bug...

 

[Rystic]

Finally, my friend and I were talking over IM about world spells (they were new at the time). He was asking me about them because I had Beyond the Sword and he didn't. I e-mailed him this picture to give him a sample of their power.

 

[Tarquelne]

I looked at the change log but I didn't see anything to explain this.

 

[Love]

Ohh an easter egg!

 

[jan030]

WILL IT BLEND

So what happened.....

 

[Rystic]

So what happened.....

Oh, turns out you can summon Basium as Hyborem. Shenanigans ensued.

 

[pvt chaos]

Having much fun with mimics ...

 

[Lark]

This is a large Tectonics Randomized Actual Earth map. Not enough water, lots of land, only 8 players. On turn 19 Amelanchier is killed, so I look in WorldBuilder. There’s a Gargoyle in Evermore and two wounded ones beside it. Pristin Pass is 6 squares straight north of Braduk and 14 straight south of the Elves. Late Elves. I think “Cool! I can get Leaves for once!”

On turn 46, I see a Gargoyle coming off that weird little jungle land bridge in the first screencap. Two warriors and one re-roll, but I kill it and bless the stupid AI for sending it in half-dead and unpromoted.

On turn 73, same thing, only I get it with a Hunter. As near as I can work out from the distances, the AI sent the first Gargoyle after me as soon as it took out the Elves and the second when the first died. It must’ve kept it unhealed the way it does animals - mismanagement by wandering around. With Gargoyles that might make sense - and it was certainly helpful.

[Aside: if I were a Tiger that’d just killed a Scout, I’d find the best nearby defensible spot, lair up and turn dead Scout into baby Tigers. AI writers?]

Why did they come after me? -Look at the inset. Amelanchier is pining for the fjords, Tasunke is blocked off and Jonas and Charadon have Barbarian. I’m it. I could have predicted something from that, but I didn’t.

Turn 99. The last Gargoyle? No, it’s happily running Evermore. No, this is the turn it starts dripping Barby Goblins and Warriors. Do I see anything I should be planning ahead for? -Moi??

Turn 109. The drip has turned into a trickle at two points on my border. Does the penny drop? -It does not.

Turn 119 and the screens you see. The trickle has turned into a stream and I look in WB and finally grasp it: It’s raining Barbies all over the Old World and in all that vast expanse, every single drop knows that downhill... is towards me.

This is the Deluge, except...

I am playing the Sidar with a Charismatic leader, which means that I can hit level 6 and make Shades with 20xp instead of 26. Plus I’m running Apprenticeship and Conquests and have built Form of the Titan, so my Hunters start with 6xp. Two Barbies = >14xp = yet another Great Engineer. Problem? -I can’t make enough Hunters to keep up. I’ve even pulled my garrisons to make Shades. Real problem? -Greed! I should be running up the xp on some defenders, but that’ll lose out on a few GEs now and I don’ wanna. Manna from heaven and I’m fixing to choke myself on it.


Well. What I ended up doing, of course, was making just enough high-xp Hunters to keep up and then sending them out to knock down my neighbors once I’d built Forges and caught up on units. But did you ever see such a situation? -Either I’m Cthulhu or I’m dead.

 

[[to_xp]Gekko]

if I were a Tiger that’d just killed a Scout, I’d find the best nearby defensible spot, lair up and turn dead Scout into baby Tigers.

if I were a Tiger that'd just killed a Scout, I'd find the best nearby defensible spot, lair up and turn dead Scout into Poo.

sorry, couldn't resist

 

[Gray-Z]

Someone ought to tell the travellers which ones actually are edible.

 

[Darksaber1]

Someone ought to tell the travellers which ones actually are edible.

Fththtththh

 

[mahazel]

Someone ought to tell the travellers which ones actually are edible.

It`s greate!

 

[cyther]

Who says the Balseraphs need this on their palace?

 

[xienwolf]

I am so TOTALLY going to win this game....View attachment 192872

 

[MagisterCultuum]

What is that promotion you warrior has?

 

[xienwolf]

New promotion that I was testing out when I loaded the game. You can tell part of what it does if you are very observant

 

[Verdian]

You can tell part of what it does if you are very observant

Make you start on a tiny, barren island?

 

[Darksaber1]

Let the Warrior see tile Yields? You don't have the settler selected, and that would show you the Ocean, I think.

 

[kenken244]

does it increase vision range?

 

[FireBlaze]

Stop messing with my head!
Well, you have that guy there... Idk what his name is, but it looks like an emp unit, which I know you dont start with at the begening of the game. Anyone know what that is?