RB Pitboss #1 Spoiler -- Zara of the Holy Roman Empire

[Broker33]

Customs is still working LB and is growing every other turn love that new grainery. Worker choping trees. Probably double whip worker in a turn or two to build some cottages.

There is another barb comming in woodie 1 warrior is ready to intercept

Stock is building Grainary already size 3. Worker linking copper then moving to road and improve wines. Will double whip worker when grainary done.

Horse building you guessed it Grainary. Worker farming corn another worker building road to horse tile. Will double whip worker when grainary done.

Real Estate is working a 2F 1H tile building grainary waiting for one of horses workers to come his way. When grown to size 3 will double whip worker.

There is another Barb wandering around the E I have a warrior dancing with him.

Lins should have my settler built in 5-6 turns which will settle 1 E of the Iron on the hill.

Still planning 2 LBs and Settler out of Capital to the SW blocking site.

Going to have to switch to production in next 20 turns and churn out LB's and HA's for war with Krill. Maybe even Phants.

[athlete4life10]

When grown to size 3 will double whip worker.

Don't you have to be atleast size 4 to double whip (assuming double whip = 2 pop whip).

[Broker33]

Don't you have to be atleast size 4 to double whip (assuming double whip = 2 pop whip).

Yep noticed that.

Barb warrior killed a woodie 1 warrior on a forested hill at .5% odds. Whipped worker in customs overflow will complete first LB

Buddism spread to stock whiped grainary there.

[Broker33]

Made a deal with Regoarrarr to get Currency early. 5gpt until I give him COL. Cut research time down from 12 to 8

[Broker33]

I have been whipping my cities mercelessly the last few turns think I need to back off a bit. Well after a couple more workers that is.

Total pop last turn was 6 in 4 cities. Customs 2, Stock 2, Real Estate 1, Horse 1

Real Estate and Horse still need Grainary and are building it now.

Corn is almost farmed and Horses are being pastured then a road.

Worker will move off horses and improve cows for Real Estate. Then road to rice and improve it.

Horse will probably chop another worker to mine while the current worker mines hills.

Cutoms grows every other turn so will get pop back quick. Should be size 6 in time to whip settler for defensive city.

Building Barraks in Stock and going to mine hills with the worker. May whip another if I get 2 unimproved tiles worked.

Need to produce LB's for city defense and a couple chariots to hunt barbs on the borders then I will trade horses to Lins.

Think I will build phants for the war only 10 more hammers than HA's and they can help defend if necessary. Will probably send one down to defensive city.

I will try to post some pics tonight for any help with MM that the lurkers can give me. I am kind of small although I have 4th GNP.

[Broker33]

I seem to be slacking off here post wise. First a quick status

Customs Agent killed the Barb warrior that got increadbly lucky. It had promoted to combat 1 and Medic but stepped out on the pigs tile. I had 86% and smoked him.

Unfortunatly I spoted my first barb axe comming in. I promoted LB to Guerilla 2 and am planting him on a forest hill inbetwee axe and capital. Hope he takes the bait.

2 workers are cottaging fp dont have the game in front of me so I forget thier names
1 worker is building a winery
1 worker roading the horses
1 worker roading the corn

Need more workers.

Lins is sending me a settler was for the iron spot but I think I will divert him to the sheep, wheat spot east of capital.

1 worker from Horse will move to Realestate to start improving.

Going to whip grainary in horse this turn. Should start growing fast.

Still want to get blocker city out of capital next but barbs are interfeering with my chops.

It is turn 90 now so I promise to post pics later.

[Broker33]

Email from DSP and it is a really good deal. He obviously is trying to tech something and it is time sensitive. Unfortunatly for him I need 5 extra good to finish COL and dont want to delay it for 2 or 3 more turns so I will be declining.

I've got an offer for you that you can't refuse!

OK, you can, but I think it's a pretty good deal.

You trade me Monarchy for Metal Casting. In addition, you give me a
loan of 35 gold, to be repaid by me on turn 98 or earlier.

I just founded a new city which has increased my expenses, so the gold
would be useful to me. On your side of the deal, you come out 225
beakers ahead, and I'll repay the gold you lend me in full in a few
turns.

Does this sound good?

Daniel

[Broker33]

My response to him. Would hate to delay research and miss religion cause I lent money out for a tech I already will get down the road.

Daniel

Yes that sounds like a fantanstic deal and I would love to accept but unfortunatly I must decline.

I believe I owe you an explination so as not to create ill will between our two civs.

As I previously stated I do not currently have a need for MC since I already have too much to build and wouldnt be able to squeeze in forges.

I am having some maintainance problems myself and what little cash I have I need for research and cannot part with. I actually have a few requests out there trying to gather cash myself so I am simply just not in the postion to lend any out at the moment.

Thank you for the more than generous offer and I hope we can continue to communicate but I simply am not in a postion to make a trade for MC at the moment.

[Broker33]

Regoarrarr sent out this email and I am very intreagued by the possibilities

Hi guys, see below for a chat with Ruff. Basically he claims that the other 6 civs have formed their own tech trading block, which makes sense and which we feared might happen. He wants to join ours (possibly with one other person). His reasoning is that he wants to fight and all the other civs that are near him are part of the other group, so fighting them would cut off his tech.

His solution to the dilemma about there not being that many techs to share is that he (or another oen of us) could contribute either with gold or militarily. I believe he borders Imhotep and m-h, with krill far to the NE.

I think it's a pretty good idea. I know we talked about using Imhotep to just bash Krill so isn't this kind of the same thing? I know sunrise quipped that he would "give all his techs" to ruff if he took a bite out of Krill.

It's something that we probably need to decide fairly soon.

dan.
regoarrarr

ruff.tad: Dan - you there?
me: yes
Sent at 9:19 AM on Thursday
ruff.tad: you're part of the UTA aren't you?
me: ?
ruff.tad: you are regoarrarr in the pitboss game?
Sent at 9:21 AM on Thursday
me: yes
what is uta
ruff.tad: so you are part of the UTA (what ever that stands for ... United Tech Alliance?)
me: lol
i thought we were "the cartel"?
ruff.tad: where you, sunrise, broker, Lins and ZPV swap techs between each other
cartel is my name for it
thought I was using YOUR name for it
me: yes that is the 5 of us who swapped techs recently
ruff.tad: so - any chance of including a 6th or 7th?
me: who's the 7th?
ruff.tad: because, an alternate to the UTA has formed (NUTA) with the other 6 players
at the moment - not sure ... just feeling you out about me joining
might have soemone else who is interested in joining but I need to talk to them
me: so why would you want to join the UTA instead of the NUTA?
seems if you already have 6, then you are in a better position
ruff.tad: because the Borg is all about killing people ... and the only people near me are in the NUTA and that woudl cut off our technology
I don't want to have to slog half way round the world to kill people
me: yeah
that makes sense
ruff.tad: would prefer to kill people next door to me
me: i seem to remember that you are saving gold right now?
ruff.tad: nope - teching again
me: do you know who is researching what?
ruff.tad: finished tha tlibrary
not sharing that
me: i thought you mightn't

ruff.tad: guess I am asking you to feel out the others in the Cartel / UTA to see if I can join ... that would release me to kick some major heads over here
but I might want to bring 1 other with me (not Krill)
me: i will indeed pass that along
i'm favorable to it
ruff.tad: thx
me: but obviously the problem with more and more people is that there are less tech options
ruff.tad: the solution to that is someone with no tech option saves gold and donates it to the cause
me: hmm
ruff.tad: or goes all military and kicks some heads
specialized Civs is the next extension of specialized cities
me: so i assume if we let you "in" that you will share your info on who is researching what?
Sent at 9:30 AM on Thursday
ruff.tad: to be honest ... I don't have a totally clear picture on that ... I just know that no one else is teching the techs I am doing
I know 1 or 2 that I can share
me: which is? or you don't want to share?
ruff.tad: mono
me: ok
ruff.tad: anyway - circulate that proposal and let me know
me: will do
already composing the email
Sent at 9:33 AM on Thursday
ruff.tad: ok

[Broker33]

Here is my response as I like this idea. My guess is he would try to bring Imhotep along and the two of them could evecerate this NUTA or whatever they call themselves. Also he could cause Krill to focus on 2 fronts which can only be good for us.

Actually I like the Idea of Ruff keeping all of them honest with Military. He could probably crush MH/Kodi the "Wonder Twins" pun intended.

Also he is on Krills back door and would force him to divert some military that way and away from any attack.

As for teching Ruff could go all cash all the time and just receive techs from us. He could send us the cash to help with techs and upgrades and be our military arm.

Personally beneficial to me as I can split MH/Kodi land with him.
Beneficial to Lins and Sunrise as it is another problem for Krill and possibly another front he will have to deal with.
Beneficial to Regoarr and ZPV no Praet invasion to worry about and easier time with the conquest of Shady or DSP

Draw backs. We would be carrying along the Borg tech wise and they would have room to expand but their UU ends and could be dealt with at a later date as long as the rest of us expanded as well. IE Lins/Sunrise into Krills lands, Me into MH/Kodi and Regoarr ZPV into Shady DSP.