Pitboss 18 Lurker Thread of Infinite Wisdom

[Lord Parkin]

yes but hak and jowy are 31 and 34 in crop yield, even a clean kill with swords wouldnt save him now. Who's 32 and 33? No idea.

Guessing one is probably the lurker civ.

[Ceiliazul]

at size 8? oh right cuz of the specialists.

[Lord Parkin]

Lurker capital is actually size 5, and currently #34 in crop yield (11 vs rival worst of 16). Also I realised we didn't start with Engineering or Construction - instead it looks like someone edited the city to add all espionage-producing buildings (e.g. we have both Castle and Citadel).

[Ceiliazul]

Parkin,

If players are paying attention to that event log, the only impact to the game is that they know that event is active in this game and they should absolutely definitely build a castle at the first opportunity for the chance of getting a free general.

Seems AT declared war.

...

I had a chance to kill a worker two turns earlier, I was hoping leaving him alone would be viewed as goodwill, but guess not.

Molach didn't take the worker, but AutomaticTeller has a pretty existential reason for declaring war. Also, Coimbra was listed "liberate" in the diplo screen, so I guess AT took that as an invitation.

he clearly is trying to cut me off and limit my expansion - Coimbra to my east and Evora to the north:




That's not quite cutting me off, but I'm sure his next city is as close to due west from there as he thinks he can get away with. My next city is A, unless he blocks me, in which case it's B and gear to war...

[Ceiliazul]

Dtay is quietly running a heck of an early game. If not for a thorny Krovice growing in his front yard, I'd say he's the favorite at this point.

So Oracle on eot 5 turns from [t67]. Horrendously late, but I'm glad to take advantage of the collective psychosis.

Someone got a great scientists, pretty early for one.

Demos are GNP - 16, MFG - 1, CY - 2

Re: Religion question - I expect pretty important. Going by PB13 as a minimum, TBS had managed to catch up to me tech rate wise despite having stalled development by me and much less land area off of the strength of his shrine, which was worth over 100gpt (including the modifier buildings) by around t140. It gives you a much stronger economy off of the same land area, which could be at a premium in this game. That's only going to be magnified here, since the player count is double. I'm going to try for an early-ish shrine by when I hopefully get the Oracle running a priest + oracle in hightower to get a great prophet in 25t (assuming I got a temple immediately, which I won't, so it'll be a bit longer than that).

Though TBH I really would like to take out a neighbor in that timeframe, so hopefully I'll have lots of land PLUS the shrine. That's a long way off though.

The one big gap in his game is not pouncing on the absurd landgrab that he himself documented. Taking out 'a neighbor' either means Krovice directly, or taking out Whosit and leaving a strung out empire wrapped around the thorn bush.

[Lord Parkin]

Turn 67

The barbarians pillaged Bacchus' cow pasture. What's he doing? That Warrior approached from the NW, so he must have had at least 3 turns of warning in advance.

Looks like HAK's now pillaging Jowy. Hmm, that's a pretty small island they both landed on... Dhal's is bigger than that and he got it to himself. Bad luck I guess.

Two war declarations this turn. AutomatedTeller declared on Molach, and it looks like Molach is in trouble.

Cyneheard also declared war on Pindicator. I couldn't tell if this was a "real" war or just some diplomatic thing, as I can't see any damaged units or even adjacent ones.

[Ceiliazul]

Cyneheard also declared war on Pindicator. I couldn't tell if this was a "real" war or just some diplomatic thing, as I can't see any damaged units or even adjacent ones.

Well, it's a real war. But Pin thinks he has it well in hand...

Cyneheard attacked and killed my scout. Poor guy, he'd been through hell and back to avoid the big bully out west but in the end it was sniped from a spear in the southwest. There will be a reckoning but not quite yet. Right now I have to figure out how to survive being in the middle of a shit sandwich. (Mapmakers, next time you want the people on an island, make them equidistant from each other.)

Cyneheard offered peace but I did not accept. I an going to whip up units for a few turns and then offer peace again. That will give me a ten turn window to take out Barry.

[Ceiliazul]

Oh and regarding this:

Demos are GNP - 16, MFG - 1, CY - 2

The only ones running neck and neck with him? FinHarry:

Dtay borders Whosit, Krovice, Plako and Hashoosh.
FinHarry borders Azza, CheaterHater and Mardoc.

Team badass (stolen from a PB13 thread) is already planning their first acquisition... I like their chances.

[NobleHelium]

Mapmakers, next time you want the people on an island, make them equidistant from each other.

This.

[Lord Parkin]

Turn 68

Molach lost a border city to AutomatedTeller.

Not every day you delete a Settler.