I'm interested in starting yet another FFH PBEM. This one has a twist though- we can only choose from among the five leaders who have somehow yet to be selected for any of the FFH PBEM games hosted here. The poor, unwanted souls are as follows:
This will be a fairly small game due to only having 5 leaders on tap. We may also need some sort of novel form for picking who gets what leaders, as some of them are pretty obviously more desirable over others. We could let the mapmaker randomly assign them, or just pick normally- personally I don't have a preference.
This game will also serve a dual-purpose- providing some comparative data for Sareln's Paring Mod. Hopefully after he finishes the mod up enough to run a game with it we can create another using the same group of leaders, to test how they handle in comparison with their vanilla versions. So everyone playing in this PBEM should create a thread, although there's no mandatory number or frequency of updates you have to make or anything like that.
If there's a enough interest and sign-ups are filled, we can move on to discussing the game options.
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Players, listed by turn order:
Ichabod (Alexis): mozarthspier [at the usual google place], play window 1500 - 1630 GMT -or- 2200 - 0100 GMT
The only thing I kindly ask is not to play the Khazad, since I'm already playing them in FFH PBEM VI.
I'm fine with any other options.
Maybe giving Charadon Ingenuity (or something like that) to make things a little more fair could be an idea. But that would require changes that may conflict with the other games we are playing.
To be clear, this game will not use any mod. I'm hoping through that results of our games can help in fine-tuning the Paring Mod if another game is run with the exact same leaders / civs later, once the mod is complete enough to test. Charadon needs a lot of help, but he's just going to have to suck it for this game
We could add Faeryl from the Svarts to the list, albeit that would be stretching it a bit. She already was played, but the early Selrahc rush didn't allow the Svartalfar play to be shown. Since FFH PBEM IV ended in less then 50 turns, they weren't really shown there either.
I'd like to see some illusionist mages being used and things like that.
What do you guys think? This way we could have a 6 players game.
Ichabod Wrote:We could add Faeryl from the Svarts to the list, albeit that would be stretching it a bit. She already was played, but the early Selrahc rush didn't allow the Svartalfar play to be shown. Since FFH PBEM IV ended in less then 50 turns, they weren't really shown there either.
I'd like to see some illusionist mages being used and things like that.
What do you guys think? This way we could have a 6 players game.
Faeryl was also used by Dave in a duel PBEM game reported here, although that really isn't the same.
I'm open to the idea of allowing a 6th player if everone else wants one. However that said, I think we *can* get 6 players... eventually. See, there's still one other leader who hasn't been used yet- Basium! Allowing a second human to take over Basium will bring us to 6 and finally see every leader used- and I assure you that someone will eventually build the Gate.
[Most of this shamlessly copied from the PBEM V Tech Thread]:
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* Game speed? Quick. If someone wants otherwise, you need to make an excellent case.
* Starting era? Ancient or 1-in.
* Orthus: on or off? I vote for on.
* Acheron: OFF
* Human take-over allowed for Basium and/or Hyborem? I think that allowing a human to take over for Basium is key. However, I would prefer that there be no human-take over for both Hyborem and the civ he's spawned from, so if you summon Hyborem he's either going to be an AI or you'll have to turn control of your old civ over to one.
* Difficulty level? I vote Immortal.
* Barb activity level? No preference if difficulty is immortal, raging otherwise.
* Wildlands? I vote yes.
* Last Days? No.
* Living World? I vote yes.
* Lairs? Yes.
* All Unique Features? Yes, but the "power trio" should not be at anyone's capital. No starting next to the Guardian either. Common sense stuff here.
* Map type? I prefer something like Erebus Continent or Massive Continent Tilted Axis; one large shared landmass, with some islands / small continents for exploration. Please no island starts, they overemphasize the Overlords. I very much prefer that we do not have identical or mirrored starts. Fair distribution of mana nodes & strategic resources. Note that reagents are a strategic resource, as are pigs for the Khazad. No blasted hellscapes, please. "Terra" could be cool. Nothing really artificial looking like Donut.
* Diplomacy allowed? No preference- I'm fine with a normal game, CTON, or straight out AW
Also, how do we want to pick our leaders? We could do bids, or send our picks to the map-maker, or just openly work it out here in this thread. I'm happy with whatever. As Ichabod would prefer to not be the Khazad again, I would like to not play as the Calabim. Personally, I'm happy with any of the other leaders/
