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Game #330 | rrrrookie bowl II

rrrrookie vs  Evgendil vs  Eskild vs  Blechhower


Match Details

Played:2016-06-05
Savegame
Rating 2 - Nice Game
Amount of Humans:4
Kind of game:   PBEM
Game-value: 58
Result Player Classes Races Team Points Extra Points Missed Points Quitter Rate
1 rrrrookieTheocratTigrans198490here
2 EvgendilArchdruidElves273-50here
3 EskildDreadnoughtFrostlings3-260-40here
4 BlechhowerSorcererDraconians400-111here
Posts to the game:
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Written by Evgendil
Yes, the map was very unfair to Eskild, he was surrounded by rivers which you cannot cross. But despite this he organized a good defence, I have a many sacrifices in the battle against him.
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Confirmed by Evgendil
Well, Rrrrookie win "Rrrrookie Bowl 2", I think it`s absolutely fair result <smiletext0> Congratz!

Mally was better in scouting, he managed to befriend giant dwelling, and his exalted were impressive. 
After the victorious war with Eskild I had only one strong stack, but I quickly create a secondary army at my base, so I had a chance a counterattack. I even destroyed one of the Mally`s cities, but then I made a crucial mistake and fell into the trap in other tigran`s city. By this time I had lost the throne, and my leader had no choice but to go on the attack in hope for a opponent`s mistake. But in a big battle near giant dwelling I was completely defeated by the superior forces of Mally.
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Confirmed by Eskild
Perhaps dread is just not my kind of class, or perhaps I should have moved differently. The map was clearly not in my favour, I got the rabble stream preventing access to the frostling neighbors of mine, which was supposed to be vassalized or captured early on. But I did build two expansions, but the coming invasion from Evgendil´s side, I was not possible to withstand. It should be said, that close to this point I lost the one tier 3 unit I had gotten (an high elf gryphon rider) in a silly battle at a shrine of frozen beauty around the should-have-been vassal SW of my capitol. However, it would probably not have made a difference in the decisive battle.

There´s always the choice to try to flee with your main armies and wreak havoc in the territory of your enemy, but as speed isn´t exactly the force of a dreadnaught, that would probably also not have turned out well.

As you can see on the turn count - this is turn 22, I didn´t have any t3´s by then and was just starting to produce musketeers. Another option would of course have been to retreat to the capitol to defend, but that would have equalized being outproduced. So I felt inclined to attack, even though it surely said proable or very likely defeat.

Well, I should probably try it once again (that race/class combo) - and stop whining. Well played Evgendil, and congratulations to rrrrookie!




user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

330 | Age of Wonders 3
Match has been reported, please confirm!
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user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

330 | Age of Wonders 3
Good game everyone. By around turn 20 I had moved west to defeat blechhower while evgendil had gone west to defeat eskild. I had an advantage though because blechhower declared war on me out of the blue and the following turn after I found and sent his leader into the void, he left the game. I proceeded to vassal all his draconian cities.

I was hoping to catch evgendil off guard by showing up right as he defeated eskild, but his army was very strong with a few elite spider queens. I retreated toward my cities to get myself an advantage and evgendil followed, allowing me time to defeat his second army and gather superior numbers for our final battle. Evgendil is very skilled and deserved to win this game as much as me.

As for the vasyan mod: While the mod does not explicitly say how it limits the leveling of heroes, I felt like mine leveled slower than usual. Part of me wanted to see eskild get to mid/late game to see if dreadnaught could snowball with the changes in the mod, but another part of me is relieved evgendil got to him quick enough to keep that from happening. Halflings got a much needed and appropriate buff.
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user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Very nice game, congratulations, Rrrrookie! 
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Good game! I will share my thoughts in the post game report.

user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

I understand that. No problem, I just like to stop and think, if I not confident in action. And often I transfer my turn to a later date. But mod recently changes too frequently and it looks like I`ll have to slightly change my habits 
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Yep, sorry about that. But it's not possible to save and then load with another version of the game.
Zaskow fixed a bug + tried to rename the mod to solve an issue in one game (the 4x2 game), that's why there was an update.
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

So, again I have to delete saves from PBEM folder to continue match.
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Mod has been updated again? Again I can`t open any games with the pbem balance mod, where I used "save and exit". This will be "restarts" again and I don`t like it.
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

The problem is solved by Hiliadan. Rrrookie wait for your round. <smiletext0>
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Yeah I 'updated mods' on the steam loader and did my turn using the new version of the mod. Please let me know if there are more problems. 
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Ok, I will try. Thanks!
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Ah, then I guess that's the reason! You loaded the game with the old version first. Try to make a copy of the save, then delete the save from your computer and reload, it should work.
The save is here: C:\Users\[username]\Documents\My Games\AoW3\Profiles\[AoW user name]\PBEM
You can open the .txt file to find the game number for the rrrrookie bowl game.
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Yes, it`s strange. Yesterday morning I started my round, but didn`t do it immediately, because I didn`t have time. I saved the game and came out. After that, in the evening I updated the mod, and the game "rrrookie bowl II" was unable to load. 
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Hi there! Seems like Evgendil cannot use the updated PBEM balance mod in this game. Would there be any specific reason? rrrrookie, are you on auto-update for the mod from Steam? I'm going to ask Zaskow for help but it's strange that it works on all games but this one.
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Except the improvement for Halfling, do you have any feedback on the changes introduced by the balance mod? <smiletext0>
Also, please note the mod will probably be updated next week to include additional balance changes. You can check the changelog of v1.1 here: https://docs.google.com/docum... New changes introduced in v1.1 are in dark green (some are not yet chosen).
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Had a routine fight against some halflings (4 units including a bard) nearly go very bad. The 5% reduction in their physical weakness was noticeable, and the bard caused them to get some critical strikes in. It is good to see halflings be viable. I might be more excited about the halfling fixes in vasyan's mod more than the Necro fix. 
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

What do you mean regarding the Halflings?
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Hope everyone is off to an okay start. 

I am already feeling the effects of the mod as some halflings surprisingly gave me all I could handle. 
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Eskild, yes, I should have choose the third slot. Sorry for my inattention. 

As to the ressurection of heroes in auto-combat, I don`t see the logic in this. Take, for example, a battle that involves 6 heroes of the same level from each side. The battle is equal, the advantage of winner is minimal, one hero survives. But all his dead heroes rise again! Fair? In my opinion, no <smiletext0>

But may be it will work in my favor <smiletext0>
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Joined, noticed that Evgendil joined before me, but our play times are almost identical, so probably won´t be a problem. Looking forward to the game. The resurgence thing with heroes means that if a hero get killed in autocombat, while the army prevails, the hero will live on after the battle. This will of course mainly affect battles between players as we have no way to play those manually. Cheers.
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

I don't know what it means but only our leader will come back if he dies. It just the default setting
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

I`m usually opposed the resurrection of the heroes. But I wasn`t informed of this in advance, so I ready to play with this settings.
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

game
Alright guys. I think we should join the above order (me, then eskild then evgendil then blechhower). the game is created and the password is 'pugpug'. Please let me know if you see any problems in the settings below.

user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Hi guys, I join. Settings and use the mod confirm.
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100
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rrrrookie bowl II
Even though I am always losing I have maintained enough arrogance to keep naming the games I create after myself. 

I want to keep the rules fairly standard. 

Continents
Medium map size
underground
Defender strong
few city
few dwellings
max heroes 3
max hero level 30

I could be talked into turning certain terrain types up or down or changing the settings, victory conditions or maybe into using a mod.
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100
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Evgendil joined !!
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

@rrrrookie: it's not the same mod as in the Hunger Games. It's a PBEM version so some changes have been removed, and some others (specifically for XP farming) have been added. It should seriously reduce XP farming possibilities and it mostly fixes the Necro issue.
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

I´m also fond of using the mod. Cheers.
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Mod seems alright, not opposed.
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

If no one is opposed we can use the vasyan mod. 

Is this a different version than what we are using in the Hunger games? 
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

I'll do my usual suggestion since you suggested you could be convinced to use mods.
I recommend that you use the PBEM balance mod: http://steamcommunity.com/sha...
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Yeah I am going to wait until we have 4 and if everyone is cool with the settings then I will create it.
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100
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Blechhower joined !!

Heyo, still new to the site  will the game be created when this list of 3/4 is full? Because i dont seem to see it yet.
user
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

The rrrrookie bowl II would not be the same without the defending champion. 
Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100
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Eskild joined !!