Slitherine

Geffalrus wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2019 1:57 pm

Doesn't bode well for me. First week of July, I'm gonna study those youtube play series mad hard. My goal is to not crumble from the inside before I'm crumbled from the outside.

jimwinsor wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2019 6:26 am

Lysimachos wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2019 6:15 am Hello guys!

The Mauryans are on board with all their elephants, chariots, archers and wonderful, mysterious women!!!

Lysimachos isn't Lysimakos?

devoncop wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2019 8:10 pm For info of all players :

Asty, having received some crucial intelligence about the likely longevity (or rather the opposite!) of his choice of nation (Samnites) has wisely decided he has been called by the Etruscans to lead them instead

I have changed the list of players accordingly .

Lysimachos wrote: ↑Tue Jun 18, 2019 11:08 am

devoncop wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2019 8:10 pm For info of all players :

Asty, having received some crucial intelligence about the likely longevity (or rather the opposite!) of his choice of nation (Samnites) has wisely decided he has been called by the Etruscans to lead them instead

I have changed the list of players accordingly .

But the Etruscans were swept away from history by the Romans much earlier than the Samnites ...

Asty wrote: ↑Tue Jun 18, 2019 3:03 pm Where did you get the faction list from
And is there a map with starting location ?

loki100 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 18, 2019 3:49 pm
in game (so far) if I'm playing Rome I'll take out the Samnites first (well second, one has to start with the Senones). The first challenge showed this quite well, but in effect the Samnites have the 'raiding' trait and if they get lucky Latium can be trashed for a number of turns ... and this really makes a difference early game where every bit of gold and so on matters. It also allows you to get the Tarantines out of the way before they ally with somebody like Epirus, Macedon or Carthage. Equally the Samnites may well be raiding the Tarentines (they need to raid for the rewards), so can end up very unpopular with everyone.

If the Etruscans play a diplo game they can make Rome very wary but equally Rome can cope with a stand off for some time as a neutral Etruscan state is no threat.

Big problem for the Etruscans is the Gallic tribes in the Po, they are probably too weak to expand much so constantly at risk of a massive invasion from the north.

Geffalrus wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2019 11:57 pm

devoncop wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2019 11:33 am Just a heads up for all players involved in this upcoming MP game :

The game will be played on "Balanced" setting.

No optional rules will be used given this is a "first attempt" for most.

Maximum 48 HOUR turns.

(The balanced setting means players will get some warning that civil war may be about to break out, and slaves have a 50% chance of being automatically redistributed around the empire from the capitol even without slave markets.

(Without this revolts are more likely given the concentration of very cheesed off slaves !)

So how will this work, exactly? The only multiplay I've done for these types of games have either been LAN games of Civilization V with my wife in the same room, or PBEM with FoG2. How does the time commitment work from a practical perspective?