[Spoilers!]---Superdeath hopes for a better Pitboss.

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Turn 159-

I currently have near-full visibility on everyone important, im teching toward rifles... which should save me from dying in this game so long as i can avoid a dog-pile. JR4 is the only one currently with Astro unless dark savant has it?  i am just below JR4 and company in power, and in the next 5-10 turns should be in the top 3 so long as WLP's 15 whips aren't concentrated on my side. Current plan/hope is that Ipecac continues to take forever to chew thru Yuri, i can take 3-5 cities off of WLP and maybe raze the holy city. Hopefully JR4 continues to have to keep an eye on Dark savant/Ipecac, and doesn't attempt to raze all my coastal cities. ( which im building units in to prevent that )...... Best case scenario, JR4 and ipecac get into a war, Wetbandit and dark savant declare on each other, and i take bits and pieces off of everyone and eventually win with tanks or something. Most likely scenario..... JR4 boats everyone, Ipecac keeps Wetbandit in check, Yuri dies, WLP dies, and then either me or dark savant dies, and then the game is conceded to the biggest fish.


Current visual armies and other information-

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Questions? Concerns?

[Cornflakes]

What is the source of your EP's? 100 seems unusually high for this stage of the game.

How much territory you think your knight stack will be able to conquer?

[superdeath]

What is the source of your EP's? 100 seems unusually high for this stage of the game.

How much territory you think your knight stack will be able to conquer?

Courthouses in literally every city, and failure to swap spy specialists off ( corrected now )

ive taken 2 cities from WLP, i hope to capture another 2-3ish and hold there.

[superdeath]

Turn 160-

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[superdeath]

turn 161-

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Captured another city from WLP, i have plans for 1 more capture... then i have to turn my attention to making sure that ipecac doesnt get any ideas about invading my western border that we now share as he has ate 99% of Yuri. Heres hoping that JR4/Wetbandit keep his army tied down. I still have visibility on everyone except Yuri, who is dieing, WLP who is dieing, and Dark Savant whom im currently putting EP into. Other than the one more city to go, ive achieved what i wanted from the WLP war, and now im rushing to rifles to keep everyone off my back.

Goal #1 for this game, Survive. I believe it would take a very long game/big dogpile for this to not happen.
Goal #2 for this game, Win. I believe it would take a very long game/big dogpile for this to happen.


My honest thoughts about this game... JR4/Ipecac/Wetbandit. Whomever enters in a good dogpile, or eats me/dark savant wins. imo, its really close between all 3. Ipecac has a huge army, and tons of land. JR4 currently has a naval tech advantage + likely a gnp advantage atm, Wetbandit has the superior army atm. If this game goes much into the post-infantry stage... ill be out of my league. All my games always end by the time cavalry show up, with the very very rare infantry game.

[superdeath]

nothing too new, forgot to take pics. Slowly taking WLP down, ill be grabbing one more city, then peaceing out possibly... although i may risk angering some peeps by razing the budda holy city. i finish Rep parts eot, and will be going full hammer to rifiling before going likely to cannons,  with all the rifles and cannons in the world.... ill either get dogpiled or live to see the end of the game.

[superdeath]

Just a quick update for today, Im building a sizeable knight stack, and a cat stack while researching Rifling. I have tech vision on everyone except Yuri and Dark savant. I have city vision on everyone but those two and WLP. SO i can see an attack coming from a bit away..

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Also, Once i hit rifiling.. i think imma play a little bit of kingmaker if no one goes into another major war.. ( a major war being the only thing that could put me into the winning 3.. ) Im thinking between Ipecac, JR4 and Wetbandit. Each has a chance to win. Dark Savant and I are kingmakers.

[superdeath]

Also, im burning as much towns/ect as i can with some knights for some gold for eventual upgrades. Dont care if that angers Wetbandit/JR4 at this stage in the game, as whomever attacks me first, loses.

[superdeath]

Big update- Dark savant got 2 cities taken from Ipecac. JR4 looks like he will have a fair chunk of units down by the Wetbandit part of town.. However, im thinking Zulu should be taken out.. I can likely take 3-4 cities with some losses within 4ish turns of war in former Yuri lands. ( who by all means should be dead by now, why is Ipecac still at war with Yuri and not finishing him off?...... ) Regardless, if i was a betting man, and i am.. Id bet that if i declare and take some cities, JR4 might declare on his border with him, along with Wetbandit, allowing wetbandit to hopefully take more of the brunt since he is slightly closer to the ipecac core would be ideal. Now, other options involve waiting until either Wetbandit declares on someone other than me, or JR4 declares on someone else and try and take something from one of them.. But as i have vision of basically everything outside of DarkSavant/Yuri/WLP.. ill just have to wait for the right troop movements to happen.  

Beware- multiple pics of borders and other general randomness.


Spoilered, open if you have the guts.

 















   

[superdeath]

quick update-

Ive got about 30 knights in the dead center of my empire.. they can reach any of the borders in two turns. i have a sizeable cat stack forming near the Yuri/Ipecac border.... just incase. Also pre-building 15+ muskets to auto-upgrade into rifles in two turns. Fun times.