Hey,
congrats for getting the capital back! I was going to wish you luck for an amazing comeback, where you rely on being just spiky enough so that wou won't be attacked, a lot of destructive wars happening all around the globe and slowly grinding yourself back to relevance and to a beautiful T350 victory. However... Gavagai's border city is so damn aggressive that it feels almost like a commitment to attack you latest in the mid-game.
TBH, now that OT6mn has retreated that might be a too greedy play from Gavagai, because you should be able to remain spiky still for a good while and now he definitely has a border where he needs keep a decent amount of units and he might need to attack you instead of some kind of a more lucrative opportunistic target. Of course, Pazuzu is settled on a nice defensive and tactical location so it might be just a solid powerplay, time will tell.
About the delenda est vs. sit tight: As you know, I don't believe in sub-optimal playing just to spite someone who screwed your game, so if you are going to make moves against OT6mn I think there are two requirements (assuming the you don't believe that it will improve your actual winning chances when it would of course be OK):
1. You need believe to some extent that those guys will be coming back and attack you in the future
2. You believe you can fight OT6mn in a way that you actually achieve positive exchanges (hammer-wise or through achieving something in the strategic sense)
This was mostly just thinking out loud, and not really coherent, but hey, I needed a minor dosis of civ!
congrats for getting the capital back! I was going to wish you luck for an amazing comeback, where you rely on being just spiky enough so that wou won't be attacked, a lot of destructive wars happening all around the globe and slowly grinding yourself back to relevance and to a beautiful T350 victory. However... Gavagai's border city is so damn aggressive that it feels almost like a commitment to attack you latest in the mid-game.
TBH, now that OT6mn has retreated that might be a too greedy play from Gavagai, because you should be able to remain spiky still for a good while and now he definitely has a border where he needs keep a decent amount of units and he might need to attack you instead of some kind of a more lucrative opportunistic target. Of course, Pazuzu is settled on a nice defensive and tactical location so it might be just a solid powerplay, time will tell.
About the delenda est vs. sit tight: As you know, I don't believe in sub-optimal playing just to spite someone who screwed your game, so if you are going to make moves against OT6mn I think there are two requirements (assuming the you don't believe that it will improve your actual winning chances when it would of course be OK):
1. You need believe to some extent that those guys will be coming back and attack you in the future
2. You believe you can fight OT6mn in a way that you actually achieve positive exchanges (hammer-wise or through achieving something in the strategic sense)
This was mostly just thinking out loud, and not really coherent, but hey, I needed a minor dosis of civ!