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

[superdeath]

roughly 7-8 turns from railroad. Hitru is teching railroad as well, and im still expecting this game to be called soon, as either I will be attacked, Hitru will be attacked, or i will end up throwing 70 cannons at whatever JR4 ends up hitting Ipecac's cap with.

[Cornflakes]

or i will end up throwing 70 cannons at whatever JR4 ends up hitting Ipecac's cap with

 I'm getting flashback of late game unit management overload. Come on over to Civ 6, 1UPT FTW

Still following along (on all your games), thanks for the updates. Your thread takes a long time to load though. As a suggestion, when you are posting multiple images back-to-back if you throw them into [spoiler] tags it is a huge help saving on bandwidth.

[superdeath]

or i will end up throwing 70 cannons at whatever JR4 ends up hitting Ipecac's cap with

 I'm getting flashback of late game unit management overload. Come on over to Civ 6, 1UPT FTW

Still following along (on all your games), thanks for the updates. Your thread takes a long time to load though. As a suggestion, when you are posting multiple images back-to-back if you throw them into [spoiler] tags it is a huge help saving on bandwidth.

I like the stack too much to play civ 5/6..

I never noticed that it would take awhile to load ( thx to my stupid fast internet ) But to keep having lurkers, i will spoiler images from now on!

[superdeath]

t-218

Well, JR4 finally declared war, and took some city that i have no idea where it was.. Im hoping that Ipecac smacks JR4 with that huge stack and lets me run into him with mine.. but i have this feeling that he likely wants to punish me more. Looking at 6ish turns before railroad, where i can use my massive land advantage to ship units to the front very quickly. It will also let me build MG's which defend stacks/cities/everything very well. Once i hit railroad i plan on immediately whipping as many as i can and rushing 5+ to the front, and another 2-3 per border city. With the goal to have 2 per coastal city, and a fair amount in land border cities.. The eventual hope ( considering i am VERY far behind tech wise ) is to crash into someone if im not the next person declared on. To do this, i believe im going to attempt to get to tanks as quickly as possible, although that will still be slowww as i have not been managing my late game eco very well in comparison to the other players.. I still do not know how they are able to get THAT much more out of their land than myself, considering that i am 3rd in land but very close to 1st in land.. At least im doing well in crop yield?  

demos-

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My troops-

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Ipecac's scary stack-

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[superdeath]

11/15/18 10:04 pm ipecac Logged out
11/15/18 9:58 pm ipecac Logged in
11/15/18 5:19 pm Superdeath Logged out
11/15/18 5:19 pm Superdeath Logged in
11/15/18 5:18 pm Superdeath Logged out
11/15/18 5:17 pm Superdeath Finished turn
11/15/18 5:08 pm Superdeath Logged in

Ok... SO. im fine with pausing for people that are in normal turn splits. But this is ridiculous. 24hrs without anything in the tech thread, nor a turn played? by either of wetbandit/ipecac? ( really wetbandits fault this time around, but ipecac has had this issue in the past ) If i wake up and the turn still hasnt been played + nothing in tech thread im somewhat of mind to unpause. These turns take long enough with the stupid turn split we currently have going, dont need 48hrs per turn cycle..

[superdeath]

Im figuring, although i havent sat down and studied CivStats yet.. That Wetbandit is trying to keep the 2nd half of the turn with myself. Unless he is always late on turns, he seems to have been waiting for at least myself, if not JR4 as well to play. I wouldn't have any complaint on that, so long as we were at war, but Wetbandit hasn't really been able to take anything from ipecac that i could contest or vice versa.. seems to just be keeping Ipecac from playing for a couple days.. almost in a conspiracy to get that game over with? Nah, ill just write it down as paranoia that he'd attack me and further give the game to JR4. Speaking of which, JR4 has steadily ramped up in power.. im not quite sure he needs that much to take cities from ipecac as im 100% certain that Ipecac is going to punish me with his mighty stack of 500 cats+ hitters. Although if Ipecac hits JR4 and cripples his attacking stack i might be able to grab the rest of the cities he has left, and with railroad coming in 3ish turns... Machine guns in every coastal city? I just need to work on my absolutely shit tech rate. I can whip and slam knights into infantry all day long, and with the 3rd largest empire i should be able to. However its my belief that Aggressive's maintenance discount is really pulling some weight right now. What i would give for the ability to make infantry right now.

Side note- Has any game on the site actually made it to tank warfare? Or is it basically decided by infantry at the latest? Like, are any of the space races actually seeing conflict during the time or are the adversaries just so far away from each other for that pitboss that no one attempts? I haven't had the time to look over many of the old pb's mainly because its sad to not see ANY screenshots due to i believe dropbox..

Various Ipecac theater troops-

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Also demos are roughly the same as last time, 3rd in land, 2nd in food, 2nd in power, 4th in everything else that matters.

[superdeath]

well, i teched Railroad, and im teching toward infantry/tanks next. I honestly hope the game ends before my slow ass tech rate gets there, but MG's + railroad should keep me at least alive before the game is called.. I know for a fact that once Ipecac is killed ( he has 2 cities left last i checked ) im likely to be the next target, with Wetbandit having easy access to two different fronts, JR4 having access to everything, and Hitru/DS having access to all my coastal cities, its likely to get hairy soon. My only hope of survival is to be prickly enough to make them think about attacking each other before me. Also, Ipecac still has a stupid huge cuirs/cats force that is just waiting for one of us to move in. Im hoping it will be JR4, but im going to guess that Hitru suffers the massive sting of 50+ cats being rammed into him. But as soon as i see that huge swing in power, im gunning for the cap. If i can capture it i can hold it. It may not be that great strategically due to being smack in between two of the tech leaders.. but i need more good cities.. and with JR4 having taken most of Charriu's lands, and wetbandit and JR4 ripped WLP to shreds... i kinda got left out of all the fun. I probably could have attacked Yuri sooner than i did, but i didnt feel like that was the right choice at the time. But looking back, maybe running 20+ WC's into him would have been the best move? Kinda got pinched for land and i still dont really forgive JR4 for taken the one island city that was in mine and Charriu's "spheres of influence"

Now that the word vomit is done, how about some pics?

Sadly i only really took a picture of the demos.. but its not like i have much to show, as i dont have visual on Hitru/Ipecac's land atm due to increased EP spending. I can see non-water based attacks coming a mile away in Wetbandit/JR4 territory though so thats a good thing!

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Still 3rd in land, but more or less dead last in everything else. By the time i get Assembly line others will be at industrialism, by the time i get industrialism, they will be at modern armor.. I expect the game to be called by christmas, which is really only 5 turns away at our turn pace. Yay for turn splits!

[superdeath]

I decided to pull the trigger, and swap to Caste/free religion. Im hoping it was the right choice, 10% more research + some happy, better workshops and increased flexibility to MAYBE get another golden age this game? Hell, ill try it. Wetbandit moved his mini stack of cavs+ cats towards the other border/JR4.. so im hoping he might be trying to spice things up soon?  Ive offered peace treaty to Ipecac, he has no reason to accept it as it likely wont affect his WW/ect. But it would be amazing if he did! As im really hurting on the WW/motherland shit, i really hope JR4/Hitru ends him soon. Im going to be going a couple turns with wealth going full speed towards techs that dont matter.. because i dont really need more units at the present time. Once i get a couple more techs under my belt, i might turn off wealth and build a round or two of MG's to ensure that they need tanks to take me out. Well, i cant defend 99% of my coastal cities which sucks, but they wont take the other cities! 

Pre-civic swap demos-

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Graphs-

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[superdeath]

Well i now have open borders / likely not friendly relations with Ipecac now. He has a HUGE stack for having only two cities left. As JR4 has airships, i have no doubt he can see it. Otherwise im sure he would have ran straight into that deathball. Im kinda hoping that Ipecac moves to slam into JR4 and threaten some things, but on the other hand i am hoping this game gets called soon.. Maybe Ipecac can run into hitru and i can take some of his holdings and end up 3rd place? /shrug.

Demos-

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Ipecac's stupid stack-

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Yes, my GNP/Research is currently fueled by Every city building wealth.. but i justify it as i NEED to try and keep up with military techs before im a full generation behind again. As that would give Wetbandit/JR4 some grounds to commit to a brutal month long campaign to take my cities. Im sure popping out of slavery might have already tipped them that way... but who knows.

[superdeath]

Sorta trolling right now in Ipecac's territory.. Building railroad towards JR4's stack so Ipecac can get a good smack in if he so chooses..