[SPOILERS] Grimace does it doggy style (Boudica of Japan)

[The Black Sword]

Thanks for the update. Boudica has her own solution to ruined dotmaps.

[Grimace]

Thanks for the update. Boudica has her own solution to ruined dotmaps.

Especially Boudica with Samurai!

[spacetyrantxenu]

Just do what you think is best...it's not a complex situation.

Logged in to find an offer of open borders from Krill. I declined because Turn Playing Services doesn't talk to the end user. Feel free to reoffer on your next turn.

Well, this surely presents difficulty. Looks like your copper got cut?




Build choices are between a chariot and archer. Going for the chariot for now, that's a lot of axes out there. So...what is happening.....um....Grimace!




Damn, we're in a tight spot!



Alright, well, I don't see any way you're surviving this to be honest. I see 17 enemy units dispersed along the front. Your military isn't prepared to meet a force of that size, you don't have enough population or time to whip out a response force, and not enough time/workers to chop all those beautiful forests into an army to resist the invasion. Plus having your copper cut off now kind of sucks for you (good play by Gavagai). I've stopped your current worker action around the north city, sent that worker toward Collie to help get the copper there online sooner. You need metal. And I guess I'll have to break the Turn Playing Services rule and talk to some end users about getting you copper.......OK so much for that. Looks like we can't trade resources with anyone you've met.

Uh...You're ahead of Gavagai in the turn order, so Doberman is going to be captured this turn. His two chariots in range have odds on any units you can put into the city and you can't whip it anyway since it's size one. I can't get a forest chop in there to complete anything, so looks like the city is just dead unless I wanted to pack axes into it to die uselessly. I think you need to save your units and withdraw them. You need a big stack of units piled into a city somewhere to try to counter all those axes. Doberman can't be saved, so I'll save the units I can for now. There's one axe east of Doberman who can't safely escape west because of all the chariots. I'm going to hide him in the forests southeast of the city. If you get lucky you'll get a chance to pick off a stray unit down there or something, I dunno. But if he moves west he'll be gobbled up by one of those chariots. You need a few spears!

I moved a few units from Collie toward Airedale, but I don't think it's going to help much. I swapped tiles in Airedale, off cottages and onto mines because you need units, not commerce now. And no reason to grow cottages for Gavagai. You'll be able to 1 turn build units out of Airedale for the next couple of turns given your current overflow situation, plus a chop that's coming in. At least until Gavagai's axe stack arrives. I didn't whip the capital since you're already getting units every turn for now.

I left Kyoto building the work boat because it can't build anything else at all in the near term. Maybe if you net the fish you can grow to size 2 in time to whip an archer or something?

I cancelled all your worker actions at the end of the turn, and put up signs on them showing their progress (where they had done work). This is in case the situation changes next turn, you'll be able to manually choose their action, either continuing the previous work or running away if an enemy is in range to snipe them.

I'm supposed to just be playing this one turn, but if I may offer advice for next time...when your neighbor is a known murderer (hi Gavagai!) you should pay extra close attention to their power graph. And man...these forests...it's a shame there are so many still standing. Chop chop chop, get that snowball rolling earlier!

Demographics:



End of turn map:



Good luck!

[Grimace]

Thanks Xenu. Yeah, I knew I was dead as soon as he declared. To be honest, after losing my settler and two warrios to a barb stack my heart just wasn't in this game, as it seriously set me back compared to my neighbors. So yeah, it's all over but the shouting. Whip defenders as best as I can, but barring someone else going to war with Gav, I lose.