Turn 9

Hey Caelum, seems like in a turn or so you might be able to drop a bunch of flying archers in the path of those Marignon troops. Their crossbowmen are probably the real damage-dealers in their force (hopefully there's more information to be had about that), and they'd go down to a lot of archers scripted to fire archer. Of course, I'm not sure what you'd do to get rid of those men at arms, but if Jotunheim let you take an empty province adjacent first, then you could retreat and continue to harry the enemy as they advance.

Again. if skinu researches thunderstrike. men at arms aren't a problem. having relatively heavy armor anyway, thunderstrikes fatigue causing effect in addition to its damage will pretty well smash men at arms.

Will Skinu submit his turn before he stales? Will Baalz submit his turn before *he* stales? Find out in *2* hours!

Remind me in an hour and I'll postpone hosting for a bit.

rdonj wrote:Remind me in an hour and I'll postpone hosting for a bit.

I'm bashing some year 1s with Eriu... so if i notice its been an hour i'll post again...

Well, I postponed hosting 24 hours as per lingchih's request. So skinu and baalz will have plenty of time to get the next turn in.

Thanks for the postpone, I really need to work out a good strat to push back Vanheim - The only feasable path is through the Great Feral, so im going to try to take it next turn, Push back his forces from that front.

Hang in there Holpo im coming to help ya.

Also, ehh, about the map thing - what program do you guys use to take screenshots?\


Haha, looks like I would have made the deadline by about two minutes, But We need to work out a strat Holpo - where do you think my forces would the the most effective? Lets coordinate our moves.

Squirrelloid wrote:I'm not sure i have the resources to do that and deal with Ashdod. Not to mention my water forces are all north to work on containing any Ermor expansion into the sea. Plus there's a single water way down south, which means only one of us could go (and by going north I'm sort of implicitly ceding the south to Agartha - although I don't know how aquatic he is yet).

True, it would take some time to circumnavigate once we get control of the northern sea. I don't know about Agartha, but if I capture any water provinces, I'll probably hand em over to the largest holder of our water provinces (yourself probably) to simplify our naval strategy. Agartha in the meantime may be able to head southward, depending upon strength of indies and so forth and perhaps attack Vanheim at sea.

I don't want anyone to panic though, especially Hoplo. Remember what rdonj said about fear. I remember in NvV, Lumen held out with great courage in a single province till the vets went down to defeat. We either win together or we lose together, there is no in-between.

Skinu wrote:Also, ehh, about the map thing - what program do you guys use to take screenshots?

Just hit the printscr key on your keyboard. You can then load up a simple program like paint and paste it in there to save it.

Skinu wrote:Thanks for the postpone, I really need to work out a good strat to push back Vanheim - The only feasable path is through the Great Feral, so im going to try to take it next turn, Push back his forces from that front.

Hang in there Holpo im coming to help ya.

Also, ehh, about the map thing - what program do you guys use to take screenshots?\


Haha, looks like I would have made the deadline by about two minutes, But We need to work out a strat Holpo - where do you think my forces would the the most effective? Lets coordinate our moves.

Its just print screen and paste into your favorite graphics program. I use mspaint because its simple, and I don't really have to do any major image editing - at worst i need some text or arrows, which mspaint will do. Heck, you could probably paste it into Word or something equally silly, although then its kind of hard to save as a jpeg...

Edit: Doh... ninjaed!

Skinu wrote:Hang in there Holpo im coming to help ya.

Also, ehh, about the map thing - what program do you guys use to take screenshots?\

Thats what I like to hear

I just expand out the view until I can see all the lands I want (adjusting the map filters to exclude arrows, armies etc. if I don't want them). Then press printscreen and come out of Dom 3 (usually by alt-m) then open MS Paint and control-v the image in. I usually cut the image down with Zapgrab. And add some text with ms paint. But that's not necessary or even helpful if you simply want to send a copy of the map for 'map consolidation' purposes.

If you send me a map (email me at hoplosternum [at] hotmail.com) of your lands I'll do a consolidated map and post it. It might not be pretty but it should help us all to see what is happening.

Consolidated maps would be helpful for all regions. It is likely to help a lot in the north where hopefully we are about to go on the offensive. Or at least are doing better.

PS - I save the map as a JPEG rather than a bitmap. It loses a bit of detail but is much much smaller that way. For email my inbox can handle bitmap images (unless they are huge!) but for uploading to sites like this or shrapnel usually you need to use JPEGs.