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Tanuchan

Tanuchan

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Tanny hugs Peredhil, smiling at him.

 

A great way to make mistakes? I hope you don't mean that going to Reincarnation is a mistake... ;)

 

I appreciate your offer for a tour, thanks! Though don't worry too much if you have time issues... people won't run away... I think.. :P

 

Stops to wonder how the Bunnies will react to the presence of a wolf-lady amid them... then hurriedly follows Peredhil as he goes on. "Elladan, a General?"

The Big Pointy One

The Big Pointy One

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Still got room? I'll giv'r a shot, white was my fave ^.^

 

 

Edit: Anywhoo, I'm in. MrBunny's the name, ascendant's the game. I'm also here to take up the bottom rung on the guild ladder!

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The Portrait of Zool

The Portrait of Zool

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Out of the darkness came a rattling, humming, wheezing hiss, and then another, and then another, in a long, easy, nasally snoutish huff. Zool listened long enough to make sure Wyvern was fast asleep before manifesting completely. Then, in a quick movement he flowed out into chalky profile. The light was dim, but Zool could just make out the dark corner where Wyvern lay.

 

Zool looked at the chalkboard on which he was now depicted. He often bitterly complained about being trapped in a portrait, but recently with the reincarnation of his mage self he had taken to reevaluating the strategic advantages of being 2-dimensional. He had rarely taken advantage of his ability to travel from picture to picture in the past, but actually began to appreciate his situation now. Pictures and renderings were ubiquitous throughout the Pen, and this made for a very stealthy mode of travel, and Zool was innately very, very stealthy - he kept telling himself.

 

Turning his visage to look at the title scrawled at the top of the chalk board he saw that the scheme of the day was; "Almost Dragonic Brand Caerbannog Mana Troves - charge'em for their energy without them even knowing about it!"

 

Zool stifled a guffaw, "He'd gone for it!" he thought with self-serving glee. Proudly he checked the rows of mana=geld calculations he had surreptitiously left some weeks ago in the endless piles of likewise senseless plans and schemes, in hopes they would catch Wyvern's eye. The idea was pure non-sense, of course, but Zool had banked on Wyvern's number myopia and his overriding greed to trap him.

 

Like taking candy from a baby.

 

With an admiring finger he reached over to straighten a slightly skewed character on the board, only to have it fall over a little more. He corrected, this time pushing it a little too hard the other way, and with a silent slow motion chalk dust action it began to fall, hitting and knocking loose other characters as it went. Zool tried to catch them, only having his motions disturb still more of the carefully laid out rows of numbers on the score board, the result being a rain of twirling tumbling characters and lines across the chalkboard. Ack!!

 

A motion in the dark corner caught his eye just as the light came up. Wyvern peered blearilly into his mussy room, more dimly lit than usual. Something didn't seem quite right, but he wasn't sure what. He stared for a long moment, but could see nothing wrong, so got up to do his business. He came back a moment later much relieved, then lay back down, blew out the lamp with a quick puff from his scaly snout and within seconds started snoring again.

 

Zool exhaled very slowly, afraid that his shaking would dislodge the chalk board from the wall. Blob slowly contracted from covering the messy chalkboard, a display of neat rows of numbers shrinking into a central blob, which was Blob, Zool's Familiar of enchanted paint. "Thank you!!" whispered Zool as loud as he dare with profound gratitude.

 

"Yeah, you'd better be thankful I saved your bacon again!" Blob seemed to say, as he flowed back into Zool's chalk jacket.

 

Painstakingly, Zool reconstructed the scores and figures the way they were, except to adjust the equations according to the next phase of his plan. From mana-troves to geld coffers was but the length of a mages Keep, and Zool meant to make sure Wyvern became aware of that next. Once the golden gleam of Geld entered Wyvern's eyes, it was only a matter of time before he incarnated with the rest of us as a Mage in The Reincarnation!

 

Zool glanced over at the chess board and started to laugh evilly, then thought better of it. Finishing up, and checking it twice, he silently and very very carefully slipped back to his portrait, disappearing in a tiny poof of chalk dust.

  • 2 weeks later...
Joat116

Joat116

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I'm already guild tagged, but I could perhaps lend a helping hand now and then discreetly. Assuming I can learn to play nether :X

 

Find me on IRC if you need anything, Joat116 as usual.

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Black9

Black9

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I'm not quite sure on what's happening, but I chose to try the game out again...warning...I suck:) I have a new goal in mind...it's more a of a test then a strat. I want to see if I can get enough town and farm to upkeep devils:)

 

I'm under Black just to let ya know:)

 

If anyone knows about how many devils you get with a single summon...I'd be glad to find out:)

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Tamaranis

Tamaranis

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Also you can't summon a stack of devils, you cast Contract of the Soul and if some one attacks you or you do a counter thousands of devils show up on your side...

 

I foget how many, but they basically wipe out two of the opposing mage's stacks, and quite likely any stack they happen to counter as well.

 

That happens once or twice and then you have no people in your country.

Peredhil

Peredhil

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before casting Contract, stock way up on Book of Prophecy and Wine of Three Whips.

BoP steals people from another mage (seed stock), and WoTW increases their fertility rate to Energizer Bunny proportions.

 

Or at least, that's how it was told to me. :) I've never played Nether.

reverie

reverie

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if y'all are really serious about delving back into AM... then you should get someone to create an updated Stack Calculator for you. -Would need to be able to handle 15 stacks and do Net Power vs' real power calculations.

 

Unless you can do the math in your head, stack calculators are critical for combacting mult-devil players...

 

here an example of one found randomly on google:

 

http://home.iprimus.com.au/badams/stackcalc.html

 

The best anti-devil stack I ever created with-stood three successive devil attacks during the one of the B1 Dream Tournaments... (my team took second place over-all in our first and only effort, even with being F.o.G.'ed{fury of god} twice; unforunately we also got our entire guild officially dis-invited from ever competing again, hehe...)

 

Basically: devils always attack your top stack.

 

the trick is to get your top or strongest stack worth less than 10% of your real power, or is it net... you'll have to experiment; i forget.

 

Arch-Angels and Angels work best for blue mages.

 

Novice to decent muti-devil mages rarely have an army well rounded enough to take on the other 90% of your army. So if you're lucky you will kill more than 10% of his army and he loses.

 

Same concept works for attacking/countering multi-devilers... newbies tend to freak out and think you have some magically item or something... Nothing magic about it, just math.

 

rev_out

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Peredhil

Peredhil

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One of the features in Reincarnation is that the Status Report and the Disband screen both list your stacks in correct stacking order, figuring in the adjusted powers for Flying and Melee.

As a clue, one way to do what Rev' mentions is to realize that an equal percentage of Flyers stacks higher than Melee stacks higher than Ranged. So, for example, a lesser percent of Flyers will still stack higher than the larger percent of Ranged.

Gryphon

Gryphon

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The best anti-devil stack I ever created with-stood three successive devil attacks during the one of the B1 Dream Tournaments... (my team took second place over-all in our first and only effort, even with being F.o.G.'ed{fury of god} twice; unforunately we also got our entire guild officially dis-invited from ever competing again, hehe...)

Rev, I've never played the kind of game you're talking about here, but some of the guys I used to play D&D with did...

 

They too were clever and played the numbers game. I think it was actually something like Warhammer they were playing, I just remember that their descriptions of how they won and the consequences of doing so were were exactly the same as you described here.

 

It's funny as hell. I guess banning the person who's smart enough to play strategically is easier than learning to play with a strategy yourself, so thats what they do.

 

In the case of the tale I was told they'd just banned people from playing the combination of armies that my friends had come up with because like yours they were too good... Last I heard my mates were coming up with a new army with similar advantages, including the all important advantage of not being a banned one yet. :D

Venefyxatu

Venefyxatu

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if y'all are really serious about delving back into AM... then you should get someone to create an updated Stack Calculator for you. -Would need to be able to handle 15 stacks and do Net Power vs' real power calculations.

If someone gets me the "magical" formulas this stack calculator needs to be able to compute, including a description of what each formula does, I might be able to fix that.

 

Of course, after receiving the formulas with their descriptions, I might continue bugging you with questions until I have every last answer I need, but I promise I'll try not to be too annoying :lol:

The Big Pointy One

The Big Pointy One

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As everyone is sitting around chatting, a rabbit dressed in a luxurious blue cape and a stylish black eye patch hops in. He goes to an open space of wall, pulls out a poster and starts nailing it to the wall, then leaves. The poster depicts an archmage on his knees, flailing in terror, completely surrounded by rabbits. Some rabbits are latched on the archmage at various vital points, such as his neck. Below are some lines of text that read:

 

That's right ladies and gentlemen! This could be you! Which one? Well, the archmage, if you oppose us... but more importantly, you, yes YOU! could be the one tearing out the throat of anyone so foolish to cross our path. Being a rabbit only requires a few things. You must be able to show some inkling of creative ability as far as war arrows go. Other than that, you must be able to abide by Pacifist? rules. If you think you have what it takes, check out the Caves of Caerbannog! http://p203.ezboard.com/broc

 

The Rabbits of Caerbannog. Because no one expects to have their throat ripped out by a fluffy little bunny.

 

 

 

This has been an unofficial message *not* been sponsored by the Rabbits of Caerbannog, but rather was an independent act by a Rabbit of Caerbannog.

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Mr.Bunny, The Silent

 

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Come on... we need your help! Like Jechum has said... we're still learning and such this reset... but I'm sure there's many more of you here that would have a fun time as a Rabbit!

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