No.9858[Last50 Posts]
I just remembered there is this neat website that's free to play with tons of custom maps to play on. It's called conquerclub. I played on it back in the day and it was really fun. Here are all the maps they have if you want to check it out:
https://www.conquerclub.com/public.php?mode=mapsWe could also design our own map and get it accepted by the club. If I remember correctly they pretty much accept any map someone makes as long as it's fair to play. Website supports up to 8 people in game I think. Maybe more.
It'd be fun to play with Kissu or maybe form a team and play against another imageboard. I still have an old account but my premium membership expired back in 2010.
I think free accounts are limited to only playing 1-3 games at a time. If you pay $20 or so you can play in unlimited numbers of games. Nothing else is behind the pay wall.
Anyone interested?
No.9861
That sounds pretty cool. Man, Risk, I haven't played that in like 20 years. All I remember is trying to get Australia at the beginning.
No.9862
>>9861Yeah I used to play that strategy a lot. It's comfy down there. I tried to start from Japan/Asia so many times and would always get slaughtered. But one time I managed to win by starting in Japan and somehow holding Asia on my second or third turn. If you hold Asia on the regular map you get a huge troop bonus.
I should have mentioned. We don't have to play real time. The host can set a timer for the turns. We used to set it for 24 hours. That way you can check in once a day, take your turn then go do something else if you're busy.
No.9863
Maps are just some XML+images. Would be cool to make a map of all the boards. I have some ideas but I suck at photoshop. I could do the XML no problem.
They have a guide/handbook if anyone wants to check it out:
https://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=649&t=150681 No.9865
>>9860yeah we should play this one
No.9866
>>9865It looks fun. Never played that map before. It's a smaller map so it'd be best with 3-5 people.
If we don't have enough people the website provides CPU opponents that occupy territory at the start of the game. The work just like a real opponent and will attack you and everything.
One really cool feature is the fog of war. When it's turned on you can't see troops on parts of the map you're not next to. So you can hide from other players. I usually turn it on.
No.9867
For anyone that isn't familiar with the rules the provide a good guide:
https://www.conquerclub.com/public.php?mode=instructions1 No.9868
Damn it. I made an account and when they re-designed the website they monetized the fuck out of everything. The Japan and everything but the standard map are locked. Along with the ability to host a private game with more than 4 players. They want you to grind games to earn credits that let you unlock stuff for free. Or you can give them $35 a year to avoid the grind.
I'm sorry. 10 years ago it wasn't like this at all. Why is everything getting worse? I really liked this game and they've ruined it by turning into a grind session.
If there is still enough interest I might send them the money to unlock all that crap. Only the host has to have it. Everyone else can play for free on those maps in a private game I think. I'll play with it tomorrow to see what free accounts can do.
So far I hate the re-design. The UI is decent but all this monetization is horrible. I wonder if someone cloned the old website. I imagine when they first did this change it pissed a lot of people off.
If 4 people want to play the standard map we can do that for now.
No.9869
>>9868I'M RETARDED
I figured out how to make a game with more than 4 players on the Japan map. We're good to go. We just need to invite each other when we're ready.
My username is "Kissu". When you make an account send me an invite to be on your friends list. Or just post you username here and I can send you an invite when I make the game. Once you're invited it'll hold a spot for you for 24 hours.
No.9875
why doesn't kissu just play it here?
I mean how hard is it to come up with a simple dice bot?
No.9876
>>9869Sent an invite and even a PM but I'm not sure if it went through
No.9878
>>9869Haven't played risk type games in many years now, so it could be fun. And if i only need to check in like once or twice a day or so, because the turn timer is 24h, it shouldn't be much of a problem.
Though, what would happen if you did miss your 24h window (because of like unexpected life problems)? Does the turn just continue to the next player? Or do you get kicked/auto resigned?
No.9885
I was about to get annoyed that someone had already taken my usual username, but it turns out that it was actually me who had made an account four years ago.
Well I think I added you as a friend, but just in case my username is "Slitherous".
No.9886
>>9885how the hell do I search for members
the "members" tab doesn't work, I click it and it never stops loading.
No.9887
>>9886Yeah, I had the same problem, and it doesn't help that the site is slow as fuck. Just typing Kissu into the box and pushing the submit button seemed to work though. After you did that it adds a link to that user's profile on the side.
https://www.conquerclub.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=933277 No.9890
>>9888Oh good, was wondering myself how to do it. Anyway thanks to that, i've added you now too, and it seems correct since it linked to the same profile as in
>>9887.
My username is "fonclbrisch", in case you needed mine too.
No.9892
How many players are we up to?
No.9895
>>9876Seems like they didn't go through.
>>9878>what happens if you miss a turnIt just skips you and goes on to the next player. Can't remember if you lose troop bonuses. I don't think you do.
>>9892>>9890>>9885I added everyone that posted their username to my friend's list. Seems these only work one way or I'm not getting invites from people that tried. So post them here I guess.
We're up to 3 people on my list. I think we're up to 5 in total but I don't know the usernames of the other two yet.
No.9898
>>9895I just added kissu since I figured he's make the game
my username is "ghunc"
No.9902
>>9898I'll make the game sometime tonight since we now have enough people. I added everyone that posted their username ITT. There is an option to send notifications to certain people when making the game. I'm not sure if that reserves a spot for you or not. I'm thinking no because you need paid account to make a password for private game/lobby.
Hopefully, no one decides to snipe our game or it reserves people a spot. If not we'll figure something out. I might give them the dirty money so we can have private games if people are interested in playing more than one.
Oh I should mention. There is a "fog of war" option that I usually turn on for games. I planned on using it but if people don't like the idea I'll keep it turned off. I'm mentioning this because if you post screenshots of the game in progress you'll give away information to everyone else.
Fog of war mode means you can't see what's happening more than 1 space beyond your borders. It'll show ??? instead of the number of troops there and who they belong to. I like it because it makes things more interesting. Aside from that the game I make will use the standard rules.
No.9903
>>9902>>9902Another thing. I usually set the auto-drop option. This means the game automatically drops your initial troops on random spaces and you get whatever you get. Makes it much faster to play a game because we don't have to take multiple turns initially setting troops.
I planned on using it since it makes things more interesting. If you guys don't like the idea please let me know in the next 12 hours or so.
No.9904
>>9903fine by me I'm gonna be winging it anyway
No.9905
>>9903Auto-drop sounds like a good idea to me, as the set-up could be painfully slow otherwise.
Never played with fog of war before, but I'd be happy to give it a try at least.
No.9906
>>9903Those options are no problems. FoW sounds like it could be fun anyway.
If you make the the game later than within a couple of hours from now i've probably already gone to sleep, so in that case i'll accept the game invite as soon as i can tomorrow.
>>9904>I'm gonna be winging itI'm was going to use my experience of playing risk as a kid but i realized i don't really remember much now... oh well...
No.9911
>>9906>If you make the the game later than within a couple of hours from now i've probably already gone to sleepDecided to wait until tomorrow in case it doesn't hold spots for people. Since once the game is made it's on the public list and everyone on the website can see it and I assume join it
>everyone okay with fog of war and auto-dropNice.
No.9928
Okay it won't let me invite people or reserve spots. I made a game anyway;
https://www.conquerclub.com/player.php?mode=join1&submit=Join&page=1&game=24075302If a bunch of people outside of our group join I'll drop it and make another.
No.9929
>>9928I can't send you guys invites either. It just errors out with
>Players hasn't played game in 30 daysthis website is a lot shitter than I remember. I think they've shit it up a lot since I last used it in an attempt to get people to pay money.
No.9930
>>9928Joined. Kind of been watching this thread all evening after all. Looks like we're 3 so far.
It doesn't seems to have a lobby chat though. Does that mean there might not be a chat while playing either? Do we just use this thread for communication in that case?
>won't let me invite people or reserve spotsIs it possible to send a PM to them? It might send a notification to their email, if we're lucky.
Otherwise, they'll probably be watching the thread too, and join sooner or later.
No.9931
>>9930If it still works like it did when I last played once the game starts there will be a chat room at the bottom of the screen.
No.9932
Oh I have to manually refresh to check if people have joined, that's kind of annoying
No.9933
Alright, I'm in. Doesn't seem like any randos have joined so far at least, so we're hopefully in the clear.
No.9934
>>9931That's good. Though, maybe we shouldn't assume it still does, considering all the other kuso changes it's made then. Or worse... maybe it exists but doesn't work.
>>9932Guess it's time to start spamming F5. Oh, speaking of which, we're 4 now.
No.9936
I sent the last person a PM hopefully it went through and they have email alerts setup.
No.9937
Curious to see how it goes. I'm way too tired to play today unfortunately, so I want to see updates!
No.9938
Rando joined I think.
No.9939
>>9928started and full...
No.9940
>>9939Of course you show up 5 seconds after some guy everyone has complained about joins.
No.9941
>>9940>>9939So what do we do now? Can you kick the last one? Or if we're all 5 here now, should we just remake the game?
No.9942
>>9941We're stuck with him. I think our only option is to team up and bully him. I don't know how many games we can be in at the same time with a free account but I think it might be one. So we're stuck until we finish I think. I'll try to make another one.
No.9943
>>9942>I think our only option is to team up and bully him.you guys are so rude to random RISK player...
No.9945
>>9943It's war. We might as well conspire since he ruined our day.
No.9946
>>9943He's played like 800 games and joined a lobby of 0 matches played, he's deserves it
No.9947
I feel like I got really lucky with my initial deployments, so I for one wouldn't mind playing the first game through lol.
No.9948
>>9947I don't mind finishing it or playing it fair with the random. I just hope anon that was late last time isn't late again and joins this one in time:
>>9944 No.9949
>>9948and we got random player again...
No.9950
And an even more experienced guy joined the other lobby...
No.9951
Damn noob-snipers...
No.9953
>>9944>Cannot join game 24075379 because it has already started., Game 24075379 is full.what? aiiee
perhaps there's a better site?
No.9954
>>9952if you guys keep up the battle, you should all team up against him
and post updates in here I need to root for the home team
No.9955
I'm not part of this (too stupid), but I'd love to see Kissu teaming up and killing that guy!
No.9956
>>9953I think the limit might be 3 games for free accounts. Will you be faster this time? I thought we were all ready when I made the last one.
No.9957
>>9956it's crazy that games fill up so quickly desu
I'm ready now though...
No.9958
>>9956>>9957That sounds good. One last attempt? Is everyone else ready for it? I'm fonclbrisch.
No.9961
>>9959Did it work? Is everyone in?
No.9963
Perfect, this looks correct
No.9964
We have 24 hours before it skips us on the other two games so we can play this one and bully the snipers are our leisure. ^^
No.9966
>>9963Actually, it's even better than perfect as now I'm my favorite color and have a far better starting position
No.9968
I got screwed on my auto drop. Must kamikaze my way to victory
No.9969
I get that it is for gameplay reasons, but having Okinawa as part of Shikoku rather than Kyushu just feels wrong to me
No.9970
>>9969It feels like they just needed another region to balance things and tossed it in there.
No.9971
>>9969this is like pokemon map rules
the islands are just wherever is convenient
No.9973
Here's an update for everyone
I'm sure by the time I look back at the screen the situation will already be changed
>>9972Lewd
No.9974
>>9973Not uhhh... whatever that part of Japan is....
No.9975
rigged.
No.9978
>>9976Beauty and harmony
Governed by one eternal law
All that begins must end
The reign of the old Cirno shogunate IS OVER
No.9980
>>9978THE IMPERIAL TROOPS SHALL RISE AGAIN
No.9981
>>9973>>9976>>9979Green attacked red and awoke a demon.
No.9982
>>9977We should totally watch this film on the kissu watchalong streams if we haven't already
No.9983
Was fun! Even if i died first... but i'll be waiting for a new chance!
>>9979Good work turning the tide.
>>9982I haven't seen it, so if it happens, i'll probably be there.
No.9987
It was fun and I can't believe I lived past the first three rounds with the drop I got. Let's play again tomorrow if you guys want.
>>9982I'm down to watch it again. Been a long time.
No.9988
>>9981red killed blue on the other side of the map and inherited all his bonuses so he rolled over me
my mercy in not finishing red off in the previous turn fucked me
No.9989
>>9988Unless you were sitting on more than I think you were I don't think you could have killed me that turn so don't feel too bad. You spread yourself too thin and I lucked into getting a nice troop bonus for once.
I wanted peace with blue, green and yellow at different points. Mainly because they were next to me and had a chance to finish me off really early. But I don't think it would have mattered for any of them because at the time the card bonuses were really low and they wouldn't have gained much out of it.
I just thought it was funny that every time I offered peace I got attacked and somehow managed to survive. Then I lucked into kill two players at key moments. I almost gave pink another turn at the end and he probably could have came back and won because the bonus was going to be huge after I turned in multiple sets on my last turn. I had to guess where yellow's last region was and got lucky that I had just enough to reach it. Which gave me enough to kill green which in turn gave me enough to win.
That's just how it is at the end of these dice games. I expected to die in the second or third round because my initial drop was really horrible and everyone attacked me in the opening round. Here is my initial drop.
No.9990
>>9989Well I had a 6 stack next to your five stack and if I'd gotten lucky I probably could have at least taken Nagasaki.
Unless you had a ton on Tsushima I had a good chance to at least remove you from the south, and secure another region for myself.
Leaving Okinawa in the hands of the white bot meant that I didn't get any region bonuses for the area, which was probably a big mistake.
No.9991
>>9990It would have been close. I forgot you came this close to killing me off in round 6. I figured you had all of that region and would get the bonus for it on the next turn. I was sure I was dead.
But then again this game is known for screwing you over on dice rolls at the worse possible time. I lost 20+ troops with a 30+ stack against a 3 stack on my last push.
I wanted to make a deal with blue to give him half of the south in exchange for letting me that the one with the 2 bonus. But then you swept through the next turn after he blocked my easy way into the 2 bonus. So I had to go west instead.
No.9992
>>9991Plus you couldn't kill my 3 in the north at that point. You would have been better off killing blue and waiting to kill me on the next turn in the south. Would have secured the win unless one of the other players managed to kill another player on the next turn or so.
No.9993
Everyone that played said they'd be interested in playing again tomorrow but they wanted a bigger map and no fog of war. I'll let you all pick the map this time. There are 200+ to choose from. Whatever you pick is fine with me some of them have some really cool mechanics like bombardments and things like that.
If no one picks a map by the time I check the thread tomorrow I'll pick a random one. Also I'm going to make sure everyone is here and ready when I make the game tomorrow because I'm pretty sure we can't be in more than 3 at a time. If we get sniped by a random looking to beat up on newbies again we're stuck and can't play together until one of the games we're already in finishes.
If this becomes a regular thing one of us should pay the toll so we can host private games.
Also reminder that we don't break our alliance on the other two games until we've beaten the snipers and punished them for invading our secret club. I checked a bit ago and they haven't even bothered to take their turns. That's a big problem with this website by the way. People pay the money so they can sit in unlimited games. Then they'll join hundreds of them at a time and refuse to take their turns if they know they're going to lose. It's why I stopped paying my yearly subscription fee back in the day after my friends IRL lost interest in playing.
Well they didn't really lose interest as such. We had a group of five and one of them couldn't handle losing and would threaten to start fights if games didn't go his way. So we all kind of stopped playing because of him. He found out we were playing without him and he wanted to fight about that too. We moved on to playing other fun things without him on PC since he only owned consoles.
No.9995
>>9993I thought we could only play Japan and the base map with no money?
If that's not the case I humbly suggest this Tamriel map
Though it really doesn't matter to me what we play on if anyone wants something more basic or more exotic
It's a shame this website is so janky, not being able to vote kick people from the lobby or dissolve the lobby entirely is very stupid
No.9996
monolith
No.9999
>>9995We can play any map on the website. You can see them all here:
https://www.conquerclub.com/public.php?mode=mapsNot having a paid account limits you in the following ways as far as I know.
¥ You can only be in 3 games at the same time (not sure of actual limit). Paid accounts can be in unlimited games¥ Can't set password for games you create¥ Can't make slots for games invite-only¥ Can't play some game types (speed games, polymorphic games, battle royal...whatever those are)They are basically putting invite only/private games behind a pay wall along with artificially limiting the number of games you can play in at the same time hoping you'll spend $30 a year to avoid getting your games sniped.
There are a bunch of people that do nothing but lurk that site all day looking to beat up on new accounts to raise their rank. There are people that have devoted the last 20 years of their life trying to reach the top of the leaderboards just for forum cred.
>>9995>It's a shame this website is so jankyWhen I played 10+ years ago it wasn't nearly as bad. Before this web 2.0 facelift it got sometime between 2012 and now the website was actually decent. It's built on top of phpbb 2.x. The UI for games used to be very nice and far less annoying. It auto-refreshed chat and the map and everything. It just didn't look "modern" back then.
Whoever did the UI update did a really awful job because it's obvious that it's still the same phpbb modification with a terrible template update. Many websites have suffered this fate. It was also only $10 a year or something like that to access the invite-only+private game features back then. There wasn't a "credits" system either. Which I haven't figured out what those are for yet. Maybe you can grind for premium features? Who knows. They're probably just for buying dumb icons to place under your forum name.
Go look at the forums sometime to get an idea about the type of people that have devoted their life to this crap. I would suggest we play anywhere else if I knew of anything better.
No.10003
>>10002Ah I should mention about these. This is one of the maps where instead of trying to kill everyone else you just have to hold an objective for one round to trigger a win condition.
No.10006
>>10005Hmmm... cow map is tempting
No.10009
I checked the forums and they're saying you can be in four games without having premium account. So at least we have a buffer in case we get sniped again.
>>10008Which map is that? Can you link or post an image of it?
No.10010
>>10009we should agree on an exact time.
7 PM EST? That's about when we started today
No.10011
Neat they have Pac-man.
>>10010That should work for me.
No.10013
Finally found it again. I played on this once and it was bonkers because you can attack from across the map.
>>10012We could easily make a map if someone is decent enough with photoshop. Waifu wars could be fun. I could write the XML to power it pretty quickly. Not sure how hard it is to get it accepted into beta testing. I'll read the forum and see how insufferable that process would be.
Since this thing is powered by phpbb I'm really surprised no one has hacked their website and ripped all the code yet. I could see an improved clone of this being pretty popular.
No.10021
Lurking around I found this game that's over 15 years old. Two guys have been stacking troops the entire time.
https://www.conquerclub.com/game.php?game=1026097 No.10022
>>10013what about a map that was based upon those old 4chan islands images
perhaps 4chan boards and a few major altchans as a series of archipelagoes?
No.10023
>>10021betting all of my dollarydoos on Dreadcat breaking the stalemate soon
No.10024
>>10021just read their entire chatlog its very surreal yet cute to see their lives slowly play out over the chatbox, and the little spectators congratulating them or saying merry Christmas is the icing on the cake
but damn, almost 20 years what dedication
No.10028
>>10009>>10010I would probably prefer 6PM EST in that case, since 6PM is already midnight here. At least if we want to do bigger/longer games since last night was kind of already pushing it on how late i could stay up. Otherwise you'll have to wait until i have time the next day.
No particular preference for the map though. Many of those posted already looks fun.
My only suggestion is that if it's a complex or big map, we might want to save that for friday-monday nights, since i'm more likely to be able to stay up later. At least if we want to try doing it in one night.
>>10009I would also like to remind those of us still in the first two games that it's now our turn (Kissu and StrongestTardics right now) and if we work together to eliminate the 5th rando as quickly as we can, we can finish those two games up too, and clear up spots for future games.
>>10021>>10024Now that's a long running game, heh...
No.10029
>>10028Earlier is better for me as well.
I also agree on holding off on doing a complex map. With some of these ones people posted I'd have no idea what I was even supposed to do. I'd rather get a hang of the more basic Risk gameplay before adding in all the extra gimmicks.
No.10030
>>10028BTW if you're foncl then it's your turn in one of those games now.
No.10032
>>10030Good guess, i am. I've done my turns on both games now. Now we just gotta wait for the rando again in one of the games, but they only got two territories left so they might fall next round.
I also noticed i got emails for when it was my turn, so that should mean we can react pretty quickly, as soon as we get time to do our turn.
No.10033
>>10032Just also noticed slith did their round in the other game now, so we're back to waiting on the randos... again...
No.10034
>>10032I'd be surprised if they don't both go down next turn. There's really not much they can do when it's 4v1 with no prep time.
No.10035
>>10034I've played enough dice based games that i wouldn't be surprised if they don't lose because of extremely lucky rolls. But hopefully they will, yeah. I guess we'll find out around the same tomorrow at the latest.
No.10036
this is like the molotov-ribbentrop pact
No.10041
>>10028>I would probably prefer 6PM EST in that case, since 6PM is already midnight hereI'm fine with this but I'm going out to eat with family tonight around 5pm EST (about 30 minutes from now). I might not be back until 6:30pm EST or so. Might make it back before.
Don't wait for me if you guys want to go ahead I'll just watch when I get back if I'm too late. Anyone can start a game from the control panel or whatever it's called. They're pretty easy to set-up. Just make sure everyone is ready and be ready to copy/paste the gameid it gives you. It won't give you a link to share you'll have to tack on the game id to the link I used above if you want to link it.
No.10042
>>10041I think 6:30PM would be fine today if that works for you, and everyone else.
6PM was just a preferred suggestion. Adjustments are bound to happen because of life stuff anyway, but that's why i prefer trying for earlier first, if it works.
So, if everyone agrees with 6:30PM i think we can start doing a roll call at that time and see if everyone is ready, and take it from there.
Do anyone have a suggestion for today's map? I'd be down for any, but my suggestion is the same as
>>10029 (do another one with a pretty simple map and mechanics and leave the more advanced stuff for a later match).
Also, where we gonna go without fog-of-war this time?
No.10043
>>10042yeah no fog
my official vote? that charleston, SC map
60 zones seems like a reasonable increase from the japan map's 44~ and it looks aesthetically-pleasing to me
No.10044
6:30 is fine for me.
I'd be happy with the Charleston map. If people wanted something slightly smaller than that though, then my suggestion is the British Isles one.
Personally I liked the fog, but I don't mind if we do a game without to compare.
No.10045
>>10043>>10044I think i can put my vote on Charleston too, which probably makes it a winning majority vote for tonight's map.
>Personally I liked the fog, but I don't mind if we do a game without to compare.It kind of made it harder to know who was in the lead, but that made for more fun speculations of who you should attack. But yeah, for tonight i vote for trying one without fog-of-war.
No.10046
>>10045>It kind of made it harder to know who was in the leadI didn't notice until near the end of that game, but to the right of each player's name it tells you the number of regions everyone owns, without the fog obscuring it. Troop counts and regions held are the main thing you can't know for certain, which I think is a fun bit of uncertainty.
Either way though, it was the escalating spoils that ultimately decided the game, not the details of who was where.
No.10049
>>10046I wouldn't mind something where you know who holds what, but only know how many troops someone holds in a province if you border it
No.10051
>>10046Ooh, i see. I noticed the regions count pretty quickly myself, but since i was eliminated first, i didn't really see the full effect of the escalating spoils since the map was just ? for me by then. But in that case, playing with fog-of-war might not be as important as i felt like at the start of the game.
No.10052
SOUND OFF
No.10053
>>10052Tard here, I'm ready
No.10055
>>10052fonclbrisch here and ready.
Is the dinner anon back yet, though? Was that kissu?
No.10056
>>10055yeah that must have been kissu since he made the game last time
we're just waiting on him then.....
No.10057
>>10056Yes that's me. I'm back but I need about 10 minutes to get on my desktop. Don't want to play on thinkpad.
No.10058
>>10056So ghunc isn't playing tonight? Or do we wait a little and see?
>>10057Oh, that's good. We'll wait until you're ready.
No.10060
Anonymous here, ready to follow thread updates with a thinking expression and pretend to myself I have the slightest idea of what's going on.
No.10061
>>10059Oh wait, was it you who started the sound off?
No.10062
Alright, back on desktop. You guys want me to setup the game? Which map did you decide on? No fog of war, right? Okay with the same spoils?
No.10063
>>10061yeah I just feel abashed namefagging on kissu...
No.10064
>>10062yes please
charlestone, SC map
no fog
let's try the same spoils system again.
No.10065
>>10060Just anon playing risk basically.
>>10062Yeah set it up, i think we agreed on charleston, SC as map and no fog-of-war.
>>10063I see i see. Then we're all 5, and good too goo.
No.10068
>>10066Think everyone's ready
No.10069
>>10066Looks right, yeah.
And yes, all other 4 was in the sound off, so we should be ready to go. Assuming someone hasn't gone away for no reason.
No.10075
>>10073Blue has a powerful position
No.10079
Mhh, I had an easier time following the shops with bright colors and anime pictures..
No.10080
>>10079They were certainly more fun.
No.10084
>>10081Now this I can understand!
No.10090
>>10089(btw feel free to post variant images for me to use of various emotions, especially if you have any with transparent backgrounds)
No.10093
>>10092damn, that fort is stacked
No.10096
Never make a deal with a slime.
No.10100
We teamed up but we couldn't over come the fairy menace
No.10101
>>10096MY HAND WAS FORCED
COMBINING OUR POWERS (by absorbing you) WAS MY ONLY OPTION
IT'S SLIME LOGIC
No.10106
>>10098I didn't notice, perhaps that's fate.. Here is another exploitable to potentially represent anon.
>>10096Anschluss
No.10108
>>10107this is so small it's like a two man map
No.10109
>>10105Very nice, and understandable!
No.10110
The images help a lot in understanding who is in the lead, but what is actually happening behind the scenes? I only know Catan.
No.10111
>>10110Basically you just roll dice to attack your neighbors with the defender having an advantage
Every turn you get reinforcement units and if you own a set (which is basically just a geographic region) you gain more reinforcements, pic related shows how many units you get for that area
So the basic idea is to consolidate your borders while frustrating your opponents, and eventually mass such a large army you can just blitz across the map and win/get into an overwhelming advantageous position to help you win later
No.10112
>>10108Indeed. But it has the advantage that we can nuke fairies and slimes from orbit
No.10113
>>10110Everyone starts off with equal number of troops in random areas. You get a bonus for the number of regions you hold at the start of each turn. The default is 3 but you pass a certain threshold you get more. Then there are bonuses for holding an entire country/region like above:
>>10111So say you held the two at the top left of the map. You'd get 5 extra troops for those then 4 troops for the regions you're holding too. Every turn if you attack someone and take a region from them you get a card. Each card is associated with a region. If you get a set of 3 (same color or three different colors) you can turn them in for a bonus. That bonus starts low at 10 or so but it goes up higher each time someone uses cards. So by the end of the game you might get 60+ troops for turning in a set. You also get another player's cards if they're holding any when you kill them.
So the goal is to hold land to get more troops than everyone else and try to attack at least one place each turn to get a card. Then when you have the chance turn in your cards for a big troop bonus and steam roll your way across the map to kill other players. If they hold cards you get those and can turn them in on the same turn. Eventually, one player makes a break out and can take over everything.
No.10114
>>10112would rather nuke little blue-haired mikos
No.10115
>>10113Oh and at the start of your turn or when you turn in cards you get to pick where you place your troops. You can put them on any region you hold.
Attacking is just dice rolls. But the number of dice you get depend on how many troops occupy each space. So a 3+ vs. a 3+ has both players rolling 3 dice. But a 3 vs. a 1 means one player gets to roll 3 dice while the only player only gets to roll one. Anything above 3 (e.g. 25 troops) is simply 3 dice being rolled as well.
>>10114Mikos are non-combatants and would never give aid to an army!
No.10129
>>10118Maybe? I have no idea what the gameplay is like for a map like that.
My suggestion is the NYC one with the subways.
BTW Kissu, it is your turn on both of the Japan games.
No.10131
>>10129post the results of the anti-sniper games
No.10133
>>10090Fixed an image for the grisaia girl you can use for me (fonclbrisch) on future game maps.
>>10107>>10118>>10129Out of these maps, i'm think i'm voting for the nuclear map if we're playing tonight, since it's smaller and probably shorter.
So can we save the other two for the weekend or something.
>>10129>BTW Kissu, it is your turn on both of the Japan games.Finished my turn on one of the games now (with atrociously bad rolls), so now it's slith's turn on both.
No.10135
>>10134>Should we finish it now tonight or just run it casually?Just play is casually all 5 of us aren't in it.
No.10136
gunk reporting in
voting for NYC
we all here?
>>10133 No.10137
Oh shit it's time already, Tard here, new york sounds funny
No.10138
Slitherous here.
NYC was my suggestion so I'll stick with voting for that one.
No.10139
Alright, NYC. Is everyone here?
No.10140
>>10139sound off
ONE
(fog of war on this time?)
No.10141
>>10140Two
Also we still running random placement?
No.10142
>>10140THREE
I'd say yes to random placement.
I don't mind either way for fog.
No.10143
>>10140>>10141Yes fog of war+random.
Three.
No.10144
>>10142>>10143Okay four I guess
No.10145
>>10136I don't like exercising either, heh...
>>10139I'm fine with NYC.
>>10140fonclbrischfour? five?
No.10146
I'm confused are we four or five?
-Kissu
No.10147
>>10146five
get it started
No.10149
Stand by
No.10150
>>10148
>Are you the same? person, then five.
Different people
No.10151
>>10146Same here.
>>10142>>10143Are you two not the same person? then five.
>>10147Guess all five then?
No.10152
>>10150Deleted it because of terrible sentence, but we're all five then.
No.10162
>>10161she has decided to live in the sewers
like the teenage mutant ninja turtles.
No.10164
>>10163next time I see that sewer rat rika?
putting her back where she belongs.
No.10165
>>10161Every game it's the same thing. They all take their turn at trying to murder me. Then they forget I exist. Keeping me alive like some kind of pet just to make me suffer.
No.10166
>>10165Sorry, you're too cute anon
Suffering only enhances it
No.10168
>>10167Somehow it took me until now to notice the snake pun. Nice pick.
No.10169
It's nice that so far a different person has won every game. I wonder who will win tomorrow. We are playing again, right?
No.10171
>>10167Was checking in during lunch break to see how it was going... only to see that i was eliminated in the next round after all... and Slith had won.
Well played Slith! And at least i wasn't eliminate first this time.
Was also fun to read the chat log and see how happy and friendly you got with each other towards the end, heh...
>>10169>It's nice that so far a different person has won every game.I'm not going to make any assumptions of having the luck needed to make a win, so that combo might break soon.
>We are playing again, right?I should be able to be here for it tonight. I'll be here around the usual 6:30PM-7PM if i can make it.
No.10179
>>10169I can. Maybe a slightly smaller map than yesterday's would be good though, as that one ran on a bit long.
No.10181
>>10169I don't think I can
t. gunk
maybe try one of the smaller maps
No.10182
>>10169>>10179>>10181I'm here (fonclbrisch). So guess that's at least 3?
And if gunk can't, then maybe we can play the nuclear map, since it looked smaller? Or should we just call it for night?
No.10183
>>10182Could also finish off the Japan game, since gunk isn't in that one anyway.
No.10184
>>10183Oh, that's true. Both of them actually, if we manage to eliminated the other rando this turn. It's kissu's turn now, so if we all four of us is here then i'm all for just finishing either of them tonight.
No.10185
>>10183>>10184I'm already dead in both because I threw everything in killing the randos haha
No.10186
>>10184>if we manage to eliminated the other rando this turnI got some lucky rolls and was able to take all three of his remaining provinces, so that game's in the clear now too.
No.10187
>>10186Yeah, i just noticed. Well done!
>>10185Understandable. Well, we can at lest finish them and free the spots up for later games. I'm doing quite good in one of them myself.
No.10188
I see I got eliminated in one game GG. I have to go check on something but if you guys want to start a new game on the nuke map I'll be back in about 20 minutes
No.10189
>>10188>I see I got eliminated in one game GGWe all were.
No.10191
>>10189Yeah, that last round became one hell of a snowballing effect for me. Spoils after spoils after spoils...
>>10188>if you guys want to start a new game on the nuke mapI'm up for it.
No.10192
>>10190you are required to play her VN now
No.10193
>>10192Well, as someone who doesn't actively look for opportunities, but happily take one placed in my hands, i guess this is a good enough reason to pick it up then.
>>10188Anyway, you back yet? Should we do a game on the nuclear map?
No.10194
>>10193>Anyway, you back yet? Should we do a game on the nuclear map?I'm down for a game on the nuclear map. Sorry I took off my trash and ended up running into my Dad and someone I haven't seen in 20 years. So we talked for awhile
No.10195
>>10193>Well, as someone who doesn't actively look for opportunities, but happily take one placed in my hands, i guess this is a good enough reason to pick it up then.It's well worth it. Grisaia is, I think, the only long VN that I've played through all routes in full. And Michiru is best girl too.
No.10196
Let me know how many are here (4, right?) and if it isn't too late to start a game. I'll make one. I guess this is roll call.
Kissu reporting.
No.10197
>>10196Tard here, nuke map yeah?
No.10199
>>10194I'm up for it.
>>10196fonclbrisch here.
Do we do fog? Should we try manually placement this time?
No.10200
>>10199We can do manual placement if you want. Fog is fine with me. It's such a small map it doesn't matter either way I think
No.10201
>>10195Sounds good. Not sure if i'll do all routes, but i'll be going for Michiru's at least, she earned it.
>>10200I'm fine with fog and manually placement. Any objections?
No.10202
>>10201For some reason the duck and cover map isn't showing in the selection. Can someone else try starting a game to see if they can pick it?
No.10203
>>10202I can't seem to select it either?
Is it premium or something?
No.10205
>>10204Our level must not be high enough. I don't remember having to pay to play it last time.
No.10206
>>10204By the looks of it, we should level up at 5 completed games, so not long to go.
No.10207
>>10205Any plan B maps?
>>10118 is a "No" as well.
>>10206That's good at least.
No.10208
You guys want to play the classic map? I'm down for that or whatever else. We can't play casle land either
No.10209
British Isles is my suggestion. Seems reasonably small too.
No.10212
Alright, british isles, manual placement, fog of war. Everyone ready?
No.10213
>>10209Sure
I'll end up doxing myself ardently defending my home town No.10214
>>10212Yes. fonclbrisch ready.
No.10218
VerniyBallsRaper2k here, I will not be participating.
No.10219
Every one of you is a back stabber. I've tried to make peace deals with all of you and you always break them. At least be a man and announce it.
No.10221
We can finally play the other maps. We can play nukes if we want. GGs everyone
No.10226
>>10218That's fine.
>>10219Well, wouldn't be much of a back-stab then, would it?
>>10221I guess ghunc still have to play like two more maps though right to get it too? But hopefully he can still join all maps if kissu makes the game.
No.10229
>>10226I think they can join a game with the maps they just can't start them. I don't know.
No.10233
So far our games have come down to spoils. I've been setting the default. I haven't played with any of the other settings but some of them prevent you from getting massive stacks from turning in cards. We could try them next time if you guys want but it would probably mean a longer game.
There is also a "trench warfare" option that prevents you from attacking from places you didn't have before the start of your turn. There is also a way to limit reinforcements so you can't move armies across the map in one turn. Instead they can only move one region at a time.
No.10234
>>10233Trench warfare sounds like it would be tedious in the late-game, if you could only advance one step forwards each turn even if you had a huge advantage. Might be good on the smaller maps to avoid one-turn KOs, but that's not been much of an issue for us.
Limiting movement in the reinforcement phase, I don't see making much difference either way for us. I feel like that could be relevant for countering advanced tricks, but we're not doing enough with our reinforcements for it to matter.
Changing the spoils setting though might be worth a try. Probably on a smallish map with decent region bonuses, so that it is still possible to win in a reasonable time. Something similar to the British Isles one would probably work well.
No.10235
>>10234We can also play assassin mode now. I've played it before it's pretty fun.
>In an assassin game each player is assigned a secret target, designated in-game with crosshairs Assassin Target next to the username. >You win the game if your target is killed - whether it be by you or another player! When a player is auto-kicked in an assassin game, the game continues and whomever had the deadbeat now has to kill the deadbeat's target.For spoils these are the other options:
>Flat Rate sets are worth 4 for red, 6 for green, 8 for blue and 10 for mixed.>Nuclear sets are not worth any troops. Instead, each region in the set is nuked to a single neutral troop (even if you own it!). Note that it is possible to eliminate players, including yourself, by cashing nuclear sets! Regions are nuked in the order of the spoils cashed, and any players eliminated accordingly.>Zombie sets work in a similar way to Nuclear, with each region in the set being zombified to being neutral (but not changed in size). No.10236
>>10235I'd be down for any of those options, they sound a lot more chaotic than the base game
No.10238
>>10235Assassin mode sounds like it could be fun. And yeah, I'd be willing to give any of those spoils options a try at some point.
No.10315
Will we be playing today?
No.10316
>>10315Tard here, I can't play today, feel free to play without me
No.10317
>>10316>>10315Sorry, a bit late, but i got busy with other things today too (fonclbrisch). But i want to try out the new options, so maybe tomorrow?
No.10319
>>10315gunk, can't really make it for a few days (gotta bring my sleep schedule around so I'll be asleep around 6:30 est)
perhaps some more good men could be recruited?
No.10321
It's a holiday weekend in my country. So I'm also away for the next couple of days.
No.10532
Just checking in, any games for tonight? or the weekend?
I should be available if others want to play.
No.10533
>>10532Slitherous here. I can play today, and probably any other day coming up (although it would be best to schedule in advance, so that I don't sleep in and miss it).
No.10534
>>10532Forgot to say, this was me (fonclbrisch).
>>10533Well, if like one more joins we could probably try out the smaller dock and cover map for tonight, now that we got them all unlocked.
Otherwise, I'll probably be busy tomorrow night with the weekly stream, but most other times should work if i'm not sleeping.
But maybe we can at least make a booking for the usual 6PM on sunday? If everyone can make that time we might be able to a full game again.
No.10535
>>10533hey man
your trouser snake is lookin' pretty slitherous
No.10536
>>10533gunk, can't play tonight (ttrpg sesh)
might be able to play on monday
No.10667
I'll be able to play tonight if others are interested, and as long as we don't start later than the usual 6-7PM (EST).
If we're at least 3 i'm thinking we could try the Duck and Cover map. More and maybe we could try the
>>10118 map.
>>10536Will you be able to play tonight?
No.10668
>>10667Tard here, I can start but probably not finish before needing to sleep
If we need to delay again that would be fine for me
No.10669
>>10668That'd be fine with me (fonclbrisch). Can always do a two parter if it takes too long.
Since it might be a little boring to just play two, we can wait a bit and see if at least one more wants to play, within an hours or so, otherwise i think we can push it for another night instead.
No.10670
>>10667gunk here
can't join for probably a few days, I'm in the final week of a pretty intensive course
barely even had time to watch the new puniru
No.10671
>>10670Alright, then. It was getting a bit too late for me to start anything by now anyway, so then we'll just try a later night instead.
No.10672
Can't play tonight sorry. Too busy fixing clocks.
No.10764
If others are able and want to play tonight, i'm (fonclbrisch) here and would be up for a game.
No.10765
>>10764Tard here, I can definitely play tonight and tomorrow night for that matter
No.10769
>>10765Well, doesn't seem like anything's happening tonight, but i'm up for tomorrow too if any of others can as well. But i'd probably want to start earlier in that case so that it doesn't intersect too much with the weekly stream.
No.10772
I would like to play but it'll be a few more days before I have free time again. Since the boss lady has signed me up to work all day tomorrow then asked if I will take her to church the day after. So Monday or Tuesday before I will have a free night.
No.10774
>>10764I (Sltiherous) slept in today, but I can play tomorrow at least.
No.10780
>>10772Alright, monday might not work for me this time, but tuesday night and forward should work. So we can check then if we can get a game going.
>>10765>>10774Well, in that case we're at least 3 for tonight (4 if the last one can join in too), so should we start planning for a game? And like i said before i'd like to start earlier if possible, so would like 4PM EST work?
No.10785
>>10780Works for me at least.
No.10786
>>10785While we wait for the third one, maybe we can prepare a little by checking what map and options we could play with for tonight. I'm thinking of the Duck and cover map, since it's small and probably quicker.
No.10787
>>10786Sure, I'm down for giving that one a try.
No.10788
>>10787Alright. What about options? I've played with fog last few games so i wouldn't mind no fog this time.
I'm not sure if other games types like Terminator (score for eliminating players) or Assassin (kill your assigned target) would have much use in a small game with 3 players though...
But for the spoils and reinforcement i'm thinking we could try Nuclear (reset troop count down to 1 on card regions) and unlimited reinforcement (sounds fun to try), unless you have any other suggestions.
Also, manual or automatic troop placement? Either works for me.
No.10789
>>10788Well Duck and Cover already has the nuclear bombardment gimmick... whether that means it would made more sense or less to also have nuclear cards, I have no idea.
And yeah, I think no fog would be best for that map.
I'd maybe lean in favour of manual troop placement, at least now I understand how it works.
Unlimited reinforcements? I doubt it will make much difference either way on a small map with only three players, since we're unlikely to be holding multiple unconnected regions for long.
No.10790
>>10789Oh, you're right. I hadn't even noticed that until now. Well, maybe we can just do the usual spoils in that case, might be a bit much to have nukes from both.
And no fog then.
Yeah i can go for manual too. Since it's just placing reinforcement on already assigned territories it's pretty quick.
No i guess unlimited reinforcements might not do that much, just thought it would make it a little more flexible. But now knowing the nuclear bombardments, maybe we can just do the usual "1-move" since that means you're limited on what troops you could move out of those "risky" regions.
No.10792
>>10789+1 for no fog and manual troop placement
All the other settings are okay to try
No.10793
>>10792>>10789Alright, i can make the game, duck and cover, no fog, manual placement, normal reinforcement, and nuclear spoils, because i figured we should at least try one of the new options after all. We'll se how goes.
Anyway, roll call. fonclbrisch here.
No.10795
>>10793Oops, took me a bit to see this since I was reading manga, but Slitherous here now.
No.10796
>>10795>>10794Alright, i'm making the game in in a minute or two. Be ready to join it!
No.10800
That's all of us in
No.10802
gunk here, finally done with being busy, I can join tomorrow night
No.10804
>>10801Kawaii nuclear general Puniru!
>>10802Oh, well i'm up for that, so in case i'd like to schedule for a game tomorrow night too!
If tard and slith is up for it too then maybe we can go for a bigger map and with a game mode, like assassination or something.
>>10803It was indeed a very strange game... but it was fun!
No.10821
>>10804Has everyone leveled up enough yet to play on those maps and modes? I know we still had one person last time that didn't level up because they missed a game.
No.10827
>>10821All but ghunc, as far as i can tell (they've only done 3).
And that was a good point, because i looked it up and found this on the "Score & Ranking" tab:
>New Recruits must earn a promotion to join Assassin games, Terminator games, team games, large games (6 or more players), Trench Warfare games and games on complex maps (they will be hidden from Join A Game and Game Finder listings). These restrictions do not apply to private games.Since i assume neither of us has payed to be able to make private games, it looks like we might need to play two more games with ghunc before with we can play games with the other game types and options with him.
Acother options, if ghunc is here right now, is that he and someone quickly brush over two games to get him up to 5 too.
I up for that option if ghunc can and want to do that. Otherwise, we'll just play a normal game one one of the maps that new recruits can play.
No.10831
Are people here to play now?
No.10832
>>10831I am (fonclbrisch).
No.10833
>>10831Tard here, I can play I guess
No.10834
>>10832>>10833>01:03:08>01:03:08Heh...
No.10835
>>10831koupenfan here i will not be participating i just like koupen
No.10836
Well that's three and a kouper. Do we wait to see if gunk shows up?
No.10837
>>10836hi koupenfan I'm kuonfan
No.10838
>>10837oops meant to reply to
>>10835 No.10839
>>10835That's alright.
>>10836I'd assume so since he said he could join.
And assuming you might be slith, i have no idea if kissu might join.
No.10840
>>10839>And assuming you might be slithCorrect. I can't tell if kissu left any messages previously, to know whether or not he is likely to be around.
No.10841
>>10840Thought so. Well, in that case i guess we'll see if or when kissu shows up again.
Either way, i'm thinking we can wait for ghunc until around 8PM EST (40 min from now) since that's about when he replied last night. No response by then and i guess just us 3 plays. Sounds good?
No.10842
>>10837hello konufan please make more artificially intelligent koupens if that possible
No.10843
I can play. I just got home.
t. Kissu
No.10844
Well that's four then at least.
No.10845
Someone else start it I don't want to be red. Everyone wants to murder red.
No.10846
Any suggestions for a map?
No.10847
>>10846If Gunk shows up make sure it's listed as New Recruits:Yes
Otherwise no preference from me, pick what you like
No.10848
>>10843Speak of the devil (and his salad)! Glad you're here too.
Though, i guess we might have to guess ghunc might not make it...
>>10845Alright, i've started maps so i can do it this time too.
>>10846If ghunc isn't here we can technically play any map. And we haven't tried
>>10118 yet.
No.10849
>>10848>And we haven't tried >>10118 yet.I'm down for that one.
No.10850
>>10848>>10849map is fine with me
No.10851
>>10849>>10850I'm selecting that one then, unless we decide on something else (or ghunc shows up).
What about options? Should we try any of the game types? Assassination (target to kill) sounded interesting to me.
Fog? Manual placement?
No.10852
>>10851Assassin mode sounds interesting
No.10853
>>10851>>10852Assassin is fine. Whatever you all want is fine.
No.10854
>>10851No idea how assassin mode will go on that map, but I suppose we can give it a try.
No.10855
>>10852>>10853>>10854Alright, assassination it is.
>No idea how assassin mode will go on that mapDon't worry, picking nuclear spoils on the cold war nuke map turned out to be a terribly chaotic choice, so i don't think this could get worse than that.
Either way, i'm thinking we can do normal spoils for this game. Also, picking manual placement if there's no objections.
But what about fog?
No.10856
>>10855>fogIdk flip a coin or something
No.10857
>>10855I'm fine with manual/fog. Yeah if I was here I would have warned you about nuclear spoils on that map. It was my favorite map. Sorry I wasn't around to play it because I really wanted to. We made the same mistake the first time we played it. It's really fun with the usual spoils system.
No.10858
>>10856>>10857Fog is probably best since each person will have a target to kill. So it's helpful if they don't know where you are.
No.10859
>>10856>>10857>>10858>Fog is probably best since each person will have a target to killGood point, fog it is.
>Yeah if I was here I would have warned you about nuclear spoils on that map.>We made the same mistake the first time we played it.Then you can probably realize how it went anyway, heh...
Anyway, i think that's about it. Castle Lands, assassin, Manual placement, normal spoils, normal reinforcements, and fog.
So, roll call. (fonclbrisch)
No.10860
>>10859Tard here, let's get started already
No.10863
Let's go. I'm still here.
t. kissu
No.10864
>>10860>>10861>>10863That's all. Game link coming, be ready.
No.10869
As usual making peace with dumb fairy didn't work out because dumb fairy must murder his allies. I always get shit luck too. Wanted to not be red because I've had to go last every time we've played. The one time I don't get red I end up going last anyway.
No.10878
>>10875I have the strongest luck
*loses entire territory without noticing*
No.10882
>>10879>>10878Most of the time when I roll 6s the other person does too. I always get them attacking and the other person always gets them when I do roll them. Since the defender's 6 beats the attackers it's rage inducing.
>>10881Our bad luck equals out. See:
>>10875 No.10895
>>10836>Do we wait to see if gunk shows up?I.... I'm sorry.... my mom wanted to watch a movie... (Blow Out, 1981, with John Travolta - it was okay but kinda disappointing)
No.10995
>>10875>>10881Considering the state and age of the site, i wouldn't be surprise if the server just uses pseudo-random number generators for the dice rolls, something that often isn't strictly fair in all cases, in the way a physical dice roll would be, so some unevenness can very likely happen.
>>10895That's fine, we figured as much and went without you.
Anyway, just wanted to check if people are up for a game tonight?
No.10996
>>10995Sure, I'd be happy to.
—Slitherous
No.10999
Disregard that; I suck cocks.
—Slitherous
No.11001
>>10999I don't bloody believe it, fucker came and stole my tripcode. Worst day of my goddamn life, I tell ya.
No.11003
>>10999>>11001Heh... does you evil alter ego want to play risk too? Otherwise i guess we're still waiting for at least a third one.