Sometimes, I just have to laugh.

[kiya]

Just copying my explanation of the funny from overlandmush rather than retype, 'cause I'm lazy.


Whitney laughs and laughs and laughs.
Lavoisier [erispope] mew?
Whitney says, "I'm playing this wargame, okay? Run your medieval army, conquer other towns with i."
Whitney says, "I'm getting to be a power largely by sniping the weak and idle. I pick a weak and idle enemy village and scout it. I can kill what's there, but it'll hurt."
Whitney says, "So I sent some of my weaker forces to start whittling it down a little."
Whitney says, "After I hit this village with 600 axemen, I get mail from its owner. Not saying, as you might expect, 'You *saw* how many troops I had and you hit me with *that*?', but, 'So, hey, you want my village? I'm not really playing. I'll send my forces elsewhere to make your life easier.'"
Whitney says, "This is not the funny thing."
Whitney says, "The funny thing is that today -- a couple of days after my response to him -- I get more mail from him, saying, more or less, 'I've sent my troops to beat up this guy. Once I've weakened him, please kill him, he's a jerk.'"
Whitney says, "Said jerk? On my targets list. Has slightly too many troops to crack easily."
Brooks [brooksmoses] says, "Dude. That's hilarious."
Whitney says, "Isn't it great?"
Brooks says, "Yup."
Whitney is laughing so much.
Whitney says, "I pick the *best* targets. ;)"


In other Tribal Wars amusements, I've impressed MattyJ (founder of Dr. No Revolution, the reasonably fearsome and highly aggressive tribe that teinedreugan played in in W19) with my ability to generate ridiculous quantities of troops. He posted something to the effect of, "Dude, is it just me, or is she vicious? Not to be a jerk here, but I'm ... pleasantly surprised." (Dear Matty: no, teinedreugan didn't get me into your organisation just 'cause I'm His Gurl. Surprise!)

In other news, shrink back from vacation, so normal Tuesday schedule may soon resume. Had conversation today mostly about me flipping out which was overall stunningly useful.

ETA: ... Matty set my tribe position to 'busy farming you'. DED.

Comments

[laurion]

Interested in some medium-term account sitting? I'm pretty busy these days and will only be busier through to about mid-october, and could use a hand from someone willing to sit in on my 90 villages (hopefully 93 soon) on W8.

[kiya]

I'd have to join W8 to help, wouldn't I? And it's closed to new people.

(I'm also not sure I'd be really competent to do much -- the most I've ever managed is 13 villas. Possibly soon to be 16, eesh.)

[laurion]

I was thinking of just changing the password and turning over the account temporarily. But I have someone in the tribe on hook to hold the fort during the most critical window.

[kiya]

That's good.

Meanwhile, I'm just ... sheesh.

I take a village, and see an incoming from the academy tribe. "Hmm," says I, and moves a bunch of heavy cav in just in case.

This nitwit hit that village with every troop in his main. Sure, he wiped the cavalry I could get there in time, but I killed his four thousand spears and swords and most of his very sad offense.

Since he was in the academy tribe, I sent him some strategy pointers in response.

[laurion]

Good thing he's in an academy. Or else you'd just rim him and that'd be his lesson.

This is one of the few games I am willing to donate real money to. (And the premium UI upgrade is almost necessary once you have a lot of villages to manage.)

[kiya]

Oh yeah, I started with the premium when I got the free upgrade at 50K points or something, and soooo much easier to manage.

Meanwhile, the kid about fell all over himself to apologise to me. I replied, "No worries. Be glad you're B3YOND. ;)" (I'm BEYOND.)