Decline 33 1/3, The Rule of Thirds

[sqeecoo]

Yeah guys, I am deeply ashamed (honestly), but I don't really have time for a lategame TC here, especially since I'm pretty unfamiliar with the nation. I had a tough few weeks, got some deadlines looming, and keep getting more work, can't seem to get out of the hole. Wanting to play age of decadence doesn't help either. If you can't find a sub I can take it back in a week at most, but no guarantees before then.

Again, I'm very sorry, it's against my principles to stall and I want to continue, just couldn't find the mental energy to do it lately.

 

[KoolNoodles]

Request at least one more day extension(max) to see if we can find a sub. If we can't, I guess we just roll with it? Not like TC is at war or anything(and making them AI would just be insane at this point).

 

[Malakal]

Request at least one more day extension(max) to see if we can find a sub. If we can't, I guess we just roll with it? Not like TC is at war or anything(and making them AI would just be insane at this point).

Was my plan anyway.

If we go slow turns mb sqeecoo returns to us once he is less busy.

Because I asked some people and no one wants to sub turn 80...

 

[KoolNoodles]

Request at least one more day extension(max) to see if we can find a sub. If we can't, I guess we just roll with it? Not like TC is at war or anything(and making them AI would just be insane at this point).

Was my plan anyway.

If we go slow turns mb sqeecoo returns to us once he is less busy.

Because I asked some people and no one wants to sub turn 80...

Yeah same. Ok thanks!

 

[mondblut]

Not like TC is at war or anything

Er, what?

 

[KoolNoodles]

Not like TC is at war or anything

Er, what?

They haven't attacked me, or Sauromatia, once....as far as I can tell(maybe a golem at one point, not sure). Classic sqeecoo move was to wait until one of us was weakened so he didn't have to risk most of his forces. Unfortunately, the rest of you guys haven't done enough (it still hurts) against me, and I am keeping ~35% of my forces on "TC border staring contest" duty, so he has been sitting there waiting.

I guess that is what I mean by war, even though I raided him a couple times for funsies.

 

[mondblut]

They haven't attacked me, or Sauromatia, once....as far as I can tell(maybe a golem at one point, not sure). Classic sqeecoo move was to wait until one of us was weakened so he didn't have to risk most of his forces.

sqeecoo, sqeecoo... TFW when the fake news enemy propaganda is exposed as having been true all along.

Unfortunately, the rest of you guys haven't done enough (it still hurts) against me

That's because the above is everyone's classic move

 

[sqeecoo]

As far as I know only Malakal has been fighting honorably all this time. Well, and maybe Machaka. Honestly, due to not having made any concrete promises other than general war declaration, I initially adopted a dastardly "wait and see" approach, securing deals to engage in only limited warfare with both Ulm and Sauro. But after a turn or two of deliberate waiting I got too lazy/busy to figure out how to script proper attacks, promising myself to do it "next turn" every time.

Guess I should really attack Ulm when I get back! Btw, I should have time to do the turn on Sunday and henceforth regularly, if all goes well with the obligations (alternatively, I'll recluse myself from the world forever in a liberal atheist monastery or something).

 

[Dayyālu]

As far as I know only Malakal has been fighting honorably all this time.

The entire war I am waging against Atlantis (amongst the shittiest wars I've ever waged in Dominions) is to uphold my alliance with Ulm. TC was a case of "Oh God no one wants to truly fight a lategame war on land, my brain hurts".

Points to Malakal to keep fighting in a hopeless situation. EVEN IF SOMEONE KEEPS FEEDING HIM GEMS AND IF I DISCOVER WHO SENT A BVC ON MY LANDS YOU ARE GONNA PAY

I SWEAR

 

[Eadee]

Honestly, what's a BVC?
A Banana Vehicle Contraption?

 

[Dayyālu]

Honestly, what's a BVC?
A Banana Vehicle Contraption?

Bane Venom Charms. It's a Con4 D2 10 D gems item that has a simple property, Reaper (10). It kills population and every turn forces a Magic Resistance check, if the commander\unit fails it gets diseased. The malus is that it diseases the carrier, but if you use undead shades (also, amphibious) there's no problem. It's a good "fuck you" weapon often countered by aggressive patrolling with flying units, Mind Hunt etc.

Malakal UW lacks both numbers and flexibility to hunt them down, so he got like 7-8 of them in its lands, 3 on his cap etc. etc.

I am sorry for him, but it's a way to break his nation like any other.

 

[Eadee]

Thank you sir!

 

[Malakal]

Just fyi anonymous friend just promised me 5k gold to continue the struggle

 

[Johannes]

Can somebody give a quick, semi-honest review of what's going on? Who's allied to whom, mostly.

 

[Malakal]

Can somebody give a quick, semi-honest review of what's going on? Who's allied to whom, mostly.

Ulm and Sauro are allied. The rest was also supposed to be allied against them but squeeco was merely pretending to act, due to laziness I hope. Its axis vs allies Dominions edition.

 

[Eadee]

Can somebody give a quick, semi-honest review of what's going on? Who's allied to whom, mostly.

Ulm and Sauro are allied. The rest was also supposed to be allied against them but squeeco was merely pretending to act, due to laziness I hope. Its axis vs allies Dominions edition.

I think that was double semi-honest.

 

[Dayyālu]

Ulm and Sauro fighting machaka&Mic&Atlantis. TC despite being the strongest is at peace with everyone waiting for a good chance to kill everyone. Simple.​

 

[Eadee]

You forgot that Burritos are (were) at war too.

 

[Johannes]

What are everyone's blesses / pretenders?

 

[mondblut]

Its axis vs allies Dominions edition.

The drôle de guerre period, to be precise. And with TC pulling everyone in then walking out of it.

 

[Eadee]

What are everyone's blesses / pretenders?

I barely even remember my own, sorry.

 

[Dayyālu]

What are everyone's blesses / pretenders?

Johannes, see, you won and that's it. TC is far more powerful than anything else, the only power barely comparable was Ulm and now he's dead.

Berytos is completely passive and incapable of mounting offensives, Machaka has suffered heavy losses and it's also incapable of organizing good offensives, Mictlan has been doing nothing (bar probably financing Atlantis) for the whole game, Atlantis is dead in the water (whoever is giving them BVCs, it's endlessly amusing for me, remember that I can patrol and I can catch them). Ulm is now dead and I am kinda powerless as I don't control any Thrones.

If you Throne rush, you can easily smash aside everyone and end this travesty. I for one won't try to stop you.

The drôle de guerre period, to be precise. And with TC pulling everyone in then walking out of it.

I'm not here to save you all from your lack of vision. "We're allying with the strongest nation around, and he uses us as disposable allies while losing nothing!"

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

shut up faggot

 

[Dayyālu]

shut up faggot

Berytos' long list of offensives and wars:

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You won two defensive battles with Firestorm and that's it, one against me and one against Ulm. At least Atlantis is fighting. What, now that TC is gonna break us all like a twig you are feeling nervous?

 

[mondblut]

I'm not here to save you all from your lack of vision. "We're allying with the strongest nation around, and he uses us as disposable allies while losing nothing!"

It's not like I wasn't ready for this turn of events by doing little else other than harassing Ulm as a payback for his Wrath of God harassing me. But I would have expected TC to at least pretend he is actually involved in the war he called us into