OOC Thread and Chatroom 2

[Rowan]

No problem

[GeneralHankerchief]

Sorry guys, been out all day and now I don't have enough energy to do anything aside from dropping. I'll work on this tomorrow.

[GeneralHankerchief]

The Turn 2 writeup will be up in a few minutes. However, my internet, especially images, have been spotty all day and as a result I probably won't have the map done by then. I'll let you guys know when I finally do upload it.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Turn 2 has been updated with the map.

[TinCow]

Yikes!

[GeneralHankerchief]

As a heads-up, there's only one simulation left to do for this round - however, I have two finals tomorrow, so the next turn report may not be finished until tomorrow afternoon my time. Thank you for your patience.

[Cecil XIX]

No problem. Hey GH, do you mind waiting a bit after you post the public update for the last turn before adding the empire's notes, etc.? I think it would help the tension involved in reading it if you didn't immediately know it was the last turn.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Sure thing.

[GeneralHankerchief]

I'll be sending the feedback PMs in a few hours. In short, exams suck.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

However, Andronikos is not out of tricks yet. Perhaps sensing what was about to take place in the west, or perhaps just wishing for extra firepower in the northwest, the general recalled his foot archers, sending them to march to his location. Meanwhile, he tasked his already-present horse archers to fire at the unprotected Kousinos Sophianos, sending the general scurrying for cover. Quickly realizing the threat to his life, Kousnios ordered his foot archers to counterfire the horse archers and they were quickly annihilated, although not before an arrow made minor contact with him.

All the while, Andronikos, desperately trying to force the issue, was circling around Kousinos's spearmen, trying to kill the rival Basileus in hand-to-hand combat. While easily outmaneuvering the spearmen tasked with blocking this move, Andronikos found Kousnios sheltered with the remaining two regiments, a lone horseman hidden among hundreds of spears. Deciding to take a risk, he charged, hoping that his men would have enough weight to crash through and hit Kousinos. However, the wily general simply moved farther back. Andronikos, sensing the charge was now pointless, broke it off, but not before losing a lot of his escort.

This looks familiar!!!! It's like Theo's battle against Andronikos. Only that Theo did not ran away like a headless chicken but fought until he died!

[Cecil XIX]

This looks familiar!!!! It's like Theo's battle against Andronikos. Only that Theo did not ran away like a headless chicken but fought until he died!

Perhaps if he did, he'd be here to see this. But then, we all have our different priorities.

[woad&fangs]

I still think I can pull off a win here

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[Zim]

With my "mighty" battle completed and this one winding down, that leaves the Ramses/Flydude showdown for this turn. Hopefully it's a win for team Ioannis III.

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Well, i hope so at least.

[Ramses II CP]

We were scheduled for Thursday but technical difficulties got in the way and I'm out of town at the moment. We'll definitely work on it this week. :)

[GeneralHankerchief]

Technical difficulties? Could the mod have caused it?

[Ramses II CP]

Have to ask fd, things *appeared* to be working for me when I tested earlier Thursday.

[flyd]

It should work. The technical difficulties are on my end, in that my installation seems to be somewhere between hosed and porked. A reinstall will make everything happy. Of course, I have to get around to doing that, but I have all weekend since Ramses said he's unavailable until Monday, on which day we're now hoping the battle will occur.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Phoo, I'm glad that's over. As requested, I'll hold off on posting the orders, feedback, and umpire notes for a day or so. In addition, I'll add in the relevant Rear Guard results once that battle is resolved.

Good fight, everybody.

[Cecil XIX]

Indeed, that was quite a lot of fun guys. It's nice to have finally fought one of these things.

[Rowan]

I can't believe Bart actually survived.

Personally, this was amazing experience. My heart starts beating faster just thinking about it.
Big thanks to GeneralHankerchief and TinCow for the arrangements.

[TinCow]

Ramses and flyd: Let me know if there's any way I can help.

[flyd]

Things go well. The new install does not exhibit the MP-brokenness that the other did. It connects fine to the lobby, at least. Of course, reinstallations have to have at least one setback, which is why I so wisely deleted my copy of the 1.2 patch (but not the 1.3) some time ago. It's just a token setback, because it just introduces a delay, but there it is.

If anyone really wants to help, you could look through the custom battle maps to find one that matches the given description, which I'm simply too lazy to do. The description is: "Coastal map with ocean on one side and mountains on the other, restricting the battlefield to a central plain with a road running along it. Not much in the way of cover, just a generally flat plain, possibly with higher ground towards the mountain side."

[GeneralHankerchief]

If you can't find a perfect match, the oceanside feature is a priority. I'd even suggest the desert bridge/ford battle with a gentlemen's agreement that any unit crossing the ford is considered drowned.

-edit- That may not work since you'll have to deploy on opposite sides of the river. Maybe hold off on combat until the other side crosses the river and enters the "ambush me!" formation.

[Ignoramus]

If I remember correctly, the Arsuf battlemap has a coastline in the map.

[GeneralHankerchief]

The private feedback, orders, and umpire notes for Antioch are now up. In addition, I'm planning on writing a guide to PvP from both a player's and an umpire's perspective. Would you guys prefer this to be up before or after the final battle?

[Cecil XIX]

Not sure what difference it would make, so I'd leave it up to others. I'd love to help umpire a battle in the future.

Looking at the umpire's notes, I like how things worked out from an RP perspective. I tried to play Constantine as someone who felt he had god's protection (to an extent), but I would have been a lot more nervous in doing so if I had known the odds!

Also, it looks like PK/Makedonios' armor saved Constantine's life. Cool.

[TinCow]

Also, it looks like PK/Makedonios' armor saved Constantine's life. Cool.

It most certainly did.

[woad&fangs]

My archers failed another orders test

Great battle, Rowan and Cecil I was caught totally off guard by your alliance.

[GeneralHankerchief]

My archers failed another orders test

Right before I rolled, I thought to myself that the 50-50 chance of having the archers disobey was a bit harsh, and then the one came up. So that put an end to my self-doubt.

[Ramses II CP]

That was interesting.

Evidently the withdraw button and withdraw command don't work in MP.

I suck. I swear I told them to GTFO Cecil, they just couldn't hear me.