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Solium Infernum: It's like Candy Land in Hell
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I'm so freaking boned right now it HURTS.
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Actually it's only 1/3 kicked in so far, soon to be 2/3. I might leave the last 1/3 as a stubby monument, it's undecided.
My preeeciouuusssss
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Man, this sounds like a fun game.
I'm not trying the demo right now. I'm broke and I'm sure it would just make me cry. Or sell blood. I need my blood.
The problem with us giving too much of a status update is that this is a game where information is power. None of us want to talk about what we're doing too much because we don't want any of our rivals to know what we're doing.
We can only really talk about the most superficial and obvious of things.
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Continue with your deviousness.
The hot topic in hell right now is reacharounds and the courteousness thereof.
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If you know what I mean
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Now I have the highest prestige income, and instead of two really beefy legions, only one. I also have very limited land holdings, as you will see on the map.
What they don't know is that I am actually Satan, and this is just a test.
I just bought a giant bomb for some safety net insurance, though. It goes off when the legion holding it dies. I can give it to my weak starter legion as a rather potent deterrent, and I can move it to any legion with an action, meaning that going into combat with any of my legions could be a huge disaster for an opponent even if they win the fight. It's not going to win me the game, but it will at least buy some time and give pause to anyone thinking about coming for what little I have going for me.
ooo, handy pdf:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24104983/Solium-Infernum-Cheat-Sheet-Legal
OP that
About how many turns does a game last, if anyone is experienced enough to know? I'd like a good PBEM game to play with some old table top gaming buddies. We don't have time these days to do it in person anymore, and I'm thinking that if this game doesn't go on for thousands of turns like Civ or SMAC, we could have a real winner. The table top flavor of the game would be icing on the cake.
Somewhere between 45 and 60 turns sounds about right. There's some variance due to Conclave token drawings being, well, random.
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I started with a pretty reasonable legion, and having nabbed a reasonable place of power, I expended pretty much all the prestige I had in a mad gamble to murder Fading's itty-bitty jerk of a legion.
Then I got my dick kicked in.
Now I have 2 Prestige to everyone else's 40+, no legions, an angry neighbor, and no hope.
Fair warning to that neighbor. While I have no hope, I am not without power. Winning the game may be out of my reach, but I can also very easily put it out of *your* reach, as well.
SI is a game about dicking over your fellow man. You are provided with many abilities and opportunities to do so. It is in your best interests to ensure that I am not focused upon you alone.
(OOC: Ahahahaha, ow my dick.)
Oh, so you're the one who bought the orb. It doesn't tell us who picks up artifacts. I just assumed it was panicked buying in response to the beast being on the board.
Or he wants you to think he bought the orb.
I'm willing to believe him here. He loses a lot if we don't believe his threats later. He gains very little by pretending to have the orb. He already has a monster legion, and only one neighbor.
Generally, fading is in the "don't mess with" folder for the time being whether or not he has the orb. Especially since he doesn't have any prestige income at all yet.
Also, have we switched over to wave entirely? If so, I think I missed the memo.
Steam will never get this game. Vic Davis (Cryptic Comet) sells his games directly from his website.
Nobody is talking about my dick, and how kicked it in it's been.
This stuff is epic, really.
You have what? Two prestige left? Is that even enough to do any diplomacy?
also, turn 11 is up
You could always become my blood vassal.
You still have a PoP. That means you are still in the game. Keep your head down and buff your avatar, and You'll be back on your feet.
Diplomacy in Hell. It's a backstabbing strategy game revolving around politics. Can't wage war just because, you need some kind of political excuse. Being insulted in the Infernal Conclave, someone refusing to bow to your demands, and so on.
Even then war is rarely "total war". You gamble a quantity of prestige on completing specific objectives. Taking an enemy place of power, killing X Legions, taking X tiles. And you have a time limit.
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Nope, it's pretty far into your borders. Looks like pony is threatening Nyx instead now.
edit: turn 12 is up
Truth be told the Ranged value on that PoP would have put my legion at some risk for fuckery, so instead I did other stuff that turn and got the free move back home when your vendetta ended :P
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14 is done, we are just waiting for it to be run.
hooray
of course, you might have been the one to play that event card, and you could have put Haagenti in the vault first, but that seems unlikely.