Game #394 | TRUE FFA

I think WL Keldon is the man who took him down... at least I think it was him.
Lightform was playing Black player - the last in the queue, played as Tigran, though I don't remember what class exactly did he play.

Can someone confirm what happened to Lightform in this game? AlX told me he played the game but Lightform said he didn't?

Confirmed by $eeR

I wonder why I am listed in this game when as far as I can tell I didn't even play in it ?

Confirmed by Ezekiel

Match has been reported, please confirm!

Well this big game is finally over 
what can I say - I was the sneaky one this time  I tried to stay low throughout the game, making a Non-aggression pact with Eskild and at the same time had expanded to the utmost - as can be seen from the screenshots at the end of the game I had quite a number of the "meat (cow) cities" (with the single purpose to bring me as much gold as possible).



While I was expanding, started clearing all of the available sites with my 4 hero stacks + leader, resulting in every single site (including mythical) to submit to me and bringing me benefits.
When only 4 players were left, we've had some conversation with Eskild, where he'd try to persuade me that he was at the disadvantage - initially I believed it and tried to shift balance of deadlock between 3 sorcerers in his favour (for me - the longer the deadlock existed - the more beneficial). Later on I realised that he might be playing me, so had sent some enquiries to Seer and Keldon and afterwards pulled my troops back.
In the same time I started mass producing armies, and prepared plans to sweep Eskild's empire at the first signs of aggression (or if we suddenly would be only 2 players left).
Thinking further, I had scouted that Eskild is pushing Seer and Keldon quite strongly so had decided to have my own share of their empires - had attacked the South-West border of Seer's empire and had burned 2 or 3 cities. In the process, Keldon had tried to capture a city from me (with some strong stack), and was slaughtered as a result by the upcoming armies.
Few turns later we've met at the Seer's capitol. I had a feeling that I would need to attack Seer more that once to finally subdue him, but didn't expect Eskild being this close. 
In the end I lost 4 stacks (including some of the valuable hero artifacts), had managed to take the Seer's capitol, but had to retreat hastily. Next turn I've put my stacks in the narrow pass (and I actually had a feeling that should move further away ), where there were dirt walls from one side.
My sense of danger was correct, Eskild exploited it, and had attacked my 3 stacks with his own domineering forces (EHs, over 20lvl heroes, apprentices and so on).
At the same time my blitzkrieg plan was put into action - in 2 turns I had control over most of Eskid's native cities, and furthermore mass production of units started. 
At this point I was rushing some of the race governments upgrades to have option to win by Unity beacons. While preparing some pretty massive amount of stacks deploying all over the map, had started to build 3 of the Unity Beacons and scouted the whereabouts of Eskild's armies core.
in a couple of turns Eskild emerged at the South-East border of my UG empire. I backed down for few turns to accumulate more stacks in the vicinity, as I understood that there might needed 2 or 3 waves of 3-4 stacks to take just 3 of his main stacks (yeah, that's the power of sorccerer leader  ). At the same time there was one diversion army at the North-East side of the surface, which had been taken out in 2 waves.

In the end Eskild had made a small mistake, he had tried to run past me to get to my cities, had sent his flying stack with the 23lvl theo hero (the bane of Undead) to take the remote city (I abandoned it beforehand and used as bait), while his other 3 stacks were placed where I could get them with the 7 or even 8 stacks of my own. I immediately exploited it and had sent his leader in the 2-nd wave. (1 wave=4 stacks of units). 
Afterwards Eskild conceded.


Ty for game everyone, hope we can play some more such epic games in the future

@$eeR the 7 stacks I used against you were just part of the forces I had at that time  the rest were waiting underground to burst on the top layer at any sign of aggression from Eskild  

@Eskild although I had prepared properly for a long time, yet still I find it frustrating to expend 2 stacks over 1 of yours  luckily my undead hordes aren't influenced by morale, otherwise it'd be much worse for me. And of course, there is the core of your army, that I don't even want to imagine how many stacks would be sacrificed over.

but not for long, I think. AlX thinks the opposite, that I can defeat his undead hordes with my apprentice armada, which have been heavily decimated. After your farewell to the scene he swept the core of my empire in 2-3 turns. Now I´m enjoying life in Stella Artois...

is this one still going ? I would imagine it is an epic 1v1 battle by now , who is winning ?

Definatelly no

I had thought that first round would be suicidal due to the stun-ability of your Support units. so brought more stacks into play

well I'm amazed that the Grand Capital or Stella Artois withstood that first wave from those undead hordes.

100 turns I lasted....


will I survive till 101 ...

Ok I played my turn and pretty much sealed my own fate by not sending my strongest stack to fight Vontor.


looks like it will be between you guys now that keldon and soon I will be eliminated.




good luck both stromrage and eskild

I just got an ironman restart warning   , right after loading up my turn before even doing anything.

Sorry guys but I had serious problems with the internet connection in a few days I play the turn.
WK

Seer, I did sent in game message already... And the game is paused for a long time now, while there was no messages from Keldon regarding his absence, so therefore I asked if you can try to contact him as well and if unsuccessful- place timer. I think it's participant's duty to inform others of his absense...😕

Keldon appear AFK , stormrage is getting impatient , I will put ina 5 day timer and see how far into it keldon gets.


will also send him an in game message and see if it gets any response.


personally I'm not in huge rush to give up on a game that has been going on for so long

maybe he did like you and took vacation who knows. when is the last time he signed in here ?

Yeah no probs stormRaGe , think this one not have timer anyways......but back the hell off my turf before I needs to SMACK you......

Guys, I will be off to the camp for about a week, starting from Sunday afternoon, so most likely I won't be able to take my turns then.

This one is becoming a rather lengthy match with 4 of us still alive...

The necro is the big threat

this is a FFA, not one against three.... baaah, You like to win easy.
good luck
WK

Yes I think your list is correct Eskild

I think lightform went down first 😊

In the last 8 game FFA I was in, we couldn´t remember who went off the bat first so it was hard for me to give people their respective ranks in the end. We should do that in this game... Here´s what I recall of the events so far, let me know if I am wrong. I also tried giving people race and class from what I recall, might also have made some mistakes there. By the way, this game is weird in the sense, that I can´t find it in my "Ongoing" games.

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5. Castaneda
6. Gilafron
7. Olop?
8. Lightform?

Cheers.

Probably a good idea Stormrage

Btw, I think everyone met everyone already, so we should update race/class?

The game is still going Hiliadan , it is a great match indeed

Hi guys! I updated the status of the game to "Finished" more or less by error. I don't know if the game is finished. Please confirm and report it if you want to report it for ranking.

My wizard and his army walking into an ambush of one wizard.  :{
A different wizard captured my throne.  :{  :{

Good game!  Good luck to the rest!!

I have Lain a Trap for a player that is NOT purple , could be an interesting next turn when it comes around.

NO PROBLEM , will take off turn timer

Hi fokes. I´m on a trip with my work from thursday (21/1) evening to sunday (24/1), late night. Therefore, there will be a period in between those days, where I can´t take my turn.

Cheers.

Hey guys

I inform you that I will be on vacation Jan. 12 to 20, and I can't play. Please remove the timer turn.

WK

We could still ally against you, Seer  No shared vision, though

OKi PUT LIGHTFORM IN Xlints spot ,
 Reorganized the turn order according to playtimes listed here

and launched it Finally....



Happy Hunting All



u may as well declare war on everybody since its set up  that way anyhow.


Reason is I was in a 5 player FFA ( supposedly ) with allied victory enabled....


had a hot start in that other game and all 4 other players ended up in an alliance against me......

this is what spurred the idea of hosting a "TRUE FFA " PBEM

I'm not in the game - and i'm ok with that. If you need me to do sm.th. on this site - like quit this open game somehow - please explain what buttons to click, i'm still having issues with the ...navigation? it's abysmal (;

I still can't figure out who from the above battlefield list of players is not in a slot

Castaneda is in
Olop is in
Eskild is in
Seer is in
AIX Stormrage is in
Gilafron is in
Warlord Keldon is in



it must be Xlint or BlackCat

and is one of you Eskild ? or is he not supposed to be in game ?


if nobody posts here soon I will just get lightform to take the 8th and final spot and then launch.....

And when I tried to shuffle the turn order I may  have accidentally kicked somebody or it won't let me put them in the slot.


I think its Eskild that needs to select slot again

and Lightform tried to join as well

and Jundaland Banshee wants in too


a lot of players wanting into this one
wish I had another slot free

no I know the two guys that joined outside of this website they both use same on or off battlefield and steam and triumph