War!!

In the online strategy game Tribal Wars, a belligerent tribe has been causing problems with one of our tribe members. After repeated pleas for peace, the one member of the other tribe refused to stop attacking one of our tribesmen, and the leader of the other tribe simply laughed at us.

In order to protect our tribe member, I launched a series of attacks against the hostile village in order to decimate its attacking forces. After the success of my mission, however, came the cries of “not fair!” from the other tribe. Now that entire tribe is amassing a large army to attack me.

All because one player wanted the resources of another player and refused to stop attacking him when asked politely. Now our two tribes are facing war. A war born in arrogance and raised in pride.

It is no wonder there is no peace in the world.

Day of Judgment

I have created a coat-of-arms for the tribe I belong to in Tribal Wars. The tribe is called Day of Judgment. I think I captured the motif pretty well.

I started out with the coat-of-arms for the American Heraldry Society, then completely erased the shield section, leaving only the laurels intact. This gave me the desired “clean slate” of a shield with a nice border to start with. I colored the entire shield red, then added some shading to give it a nice three-dimensional look.

I then found a cartoon image of the sun, which I erased the face off of and cleaned up a little. This is meant to represent the “day”. After that, I grabbed an image of a warhammer from the game World of Warcraft using a utility called WoW Model Viewer. The hammer is meant to represent judgment. As a bonus, the hammer has a sun on it, too!  The laurels are meant to represent peace, which is what we are striving for with our neighboring tribes.

All in all, I think it turned out rather well.

Tribal Wars

I finally started playing this online game called Tribal Wars.  A bunch of my friends have been playing it, and it sounded interesting, but, for some reason, I kept forgetting to check it out.

The game is pretty simple to play.  You manage resources, build armies, fight wars, and engage in diplomacy.  It’s more of a numbers game and doesn’t really have much in the way of graphics, except for a graphical representation of your villages.  The game world is “always on”, but it takes a long time to get things going.

So far, I’m impressed with the game.  I’m still just playing around with a “trial village”, but once I find out where my friends are all stationed, I’m going to try and restart closer to them.  We’ll see how it goes.