Turn 255 prologue
Bad news... TBS birthed William Shakespeare
. And I don't think stealth bombers or tanks are the answer 
. More on that later.
The latest plot he foiled was to head through the empty port city of Glamdrol and hit Elensefar or even his capital Weldyn (off the top of this pic). Unfortunately he's not an idiot and stacked a bunch of Cuirs in our way. He's done a much better job of managing his rail network to limit commando strikes than we have vs BGN.
don't let BGN get tempted...
As for whether we can beat him - I think your model is slightly pessimistic Fintourist: When our Thrusters finish building we can add 500 hammers of wealth builds t257 and another 100 t258, meaning our cash reserves could last another six or seven turns instead of the four we have right now. I think we'll end up bumping along between 90% and 100%, which is 9768 or 10649 bpt right now.
We have Satellites, Plastics, Fiber Optiocs, Superconductors, Fission and 15827 beakers into Fusion. We need to run 100% research to get Composites (Casings) eot 257, then we can go for 90% to get Medicine eot 259, Genetics (Stasis Chamber) eot 261 and Ecology (Life Support) eot 262. I don't trust the estimate for t261 and 262 as we'll be out of our golden age by then, but we can hire scientists and suffer mass starvation, so I don't think it'll be a problem...
Watercress (Stasis Chamber - 1200 hammers) has a base hammer rate of 72 (outside golden age) if we follow the signs, but if we workshop the farms and run five engineers it can hit 90 hpt. I'm not sure how many hammers the Battleship will overflow (to be stored in wealth builds until t263 - in fact that's even better for our tech rate!) but it will all get +250% = 315 hpt, meaning that if the base overflow is >80 it should be ready eot 264. (Please check my figures!)
Zucchini (Life Support - 1000 hammers, copper doubles) has a base hammer rate of 55 (at food-neutral and outside a GA), with starvation of -20 food it can make 79 base +350% = 355 hammers. If we use the Docking Bay in our overflow chain we should be able to overflow a huge number of hammers, so the Life Support *should* be a 2-turn build, ready eot 264. (Again, please check my figures...)
So if TBS can improve on t274 for Basilisk then he wins. Although I'm currently pumping highly promoted fighters out to take range promotions and bombard the northern farms on Elensefar. How badly could we hurt this culture date if we shuttled all our 17 spies over here and started poisoning and sabotaging buildings? Could we take out a Cathedral? Why didn't I think of that 20 turns ago
.
As for our other opponent: BGN completed Apollo last turn. His MFG has always been better than ours due to state property, so tech is his constraint. The techs he still needs are Fission, Fusion, Composites, Medicine, Genetics and Ecology. I presume he'll get Fission this turn. Is his economy strong enough to catch up the ~27000 beaker lead we have in seven turns?
Anyway, that's enough speculation, I'll actually play the turn tomorrow
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Bad news... TBS birthed William Shakespeare
. And I don't think stealth bombers or tanks are the answer . More on that later.The latest plot he foiled was to head through the empty port city of Glamdrol and hit Elensefar or even his capital Weldyn (off the top of this pic). Unfortunately he's not an idiot and stacked a bunch of Cuirs in our way. He's done a much better job of managing his rail network to limit commando strikes than we have vs BGN.
don't let BGN get tempted...As for whether we can beat him - I think your model is slightly pessimistic Fintourist: When our Thrusters finish building we can add 500 hammers of wealth builds t257 and another 100 t258, meaning our cash reserves could last another six or seven turns instead of the four we have right now. I think we'll end up bumping along between 90% and 100%, which is 9768 or 10649 bpt right now.
We have Satellites, Plastics, Fiber Optiocs, Superconductors, Fission and 15827 beakers into Fusion. We need to run 100% research to get Composites (Casings) eot 257, then we can go for 90% to get Medicine eot 259, Genetics (Stasis Chamber) eot 261 and Ecology (Life Support) eot 262. I don't trust the estimate for t261 and 262 as we'll be out of our golden age by then, but we can hire scientists and suffer mass starvation, so I don't think it'll be a problem...
Watercress (Stasis Chamber - 1200 hammers) has a base hammer rate of 72 (outside golden age) if we follow the signs, but if we workshop the farms and run five engineers it can hit 90 hpt. I'm not sure how many hammers the Battleship will overflow (to be stored in wealth builds until t263 - in fact that's even better for our tech rate!) but it will all get +250% = 315 hpt, meaning that if the base overflow is >80 it should be ready eot 264. (Please check my figures!)
Zucchini (Life Support - 1000 hammers, copper doubles) has a base hammer rate of 55 (at food-neutral and outside a GA), with starvation of -20 food it can make 79 base +350% = 355 hammers. If we use the Docking Bay in our overflow chain we should be able to overflow a huge number of hammers, so the Life Support *should* be a 2-turn build, ready eot 264. (Again, please check my figures...)
So if TBS can improve on t274 for Basilisk then he wins. Although I'm currently pumping highly promoted fighters out to take range promotions and bombard the northern farms on Elensefar. How badly could we hurt this culture date if we shuttled all our 17 spies over here and started poisoning and sabotaging buildings? Could we take out a Cathedral? Why didn't I think of that 20 turns ago
.As for our other opponent: BGN completed Apollo last turn. His MFG has always been better than ours due to state property, so tech is his constraint. The techs he still needs are Fission, Fusion, Composites, Medicine, Genetics and Ecology. I presume he'll get Fission this turn. Is his economy strong enough to catch up the ~27000 beaker lead we have in seven turns?
Anyway, that's enough speculation, I'll actually play the turn tomorrow
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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