OK, couple of updates. I'm going to write up T141 and T142 and then play T143 a bit later after I've run a few errands. I've just done a run of 3 late shifts, and because I get back late at night I can just about play the turn, but there's no spare time for updates. Or if the turn has not yet rolled, I have to rush it in the morning before I get kicked off the PC so my fiancee can use the room for work. So some of these decisions were a bit rushed.
T141
My paranoia restarted on T141 with Lewwyn sending the trireme forward. I know he just declared peace with DZ, is he coming for the island cities? He has graphs on me, and I was about 7 turns from getting them on him, so I went to 10% EP slider. This has essentially been paid for by the turns of wealth built in ITM during the GA (It was that or an EXP Aqueduct. The wealth was a smarter choice IMO). If he was coming for me, then graphs aren't going to stop him, but if I'm just being paranoid then I can be more certain in my decisions. I also have a scout working its way back to his capital so I could try and play "Spot the SoD".
Superdeath looks to be much further west than I expected him to be. Looks like he may have been rather isolated, but he hasn't capitalised on that. OH's swap into slavery is not surprising either: He has no land for workshops but plenty of pop to whip into CKN, and he already has one GS from Free At Last so he is jut waiting on his capital to get him the second Astro GS, and he has minimum of 4 GP slots in Babylon Burning (Plus the shrine and Moai gpp, for 14gpp, and merchant slots if he is combining it with a GS, so that is 20gpp) for a Prophet or GM there so his next GA isn't a concern.
I'm trying to figure out what the reaction will be to OH's move, but I'm not sure, because until he commits to attack DZ things can always change and I can't find units sent towards DZ, or myself, and units were heading away from Cairo but then WTF is he doing? Where is Superdeath?
If anyone has been counting whilst I've been doing the city improvement updates, we can work out what the longer term projection is for MFG. The South West (MiF/HWD) is 50 adjusted hpt. The South (AT-AT/3S/ST) is 100 adjusted hpt. The East (NW/MW/AM) 105 adjusted hpt. The North (WB/BCR/Kalamazoo) is up to 215 adjusted hpt from 3 cities. The island cities (SS/FH/SL) hit 90 adjusted hpt! (And those island cities can cap out at sizes 7, 6 and 10 respectively). This isn't counting the core cottage area of ITM/LBJ/MtK/TX, the NE cities or SA, or the moai cities. That's a total of 560 hpt into military which is already in the process of switching on, and that is more than double the current nearest best, GA MFG.
We just need the turns to get it all switched on now, and to wait and see what everyone else does before we make the move to start rolling along a path towards a Conquest VC (not saying this is the aim, but that is the direction this empire heads in).
T141
My paranoia restarted on T141 with Lewwyn sending the trireme forward. I know he just declared peace with DZ, is he coming for the island cities? He has graphs on me, and I was about 7 turns from getting them on him, so I went to 10% EP slider. This has essentially been paid for by the turns of wealth built in ITM during the GA (It was that or an EXP Aqueduct. The wealth was a smarter choice IMO). If he was coming for me, then graphs aren't going to stop him, but if I'm just being paranoid then I can be more certain in my decisions. I also have a scout working its way back to his capital so I could try and play "Spot the SoD".
Superdeath looks to be much further west than I expected him to be. Looks like he may have been rather isolated, but he hasn't capitalised on that. OH's swap into slavery is not surprising either: He has no land for workshops but plenty of pop to whip into CKN, and he already has one GS from Free At Last so he is jut waiting on his capital to get him the second Astro GS, and he has minimum of 4 GP slots in Babylon Burning (Plus the shrine and Moai gpp, for 14gpp, and merchant slots if he is combining it with a GS, so that is 20gpp) for a Prophet or GM there so his next GA isn't a concern.
I'm trying to figure out what the reaction will be to OH's move, but I'm not sure, because until he commits to attack DZ things can always change and I can't find units sent towards DZ, or myself, and units were heading away from Cairo but then WTF is he doing? Where is Superdeath?
If anyone has been counting whilst I've been doing the city improvement updates, we can work out what the longer term projection is for MFG. The South West (MiF/HWD) is 50 adjusted hpt. The South (AT-AT/3S/ST) is 100 adjusted hpt. The East (NW/MW/AM) 105 adjusted hpt. The North (WB/BCR/Kalamazoo) is up to 215 adjusted hpt from 3 cities. The island cities (SS/FH/SL) hit 90 adjusted hpt! (And those island cities can cap out at sizes 7, 6 and 10 respectively). This isn't counting the core cottage area of ITM/LBJ/MtK/TX, the NE cities or SA, or the moai cities. That's a total of 560 hpt into military which is already in the process of switching on, and that is more than double the current nearest best, GA MFG.
We just need the turns to get it all switched on now, and to wait and see what everyone else does before we make the move to start rolling along a path towards a Conquest VC (not saying this is the aim, but that is the direction this empire heads in).