[Spoilers] Fintourist and Old Harry have nothing to see here

[Fintourist]

Weird turn. dtay offered us open borders and 1 gpt, we haggled and gave in at 1.5 gpt.

Actually we did this deal with TBS/Jowy

Their maps revealed the rest of the world, dtays land looks a bit crappy, the TBS city that got razed was between Riole and New Xerxes:

I think in the short term dtay's land is superior to us. There are a decent amount of good tiles and it does not look like he has been forced to chop his way through jungle like we have done. In the long-term his land indeed looks a bit dry and our jungle tiles become delicious grassland..

I also spent a little while looking our new maps and here are couple of random shots:

Ichabod's amazing marble-plains hill capital already made me cry but so does Lewwyn's..



Wet corn & 2x pigs.. I don't even want to imagine how fast one can start with those resources. Also his expansion prospects don't look too grim..



Look at that commerce! If that region does not cause a conflict, I think nothing will..

I guess they're putting a horse archer army together for m_h or Suttree and using us as a decoy (they are the only ones who could get fooled). let it be the latter.

If I were in yurimack's position I would definitely take m_h's land first. M_h has no power to speak of so there is a real chance of quick successful invasion. Meanwhile suttree is being useful as he is destroying both his own and our game and after YM is ready with m_h, suttree can be taken out with eyes closed.

Well, interesting times ahead..

We lost Suttree's graphs again, but we have TBSJ's so who do we want next? Plako or Ichabod? Or just pile the EPs into Suttree?

I think Ichabod? He is or at least will be our neighbor..

I ended turn. We need to play after YM next turn.

I don't think we need to be too strict about this unless we really start seeing some units somewhere. Maybe we can end our turns after him for the sake of formality.

Hydra: You have a very valid point about the city K. We talked about it with Harry and we are not really worried about conflict with m_h. We are more worried about the posibility that suttree sends his stack towards Königgratz when he notices our borders. If that happens we might need to launch an own attack so that we tie his units to the eastern front.. Damn I wish we could just get peace with him..