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Like a hot wind Varn Gosam of the Malakim [SPOILERS]

Square Leg Wrote:Rosier was spotted by a cultist who tsunami'd his ass and killed him followed by farting the Star Trek theme music on his corpse.... no?

Which one TOS, TNG, DS9 or Janeway's Homocidal Joyride?
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Square Leg Wrote:Let me guess - GP for a shrine... GA for either culture shenanigans or another Golden Age!

GP will shrine RoK giving me ~12 x1.2=14 gpt + a source of Earth mana +2 engineer GPP/turn and an engineer specialist slot.

Great Artist: either bulb 800 beakers towards Animal Handling or save for a Golden Age. I'm leaning towards the GAge but I'm also considering the AH bulb. It would enable the Lightbringer--> Ranger upgrade which would be quite handy defending against Nyktorion's tigers. 2-3 Subdue Animals Rangers defending against a Tiger swarm = "All your Tigers are belong to us".


Quote:Rosier was spotted by a cultist who tsunami'd his ass and killed him followed by farting the Star Trek theme music on his corpse.... no?

Unfortunately, no. He was spotted by a worker moving into position to mine the desert copper near Golden Bunkhous. If Rosy promotes to Mob 1 he can hit Golden Bunkhous and probably raze it. GB is currently defended by a C2/Formation warrior with 5% fortification and 10% culture. Rosy will have about 65-70% odds. If Irgy does take those odds and burns the city General Martok is in range to kill Rosy (who should take heavy damage). OTOH, Rosy may simply be in the area to scout and/or nettle me.

Alternatively, he could gank my worker and then promote to Mob 1 and retreat to Elohim territory.

Irgy hasn't sent me a war dec email yet, and he's played the turn so I'm guessing he hasn't crossed my borders. In any event, it's a nice wake up call for me: I need to beef up my border defenses. smile

Rosy was built on t 118 so he's currently got 9/10 xp (plus any he might have gained from barbs) and has C1.

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On the domestic front, I've just completed my two first Money Changers and now have 5 Water 1 adepts on the board to rapidly terraform my desert. I'm aiming for another 3/4 adepts for Walls of Stone/Inspiration.

The AC has dropped 5 points over the last few turns, I've no idea whats going on with that but I'm happy to see it. smile

I'll be dropping the slider a notch or two this turn to start getting some upgrades done (priorities: Upgrading Nellie the Elephant into a war elephant, upgrading my remaining swords to chariots, upgrading a few warriors to archers, upgrading my level 4/5 warriors to chariots)

Brian Shanahan Wrote:Which one TOS, TNG, DS9 or Janeway's Homocidal Joyride?

TOS of course.
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Looks like Rosy is just having a look around for the moment...no DOW. smile

Shrined RoK for an extra 12gpt, upgraded Nellie to War Elephant.

Hitting eot finished research on Hunting. WotWicked next.

Eot Demographics:

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A couple of interesting things to note: Irgy is getting Death Mana from Nyktorion in exchange for Fire mana. This means Irgy's new adepts will be getting Death 1 for free and I can expect Nyktorion to be fielding Fireball casting mages once his adepts have a chance to level up (and he manages to tech to Sorcery).

And, WarriorKnight just finished up research on Fanatacism which enables his Civ hero (a st. 0 Archmage) and Crusaders (st 6 +1 holy strength, start with Demon Slaying and Medic 1).
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Hmm - that mana must be from the Pyre and the Sephulcher no? No one has actually got raw mana upgraded.

nice ending gnp! smile Once key techs are in maybe a few turns saving up a few thousand gold would be a good idea.
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Square Leg Wrote:Hmm - that mana must be from the Pyre and the Sephulcher no? No one has actually got raw mana upgraded.

nice ending gnp! smile Once key techs are in maybe a few turns saving up a few thousand gold would be a good idea.

I have the pyre. wink

The fire mana is from Irgy's palace. The Nyktorion's Death mana may be from the Sephulcher or it may be from an upgraded node. He's had Necromancy for awhile now.

Agreed on the gold. Now that I've bagged the goodies from Honour and Drama I've dropped the slider to pay for some upgrades.


(actually I'm liking the MFG goods column even better than the GNP....)
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Hmmmm.

Might be bagging me a Rosy the Riveter next turn....

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If Rosy ends his turn on any of those coastal tiles, he's dead meat.

Irgy has been around long enough that I doubt I'll get the chance.....but you never know....

(I won't actually be finishing Fanaticism yet, I want to finish up a few SoKs first. But it is a high priority tech and serves as a decent dumping ground for some excess beakers in the meantime)


I've had a look at some production/beaker/gold numbers and have completely thrown out some of my fancy Dan SP ideas. OTOH, I should have a nice big can of whoopass to open up once my current NAPs expire even without the super fancy toys. smile
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I doubt he will leave him there but you may get lucky!

You know - I wonder how WK would reaact if you where to attack Irgy.
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Square Leg Wrote:I doubt he will leave him there but you may get lucky!

You know - I wonder how WK would reaact if you where to attack Irgy.

Yeah, it's highly unlikely Irgy will leave his hero exposed to two Cultists....but mistakes sometimes happen. wink

Not sure how WK will react. He and Irgy appear to be on good terms (open borders, resource trades, allowing scouting of each others territory, no PZ rush) but he may be relieved that one of his neighbours has just lost a hero unit (and no-one except the Sheaim are likely to complain about the AC going down a bit).

It's probably moot. Even if Rosy moves onto the forested hill he can promote to mobility and then move away from the shore.
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Killing Rosy was worth 16 exp, bringing the Cultist to 34/26 exp. (Killing heros generates a lot of bonus exp)

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I killed the elephant @95% odds to bring that Cultist (I really need a naming scheme for these folks) up to 26/26 exp (and redlined...grrrr)


In the far East, my scouting Cultist finally found something interesting:

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(there was a mine on the grass hill at the start of turn.....not anymore. smile )


After this, no one is going to believe that I'm a builder by choice (even though it's true). *sigh*
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Too bad you didn't get lucky with the 10% domination chance- that would have really been something... Still, well played! =)
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