Astronaut without sin confounds press, invites trio to control civilization

[novice]

Save's back with us, and not much changed. Mackoti's bombarded down the rest of Ariel's defenses, and also suicided a single Phalanx against the city. I gotta think that was a misclick?

Also, out west, a privateer took out one of our empty scouting galleons. As evidenced by the combat log, the privateer is pretty damaged, so we have a nearby galleon that might be able to retaliate.



Also as shown by this combat log, even though Privateers have hidden nationality we can clearly see that this one was Mackoti's. Kind of silly, that.

In the screenshot we can also see a lot of builds finishing that seem to be builds Mackoti made. Lots of free intelligence. Kind of bad, that bug.

[spacemanmf]

and also suicided a single Phalanx against the city.

VICTORY!

Also, out west, a privateer took out one of our empty scouting galleons. As evidenced by the combat log, the privateer is pretty damaged, so we have a nearby galleon that might be able to retaliate.

Yeah I moved a galleon within two squares. If I'd been more careful, I could have left it three squares away (i.e. out of vision), but it still probably would have been taken out.

In the screenshot we can also see a lot of builds finishing that seem to be builds Mackoti made. Lots of free intelligence. Kind of bad, that bug.

What's he building then? Anything scary?

[Rowain]

If I see it right: 1 knight, 4 cats, 2 grens, 1 Lb, forge, castle, wb, and 1 cannon

but I do wonder if a) I understood what he meant correctly
and b) if this are all Mack's builds.

[novice]

If I see it right: 1 knight, 4 cats, 2 grens, 1 Lb, forge, castle, wb, and 1 cannon

but I do wonder if a) I understood what he meant correctly
and b) if this are all Mack's builds.

Yeah some of those builds are real builds of ours, some are not (and are then usually something another player built). You can't really tell which is which without clicking it, and seeing if the city you get to actually built what the game says it built.

Obviously though, we're not building grens and knights, and Mack's not building cannons.

[spacemanmf]

Yeah some of those builds are real builds of ours, some are not (and are then usually something another player built). You can't really tell which is which without clicking it, and seeing if the city you get to actually built what the game says it built.

Obviously though, we're not building grens and knights, and Mack's not building cannons.

Ok, has he erected a castle in Pharsalos?

[novice]

Ok, has he erected a castle in Pharsalos?

It's partially bombarded so I'm not sure, but I think so. It's at 53% defenses now IIRC.

[spacemanmf]

While novice plays the turn, I thought I would post the tech situation.



Mackoti has a lot of money saved up, and he's not even being paid by luddicator any more. The three main rivals are earning quite a bit on, presumably, max tax. Certainly compared to us anyway.



Our tech situation:

[spacemanmf]

Ok, so on our staging turn, we ruddy well staged. Most on the fort where the 1t farm sign is, but the rest are on the hill.



91 units (23 cannons, 30 muskets, 24 maces, 13 pikes, and a war chariot) await, although we might not send them all (since we fear counter-attacks).

I daresay mackoti has a hefty stack waiting for us since he has all but emptied most of cities that we can see, plus he's been building grenadiers, has a cat stack somewhere, plus the knights he retreated. Wouldn't surprise me if he had an almost equal-sized stack there, but I'd guess between 50 and 70 units.

It's going to be messy, unless we see loads of units with a sentry WC and call off the attack, PBEM13 style.

Here are our builds - still focussing on cannons and frigates (and wealth to pay for everything).

[spacemanmf]

Incidentally, you can see in that top shot that mackoti's boats are now within three squares of our naval stack, but we sit tight, despite there being three ships of the line threatening. The remainder of his boats shouldn't get odds so Callisto should be safe, but we may see him whittling down our boats. Reinforcements are coming, however.


It doesn't look like the save is coming round tonight and I am out tomorrow night.

[spacemanmf]

Well, mackoti's busy or thinking about this turn hard... =)