[Spoilers] Old Human Tourist: Empress of Azteca

[Old Harry]

I think I have been reading pretty close so far but this came of nowhere. Are Pindicator and Barry at war? For how long?
I mean I enjoy the micro, I really do, but I'm also a lurker and I deserved blood even if is from your not so very far away neighbor.

Not close enough!

It seems Barry Lyndon lost a city to pindicator. Could be Cheater Hater, but based on their map positions it would be a bit crazy.

We haven't met Pindicator yet, but on T73 Barry lost a size 2 city to him and last turn Barry whipped from 112->108, then on Pindi's turn he went down to T105 and Pindi gained 133->134. Barry's down to two cities now, so we can only hope that Pindi suffers with increased maintenance costs .

Edit: Damn beaten to it!

To make up for the fact that we can't give you direct account of the blood I'll tempt you with my Azza attack thoughts instead...

On t90 when we get Currency we'll have six axes, five archers, a spear and six warriors. With wealth builds we can get Construction by t100, then can get HBR by t107.


If we part-build Axes and Spears we can whip them on t99 and overflow into eight to ten catapults. These will then stage NE of Flossie on t107 (a couple would be a turn behind). They'll move into the city on t108, in view of Azza, but perhaps he won't notice... then we can chop that forest and road it on t109 allowing us to move next to Hello Joe. Depending on the defense in that city we can road that forest tile, take Hello Joe and move on to the next forest tile on t110 or t111 (we can't quite fork Prove me Wrong but we could perhaps land some units from a galley to draw his attention.)


During all this we'll have been whipping into Horse Archers who can catch up the stack and reinforce just when Azza has been building units that do well against Axes (Axes and Archers I presume).

The question here is what Azza's tech rate is going to be. He started Maths this turn, having just got Masonry, so is he looking for a pyramids-chop or stone to help pre-build it? Maths should take him about 10-15 turns, meaning that he'll get it around about t90. If he then goes to Currency that will be about t100-105. By t105 he should notice a spike in our power graph, we can try to disguise the spike by declaring on someone else that we both know. If he starts on Construction then he can perhaps have Catapults by t113, which I'm hoping will be too late . If he goes for Construction before Currency then we shouldn't attack him. At that point we should probably tech Code of Laws and concentrate on building an economy to get us to guilds. All of this means that keeping tech visibility on Azza is our top espionage priority.

What do you think Retep? Will that work?