[Spoilers] Adrien and Mardoc relax and play civ

[Mardoc]

I guess we won't know until it actually happens, yeah.

There's a fourth possibility . Maybe Fenn intends to move on us 'once ready' and Jowy will preempt him. I'm pretty sure Jowy got Guilds first, anyway, and has more production to back it up as well.

In Jowy's shoes...honestly, he's got a bit of a tougher strategic question. He can definitely kill us (at least the mainland), for a small profit. Or, I think he's actually got a chance to kill Fenn for a big profit (and then clean us up later at leisure). It would be a lot harder, but I think Jowy's got both a production advantage and a better tactical mind. I think in his shoes I would prefer to take the sure thing and come back for Fenn with gunpowder units (and a bigger production advantage), but I could imagine rolling the dice. Owning an entire continent is the best chance to actually catch Wetbandit.

Dang it, I can't wait to be out of this, so that we can try again. Play the REX phase just a bit more cautiously and we could have a really fun game.

[AdrienIer]

Do you think I should cancel OB with Fenn ? He has a HA scouting the land around the cap, which means he'll know exactly what units we have.

Also, in case anyone was wondering, I'm alright and so is everyone I know (I've had news from pretty much everyone). The stadium is pretty close to my place (less than 30mn walk) but I didn't hear a thing, I'm safe at home and staying there until tomorrow.

[Molach]

Good to hear.

Condolences about Paris.

[Mardoc]

Do you think I should cancel OB with Fenn ? He has a HA scouting the land around the cap, which means he'll know exactly what units we have.

Nah. It's probably too late, he knows what we've got at the moment and can extrapolate from our graphs. Extra commerce gives us the best chance of making it to longbows in time to matter.

Glad to hear you're all right.

[AdrienIer]

Thanks guys

I'll keep OB for now

[AdrienIer]

I just realized that I forgot to end turn yesterday. I was greeted by an interesting offer by Fenn.




I think he can't see that we are already getting ivory from Wetbandit (and we'll get our won in 2t), but iron is definitely interesting. Only I don't want to lose a happiness resource (even with HR we're a bit tight, and I'd rather not thin the stack to send some guys in random cities doing MP duties). What do you think ? Should I send him an iron for something trade ?

[Mardoc]

How about replacing the Ivory with Silver? It's still not great for us, but at least it's happiness neutral instead of negative. It would be good to guarantee iron available if we ever make it to engineering. The second best purpose is making it hurt Fenn to attack us.

I know there's a wine on the eastern Jowy border, but I can't remember what the culture situation looked like around there. If we can steal it from Jowy somehow, that would make this worthwhile.

[AdrienIer]

Ah I knew it would be worth it to wait for your imput !

I'll send back the iron+silver for wine. The northeastern wine is in Jowy's culture (second ring of his city) and in our city's third ring (available in 6t). I still doubt we can get it.

[AdrienIer]

Between last turn's offer and the area being a lot less militarized I feel better about our chances of survival




But seriously Wetbandit is experiencing a MoM fueled Taj GA, how the hell could he lose now ?

[AdrienIer]

I had to go dig for a few additional commerce but I managed to get us feudalism at the end of this turn.




Longbows are coming yeah !