Decline26: Come One, Come All

[Infinitum]

Oops. Water nations is what I meant to write.

 

[Dayyālu]

Oops. Water nations is what I meant to write.

Who bans water nations? The only bans I know of are popkill dominion nations, for obvious reasons.

The only direct advantage of water nations is to be incredibly resilient to early rushing and to pay that advantage with problems in both logistics and income. They are beatable, of course: Matalarata killed me off in Decline 21 and I killed another EA Atlantis in DeclineRuleOfThirds through creative methods.

Of course, beating a UW player that knows what he's doing is hard, but there's the better option: contain and let him lose the race. Can't win a game with only UW provinces.

 

[KoolNoodles]

I don't have a problem with water nations generally, but yes Dayyālu will be more of a pain alone down there.

Maybe somebody else can grab a water nation. Maybe I'll play Oceania. Hmmm.

But then I'd just want to play Pan. Oceania doesn't get revelers.

 

[Infinitum]

Most games I see on steam/dominionsmods seem to specify no water/popkill?

EA atlantis is better than most other water nations in that it can plausibly bring mages and decent troops on land so won't be quite as much a non-entity as they can be granted, but the land provinces will be crowded in this game so its likely gonna have a huge economic advantage by midgame.

I'd rather not, but if we must then we shall fight them on the beaches etc etc

 

[sqeecoo]

I think it'd be fairer if we had two water nations, a single one can easily monopolize a lot of provinces on this map. I could play EA R'lyeh if there are no other candidates, I guess

 

[KoolNoodles]

I think it'd be fairer if we had two water nations, a single one can easily monopolize a lot of provinces on this map. I could play EA R'lyeh if there are no other candidates, I guess

Oceania is the only water nation that can compete with Atlantis(and they basically turn into Pan on land), imo, but if you want to go R'lyeh then more power to you.

 

[Isiloon]

Oceania is the only water nation that can compete with Atlantis(and they basically turn into Pan on land), imo, but if you want to go R'lyeh then more power to you.

One must also not under estimate the trickery of sqeecoo ... the polite reaper

Rlyeh gets better pretenders underwater and psi-blasts kick ass

 

[Isiloon]

Where's the game page?

 

[KoolNoodles]

Where's the game page?

Putting it up momentarily, will update the OP. Gonna be Decline26 on Llama.

Edit: Game is up, submit your Pretenders por favor.

http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=Decline26

 

[Isiloon]

I wish you could see other people's pretenders out of interest without it being a dice roll of who gets information advantage.

Personally, I tried about 5-6 different blesses and the one that actually gets the best surviveability is the one that has the best attack, which was mildly interesting.

I have respectable scales, good diversity, my sacreds can kill anything... and a few aces

 

[Isiloon]

would be fun experiment to use RPA and genetic programming to optimize 12 month expansion strategies

 

[Infinitum]

Ok, back! Gonna do some last minute angsting about my pretender choice, upload in a bit.

 

[KoolNoodles]

JagreenLern and Joined on the 4th of July submit Pretenders if you please, if still intending to play. We'll start as soon as they are in.

Edit: I'd also like one volunteer admin for emergency extensions and the like if I am asleep etc., I'll PM the game password.

 

[sqeecoo]

I'd be fine with it, I usually check the forum pretty regularly. Also I think we are in oppositeish timezones so we should have it pretty well covered.

 

[JagreenLern]

Alright, I just submitted a pretender for Fomoria.

 

[KoolNoodles]

Alright, I just submitted a pretender for Fomoria.

Thanks, I'll start up the game momentarily.

Edit: Llama might be a little slow to register all the Pretenders(even though the Players have joined), so I'll give it an hour or two to catch up just in case.

 

[KoolNoodles]

Well I forgot to edit out a really bad start position, which I got(of course).

Not going to restart or anything unless it is pretty bad for more people. Pretty bad is 3 border provinces with one being useless and limited avenues for expansion.

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

Pretty bad is 3 border provinces with one being useless and limited avenues for expansion.

sounds like my start location

Spoiler

but let's keep going

 

[KoolNoodles]

Pretty bad is 3 border provinces with one being useless and limited avenues for expansion.

sounds like my start location

Spoiler

but let's keep going

K. Guess I'll look over the map again at another time if it's something to be played in the future.

 

[KoolNoodles]

I was thinking of making a LP of this game and putting the videos on youtube or something later, as it's the only one I am in currently. Anybody have any good video/audio recording software recommendations? The AMD/Win10 ones I've used for short videos are alright but maybe not ideal, used to use FRAPS a million years ago but stopped liking it....don't really want to fiddle too much with the audio as long as it sounds ok.

 

[Isiloon]

I think all the cool kids use this
https://obsproject.com/

 

[Isiloon]

I got a start with 4 adjacent provinces, 2 that are accessible and 1 is a throne

pls restart.

 

[Isiloon]

or change map :D

 

[Dayyālu]

I'm happy to report that the UW start is awesome (probably the best I ever had) and the map is great.

Keep map.

 

[Isiloon]

I have 1 province I can expand to next turn that isn't a throne.

If I turn out to be surrounded by barbarians or knights in the non-throne province its GG