No update tonight. I'm shattered. Try to put some stuff up tomorrow morning but I may not have access to a PC, in which case, I'll do it either Wednesday night, or Thursday when I'm off.
The tl;dr is simple: I can't compete with OH in frigate production, so there is no point in racing him to Chemistry. I'm already on the same landmass as him, so it's SoD and death to one of us. If I wanted to push beakers, from T170 (ie the turn I will play on Wednesday night) then I can get around 1.1K base beakers, and I could have Engineering eot170, Gunpowder eot172, and Astro eot175 due to overflow and KTB multipliers. The then third GA can come some time around T182-ish. But it's better to build military with the over 750 adjusted hpt and just outproduce OH, and use privateers to disrupt him. OH gets forced to go to Chem, but then has to build frigates and land military, and at some point he'll collapse. I'm not joking when I say I can have over 100 units ready to invade by the end of this GA.
The tl;dr is simple: I can't compete with OH in frigate production, so there is no point in racing him to Chemistry. I'm already on the same landmass as him, so it's SoD and death to one of us. If I wanted to push beakers, from T170 (ie the turn I will play on Wednesday night) then I can get around 1.1K base beakers, and I could have Engineering eot170, Gunpowder eot172, and Astro eot175 due to overflow and KTB multipliers. The then third GA can come some time around T182-ish. But it's better to build military with the over 750 adjusted hpt and just outproduce OH, and use privateers to disrupt him. OH gets forced to go to Chem, but then has to build frigates and land military, and at some point he'll collapse. I'm not joking when I say I can have over 100 units ready to invade by the end of this GA.