[SPOILERS] Zanth's thread

[Gavagai]

We offered white peace to 2metra. He should be a total idiot not to accept. Amsterdam even now has 17 cavs and 4 rifles, he doesn't have forces to break through. And why do it? What he would consider a reasonable border? We basically giving him all the land north to Amsterdam, he only needs to clear it from SC's presence. What else he can hope to gain?

[Gavagai]

2metra played at last and WE DON'T HAVE PEACE. What the fuck, man?.. Or you hope to make something happen with this three galleys we supposedly don't see?.. Really, why Mardoc doesn't have to deal with any of this shit? It looks like Furj (who DOWed TBS this turn) is eager to attack everyone but him.

[zanth]

Donnovan (ex Slowch) hae accepted white peace.
Excellent! At least there would be less war weariness

[Gavagai]

2metra is, however, persistant. It's much less a problem now - peace with Donovan made draft available again...

[Gavagai]

Some thoughts. It looks like that Gawdzak is somehow unable to put his army to use... That would most likely mean that we have only two real contenders and that both we and Mardoc should be aggressive to win this game. Given Mardoc's recent tech choices (he picked up Rifling and is now researching Theology without any immediate military threat) I would assume that he is planning some military action. His target is either Furungy (to consume) or us (to cripple) and every turn during which we are at war with 2metra makes us more attractive option.
(I wonder if 2metra realizes that. Could his plan be to provoke the war between us and Mardoc and then immediately peace out? 2metra gives an impression of a guy, capable to some pretty Machiavellian meta and his current actions (stalemate war with us instead of blitzing Donovan) don't really make a lot of sense in a differen scenario.)
What can we do? Well, we should wrap up our buisness with Nakor ASAP. Then... prepare an attack against Mardoc, I guess, using transports and Infantry. Should be fun.

[Gavagai]

Current situation on Nakor's front. He just attacked our southern stack which, as you see, is heavily beaten. We lost 3 Rifles and a Cannon; Nakor lost 1 Cannon, 7 Catapults, 5 Knights and a Mace; a Cannon, a Knight and a Mace will be cleared next turn. Massive reinforcements are coming on our side; Nakor, on the other hand, has almost no hitters left and no siege units.

[Gavagai]

It looks like dick376 is succesful where Catwalk failed.

[Gavagai]

Wow, twelve whips/drafts for Mardoc! I think it could be explained either by (1) Gawdzak attacking him (and that makes a lot of sense given his huge army and passivity on Jowy's front) or (2) him attacking us (which also makes a lot of sense as our short-term vulnerabiliy is quite apparrent), (3) routine whips which got delayed because of Kremlin.
Anyway, in case (2) we will not be caught unprepared.

[Gavagai]

I'm dumb, he has Theology now, that's why it started. It looks pre-planned and I don't believe that this army will go against Furungy and not against us; for Furj more buisness-as-usual approach would be sufficient. On the other hand, we have essentially zero-sum situation now with just two real contenders. As Mardoc is slowing himself down, we can afford to slow down ourselves. I think we will start a golden age, tech AssLine ASAP (possibly with massive research builds), then turn off tech and start converting pop and gold into Infantry. I recall that Mardoc doesn't have Miltrad, the bulk of his army should consist of Rifles.

[zanth]

Mardoc doesn't have music, nationalism, mil.sci.
so yes, riffles n cannos is his only choice