RBP3 [SPOILERS] National Pastime (Rapoleon_Hi of the Aztecs)

[Ruff_Hi]

I'm away from Monday to Friday this week. Yaz will be playing my sets. Here are his instructions . I think I have access to these boards so you can ask me a question if it comes up.

Firstly, never end your turn. Just let the game roll on. That way you should be able to play at the same time each day with no problems of missing your turn. Secondly, if anything out of the ordinary happens (War declaration, tech demand, OB request, ...) then post here and I will get you an answer.

You should see gold requests come in from the CUDDLE partners. I have asked them to mention that they are CUDDLE and the tech they need the gold for. Here are the CUDDLE partners ...

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[b][SIZE="4"][color=MediumTurquoise]Player            Civ        Leader[/color][/SIZE][/b]
Ruff            Aztec        Napoleon
WarriorKnight        Ottoman        Zara Yaqob
Mukha/Dantski        Portugal    Willem
Ilios            HRE        Mehmed
darrelljs        India        Bismarck
Athlete/Nakor        Inca        Joao
Sandover        Rome        Kublai Khan
Bob/Mania/Moogle    Byzantium    Hannibal

99.94
I just whipped a market here. Please put the overflow into the settler that is in the queue. If the settler will finish in 1 or 2 turns, then just let him finish - working the cottages, silver mine. If it will take longer than that, then work on a courthouse / sacrificial altar. If you finish the settler, he goes North to the city tile marked next to the iron.

60.97
Finish the HA and start another, double whip it after 1 turn of production is into the unit with the overflow going into a missionary.

60.83
Grow. I think this guy is building a sacrificial alter ... just let it role.

60.73
Grow. Sacrificial Alter here too (I think). This guy is a prime whip candidate so it needs that Sac-Alter sooner than later.

Units

• Warrior in far NW - he heads back to Aztec land generally SE
  
• Warrior in W - jigjog S and N while heading generally W - revealing tiles
  
• Archer in W - generally SW revealing tiles but bouncing N if he gets to close to the jigjogging warrior
  
• HA (and double whipped one) from 60.97 - head towards India and gift unit when he is in their land
  
• 1st missionary if you product one - name 'for Portugal' and head him towards India, gifting at first opportunity. 2nd one, name 'for Rome' and head him towards Inca, gifting at first opportunity
  
• workers - this is where it gets hard to coordinate ... here is a list of tasks ... manage your worker force as best as you can
  • road from 60.97 towards India making sure you go thru the tile marked '5E'
    
  • road from 60.83 towards India, diagonally towards piggies
    
  • cottage on FPlain at 60.83
    
  • plantation on silk at 60.83
    
  • cottage on FPlain at 60.73
    
  • grassland mines and roads at 60.73
    
  • road diagonally from 99.94 NE towards warrior on 'city' tile - chop forest out from under warrior
    
  • chop forest 1NW of silver mine with 'city' tile
    

[novice]

Units

• Warrior in W - jigjog S and N while heading generally W - revealing tiles
  
• Archer in W - generally SW revealing tiles but bouncing N if he gets to close to the jigjogging warrior
  

Heh, I learn new words every day... Have a nice holiday/trip.

[Ruff_Hi]

jigjog comes from a SMH crossword by LB. That was one of his answers to a certain clue that none of us could guess. We all yelled at the paper the next day when we saw the solution. The really funny thing was that I worked with LB's daughter and when I told her the clue, she supplied 'jigjog' in 2 seconds flat. She said it was a family special ... that just made me more annoyed.

Other memorial LB answers ... 'dehired' (for fired) and 'empurplement'.

It got to the stage where we got familiar with LB and we were guessing some of these crazy answers ... just because they fitted.

[novice]

Norwegian is an agglutinative language which means that you can create arbitrarily long compound words. That sets the stage for some creative crosswords. The two solution words in yesterday's crossword were krysantemumdyrkingsmiljø (environment for growing chrysanthemums) and kjellermesterfavorittstudium (butler's favourite study). The clues were greenhouse and oenology.

[Ruff_Hi]

oh - 1 final instruction no gifting any of my workers, cities, etc away (unless I mentioned it above).

[Ruff_Hi]

the game is back. I've done a tour of my cities and queue'd builds at all of them. If any of the queue'd builds finish, then ...

99.94: settler
Other: missionary

[Ruff_Hi]

Since at least 2 international treaties have been "forgotten", intentionally or unintentionally, in the last few turns (none involving Maya), I thought it was prudent to send out a reminder to everyone of the treaties we have. If this looks a bit like a form letter, it's because I'm sending this to multiple civilizations making minor edits, since we have very similar NAP's with several civilizations:

NAP: Duration: Indefinite until until superceded by mutual agreement or until 10 turns after either side initiates a cooldown/renegotiation period by e-mailing their intention to do so to the other, except as follows:

The "Don't Hurt My Friends" Clause: If you declare war on Mali or Babylon, we'll have the right to counter-strike in their defense. You (Azteca) listed India as your civs with whom we could not declare without you being able to counter strike.

The "No Silly Shennanigans" Clause: In addition to just not attacking each other, both sides agree not to aid or support an attack on the other - for instance, no gifting units to another civ that's planning to attack the NAP partner, no providing right of passage to another civ's attacking stack, etc.

We fully intend to honor the no providing ROP for anyone elses stack to attack you, as well as the no gifting of units to a third party to fight a proxy war, and hope that you will honor your agreement not to do the same.

In addition, we've agreed to allow one sentry unit within each others boarders.

~Maniac

Friendly Kittens,

Thank you for your reminder. I didn't think I needed the reminder, but with the actions off to my East, it probably makes sense to buzz me about it.

I am getting some pressure from my consortium to cancel this NAP with all of its clauses. As such, I am providing formal notice that I will be reluctantly exiting our NAP, effective T162.

Regards,

Ruff

I've also revolted into Nationalism and started to draft some rifles. Krill has also revolted into Nationalism too.