[Spoilers] Old Human Tourist: Empress of Azteca

[Old Harry]

Did I miss any other scenarios?

"The Oxjowy"
Azza spitefully keeps all forces poised against Mardoc and hands you the game.

When did Jowy do that?

Other random note: In his PBEM60 thread BobChillingworth admits to being BarryLyndon . How did whoever knew know he was a smurf? Was that you Fintourist?

Turn 129 - To Business!

Hmmm hopefully Commodore's prediction is coming true - no movement detected on the Azzian front. All his visible cities are exactly as well defended as they were last turn (although we didn't really give him any other option with how we timed the declaration). Oddly he finished chopping into his capital this turn and then didn't delete the worker - we'll just have to make sure that build doesn't complete. He 2-whipped the cap and 3-whipped Hello Joe and PMW. (I'd be interested in a graph that shows how the turns in anarchy vs the pop you get on capture influence productivity of a city - I'd rather have a small, fast starter popping borders quickly in most war situations, but I'd like a rule of thumb for how long it'll take for the value of a big city to overtake a little one after capture.)

Down south it looks like he's not planning to threaten Zzzap. Anyway we'll start on the capital.


Green Knight vs Axe 65% WIN (down to 0.5/10 but with 3XP)
C2 HA vs Warrior 96% WIN
And we get the city with 140 gold and a Granary! Fintourist and I are having an argument about how good this city would be as a HE city - it's not as good as I was hoping for hammers and already has four villages, so perhaps we'll just have to build a bunch of infra instead .


Next up Hello joe:
C1 Mace vs Axe 66% LOSS (Axe down to 3.0/5)


Which means that our two Axes are going to end up fighting Axes, not the Spear so the Knight will have to take a 65% risk against the Spear . But wait, we have an Archer! If we suicide an Axe against the axe the Archer might get a go at the Spear...
C1 Axe vs Axe 9% LOSS (Axe down to 3.4/5)
Archer vs Spear 0.9% LOSS (Spear took six hits!)

Unit costs!

Green Knight vs Injured Axe 98% WIN (down to 2.0/10, 2 XP)
3XP Knight vs Injured Axe 99% WIN (down to 8.4 and 4/2 XP)
3XP Knight vs Warior 99% WIN (down to 7.6 and 4/2 XP) And we get a Great General in Gertie
5XP HA vs injured Spear 96% FLAWLESS WIN (7 XP)
We get 86 gold and again a Granary!


Then Prove Me Wrong:
F2 HA vs Spear 1% (50% withdraw) FLAWLESS LOSS


Green Knight vs Spear 29% LOSS (Spear down to 1.8)
C1 Knight vs Injured Spear 98% WIN (down to 8.3/10)
We got 131 gold and another Granary . Also the Ivory is now out of his culture and next turn we can disconnect his copper, leaving him with just horses hooked.


That's a very productive turn . Although the RNG could have been a little kinder. Lets see what our options are next turn:


Oh no! An Elephant. Well at least he can't build any more... Azza has nothing visible in the pipeline to counter-attack us next turn (we can't totally rule Horse Archers out). Annoyingly our visibility on Azza's cities disappeared - we put 20 EPs into him and he put 4 into us, so I don't understand why that would happen - any thoughts? I think we need to see what the situation with Boo-urns is next turn, if he hasn't reinforced we put all our 2-movers where they can hit it on t131, if he has reinforced then we're waiting for our supporting Cats and Maces to catch up. We're shuffling a bunch of units towards the front and with Engineering in a couple of turns that'll get quicker.

In foreign news we met Xenu and GNP tech checking reveals these results:
- Engy 593 (one civ knows it)
- Paper 567 (none)
- Aest 593 (one civ knows it)
- Phil 593 (one civ knows it)
- Banking 567 (none)
- Compass 567 (none)
- Gunpowder 567 (none)

Demos and power