Turn 197
Peace in our time! Interestingly, dtay continued the fight against Ichabod up north. Burning The Locust Tree when Ichabod's stack of knights was only two tiles away... If Ichabod moves the stack right Shower in Red should be safe, but his northern island city is a gonner.
We've got 10 turns of peace at exactly the right time for us, allowing us to cover (unlikely) aggression from Mackoti along the 49th parallel if needs be. But how do we parley those ten turns into permanent peace? I already gave Ichabod the banana he demanded, I think having some privateers and frigates in the water will help (I'd hold back from pillaging - show him that we're being friendly, but that he has no chance of out-muscling us), but reinforcing the cities is probably our best bet. But let's try Mackoti-style diplomacy too. Offer him whatever luxuries he needs, to try to keep him dependent on us... Also we need Plako (another AGG with access to cheap Amphibious promotion) to turn this little fleet around too..
Borders in The Evening Boat will pop to 100 culture in four turns, so we should get some of those tiles back.
Demos and power
I haven't moved anything (much) so we can work out what goes where later on. On the more land question I'd look at Dtay next. We have six-move galleons on one coast and 4-movers on the other...
Peace in our time! Interestingly, dtay continued the fight against Ichabod up north. Burning The Locust Tree when Ichabod's stack of knights was only two tiles away... If Ichabod moves the stack right Shower in Red should be safe, but his northern island city is a gonner.
We've got 10 turns of peace at exactly the right time for us, allowing us to cover (unlikely) aggression from Mackoti along the 49th parallel if needs be. But how do we parley those ten turns into permanent peace? I already gave Ichabod the banana he demanded, I think having some privateers and frigates in the water will help (I'd hold back from pillaging - show him that we're being friendly, but that he has no chance of out-muscling us), but reinforcing the cities is probably our best bet. But let's try Mackoti-style diplomacy too. Offer him whatever luxuries he needs, to try to keep him dependent on us... Also we need Plako (another AGG with access to cheap Amphibious promotion) to turn this little fleet around too..
Borders in The Evening Boat will pop to 100 culture in four turns, so we should get some of those tiles back.
Demos and power
Completed: RB Demogame - Gillette, PBEM46, Pitboss 13, Pitboss 18, Pitboss 30, Pitboss 31, Pitboss 38, Pitboss 42, Pitboss 46, Pitboss 52 (Pindicator's game), Pitboss 57
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