Spoilers! Time For A Change. ( superdeath spoilers )

[Chevalier Mal Fet]

That was fantastic. Thank you.

[superdeath]

Before i even play, PBSpy is showing DZ going full Dont-give-a-fuck lol. Gah, unless he left a very nice opening for me to hit his stack, DZ might take some of those lands. Everything in the past 50t has helped Mr.Cairo. Son of a bitch.

[superdeath]

Yeah.. DZ didnt take out JR4's main stack ... thankfully? and i decided to honor neither of their requests for "war buddies/ect" ( they both sent copper/copper style deals ) I.... want DZ to be punished for throwing the game to MC imo, and i want JR4 to be punished in the same way. ALL while stopping MC. How to do this though.

I can roughly research artillery in 7-8 turns without swapping cities to build research. Build 10+ transports and fill them with marines/tanks. Cover with my vastly stronger navy. Raze vanillaisis. Send main army to raze the border city of MC on the JR4 border. Maybe Wetbandit helps me out? Probably while JR4/DZ go at each other. All the while i slow-tech to bombers as it will be faster, and then run bombers/tanks thru what i can of MC and then 3x the next persons production/gnp ( MC has a SHIT LOAD of towns that id love to have ) = game?

Problems: Not getting ganked by JR4/DZ/Wetbandit. I believe in a vacuum i could take on MC right now/1v1 at this point and prevent him from winning. Although id really appreciate someone helping keep him from being able to bring his full stack to one side of his empire over the other. I also want bombers so that i can take out railroads to prevent the worker-poor MC from easily getting to all of his cities. Whether i choose to continue to build 20-35 tanks vs get bombers 10-15t sooner, is a choice ill have to think hard on.

Man, MC has imo gotten alot of breaks this game.

[superdeath]

Well i hope i earned some good will with JR4. I may have "stole" the capital city he was eyeing, but i WIPED the floor with 98% of DZ's stack. His only remaining "stacks" are his MC/Wetbandit guerilla 2 infantry, and his within range stack of artillery. He can do some hella damage with those artillery, but he has next to NO hitters so i can clean up or JR4 can clean up if he so chooses. I lost roughly 97% of my collateral ( mostly catapults ) but i saved basically all of my actual hitters. Yay?


Demos are still quite fine. Once i see if i get a good great person, ill know what i can possibly bulb and maybe salvage a smack on MC before he wins. If not, basically i get 2nd so long as i myself dont get backstabbed by JR4 this turn. Really wish i had a GA to bomb..


Try keeping up with my tank AND battleship production boys!


Doesnt include my 30 knights or so, but thats the vast majority of what i own.


Im a little bit scared of DZ SoD one of my cities before i could reposition, but i can see basically the ENTIRE MAP... so sneaking up on me can only really be done by MC via sea.


The battlefield.




Any questions?

[superdeath]

Ya know, with DZ taking 2days + 7hr turns each turn cycle... PB43 might be the longest REAL time pitboss ever played as well. Will it last till pb50 is done? :D

I kid, but i wonder if this break is because he truly thought that i was going to let his huge stack just take Cornflakes' capital from under my/JR4's nose? PLUS in order to do that he had to stab JR4 in the back, and Wetbandit already hates DZ so.... lets see if i can put this in perspective.

Help DZ, lose the game because DZ isnt a top leader atm AND JR4 can pump a decent amount of troops out AND is my most direct border/conflict potential. So, who would be doing the major heavy lifting? ME. What would DZ gain? a handful of border cities, while i possibly grab one of the major border cities..... and then MC wins by culture.

Help JR4, get into the good graces of someone who might think i have a grudge against them for the earlier city being taken. Work with him to take down MC with some sort of combined stack-walk-towards-capital? DZ has no naval fleet that could make life difficult for me, has backstabbed wetbandit who is really the only one that seems ready to invade MC at a moments notice.. Im, just not seeing a reason he could believe that letting me setup those railroads was a good idea.


Im in this game for the long haul. No concessions, someone is winning this mofo via a true Victory Condition. Get subs if you need to.

[superdeath]

Is DZ combat calculating every fight? Does he have an up-to-date sim where he tests everything? Is he pausing to sleep? SO MANY QUESTIONS

[superdeath]

DZ's new objective, avoid elimination by concession to MC by way of 50hr turns. ;P

[GeneralKilCavalry]

Is DZ combat calculating every fight? Does he have an up-to-date sim where he tests everything? Is he pausing to sleep? SO MANY QUESTIONS

No, no, he is writing the report to end all reports, a 100 page essay on PB43 and everything that has happened so far to satiate the deepest desires of all lurkers. He is literally forcing the server to rewind turns so that he can take those juicy, crisp screenshots of every single important unit movement and event.

[superdeath]

Id pay to see DZ write 100page report on a game. hell, make it 50 pages and that would probably double his total reporting across all games.

03/20/2020 03:39:33    331    -    game paused by player.
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I think he is trying for the longest turn.

[superdeath]

Before i get into the pictures, i just wanna say.. i am having a blast playing this late game stuff for... i think the first time ever. SP/MP EVER. Ive gotten to tanks in SP, but i usually have won before i produce much due to winning via... well, mass cavalry.

Onto the carnage... i forgot to take a before picture of all the DZ troops that i had to clear out/kill ect.. but i more or less got hit by his ENTIRE stack of collateral that i had showed earlier. Luckily he had to attack across a river so i killed quite a few outright at the beginning. I will say.. My odds on alot of the fights i took this turn were usually 70%+ and i lost over 15 units attacking him this turn that probably shouldnt have been nearly that many. ANYWAY.


A highlight of how i love RNG in these games. Well, i guess it also shows most of the units around the area that i cleared out. ( i certainly didnt clear them all out... collateral-ed units are not tough. )



All of this turns attacks/ect. Not pictured is last turns artillery and 5 units being killed to make room for some random stacks of stuff as you can see in the above picture. Mainly annoying Guerrilla 2 MG's + anti tanks making removing them a real pain in the ass.


As i was ending my turn, this was the battlefield. JR4 is the only factor im worrying about right now. He could effectively end the game by declaring on me and taking out a city or something. He would be able to take a bit of stuff before i could stop him... but MC would win. No contest. I really hope he choses to take out some DZ troops and then plant a city in between. I want to cooperate with him. We need to finish DZ off or SOMETHING and then all hit MC to stop his win.

MC's 2 non-capital cities

 

I dont like it. Not one bit.

Graphs:

 
no surprise that the culture boii has all the GNP. All those cottages vs my workshops..


Im almost to the point of being DOUBLE the next highest MFG.. If only i was smart enough to think of a way to actually take advantage of that.


Doesnt matter much anymore.



Graphs are a bit delayed.. but losing 15-20 units put me down to 4th apparently. But that shouldnt be for long. I really need to catch up to JR4's tank count.

MOAR TANKS FOR THE FATHERLAND