Seti Day 1.

Leaving our home to conquer the desert.

Setau - Day1

Wow! Now THAT'S a lot of desert
I see a few cities and a pile of resources that needs to be liberated. Also, an underground hole beckons.

TS to Evil Roc; restart message before opening my very first move. This is the second time that this has happened after I’ve started up a game

Edit note: The game is actually supposed to go to Aim22, and I just sent it out to him. Evil Roc, you can just delete the move that I sent you. Sorry for the mixup.

[This message has been edited by Dafyth (edited 06-21-2003 @ 00:51 AM).]

ts I didt understand your first clue

[This message has been edited by aim22 (edited 06-21-2003 @ 03:36 PM).]

Ofir, day 1.

Moving out...

Turn sent.

Aim22 -- could you edit your post to remove my e-mail address? I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

Seti Day 2.

Second hero joined today. That's good, but he had taken all my gold for his servise!

Setau - Day2

Grrr, The Indies want too much money, and the resource defenders are either desperate or lucky. Maybe tomorrow will have solutions to both problems.

TS to Aim22

Hey there. I'm guessing that we've all been spending our AOW2 time getting set up for the doubles tournament -- which is absolutely fine. Just checking in to make sure that aim22 hasn't sent me the turn yet -- if you have, I haven't received it. If you haven't had a chance to get to it yet, no problem.

Aim22 posted day or two ago that he is leaving until the 28th of june.

Ah, thanks, Evil Roc -- I'd missed that.

Ofir, day 2.

Still marching around in the desert. Recruited some allies to the cause.

Turn sent.

Seti Day 3.

Slowly moving towards mountains.

Setau - Day3

I got creative and solved some of my more pressing problems. My hero gains a level and a shiny new artifact, a new Tigran village comes into the fold, and another shall be ready in a few more days.

TS to Aim22

Ofir, day 3.

Won a hard fight in the desert. Still impressed by just how much sand there is here.

Turn sent.

Seti Day 4.

No news.

Setau - Day4

Overall a pretty slow day. An overnight attack by crazed birds killed one of my followers

TS to Aim22

Ofir, day 4.

Another hard fight -- took some casualties .

Still walking around in the desert...

Turn sent.

[This message has been edited by JWorth (edited 07-01-2003 @ 02:53 PM).]

Seti Day 5.

Mountains are in sight!

P.S. Restart message due to computer upgrade (including hard drive)

Setau - Day5

We're heading for the underground, away from the nasty birds!

TS to Aim22

Ofir, day 5.

Nothing exciting to report -- things do seem to be heating up in the center, however. The next couple of days could get interesting...

Oh, two seriously confused magic servants wandered into my camp...(checking the BTOOIC release, I can only assume that it's a mistake that some of them are set to "patrol", but who knows?).

Turn sent.

Seti Day 6.

Some maneurs in the mountains. Mine taken here, mine taken there...

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Yes, is a mistake. Didn't I correct that in the tournament version?

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One pair of them are set to patrol in the tournament version that's downloadable from the BTOOIC site.

Great map, though, and we could have caught it also when we looked at the map before playing.

[This message has been edited by JWorth (edited 07-08-2003 @ 04:51 PM).]

Shoot -- I just double-checked the BTOOIC version of the map, and the magic servants are all set correctly. The problem only seems to be in the version of the map that's posted here at AOWH. Which I guess must be the version that we're playing. I hope that there aren't any other glitches that made it in.

Setau - Day6

Yet another slow day of troop relocation.

Turn not sent yet -- Apparently the map I downloaded from AoW Heaven had a mistake where one set of magic servants was set on Patrol instead of Area Guard. Evil Roc or Aim22, if either of you wants to restart the game using a corrected version of the map then that seems fair to JWorth and me -- I'll set up a new game with the same sides on the updated map. If you guys want to continue playing on this map then let me know and I'll send the move out to Aim22.

This was the only 'glitch' in that map.

The servants were mainly placed to prevent turn-order effects (meaning the first one to start won't be able to race scouts to the campsite/pickable-resources because he started first).
Patrol actually serves that same purpose if it came out that left cave (although less). I doubt it will influence the game much, considering the 'stalemate' design.

Some thoughts, hope you won't mind the unasked advice!
Good luck!

There was one more difference - in BTOOIC variant air elemental in mountains is removed. I was quite surprised when it attacked my army in our game. So continuing game seems quite fair to me. You were attacked by magic servants, and I by elemental.

Still, as I had written in letter, if all prefer to resart I'll agree. Otherwise (if Aim22 would like to contuinue) I'm for continuing too.

Actually, he wasn't attacked by them -- he hired them

That's why we're offering the restart, becuase you and Aim22 might not think that it was fair that you had to fight your Magic Servants (set on Area Guard) and JWorth got to hire his. If he showed up in battle with a few Magic Servants, you guys could cry foul and you'd be justified to do it. So we're letting you know now what happened (that he hired two magic servants that were set on "Patrol" by mistake) before we go any farther.

If you and Aim22 are OK with it, then we'll just continue and I'll get the move out. If you decide to restart on the corrected map (all MS on Area Guard) than we can do that too, since we want to be fair to you guys.

Sorry again for the confusion.

edit note: The map in use is the BTOOIC 25.ahm

[This message has been edited by Dafyth (edited 07-11-2003 @ 08:40 PM).]

Oh, this makes difference! Then I'm for restart. I thought that the problem was that they left their caves and launched an attack on JWorth's surface kingdom.

I'll try to get the tournament versions up at AoW2Heaven as well..! Thx, recruiting is worse indeed (disband?).

OK, I'll download the BTOOIC map today and reset the game with the same sides and same order.

Sorry about this everybody -- I realized that we were in trouble the moment the magic servants appeared on the horizon...I would have killed them if I could have, but my forces weren't properly set up for it. I had to do something, though -- they were right in the path of my scouts to the central mines and gold -- but disbanding would also be a drag, as an 80 GP hit this early in the game would be a real issue on this map. I think that this is probably the best solution, but my apologies for the restart.

[This message has been edited by JWorth (edited 07-10-2003 @ 11:56 AM).]

OK, I'm setting up the new game using "Tournament Goldrush Mountains" (25.ahm) found at the BTOOIC website. This has all of the Magic Servants and the Air Elemental set on Area Guard.

I'm not sure if Swolte is aware, but there are two versions of this map at the BTOOIC site (15.ahm and 25.ahm). This is what confused me the first time. I'll send the first move out to Evil Roc as soon as I get it set up.

Turn 1 sent to Evil Roc

Seti Day 1.

Once again tigran people start expansion.

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Just so we're all clear, and to repeat what Dafyth said above, in the version we're starting now, the air elemental is present, set on area guard (along with all the other indies).

[This message has been edited by JWorth (edited 07-11-2003 @ 11:28 AM).]

Setau - Day1

We rush out to explore the waiting desert.

TS to Aim22

Ofir, day 1.

Moving out.

Turn sent.

Seti Day 2.

Jasfar the warrior gets his first expirience today in battle for something in desert.

Setau - Day2

More expanding and exploration.

TS to Aim22

[This message has been edited by Dafyth (edited 07-16-2003 @ 06:25 AM).]

Ofir, day 2.

Staking my claim to vast tracts of sand...

Turn sent.