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

[Old Harry]

And here is the more interesting idea:




As you know our enforced peace is running out at the end of the turn. I checked with our sentry chariot and there are still only 2 HAs and 1 Archer in Eridu.. So next turn we could:

1. Declare Mackoti
2. Move our sentry chariot onto that pigs hill

If mack has enough units in the neighborhood:
3. We offer peace for a nominal amout of gold or just white peace

If mack does not have enough units:
3. We combat-road the tile SW of Peterloo and try to raze or capture Eridu with 10+ units.

I think this is not a worse than any of our other crazy plans so we could consider it.. The biggest minus is that it might make it more difficult to have a peaceful GA that we have planned so even if we could capture Eridu it's not completely clear we should do it..

Brilliant plan. I'd like to know how Mack could move his horse archer stack (I'd guess he has about 10 and it could be out of sight of our sentry chariot on the other pig perhaps) - if it moves into Eridu what happens to our attack?

Lurkers: We've been pretty slack about the turn split with Mack for the last few turns - but if we just delay playing until Mack ends turn (thus allowing him to double move us if anything) that should be okay shouldn't it? Would it be okay if we do our moving around the rest of the empire and just move in on Mack once he ends turn?

One more comment, in your mack-attack plan you talked about picking up Engineering. I obviously understand the benefits of the tech (especially the tactical importance of 3-move roads), but remember that as long as you are keeping up the economic back-door open staying on Economics-beeline track is attractive. Free GM would be awesome and along with Free Market that's something that we more than need after m_h and Nakor decided to break the game.

I think its only valuable for a couple of the possible attacks, so doesn't really justify itself.

I'm not quite as down on our chances in this game as Fintourist is, since I never really thought we'd win (especially since Mack took over from Yuris). But I don't believe we're totally out of it - our traits will only get stronger as the game goes on and I'm really happy with how well we've competed so far. It's lucky I'm not the one going away for a month isn't it?

I'm happy that you have more character than me and you're not such a -baby.

That wasn't quite what I meant...

Despite my rants it really makes me sad that I won't be seeing our GA(s) and be around during such a deciding phase of the game. After all, there is still a lot of play left in this Pitboss before the winner is clear. Aaand we are not completely out of the race yet and at the very least we have a chance to still make this game and our showing memorable.

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