Fifth Invasion

[Lorgan]

I kind of expect Overlord to come marching out of the blight with a giant army for the grand finale.

First time he'd be - supposedly - mortal.

[Chenier]

According to the character list, there's only 1 character in Netherworld right now, which is the dead 9th Son.

Seems like Overlord is running out of sons...

[Marlboro]

Seems like Overlord is running out of sons...

Overlady must've heard that song and died of shame.

[Madigan]

Overlady must've heard that song and died of shame.

Dayne the Bastard Bard singlehandedly saves the day by stopping more sons. The lute is mightier than the sword!

[fodder]

...is that why he "disappeared" for a bit? to make more sons?

[Foundation]

So... did humans lose yet?

You can see my high confidence in my fellow chars on BT.

[Telrunya]

We were doing absolutely fine until someone told Overlord Humans are capable of changing their Capital

[mikm]

Just great! The south only has two cities left.
Now the only question is who converts to who.

[Lorgan]

No-one from Riombara is going to convert to Enweil.

I mean... why would anyone do that? Except for the Chenier-type fanatics who hate Riombara more than they hate the daimons.

[Foundation]

We were doing absolutely fine until someone told Overlord Humans are capable of changing their Capital

Wasn't me, really!

[Marlboro]

Aw c'mon guys, Overlord's just learning the game too. We should take it easy on him.

[Geronus]

We were doing absolutely fine until someone told Overlord Humans are capable of changing their Capital

I thought that was weird, personally. It feels like Overlord just admitted he was meta-gaming. I liked it better when I could operate under the assumption that he was going after capitals as the most visible symbols of a realm's power in order to crush our spirits.

That said, I contend that we're still doing fine. I guess we can't count on them focusing in on exclusively on capitals anymore, but we've effectively destroyed 4 out of 5 armies of Horrors, and I'm reasonably confident that Riombara can now defeat Midnight of the South. Unless Overlord pulls out more armies of Horrors or some other nasty trick, it looks like we've managed to ride out the worst of the storm (though not without losses).

[Solari]

I thought that was weird, personally. It feels like Overlord just admitted he was meta-gaming. I liked it better when I could operate under the assumption that he was going after capitals as the most visible symbols of a realm's power in order to crush our spirits.

I think it was more of a convenient excuse to sack another city and try to pin the blame on a particular ruler.

[Tom]

We were doing absolutely fine until someone told Overlord Humans are capable of changing their Capital

Yeah, that was the single most damaging sentence spoken during this invasion. I was wondering why nobody had yet caught on to the fact that Overlord and the Horrors only ever attacked capitals and afterwards completely ignored those realms.

[Tom]

I thought that was weird, personally. It feels like Overlord just admitted he was meta-gaming. I liked it better when I could operate under the assumption that he was going after capitals as the most visible symbols of a realm's power in order to crush our spirits.

Nothing meta-gamy about it. Overlord operated under the assumption that the capitals were not just symbolic, but actual foci of a realm, their hearts and brains, and so taking them out would destroy a realm. Maybe not make it vanish immediately, just like a body whose heart you just stabbed takes a while to rot away, but definitely finish them off for good.