[colmfinito] Inherited account

[sparrowhawk]

3000 on its way to Mitharg. Sorry, I don't have any other mercs in harbour at the moment.

[SkulkrinBait]

Thanks! I don't supose you need any stone do you?

[ashimar]

soiram said:

Can you give us a rough estimate of Colm's powers?

Doesn't he have at least 3 isles with considerable power to launch attacks at Dark Isle, Shadow Isle and Haven?

I'm afraid not.

You see, Colm was on IK from the start but has never thought much of warfare or preparing for it other than deciding defenses were necessary. He hasn't stolen a single colony, developed them all themselves, but as it was, dear Colm did have a life outside IK, as most sensible people would propagate and ingame mostly enjoyedtalking to people. Somehow I can relate to that somewhat...<lol>.

He joined VI and used intelligent behaviour to stay on the background, only committing to alliance wars if there was no other way, from the point of view of loyalty to VI or his friends in and outside the alliance. Therefore he didn't have an awesome fleet to begin with and neither did he have horseloads of cats. He does have considerable amounts of spearfighters and some archers, but that's not really that useful to us now.

Of what he had of a fleet he lost quite a few ships and cats on the recent attacks on Lhunmoth. One thing that worries me a bit is that of the only one he told to that I got the account, he had to pick the one who also has DL up on his age as a friend and confirmed that to me. I'll quote Windmill:

Date: 14.10.2005 12:50
From: Windmill
Subject: RE: Several
'ello there m8

im pretty sure colm was involved, but im not sure if they are goin to go after him as they hav much more to worry about

Darklady i protect, because she is a friend - basically, lol!! she has told me about all that other stuff - so unless there is something she missed out, everythings fine

Ashimar wrote:
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Hello,

You do not know me yet, but we have a mutual friend, Colmfinito.
I've come to you for some information regarding a certain inheritance and some other things.

Was Colm involved in the recent attacks on Lhunmoth or other elements within [Wraith] or [Corsairs] ?

How would you -based on that- say the chance are members of those groups will come for his "stuff" now that he is no longer a part of [VI] ?

Why do you protect DarkLady ? May I ask on what grounds ? Surely not because she's honest or such an amiable girl ? >
Do you know what she did (plural!) ?

Regards,
Ashimar (Marc)


I think I'll need to feed him a bit more info one of these days. As DL said: "you guys are all so easily manipulatable"


Now as to the firepower Colm's account has:

From the main island Ithaca (2.18.6) I hope to have the following ready on sunday close to midnight:

398 LWS (I'm currently building like crazy, there are only 346 now, so nothing really bigger than Freiegeister has)
4 SW (yes, only 4!)
10 catapults (also building up right now from 1 currently)
As much archers as will fit (1672 here)
As much spearfighters as will fit (2075 here)
17 LM + 35 SM

That is the "impressive" suicide force of Colm. Waste it and it's gone.

And Argos (2.18.3) has 1 colonizationship ready for use !

I'm thinking of using that one on Shadow isle as it closer by when my colonyship fails. Being the most important isle DL has I think I need a backup colonyship for it and this one fits the bill. Alternatively, it's a lot harder for DL to take a colony from Colm perhaps. I need to think a bit more on the pros and contras of that one...

Now there are maybe 3 supportfleets, but it isn't much IMO :

Ogygia (2.18.1):
52 LWS
6 SW
no cats
150 archers
as many spearfighters as will fit (4023 here !!!)
44 LM + 26 SM


Tenedos (2.18.15):
48 LWS
25 SW
no cats
109 archers
as much spearfighters as will fit (4094 here)
24 LM + 76 SM


Argos (2.18.3):
43 LWS
10 SW
no cats
as many spearfighters as will fit (3455 here)
31 LM + 30 SM

And from here on it's down to bits and pieces, nice for colonies, and internal farming obviously with a nice amount of merchants, but not suitable for our plans in the short run:


Delphi (3.31.10):
23 LWS
spearfighters (*only* 875 here)
etc.


Mycenae (2.18.24):
22 LWS
spearfighters (4105 here !!!)
etc.


So, we have one major strike force, BUT not as impressive as one might have hoped a player likeColm would have had....

And we have 3 small ones ( I consider 40-50 LWs small if they go up against main isles) which can be sacrified, I have no problem with that one, but still doubt the general effectiveness.

And then 2 tiny ones (20+ LWs).

I can try to have two small fleets from 2 isles arrive at exactly the same time at an isle, that could be interesting. I will have the time to do that. Might be interesting project.

[SkulkrinBait]

So are we using these as the first wave, I need an answer asap cos I need to be launching soon. I think my fleet will be fine against Eclipse even if it was the first wave, but let me know.

[ashimar]

Sorry, but I can't be at all places at once nor during every moment of the day. I'm having difficulties keeping track.

There are NO supportfleets for Eclipse, Gloom or Dusk !

Support for Haven, Dark, Shadows and Sanctuary is already on the way.

Spyships are "en route", unfortunately 1 has already been picked up.

Production to replace incurred damages is on the way.
Scorebuilding for Colm and answering email as well. You should see JackyChans stupid messages...

[SkulkrinBait]

No problem, I had though the same as Eclipse is so weak I can take it myself.

[Arminius]

Now that we've had our revenge, can we sort out this account please? I feel it makes us lose the moral highground with regards to multis etc. I suggest that either someone takes it over as a sole account (eg Matija), or we abandon it, or flog it on ebay...

[SkulkrinBait]

Can we recruit a new Morkin from M/MU?

[soiram]

Wishmaster is a good bet. See his response in the new thread by Chris.

[SkulkrinBait]

Yeah, someone who knows him well try to tempt him with a well-established and strong position without the hassles of trying to build it up.

And then we just need someone for Robillards account........

[soiram]

I sent a PM to Wishmaster to log in this forum. I don't want to use MMU forum to speak about ahem, other islands. Once he registers we can ask him if he wants to take care of Robillard's account. And Marc, you have to decide what to do with Colm.

[Arminius]

I think it should be deleted immediately. We still have robilliard's account which has been maintained should Wishmaster join us.

Hanging on to Colm's account any longer is not an option. Even if someone took it over, he could never join Morkin.

There has been enough cheating going on with this. Thinking about it, I don't think it should be deleted, I want it deleted. Now. Let's draw a line under this tainted episode.

[SkulkrinBait]

Agreed.

[Starshatter]

Agreed

[Arminius]

I am pleased to announce that we have a result: Ashimar has agreed to delete it by tomorrow afternoon/evening, and he will also contact Archibald whether he wants to continue and delete his account otherwise.