Turn 167
Pindicator is folding... the eight C2 Cav and two Cuirs 2E1N of Strand should make short work of this lot. Why the Choko didn't attack out baffles me though. In other news Krovice are keeping a close eye on what's going on and have just revolted to war civics. Finally dtay is saving cash and won't get Astro straight away, but it shouldn't take him long. Perhaps t170? He doesn't have Chemistry either yet, so we have a short window of naval dominance. If we don't make it count though things could turn nasty...
Krovice have 16 Knights, 7 HA, 9 Wellys, a stack of Cats and two great artists on their border with dtay. I know optimism is a bad thing, but I'm starting to feel just the slightest stirrings of the stuff... Their Galley is watching our southern military build-up, so they know that a dogpile is possible.
We don't quite have enough cash left to 1-turn Chemistry, and we've got about 10-15 Knights to upgrade for our attack (at 50 gold each), so we're saving cash for a turn and will complete Chemistry eot168. That means we're not going to have Frigates between dtay's landmasses until t172. I put us on 10% research to disguise our max cash rate for anyone without tech visibility. I also re-learnt (
) a valuable lesson about when you can upgrade units on boats (only when they are in a city - or perhaps a fort - and have movement points left) but I don't think that will cause us any delays. One small change of plan is that dtay keeps adding units to his coastal cities. So it looks like we can only take one city from Hazelnut, so I won't build the second Galleon there, and will get another Cuir instead. I haven't seen any Caravels in the water yet, but they could yet blow our plan. (I have a feeling that dtay probably knows something is going on already though.)
Gertie borrowed the pig from Daisy to make the University a 4 turn build and to grow in three. Daisy will get near to starving, but just about manage.
Demos and power. Our export/import ratio is looking pretty good now. In fact everything except our soldier numbers is pleasing here. Remind me why we aren't just carrying on with buildering?
Pindicator is folding... the eight C2 Cav and two Cuirs 2E1N of Strand should make short work of this lot. Why the Choko didn't attack out baffles me though. In other news Krovice are keeping a close eye on what's going on and have just revolted to war civics. Finally dtay is saving cash and won't get Astro straight away, but it shouldn't take him long. Perhaps t170? He doesn't have Chemistry either yet, so we have a short window of naval dominance. If we don't make it count though things could turn nasty...
Krovice have 16 Knights, 7 HA, 9 Wellys, a stack of Cats and two great artists on their border with dtay. I know optimism is a bad thing, but I'm starting to feel just the slightest stirrings of the stuff... Their Galley is watching our southern military build-up, so they know that a dogpile is possible.
We don't quite have enough cash left to 1-turn Chemistry, and we've got about 10-15 Knights to upgrade for our attack (at 50 gold each), so we're saving cash for a turn and will complete Chemistry eot168. That means we're not going to have Frigates between dtay's landmasses until t172. I put us on 10% research to disguise our max cash rate for anyone without tech visibility. I also re-learnt (
) a valuable lesson about when you can upgrade units on boats (only when they are in a city - or perhaps a fort - and have movement points left) but I don't think that will cause us any delays. One small change of plan is that dtay keeps adding units to his coastal cities. So it looks like we can only take one city from Hazelnut, so I won't build the second Galleon there, and will get another Cuir instead. I haven't seen any Caravels in the water yet, but they could yet blow our plan. (I have a feeling that dtay probably knows something is going on already though.)Gertie borrowed the pig from Daisy to make the University a 4 turn build and to grow in three. Daisy will get near to starving, but just about manage.
Demos and power. Our export/import ratio is looking pretty good now. In fact everything except our soldier numbers is pleasing here. Remind me why we aren't just carrying on with buildering?
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
In progress: Rimworld
In progress: Rimworld