[SPOILERS] Toute ma vie, je me suis fait une certaine idée de la Corée

[MYKI]

Potential double move situation with dazedroyalty - would be grateful for advice.

Regarding Thing 2 above, after my move dazedroyalty built a city where his settler was. Since I clearly had a settler on the island and a military unit, this would seem the sort of situation in which turn order should be observed, something especially important since dazedroyalty's city was undefended and that it was impossible for him to garrison it the next turn.

However, he took his next turn in the first half of this turn, before me (there were 28 hours left on the clock when I logged in). It is my intention to declare war on him and move my axeman back onto the hill whence he was thrown when the city was built with a view to razing his city next turn. The thing is, now I am taking my turn in the second half of the turn, it *is* possible for him to reinforce his city in time. If I was on the first half of the turn, it would not be possible for him to do so.

Of course, I could double move him now and the net effect would be the same - I'd take the undefended city, as I would have done if dazedroyalty had kept to the second half of the turn. But before making an arsehole move like that I wanted to see whether a) my cause is just and b) whether there is a better way of rectifying the situation.

[MYKI]

So I might end up regretting this...




Although I don't think I'm doing more than risking a city that was already pretty damn vulnerable and maybe some fishing boats to a trireme he's got floating around, and there's a high chance I'll be razing two of his cities next turn.

This double move thing is a concern, though - he is at an advantage for having taken that double move at the end of last turn and the beginning of this turn, even though it may not have seemed so to him. It makes the difference between him getting a chariot into his new city or not, assuming that's what's on his galley.

But let's not get away from the fact that this was a properly rash move.

[MYKI]

Ah well - he was able to get the chariot into position on time as predicted. I asked for peace, and happily he accepted. There is a slot on the island to the west for a crab city, so i'll go for that - there may even be space for a second one there assuming Zanth doesn't beat me to it.

dazedroyalty is pretty vulnerable, though - I might build up some stuff and have a dab at him in the near future. Given the location of my capital this would seem a better direction in which to go, and DR is spread out onto lots of islands.

I was slightly alarmed when I logged in to see that while I was now at peace with dazedroyalty I was at war with WilliamLP. No offensive actions had been taken, though, so I assume this was just so he could move his galley through my territory for reasons of his own.

[MYKI]

Upsettingly, subsequent graphs show that dazedroyalty was getting spanked in another war just as I was attacking. Explains his lack of care to the turn order in one very unimportant corner of his empire... but it is a shame I wasn't better prepared. Soon - I've decided that eastwards is my best option for expansion.