So I thought I had switched to Industrialism, but I actually left the tech at Biology. Oh well, that works too... If a tank rush is coming I'll have to defend with infantry, machine guns and cannons, but that's not a crazy thing.
Retep is playing five minute turns, and seems to have switched everything to research and wealth now after his last round of military builds. His GNP is very high now, higher than the last tick of the graph shows.
Needless to say, this guy's personality is kind of erratic.
(Not just judging by this game.) I can understand his annoyance with being forced to miss a turn if he thought the etiquette was to pick a side of a turn split and play there all the time. But putting spoiler info and diplo into the tech thread is extremely childish and poor sportsmanship.
The question is what is Bandit doing? It's safe to say he can't win the long term tech game. If he's hoping to win the game, his only chance is if something gets seriously shaken up. Does he think he can profit from a war vs either me or Retep? I don't think he can do either, but only play kingmaker. But I don't think I can afford to let my power stat lag behind so I'm slowing a bit to build a round of infantry.
His other option is to attack Molach, but Molach has infantry and is just sitting there like a rock with plenty of units - not a great targe. Does he have other war options? A boat invasion of Suttree or trying to pile onto Xenu maybe?
My workers have little to do right now, so I'm dropping down some rails in BoldyXenu's territory. This is both to be friendly and also with an eye to enabling a move of defensive units to his coast, to make things more complicated for Retep if decides to attack after all.
I'm also dropping down a few junk cities, for the marginal (but positive) payoff.
Retep is playing five minute turns, and seems to have switched everything to research and wealth now after his last round of military builds. His GNP is very high now, higher than the last tick of the graph shows.
Needless to say, this guy's personality is kind of erratic.
(Not just judging by this game.) I can understand his annoyance with being forced to miss a turn if he thought the etiquette was to pick a side of a turn split and play there all the time. But putting spoiler info and diplo into the tech thread is extremely childish and poor sportsmanship.The question is what is Bandit doing? It's safe to say he can't win the long term tech game. If he's hoping to win the game, his only chance is if something gets seriously shaken up. Does he think he can profit from a war vs either me or Retep? I don't think he can do either, but only play kingmaker. But I don't think I can afford to let my power stat lag behind so I'm slowing a bit to build a round of infantry.
His other option is to attack Molach, but Molach has infantry and is just sitting there like a rock with plenty of units - not a great targe. Does he have other war options? A boat invasion of Suttree or trying to pile onto Xenu maybe?
My workers have little to do right now, so I'm dropping down some rails in BoldyXenu's territory. This is both to be friendly and also with an eye to enabling a move of defensive units to his coast, to make things more complicated for Retep if decides to attack after all.
I'm also dropping down a few junk cities, for the marginal (but positive) payoff.