Octopus Overlords

NickAragua wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 10:14 am So here's a question. How/where do you actually collect the artifacts? Asking for a friend.

Look for enemy heros with a star as part of their icon. Kill them, walk over where they were and auto-pickup their loot.

Or, you could do quests and explore ruiins and find them yourself rather than ruthlessly killing the people who spent their time doing quests and exploring ruins.

PS: Didn't Archinerd say he had some artifacts? That might be a good place to start hunting enemy heroes.

Just walk over them with a hero.

And I no longer have any artifacts. Dave stole them!

You can also transfer them between heroes in the same stack, but you need to drop them on the ground and the pick them up in the hero dialog. Don't destroy them if you can even do that.

Note, everyone's starting hero had their capture the flag item.

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:08 pm

Zenn7 wrote:Turn 22 sent to Ralph.

Thanks to whoever declared war on me a turn or two ago. You're much closer than Arch is! And my maintenance is exceeding my income again. I need more money/less maintenance. Your assistance in these matters is greatly appreciated.

Think that was me killing a scout, but you escalated in a hurry. I think I may have helped your maintenance a bit, though you still have a ton of armies...

You helped, but I still have a ton of armies. You helped some more on my turn (wow those troops were grossly ineffective, they were never going to win but thought they'd whittle you down more before the main event). That must not have been your main hero though if we all start with a flag item.

EDIT: Turn 23 sent to Ralph.

Is it sad that waiting for the next turn of this game is like the most exciting thing I look forward to in day to day life?

Zenn7 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 1:24 am

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:08 pm

Zenn7 wrote:Turn 22 sent to Ralph.

Thanks to whoever declared war on me a turn or two ago. You're much closer than Arch is! And my maintenance is exceeding my income again. I need more money/less maintenance. Your assistance in these matters is greatly appreciated.

Think that was me killing a scout, but you escalated in a hurry. I think I may have helped your maintenance a bit, though you still have a ton of armies...

You helped, but I still have a ton of armies. You helped some more on my turn (wow those troops were grossly ineffective, they were never going to win but thought they'd whittle you down more before the main event). That must not have been your main hero though if we all start with a flag item.

EDIT: Turn 23 sent to Ralph.

Is it sad that waiting for the next turn of this game is like the most exciting thing I look forward to in day to day life?

It has me constantly checking my personal email I used a lot more than I usually do, and I'm always a bit down when I see that I don't have a new turn!

Sorry, I just remembered it's on me. I'll do it now.

Archinerd wrote:Sorry, I just remembered it's on me. I'll do it now.

Where are we now?

To me now! Yay!

t24 sent to Nick - wow.

wow?

Zenn7 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 11:58 am wow?

Yeah, where'd all those damn stacks come from?!? Guessing summon horde...

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 12:20 pm

Zenn7 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 11:58 am wow?

Yeah, where'd all those damn stacks come from?!? Guessing summon horde...

Good guess. Mana is good...

Yeah, I'm going to say that I should've gotten a summoner at some point during this game.

Necromancer's have a similar spell.

Wizards and Shamans I don't think so. Priests don't have a hoard summon, but they do have a ARCHON summon (fairly potent unit).

Either I should not have summoned more friends or I should have expended more of the pathetic ones on you that turn.

And why don't you have more money for me to pillage? :p

EDIT: Meant to point out I'd sent turn 24 to Ralph as well.

Where are we?

I think I sent it to Dave either yesterday or the day before.

Hmmm, he was having some health issues before, hope he's still OK, no relapse.

I mailed turn 25 to Pyperkub about 14 hours ago.

Dave Allen wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:50 pm I mailed turn 25 to Pyperkub about 14 hours ago.

<Shew> Glad you're ok!

t25 sent to Nick!

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:07 pm t25 sent to Nick!

What? No comments about demon hordes?

(We need more taunting in this thread or something, make it more lively)

Turn 25 sent to Ralph Wiggum.

Think it's time to slow down my army production some (whether or not I want to).

Another piece falls into place.
Soon my minions, soon.

Turn 26 sent to Nick!

Zenn7 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 3:53 pm

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:07 pm t25 sent to Nick!

What? No comments about demon hordes?

(We need more taunting in this thread or something, make it more lively)

Yeah, go away or I shall fart in your general direction!

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 11:39 pm

Zenn7 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 3:53 pm

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:07 pm t25 sent to Nick!

What? No comments about demon hordes?

(We need more taunting in this thread or something, make it more lively)

Yeah, go away or I shall fart in your general direction!

LOL

Hmm... actually demons, sulfur... would they notice or just consider it a sign of home?

Which pitstop are we in now?

Sorry, it's with me now. I'll send my turn this evening.

Good news, to help you out, I decided to eliminate 49 of my own armies!

(The PR version of running out of money and 49 units abandoned me; probably not a good idea to run out of money, but those were mostly rats).

And after sacking a city full of valuable, useful production to complete a quest and refill my coffers, got enough money to get through at least the next turn (assuming I don't blow it all).

Your number of defenders was scary in that town! Especially since I didn't want to summon another demon horde (too little money to waste on that). Wasted a stack of good units (which brought my expenses down considerably, to kill 6-8 rats that with bonuses were strength 10, not quite enough to make them get less banding for the next wave).

Completed my turn and sent off to Archinerd.

Now war is declared and battle come down.

P.S. get off my lawn!

Archinerd wrote: ↑Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:19 am Now war is declared and battle come down.

P.S. get off my lawn!

I get to send my lowly stack of rats that are revealing the map up there after you at last?

Who's on first now?

I'm up, but haven't been able to get to it yet. Probably tonight.

t27 sent to nick!

What's on second?

(Hope people aren't annoyed if I pop in here every few days and check for status, I try to do so in an odd and hopefully remotely entertaining fashion)

Turn 27 sent to Ralph.

All the money from last time was enough to not have any units abandon me, yay!

I need to make some bats I think for scouting. My scouts are too expensive.

Archinerd is not playing very nice. I was just taking a nice stroll to explore down south and the next thing I know I open up my turn and one (?) of my armies is destroyed! Not cool!

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 8:57 am Archinerd is not playing very nice. I was just taking a nice stroll to explore down south and the next thing I know I open up my turn and one (?) of my armies is destroyed! Not cool!

There's only 1 appropriate response to that. Send the rest of your armies down and wipe him out! (Ask Pyperkub, I practice what I preach).