Gavagai is haunted by demons and Zanth

[zanth]

With recapturing old capital, Old Harry is on his way in returning to the game. Atm his strategy is unknown: there's enough place to settle peacefully, but he also could try to attack Pazuzu to regain some western lands. Happily, attacking hill-city is a tough task, especially w/o cats. He had some 4 axes, 2 spears, 2 war chariots, maybe he produced some axes afterwards. At Pazuzu we have 2axes, spear and an archer. Well this might be not enough if he would attack w/ all of his army, but casualties would be extremely high. Nevertheless, if he would gain horses the probability of attack would increase. Imo we should place a couple of archers at the city quite soon.

[Gavagai]

2metraot4e has 10 cities to our 5. However, I'm not as worried as I might be in other circumstances. REXing is uber-strong in a typical RB game because we usually play with very high quality land. This doesn't seem to be the case here, however, and I'm not sure that rushing to found as many cities as humanly possible is such a no-brainer.

Also amusing: they have twice as many cities as us but still less land. Furthermore, they have about the same amount of pop (currently less than us, I think). And looking at their demos I suspect they have even less cottages than we do

[zanth]

REXing?

Well, with such enormous expenses, 2metra would be simply outteched as for me.

[zanth]

Well, with representation and 3 scientists we became a significant leader in GNP: 89 while best rival have only 69

[Gavagai]

PICTURES!

[Gavagai]

2metra killed a sentry chariot which has wandered towards his borders. I wasn't really expecting that, thought that 2metra would value some trade routes.

[zanth]

   
T88
demos + score

It is a bit unclear why 2metra/ot4e have such a low score

[zanth]

Mistoltin has 22 score growth this turn
+1 pop and calendar/metal casting?

[Gavagai]

It can be any classical tech plus pop.

[zanth]

2metra declared OH. With his latest strength growth, it is certainly an attempt of elimination. That's why our 3 axes and a spear were sent to see if this would be enough to support OH. His position is a buffer so we want him o be in game for strategic purposes.