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at the middle of the battle, the map looked like smeared wads of different colored clay intertwined and so beautifully messy, such beauty in the dissonance

I remember someone joined the table at the height of the cutting battle and said wow, the board looks crazy. And I replied yeah.. looks like a child's fingerpainting session gone horribly wrong.

Maybe Ryan could archive classic games as replays searchable by name. Then each player could have a list of games on his/her profile, such as grun's picks.....skrum's picks......grun's grun v skrum picks....skrum's skrum vs grun picks....

This was waaay before the elo/rank change was put into effect, before the sandbox was even a twinkle in Ryan's eye.

I was playing a game with (IIRC) Comik & we had truced. He got pummeled by everyone else, to the point that he had 1 stack left and I had taken over the entire board.

Then he said "let's try fighting for fun" and I was like "okay sure"... because really, how was I supposed to lose?

Well, I lost.

He came back from 1 stack with 32 spares to win the game.

That was epic.

oh... this is a game of the pioneer-days, I think about two weeks after kdice opened his doors...

my first game with ke-en. both of us were very weak about 2-4 lands, attacking each other in a corner. so nobody on the rest of the table cares of us.

after ignoring the chat in my first games (everything was to excited), I startet to pay more attention and saw the first alliances.

So I asked ke-en for an alliance.
Well, in this stage of kdice the players wasn´t so sensitive about alliances (well, they were so new, that even the discussion, if alliances are fair or not didn´t started yet).

So the other players on the tables didn´t noticed us further on, so we started to attack our very big neighbours. And before the rest of the table took notice of us, we were strong enough and we won this game together - no-one expexted this, and it was a wonderful alliance.

Sometimes I would like to repeat this, but also if to weak players ask for an alliance, the rest of the table would cry immediatly "counter" - so it works only as an unspoken alliance. But this doesn´t happen so often...

Ke-en! I still love you!

Have one for you, shorter, that just happened tonight. Probably the most improbable epic short sequence I've seen so far.

I'm on JKD, NE corner, clinging to a handful of lands agiainst Zervas in 2nd and g-rizzler, whose utterly the emperor at this point. Rizzler can't really get to me on the large, albeit, 2-width peninsula there without going through Zerv, and we all know this, and Zerv is briskly whittling me down for what seems to be a fait accompli kill.

Rizzler eats his flank a bit fast as I hold out with some lucky defense rolls, and in the end, I have one land, 8 stack, against Zervas remaining 4 lands, 3 with 8-stacks. Battling to the last inch, to go down swinging, I hit the following sequence. 8v8, 7v2, 6v8, 5v8. 2nd place. My one stack basically knocking through all four lands.

Odds are 2 tenths of one percent of pulling that shenanigans off (?!!), and we basically all contemplate it for a moment, before declaring kdice awesome.

Match bonus: Myself and zervas have bumped into each on the 1700s a fair bit before, and the satasfying thing is that while we sometimes fall into natural nuetralities, neither of us will hesistate to launch a war or cut on the other anytime the map or dice stacks warrent. It's nice to run kdice matches the way kdice was meant to be played. No early turtles, no PGA, no PGE, no vendettas, just good-natured rationally lethal semi-acquaintances and kdice tactical manueverings and gambits. A nod to that; that epic luck sequence wouldn't have been seen on a match going to truces or flags early.

mmm stunned, a little exaggeration, i had 5-6 terrs when we fought, but it was still a glorious game, full of cuts, and desperate attacks, *bump*

Well if you really want to log an epic game, you have to go way back to the first month of kdice. Several players (I can't remember their names)and I, for some unknown reason, decided we would all build up to one eight stack with full (+32) dice to see what the winning order would be in that situation. As you can imagine, that took an enormous amount of time-most of it spent hitting end turn. At one point, someone suggested that I (who had the least dice at one point) attack another person with more dice in an attempt to stack up faster. This failed, and I had to start back from one die. More time elapsed. Boredom set in. We all began to wonder why we were doing what we were doing. Finally, the moment came when there were five of us with 8 dice at +32 (and one player with the rest of the board in first place). Flags were raised.

And the answer to our experiment: If all players are tied, places are awarded starting at the lower left hand corner and working clockwise.

So, hopefully no one will ever repeat this horrible, horrible idea. Nevertheless, it was a game to remember.

In my most epic game of all time, I came in 5th.

I had recently invented the concept of PGE aka pre-game enemy which has now entered into the regular parlance of kdice.

Well at this point in time my sworn PGE of the day was MadWilly because of his ugly use of the german alliance to destroy my chances at any table that we matched up. Well we were playing a map with a huge lake and ring of lands around it in the north and a little penninsula in the south west with lots of lands packed in it. Well madwilly and i were tangled up down there but in a great place to ally and take the rest of the map down. MadWilly didnt like this idea and through some misfortune and bad rolls, he annihilated my lands down there leaving me with one land left in the north part of the map and him ahead by about 3 or 4 lands over everyone else.

Well this didn't sit too well with me so I managed to rally the other troops and get everyone to ally with my 1 stack against MadWilly. I've never seen a kdice player so pissed. But I loved every minute sitting in my top corner as the field general commanding the troops to slaughter.

if that's epic, every game since i stopped playing, and most while i played has been epic. I am a 10 star general, and my troops slaughter all!!

So, It was getting pretty late one night, and I had decided to play “just one more” game of kdice before bed. The tables were empty, so I had to sit in on the end of another game. It was almost over, and the flags were going up, when the dominant player for some reason decided to give fourth to the player in fifth (I think because he liked his avatar). The flags went up, and I sat down as yellow on the next game. The dominant player from the last game now is blue and the player that ended up in fourth is purple.

The map was vaguely triangular and after some beginning play the layout was like this: Red was fairly strong in the NW corner, Green had 1 territory in the West, Purple was the strongest player and controlled the South, I had 3 territories in the middle, Blue was in the SW, Brown was also fairly strong in the NW, and Teal was in the East, with only a few territories.

In the chat Purple and Blue were discussing the last game and Purple made a joke about “returning the favor.” Red misunderstood this and accused them of a PGA. Even though I knew there was no PGA, I was still in a bad position, so when Red proposed a counter I jumped at the chance for some allies. Teal and I allied with Red, and Purple and Blue allied with Green. Brown remained neutral.

Brown tried to finish off Green, so Blue counterattacked to save his ally. Purple began to destroy Teal, while I did what I could to help Teal defend himself. In the meantime, Red was boxed in by his allies on the East and by Brown on the West, so he couldn’t attack for fear of alienating someone. Things were going badly for us. Brown was having terrible luck finishing Green, so Blue was becoming bigger and bigger. Teal and I didn’t stand a chance against Purple, and Red was powerless to help.

Then a few things happened at once. First, Brown managed to destroy Green, although he still was having bad luck with Blue. Then Blue made the mistake of opening a window for Red to attack in the West. Then, in a heroic move, Teal sacrificed his last territory so that Red could get at Purple as well. However, we still were behind in territories and it seemed doubtful that we would win.

When all was lost, there was another shift in the kdice winds. First Blue misclicked and attacked his ally. Suddenly Brown’s luck changed and he was able to get a crucial cut on Blue. I had somehow managed to stay uncut by Purple long enough for Red to shift his focus and help me out. The tide had turned, and now we were winning.

Purple saw that he was going down, so he tried to at least salvage a fourth place by taking me out. He launched an all-out suicide attack, leaving me with 1 or 2 territories. I retreated into the ruins of Purple’s empire, while Blue soldiered on in the fight against Brown. Purple screamed at his ally to finish me off... but it was too late. I was too far away and Red had already cleaned up Purple’s wreckage. Blue finally took the hint, and sent one of his last 8 stacks to get me. In the end, he took me down in a 6v8, and I got fifth.

Sorry for the novel, but that was the most fun game of kdice I have ever played.