[SPOILERS] Vive l'Afrique libre : Bowsling and Aivoturso are Mansa Musa of the Zulu

[Bowsling]

Player Analysis

Lord Parkin/Arkipeller/Magno_uy
With WilliamLP dedlurking

This team will be... an adventure. Lord Parkin is obviously a very very strong player and will probably micro this civ into a lead. This is probably the most educational of all the teams, as both his teammates are fairly inexperienced players. The trouble for them will probably be to avoid being the dogpile candidate, the natural result of Parkin's games. If diplomacy is left to Arkipeller and Magno, they might be able to pull this off. I pray to god that Magno and Arkipeller do the diplomacy for this team. WilliamLP seems to be a solid player, but I'm not sure how actively he'll be participating.

slaze/Maga_R
With Jovan Kukic dedlurking

I think this is the most appropriate gif I used for any team. slaze is a no-nonsense kind of guy: he'll just sit in the corner plotting until he decides that the time is ripe for you to be destroyed. And at that point, you're dead. slaze is I think the strongest player in this game, although he doesn't really boast about it in any way. This is the second frontrunner that I predict we'll see, and IMO the favourites to win this one. This doesn't even include his teammate Maga, also a skilled player (as long as she doesn't start using privateers! ). Jovan Kukic is a very strong player AFAIK, but I have no experience with him.

YossarianLives/Caledorn
With scooter and Old Harry dedlurking

This is a team that I suspect we'll be working with closely. Both are strong players (although I've ever seen or read Yossarian play solo), but I doubt they can run away with a game like this. Instead, I see them being our allies in taking down slaze or Lord Parkin. This team will be very easy to work with, although we should not be too quick to trust them. Their diplomacy will be very strong. Old Harry and especially scooter dedlurking makes them scarier.

Yuufo/Bisons

I still haven't quite deciphered how the French civ community plays. This will be a mid-level team that's not very interested in diplomacy. There is probably a lot to gain if we can get them to trust us, although I wouldn't count on that.

classical_hero/Halvgud

I really really really want to start near these guys. Halvgud seems to be a newbie (he played for a bit in the warmup game before getting replaced by more experienced Filon), and he is an RL friend of Caledorn's. classical_hero, on the other hand, will be pulling the strings here. His play is textbook improvement junkie. I took over for his civ after he bailed on the Intrateam Game, and man, that civ was a disaster. Nearly useless improvements were built all over the place, and he was running a hardcore SE and understandably getting wayyyy outteched by his neighbour slaze. I could go on with examples, but suffice it to say that this team will be highly conquerable: big, well-improved cities with small, backward garrisons.

Jury is still out on which side is the cat in the cat gifs. I think it's us.