[SPOILERS] Land of Chaos - HitAnyKey

[HitAnyKey]

Got my Great Scientist! Whoo!
Next turn I'm going to make the Academy in Dragon's Mouth. I decided that's what will be best, and that's the best city to have it in.

Next turn I also get Construction and will start making a few Catapults. My galley has also just loaded up with an Axe & Spear which I'll send to the island. The galley will then explore down the island slightly while I wait the 6 turns for the Settler to be completed in Puddle of Doom.

[Bigger]

congrats on not getting another spy

[HitAnyKey]

This land west of Azza and into Lewwyn's territory is annoying. All these jungles & hills....it's making slow-going for my spy.

Trying to decide if I'm going to take the southern rounte around that mountain I see to the west (outside of his territory) or head back NW to go through his territory. Southward might lead me to meet someone else, so I'm tempted to do that. Though it would be nice to see more of Lewwyn's land. Suppose I'll just flip a coin next turn.

[HitAnyKey]

Well, this is ultra crappy. I can pretty much guarantee that I'm going to lose my galley which was supposed to ship my settler over to the island.
And there's nothing I'll be able to do about it, since when the turn flips tomorrow....I'll be on a plane to Vegas. This couldn't have happened at a worse time.

It was just heading back up to the mainland to be ready for the pickup too. And even worse, I'm sure yuri has multiple galleys in the area with units on (or able to be loaded up) them which he can send to the island to kill my nice two units.

But in preparation for losing this galley, I've started making one up north in Pile of Crap. It'll take about 4 turns. But if yuri keeps that Trireme around (which I'm sure he will), I'll be screwed because he'll be able to keep me from going near the island. I really needed that extra trade route too.

I really don't know what I'm gonna do at this point.

Actually, if this is any sign of a scouting party from yuri (and based on his Power levels), it's quite possible he's cranked out another huge army to send my way to work on wiping me out.

[novice]

On the plus side, Vegas!

[HitAnyKey]

So a brief update finally now that I'm back home. Brief, because I'm on my lunch break at work.

I was actually able to log in each day at a good time to make sure that Yuris didn't even have the chance to change his mind about sinking my galley. On Friday I even specifically asked LP to hold up the turn for me which allowed me to log in from the airport right after the turn flipped (I only had a 20 minute window to play). That was actually the key turn of making sure I could get the ship away from yuris trireme. And from my recollection of the Diplo thread that was the first (of a handful over the weekend, obviously) of people complaining to LP for waiting until the very end of the turn to end his. So that one was actually kinda my fault. Oh well.

Since I only got home after 1am last night (12hrs of airports/airplanes), I just quickly flew through my turn and took two quick screenshots. I'll do a better update either tonight or tomorrow.

This turn I was finally able to settle my new city on the island. Didn't realize Yuri was so close to me. This could be pretty bad. He has a lot of galleys (and not Triremes) and could easily send over a good sized force to just snag that city from me. But for now, I have the much needed extra trade routes.

Speaker has since gone SW from Lewynn when I spotted Moogle's land. He's currently moving through it a bit, as I'd like to meet Pindicator. From the way things sound in the Diplo thread, I might actually meet him soon since he's taken a few cities from Moogle.

I'm currently highly considering taking all the Catapults I just made, along with a handful of other units, and my Great General (which I would put onto a unit)....and sending them up to try to take one of CommoXenu's cities for myself before LP can continue through them. Maybe if he decides to keep all his anger towards LP, he won't even care too much if I have an army marching in, and he'll just keep throwing his stuff at LP and essentially let me take the city so that LP can't. Doubtful, but always a possibility. :aar:

I should have Literature in 3 turns. I should also have most of this current round of Catapults completed in 3-4 turns. At that time I'll switch back to Organized Religion and build the two national wonders. National Epic in PoD, and Heroic Epic in Mt Whacko. I still think those are probably my two best choices. Hopefully I can build them very quickly and then get back to Theocracy for cranking out military again.

The biggest obstacle to this plan will be if either yuris or plako decide to attack me. Their power levels are still quite a bit higher than mine. LP still seems to be leaving me alone, maybe because he knows me better/longer than the others, but in any case I'm fine with however long he does leave me be.
He probably also knows that I'm not stupid enough to try attacking him. There is no instance where that has any positive side to it. Now if there were at least 2 or 3 other people already attacking him from the other direciton....that's a different story. But they're all obviously not capable (or willing) to do anything about him at the moment.

[Rowain]

On Friday I even specifically asked LP to hold up the turn for me which allowed me to log in from the airport right after the turn flipped (I only had a 20 minute window to play).

I think you should have asked in the Diplo-thread or maybe even asked for a official pause.

[HitAnyKey]

I think you should have asked in the Diplo-thread or maybe even asked for a official pause.

Hmm, yeah, I didn't really think of that since it was late Thursday night and I was still packing before getting to bed. And I also didn't think too much of it since it wasn't like I was discussing game strategy or details. Only that because of my flight times that day I only had a small window to play in.
Well, I have a few more trips coming up in the next couple months, so I'll make sure not to do anything like that for those. And this was just a minor thing. I'm sure there will be bigger issues for me in these upcoming trips since they are longer and less time available for playing turns (may even miss one or two) and by that time it's more likely I may even be in wartime, depending on what happens all around me.
The next weekend trip is in 2 weeks, and then at the end of June (and into first week of July) I'll be gone for a full week. And that weekend (6/29 to 7/2) I'll be completely without computer as we'll be camping. So I'm going to have to hunt down a sub to play those turns for me.
Speaking of which, any Lurkers out there able to (or want to) play for me that weekend? As we get closer, I'll give as specified of turn details as possible.

[DMOC]

I'm available for turnplaying this weekend, but I've already read most of the other topics (mostly Lord Parkin), so I may not be the best option. I'm happy to do it if no one else is around, though.

[HitAnyKey]

I'm available for turnplaying this weekend, but I've already read most of the other topics (mostly Lord Parkin), so I may not be the best option. I'm happy to do it if no one else is around, though.

Not this weekend. I'm talking end of June (a month away). Sorry, I knew someone would get mixed up with me asking so far in advance.