Bloodbath: Fires at Dawn

[Jokingjoe]

"Sire, the peasants in the village are complaining about the noise from the neighboring villages. It would appear our heathen cousins have set up their stone circles again and have been beating drums at night like thunder. "

Joe looked as his Queen with a thoughtful grimace. "My Queen, the last time the pagans set up these archaic stone formations, it rained here for weeks. The people were miserable, and thus, so was the crown. We should really do something."

The Queen giggled and said, "Let them eat cake! No, wait...wrong one liner. How about...I know! Let's start a big fire! That way, if the rains do come, the people will be warm and not miserable!"

Joe bowed to his queen, "Let it be so majesty, we shall make several massive fires to dry the air so that there will be no rain, and none of the hated pagan lightnings."

With that, Joe signaled his darkly cloaked escort. "OK, here's what I want you to do..."

[stainless]

is this really necessary? how do you justify continuous attacks on a kingdom more than 1/4 your size?
are you scared of actual war? are you worried someone might actually beat you? lol.

it's been weeks of burning my temples, guildhalls, leveling buildings, taking my cash and killing my peasants .you have killed me twice now. I am currently 1/4 off your size and going backwards daily. 1/4 of your size. maybe even more land wise. do you really feel that threatened by my tiny kingdom that you have to continuously burn me?

obviously I done the wrong thing deleting my king to make this game more fun and fair for everyone. here I was worried about being fair, and makin sure you got to enjoy playing this game, and the second I do delete, you cash in. you scum kill my remaining kingdom. and as we have covered, continue to burn me from then until now. i promise I won't be making the same mistake next age.

your weak as piss. honestly. weak.

[Jokingjoe]

I justify it by knowing the math of the game. At that temple count, you could have fairly easily sorc killed me. You are not singled out, I had to burn Asoc's temples, too.

I enjoy this game, but I also enjoy winning. In bloodbath, it's very easy to die if you let your guard down.

[Jokingjoe]

I see Asoc hasn't commented. It hard to be ruler, it forces to one to make some tough choices. I'll let you build to a point, but not to the point of risk to myself. You can cry about having your temples burned, Stained, but, if it's a risk to me, you will be burned. I won't land tax you, but I'll scout you every other day, and if you and Asoc build enough temples to threaten me, you will be burned. Cry if you must, but you scummed me every other day while you were king, and robbed me when my cash was too high. Expect the same in retaliation. Shall we say, it's good to be king? Cry more.

[stainless]

are the buildings you sorced today a threat too? too many barracks for you?
whatever man. i scouted and stole cash. its a far cry from a months worth of daily burning and sorcing ect. theres obiously no point trying to get you to understand sportmanship. in future, if you ever try it,,, it makes winning, losing and playing in general much more rewarding.

im not crying, im over it,,, just disspointed that the same courtesy i showed you hasnt been returned.

its no big drama. i just know better for next time. its getting to the point where its not worth playing anyway. there is no point playing with 1-2 active enemies. i might just have to wait untill next age.

[Jokingjoe]

I haven't sorced you. I burned your temples to strip you of the Lightning Lance spell as prohibitive defense to make sure it didn't rain in my lands.

If you were sorced, then look at their number and do something about it. You know very well that successful scum actions are the only offensive action in the game which doesn't report the attacking kingdom.

[stainless]

thanks for the advice

[Nether]

Haha nice to know some things will never change, nice burn but i'll just build back

[Jokingjoe]

Oh, did I do that? *looks around innocently*

[Jokingjoe]

BTW, so long as I don't catch any of you with >10% temples, I won't feel the need for the demonstration burnings.

[stainless]

your generosity astounds me. how many acres can I have without you feeling the need to scum/sorc kill me?

[Jokingjoe]

So touchy. I killed you last time because you had more land than me, so you were a fair and viable target. It wasn't a scum kill, I'm still building that land. And from the rate of things, I will still be doing so in 2 weeks.

Besides, the 3 Barny amigos have pretty well dispatched the rest of the players in general. You still have a goal to work towards. My people prefer sunshine and those horrible Lightning Lances put such a damper on the beach trips and pool parties. I look forward to your eventual attack, though if you wait too long, all this land will be built and I'll have massive rows of fortresses and temples with hundreds of thousands of scum keeping your grubby little fingers off my billions of gold!!!

[stainless]

it makes it pretty hard to have a go at you when there are no kingdoms on the scrolls between us. the biggest kingdom I can attack has 20-30k land. there is way to big a gap. its making things very hard.

[Nether]

not hard...pointless, have fun guys

[Dyvim Tvar]

Aww, but Nether, if you leave now then I won't get to complete my sensational return by killing you stone dead and mocking your burning corpse.
And where's the fun in that?

[Kaz]

It's been almost 2 months since the last game-wide reset. Another one is due soon, but I'll hold off if you guys are actually going to duke it out. Let me know.

[stainless]

I would like nothing more than too be able to duke it out, but it's nearly impossible. I lose more buildings to burning and sorc every week than I build. that coupled with the massive gap and nothing to act as a stepping stone. I've been racking my brain as to how I am going to get into his kingdom. let alone take it down.

[Nether]

Because its you Dyvim i'll stick around but don't take to long

[Jokingjoe]

I've only been building the past several weeks. If the game continues, I'll continue to build. Well, I do burn a few temples if the counts get too high.

Stain, I've not burned you since the initial posting of this thread. I scout you fairly regularly, if you're getting more than that, it's from someone else.

[Jokingjoe]

Well, I guess this no longer true.