[LURKERS] PBEM 68: I Hope They Don't Notice The Barb Tanks

[Commodore]

Got us a final map Brick? Kind of want to kick around with Sian's combo.

[BRickAstley]

Here ya go.

[Commodore]

Heh, welp, nice for Sian and Retep there. The Migel/AI team is *extremely* optimistic.

[Commodore]

I'm fascinated watching this war between Grimace/AIM. Grimace's initial city was aggressive, and it is irrational that he expected them to let it go unremarked...but at the same time, AIM's baffling inability to understand the dangers of "do unto a man a small injury" isn't exactly smart either, as is their continued defensive stance. Dudes, you just Oracled Feudalism, abandon whatever preconceptions of "proper splits" you had and go wipe a dude out, preferably the dude going nuts on your western jibblies.

And celebrate! Again, you just Oracled Feudalism!


Edit: The baffling blind spot everyone is showing towards horse archers...

[DTG]

I'm fascinated watching this war between Grimace/AIM. Grimace's initial city was aggressive, and it is irrational that he expected them to let it go unremarked...but at the same time, AIM's baffling inability to understand the dangers of "do unto a man a small injury" isn't exactly smart either, as is their continued defensive stance. Dudes, you just Oracled Feudalism, abandon whatever preconceptions of "proper splits" you had and go wipe a dude out, preferably the dude going nuts on your western jibblies.

Dude.

Yeah, it's fun to watch. Grimace's spot was greedy and exposed and he got called on it. The problem is that, while he recognizes that the spot was exposed, he doesn't believe that it was greedy: the site might be geographically equidistant between the two capitals, but Grimace's city claimed 5 resources, stealing 2 of these almost permanently from AIM (the Gems and the Clams), and putting cultural pressure on a 3rd (the Pigs, if AIM had settled the crap Pigs/Jungle city).

Settling this spot would be fine, OFC, if he (Grimace) had been squeezed for land and/or had an army to defend it. But he wasn't and he didn't, and now he's entered grudge mode for something that was largely his own fault. A city 1S of the Gems wouldn't have been attacked, I'm sure.

Regardless, AIM should recognize that Grimace is tilting and build some Horse Archers to push the Vulture flood back. They don't even need to push especially far: if a small HArcher stack can shift Grimace's attitude from "revenge!! " to "argh! Please let me live! ", I dare say it's worth delaying Currency.

[Commodore]

Well that was bad metagaming by Sian and AIMig.

[AdrienIer]

I'm fascinated watching this war between Grimace/AIM. Grimace's initial city was aggressive, and it is irrational that he expected them to let it go unremarked...but at the same time, AIM's baffling inability to understand the dangers of "do unto a man a small injury" isn't exactly smart either, as is their continued defensive stance. Dudes, you just Oracled Feudalism, abandon whatever preconceptions of "proper splits" you had and go wipe a dude out, preferably the dude going nuts on your western jibblies.

And celebrate! Again, you just Oracled Feudalism!


Edit: The baffling blind spot everyone is showing towards horse archers...

I was perfectly aware of why Grimace was acting like that, I've had similar reactions before. I admit that rushing HAs and conquering someone so early is not the kind of strategy my builder-oriented mind considers.

I'm fascinated watching this war between Grimace/AIM. Grimace's initial city was aggressive, and it is irrational that he expected them to let it go unremarked...but at the same time, AIM's baffling inability to understand the dangers of "do unto a man a small injury" isn't exactly smart either, as is their continued defensive stance. Dudes, you just Oracled Feudalism, abandon whatever preconceptions of "proper splits" you had and go wipe a dude out, preferably the dude going nuts on your western jibblies.

Dude.

Yeah, it's fun to watch. Grimace's spot was greedy and exposed and he got called on it. The problem is that, while he recognizes that the spot was exposed, he doesn't believe that it was greedy: the site might be geographically equidistant between the two capitals, but Grimace's city claimed 5 resources, stealing 2 of these almost permanently from AIM (the Gems and the Clams), and putting cultural pressure on a 3rd (the Pigs, if AIM had settled the crap Pigs/Jungle city).

Settling this spot would be fine, OFC, if he (Grimace) had been squeezed for land and/or had an army to defend it. But he wasn't and he didn't, and now he's entered grudge mode for something that was largely his own fault. A city 1S of the Gems wouldn't have been attacked, I'm sure.

Regardless, AIM should recognize that Grimace is tilting and build some Horse Archers to push the Vulture flood back. They don't even need to push especially far: if a small HArcher stack can shift Grimace's attitude from "revenge!! " to "argh! Please let me live! ", I dare say it's worth delaying Currency.

I would have been fine with a city 1S of where Grimace settled. I'd have settled my city and we'd have split the land right there. The spot he chose took away an additional pig and clam, which made the rest of the area undesirable in the short term.