[SPOILERS] Consider it a Divorce! Doug Quaid and Elizabeth of Egypt

[retep]

I'll be blunt as always.

I'm not paying a lot of attetion to this game, because a)I'm started losing and will continue to lose b)long pauses.

Even so, it seems super obvious to me that Seven and LP weren't fighting at alll. Seven just delacre war to LP to fuck him over from whatever reason that I don't care. This wouldn't be bad if it wasn't because he fuck over all the players too.

Parkin loves to play last then just let him play last or don't let him play in the game from the start.
It was Seven the one that was killing the game not Parkin and people overlook this because is Seven. This is bullshit of the worst type.

Whatever I don't really care, from this I just take that we need more Plakos.

[retep]

So lets talk a bit about my strategy this game.
As I said my goal is to finish fifth place, at first I thought that maybe I could outperformance some of my rivals but after sixten or so turn it became obvious that it was not gong to happen because:
-I was really behind everyone in all forms, gavagai was in better position than me and he had lost a city earlier, and I had very little land to expand.
- I was surrender by the 3 strongest civs, which made any kind of conquest idea a dream.

So what other form do I have to get to fifth place? Well out survived other players. First I beeline Enginnering and got it 1t latear than Mack, which I asumme was the first to get it.
At that point I was really scared that Mack would attack me by that point I have already build a god stack of HA/elephants and cats and I let Mack see the stack with his scout. In fact I open borders with everyone just so people could see I have an army and that it would be better to no attack me. For 2 turns I was 3 in power (almost second) now I'm four, still good.

And although I'm not paying to much attetion I know some things, for example Donovan is going down probably a pincer attack from two civs. German was/is whiping like crazy he is most likely at war with Haram I know because they are kind of in a split with the timer.

Now I'm going for Civil service, which should help me to get to Guilds ina reasonable time. I'm thinking 10t tops, knights and cats should let me survived for a long time still. I'll probably lost the island, that I almost take completely for wetbandit, at some point near in the future. There isn't much I can do about that. Just going to whip some pikes and put walls over there to delay the attack and maybe make wetbandit look to the other side.

Gaw is fighting someone but I don't know who, I could probably figure out who but that is too much work and as long is not me is fine.

Anyway let see where this game takes me.

[retep]

Haram must die.
I'm serious, someone needs to take Haram down so I can take my rightfull place in the sixth slot in this game which has been my goal all game.

TBH playing not to lose is so much easier than playing to win that it feels I should just do that every game.
Anyway I'm third in power getting closer to second, no that it matters much since Mack will kill me as soon as he want, but wetbandit or Gaw? Hell no I can take this guys on, no problem. Of course in 20t the situation will be different, but hey I hope that by then Haram will be below me.

There is also the crazy chance that the other superpowers will fight between each others. Is there any chance for me to climb higher than sixth? I man can dream....

[GermanJoey]

retep my man what is the plan here. you survived me, but how will you survive one more civ??? perhaps your capital's settled prophet will part the waters of the Nile and crash them down upon your enemies...?

[retep]

Well I won't, Mack is coming. I had a dream that maybe he would go for Grimace but he won't.
I had a dream that maybe Grimace could defeat Haram and then the rest of the world would dogpile him but it didn't happen.
I had a dream that Mack would attack Gaw but he won't because he needs him to stop Seven.
I had a dream that Seven would attack Haram after defeating you GJ, but he thinks he doesn't need more cities.
I had a dream that my positioning in the map would make others don't want to attack me first and hence let my survive longer.
I had a dream that I could get to Nationalism but my civ wasn't good enough, it didn't had a good enough leader.
I had a dream that this game will crash and die before I do, but the chances that a thunder will destroy the toaster of Caledorn are very unlikely.
I had a dream of a glorious last stand against my greatest enemy but now he is just too powerfull and I will die a dog's death.
I had a dream and then it became this nightmare.

Oh well, I have no regrets I did what I could with the things I had.