[SPOILERS] Cornflakes and Q Eat 'Em for Breakfast!

[Cornflakes]

OH, and I offered tech trades for gold to everyone, so don't got back through and offer them again ... Gold is extra valuable to us now because it lets us tech tech tech while in the GA, arriving at Bureaucracy and maces sooner so I'm hoping at least one of them accepts.

[Qgqqqqq]

Agree on immediate GA.
Sorry for being uninvolved lately, I'll try to get my assignment done tomorrow so I can start logging in again (I can slip in a turn of the duel, but the pitboss is too intense for me to jump in and out of like that).
Watch out for him roading the tile NW of the corn and two moving a stack at the corn city before we can respond - try to still send an imp in and out of borders each turn.
Remember to go confucious.
Also pillage that tile - we're never getting it back so we might as well cost his movement.
Which cities should we starve GP out of, and what type do we want?
I don't think the military applications of an artist are sufficient to out weigh a trade mission/education bulb, (though think of the possibilities of that culture! Azza border taken, city razed/flipped, metra beaten back, BC iron stolen, AT conceding the silk...(actually that's an okay idea if we get azzarian peace...bomb, move units into view and demand city)) anyway remember they should either be full growing or starving - I think we can try for two, one in the BC border and one in volcano - so don't whip those cities, I'll try get online to work out a plan for them.

[Cornflakes]

Cant afford to swap out of Slavery to caste ... Well get 1 GP out of Volcano.

[Cornflakes]

Also, I was mistaken about Azza having HBR, he doesn't.

[Qgqqqqq]

Why not?
The war?

Ok having looked I agree.
He has two workers west of the city, be wary.
Swapped around some of the micro.

[Cornflakes]

I would rather not keep moving the western impi out/back each turn. He's a sitting duck there, and we gain absolutely nothing useful by peeking. He can't hit us in 1 turn with 1-movers, and our stack is in range to reinforce. Against 2-movers the impi would be better inside the city.

Right now he could hit our impi with an axe, and then maybe raze Paradigm with 2/3 chariots. With that impi fortified within the city he'd need a pretty pile of chariots to capture the city in 1 turn. Don't move him out again (please consult first on military movements, especially on our front because I have specifically placed each unit there ... including intentionally fortifying that impi in the city )

[Cornflakes]

Nice healthy demos all around in the GA these are both taken at breakeven reasearch; at 100% we're solidly over 300 GNP with about 250bpt

This war with Azza has me on the edge of my seat. I can't stand the suspense of waiting a full day between troop movements

[Cornflakes]

Azza killed the impi and brought a weak attack against Paradigm. We have more defenders than he has attackers, plus we're behind walls and he only has 1 catapult

Commodore and AT closed borders. Not a huge surprise here. I just hope the others don't follow through, because TR's are a huge chunk of our economy.




AT researched CS, so I offered Lit/Drama/Calendar trade. He probably won't take it, and then next turn I'll throw in some gold. We're right close to no being able to self-research it by the end of our GA, so it's worth paying a bit to get it (plus every turn we have it sooner we'll earn back 25+ gpt from Bureau-bonus in Grand Slam).

2metra just research Philosophy and converted to Taoism/Caste/Pacifism in his GA.

[Cornflakes]

Oh Commodore settled a city with the eastern pigs first ring (stealing them from our dye city )

[Cornflakes]

If you see on Civstats the AT logs in and you do not see a score increase for us (from the tech trade going through), would you mind hopping in game to offer [CS for Drama/Lit/Calendar + 80 gold] please? Do not offer less than 80 gold. I won't be able to log in until late this evening.

If AT has already countered with a gold offer just accept whatever his offer is. It'll be 126 gold MAX because that's all we have, and it's well worth it for us at that price.