Who is winning?
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Topic: Who is winning?
Posted By: Epidemic
Subject: Who is winning?
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2013 at 09:00
I'm sure many of us are wondering who is winning, so I created this topic so the spinsters can tell us. 
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Posted By: Aurordan
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2013 at 09:04
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HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Ha. This should be fun. I'll get the ball rolling. Grand Alliance, no doubt. Huge number of razed cities, Even more exoduses, and clear strategic initiative in almost all areas.
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Posted By: Tan Las
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2013 at 10:19
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I agree. Certainly looks like Grand Alliance to me. I'm sure we will hear the counter view soon. P.s. I give this thread till page 3 before it is closed! |
Posted By: Arakamis
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2013 at 11:58
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. -- Winston Churchill All war is deception. -- Sun Tzu |
Posted By: st aug
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2013 at 17:23
| All the ones involved know who's winning . The rest of us watching form the side lines you don't need to know. Its none of your business. You want to know join the fight you'll find out real fast who's winning . [ don't judge a man until you walk in his shoes ] |
Posted By: Halcyon
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2013 at 18:51
We are all winners! 
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Posted By: Diomedes
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2013 at 18:59
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Halcyon is correct - anyone who's ranking is improving in any area is a winner - so irrespective of the words of the spin-merchants, all engaged in the current war are winners one way or the other.
------------- "Walk in the way of the good, for the righteous will dwell in the land" |
Posted By: ES2
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2013 at 19:45
What defines a victory? If you invest most of your units into one area and lose a majority of them in the process of gaining control of that area, is that really a victory? You would still have so much field to cover with substantially less units, high loss/low gain. ------------- Eternal Fire |
Arakamis wrote:Posted By: Arakamis
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2013 at 20:30
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?? i'm not sure what you meant with that but i guess we can safely quote from Sun Tzu again.. :)) He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious. -- Sun Tzu edit: typo
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Posted By: Brandmeister
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2013 at 20:49
In the long term, the defeat of your opponent, presumably by surrender or destruction, or possibly just by retreat or stalemate (in defensive conflicts). In the short term, victory is defined by the achievement of objectives that support your long term victory conditions, or else thwart the compromise of those conditions.
If you need to control that area to achieve your victory conditions, it's really a victory. Your opponents would need to invest a lot of Illyriad units to inflict those casualties on you. If achieving the individual victory meant compromising your ability to achieve your long term goal for overall victory, then it was a Pyrrhic win. For example, if you broke an individual huge siege, but subsequently lacked the cavalry to break future sieges, then it was a foolish short term victory. |
Posted By: Faenix
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2013 at 21:01
| I won months ago, not sure why everybody is still playing. |
Posted By: Rill
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2013 at 08:00
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Spinsters??
Spinsters??? Look, just because I haven't found the right guy or girl yet doesn't mean it will NEVER happen. I'm sure my lack of romantic prospects has nothing to do with the time I spend playing Illy, and I object to the very suggestion.
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Posted By: Halcyon
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2013 at 18:02
 Rill.
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Posted By: jcx
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2014 at 08:09
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We are all winners - Happy New Year!
------------- Disclaimer: The above is jcx|orcboy's personal opinion and is not the opinion or policy of Harmless? [H?] or of the little green men that have been following him all day. jcx in H? | orcboy in H? |
Posted By: Nesse
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2014 at 17:56
Can I borrow your shoes, st aug? ------------- Nesse(Dwarven Druids) and Odd (Fairy Road Authority) |
Posted By: BBC
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2014 at 21:27
I still say I won tho |
Posted By: Juswin
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2014 at 12:58
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King Sigurd wins. ------------- It may be that you are right. Then again, you may be wrong. http://elgea.illyriad.co.uk/a/p/57903" rel="nofollow">  |