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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Sat May 25, 2019 5:26 am

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Cthulhu makes short work of Cats and then of Sleeper. Sleeper has got to stop building gates only to have them stolen
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Sat May 25, 2019 7:57 pm

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I changed Sleeperbot again, and redid round three. And I got an unexpected result.

Sleeper Lethargied until everyone was out, and then saw that Cthulhu was adjacent, and so wanted to attack. "But I don't have enough dice," he says, so he gets out a formless spawn.

He then does this two more times. Then he says, well now I don't have enough power. Might as well build a gate. So now Sleeper's formless spawns are rolling four dice. I'm actually not unhappy with this turn of events

Bubastis meanwhile doesn't have enough power to ritual. That's going to be a challenge
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Sat May 25, 2019 7:58 pm

Oh and add a free snake to South America, derf
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Sun May 26, 2019 12:28 am

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Sleeper's still losing but, although this may be hard to explain, I feel much better about the way he's losing. He got bad dice against Cthulhu, lost Tsathoggua, but then looped him back. Burrowing would have made the attacks cheaper, so I may need to have Sleeper strategically pay 3 to get Burrowing, especially if it's going to save 3+ power immediately!

Oh Bubastis has 13 power not 12
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Sun May 26, 2019 4:48 am

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Cats successfully slow down the Cthulhu train. Which is what they have to do, right? Cats cannot really accelerate their victory, the way someone else might by having five gates or six. Cats can't do that. So they have to make sure that no one wins faster than them. Look what they did to Cthulhu
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Sun May 26, 2019 4:24 pm

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I'm actually stopping this one in the middle of round six. Cats managed to yoink almost every Cthulhu cultist to the Moon, and then went to the Moon. Cthulhu can't Move there. He could Submerge, but that would take two turns, and besides this doesn't solve the problem for anybody else. And if Cthulhu Moves the cultists off the Moon, this gives Cats 5 power, and then Bastet follows the cultists down to get ready to Catnap them again (as seen here).

So Cats are now OP, and every other faction needs a protocol to deal with Cats and attack them on general principle.

Also, Sleeper needs a protocol to obtain Burrowing when everyone else is out of power and Tsathoggua is going to go on a rampage
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Sun May 26, 2019 6:09 pm

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New game. Round three was pretty incredible. Cats had moved a flood of units to the South Pacific, but Cthulhu drives them out and earns spellbooks. Cats then try to get at least one cat back onto the map in the Arctic at Cthulhu's gate. But Tsathoggua then says, oh I can get my combat spellbook, take away a Cthulhu gate, and kill the last cat not on the Moon, all right here? Yes please

So it's really even and working out well. The Sleeper "Take Burrowing if everyone is out" thing is important, because it's a net savings that same round
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Sun May 26, 2019 8:15 pm

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Another incredible round. Bastet tries to move in on Cthulhu in the South Pacific, but Cthulhu moves his GOO back and there's a tremendous battle. Bastet is exactly saved by her own ability to prevent 1 kill. Sleeper then takes advantage, taking the South Pacific and then driving Cthulhu out of the North Pacific while losing a formless spawn.
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Mon May 27, 2019 12:45 am

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This round was less interesting -- Cats made an invasion against Sleeper and were repulsed. The second invasion stuck, but it doesn't mean much. Now that the other factions are so much more interested in killing cats, Cats will have to have the priority toward mere doom points raised, by allowing for Cats to try to make an exclave that doesn't bother anyone

Anyway, calling it for Sleeper here. Sleeper is fixed, I think
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by drk » Mon May 27, 2019 2:25 am

Are the bots much more aggressive than humans?

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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Mon May 27, 2019 2:39 am

drk wrote: Mon May 27, 2019 2:25 am Are the bots much more aggressive than humans?
Nominally, no, but there are exceptions

Cthulhu Bot is very aggressive against the oceans

Any of them can become aggressive against anyone with 5+ gates

They're all way aggressive against Cats right now
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Mon May 27, 2019 4:08 am

Yeah I gotta make Cats more cautious
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Mon May 27, 2019 9:26 pm

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I had posted this game, but I just redid round two after tweaking Black Goat's priorities. She needs to focus on Red Sign protocols before worrying about attacking Cats, because her early game involves sacking so many acolytes. So now she has an extra acolyte and an extra ghoul, and didn't attack Cats
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Mon May 27, 2019 11:39 pm

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What an incredible and violent round. Cats get out Bastet, and then are looking to get cats killed, and so attack Black Goat and succeed in that. Black Goat has to retreat, but goes out to the Indian Ocean (Black Goat has a protocol to spread out during retreats instead of consolidate, so as to get spellbooks). BG then makes a gate in the ocean, but then here comes Cthulhu. Cthulhu actually loses a bunch of cultists in the attack, and BG does OK, retreating back to her start space. But then Cthulhu comes in again, taking the Indian Ocean gate. Cthulhu did not actually manage to get two kills in one battle this round and so will have to go out attacking some more.
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Tue May 28, 2019 11:30 pm

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Cthulhu needs kills, and wages a big battle against Shub, causing mutual destruction. But Cthulhu can come back for just 4. Cats also get attacked and lose some, but then go to work setting up an exclave for doom purposes.
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:46 am

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Cthulhu suicides into a bunch of cats, resummons himself for an elder sign, and wins. As bots go, he's older and wiser
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Sun Jun 02, 2019 5:52 am

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Cats choose blue for their exclave, because blue got a spellbook before red did and so seemed to be winning
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Sun Jun 02, 2019 11:17 pm

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Cats are looking to get an Uranus cat killed, but Black Goat doesn't bite so far
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Mon Jun 03, 2019 11:43 pm

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"Finally it's time for Zoidberg!" says Black Goat, whom I'm now realizing resembles Zoidberg

But is it too late to stop Cats?

btw what happened to blue, well, blue was winning, and Cats didn't like that
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Tue Jun 04, 2019 3:07 am

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Black Goat and Cats are tied, but Those Darn Cats have the spellbooks. The land war in Asia was to end all wars -- Black Goat had marched in with Shub and backup, and mewling cats were sent flying. But red probably wants to throttle blue, because blue moved a few units off the Moon, resurrecting Cats and letting them get a stranded Bastet onto a gate.
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Wed Jun 05, 2019 5:51 am

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Pretty normal. YS gives BG the three doom
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Thu Jun 27, 2019 2:28 am

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No ritual here. Just us core set factions playing all normal

Oops I kinda covered up the ghoul in South America with the polyp. I think you can see his head sticking out
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by alright » Thu Jun 27, 2019 3:57 am

do the black goats get a natural camouflage bonus when they're in south america

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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Thu Jun 27, 2019 11:25 pm

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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Sun Jul 07, 2019 1:18 am

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Yellow tries to swing into Africa, but Black Goat uses Avatar to put Shub back in and chases the King into the North Atlantic. Blue then chases the King again, into the Arctic. The King regroups and enters the North Pacific, stealing CC's gate. BG just powers up.
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Mon Jul 08, 2019 3:32 am

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Shub takes out the King in Yellow. Yellow Sign forgoes trying to get back the King as all but impossible, and starts playing normally, winning 31 to 30. Crawling Chaos is never in it, having lost a gate to Yellow Sign just after building it, and then building another. CC probably needs a revenge mechanism

For now, we will just reduce CC's midrange strat so that he doesn't midrange after he has the four-gate spellbook
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:26 am

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I love the beginning of the game, where everything is about to happen

Opener actually rituals here. Power? Who needs power when one of you two will give me Dragon Ascending in a moment
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Sun Jul 14, 2019 12:50 am

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CC goes aggro here, which pays dividends, taking a purple cultist and then the purple gate
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Re: Cthulhu War Tempest

Post by Doug » Sun Jul 14, 2019 2:36 pm

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Opener snatches the Africa gate, but Black Goat just rebuilds it, gets out dark youngs, and rituals. The ritual becomes too expensive for the others to want to do.
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