RB PBEM #2 - Justinian (SPOILERS!)

[Dreylin]

A note from Ruff from a while ago that he may already have posted:

Gees - you have to be very exacting with Darrell - he was waiting to see what I reported back from you two about him racing Krill to space and I was waiting for him to report back about his Krill encounter. Here is the chat ...

Darrell: Did you ever ask SL/Dreylin if they were ready to throw in the towel?
Sent at 5:17 PM on Wednesday
me: they didn't think you had much change of talking Krill out of war and into space race
Darrell: ok
me: did you talk him about it?
Darrell: so they want to a) continue fighting and see if I can launch before he hits domination, or b) just conced the game to him
No I was waiting for you
me: oh - I was waiting for you
I am pretty sure I can push them into it
Darrell: I did not see the point in asking him if they were not interested
quitting you mean
me: nah - we would play on, but just for fun - sort of watching you two tech to space
Darrell: okay let me ask him then
me: ok
Darrell: If he gears for space he'll beat me, if you guys fight him on he might lose
Just to be clear
So I think its either concede the game or continue as is
And my vote is to end the game

Note that I said I could twist your arm into accepting watching them race to space <grin>. Guess we wait and see what happens.

Ruff

and from SL with the turn:

Sent some gold to help tech - going to run at railroads soon so keeping some - Machine guns will hold krill up.

Any news on getting Bud to Darrell?

SL

[Dreylin]

t150 - crunch crunch crunch crunch.

& 150g from SL - should be enough to finish Assembly Line (subject to not being attacked).

Constantinople: SoL - Workboat
Thessalonica: Ironclad - Frigate
Antioch: SoL - Cataphract
Angora: Gren - Rifleman

Privateers still inexplicably managing to cause trouble

Peace treaty will expire next turn, so I check potential attack force: 5 Galleons in Cherbourg should be easy enough to defend against, but there's a spot NE of the city that is 6t away from Const so could add to the force. I'll grow the force in the city a bit. Also, it's time to pillage off the Fort to the East of Antioch again ... once the SoL has passed, of course!

Put the Frigate and an Ironclad outside Adrianople Mk2 to give me a chance of keeping the Privateer away ... but not much I think.

Shuffle some more troops into Const and keep the bulk of the rest in between there & Antioch.

[Dreylin]

Note to SL:

Thanks. I've got 8t left on Assembly Line and -70gpt now so I might need a little more to see it through to the end, but I've certainly got a good cushion to keep me going.

No more word from Ruff.

Dreylinian I.