I took way too long to play that turn, I got interrupted a few times including one stoppage to fix the mail server at work. Grrrrreat. No report tonight, I'll write it up tomorrow morning. But something fun until then:
Are we doing it right?
The only player missing from that graph is Retep and he was like 5th last time we checked. But he's spending EPs on us like there's no tomorrow right now so who knows if we'll ever see his graphs again. Back to deducing the missing numbers, I suppose. Meh.
Anyway, a brief summary is that we captured the marble city from Kuro last turn, so the count is now three cities taken (two from Sisub, one from Kuro) and zero units lost so far.
Time to pay the piper soon, though, after Sisub is gone it's probably going to get really messy in our corner of the world I'm afraid. More details on that tomorrow, but I think Suttree is about to be a big trouble maker and will try to interject himself into the Sisub consumption process. More to the point, he's going to be too late to take any of Sisub's cities, I think, but he may well be perfectly positioned to hit us with a bunch of cuirassiers while our units are all beat up. 
Are we doing it right?
The only player missing from that graph is Retep and he was like 5th last time we checked. But he's spending EPs on us like there's no tomorrow right now so who knows if we'll ever see his graphs again. Back to deducing the missing numbers, I suppose. Meh.Anyway, a brief summary is that we captured the marble city from Kuro last turn, so the count is now three cities taken (two from Sisub, one from Kuro) and zero units lost so far.
Time to pay the piper soon, though, after Sisub is gone it's probably going to get really messy in our corner of the world I'm afraid. More details on that tomorrow, but I think Suttree is about to be a big trouble maker and will try to interject himself into the Sisub consumption process. More to the point, he's going to be too late to take any of Sisub's cities, I think, but he may well be perfectly positioned to hit us with a bunch of cuirassiers while our units are all beat up.
Played: Pitboss 18 - Kublai Khan of Germany Somalia | Pitboss 11 - De Gaulle of Byzantium | Pitboss 8 - Churchill of Portugal | PB7 - Mao of Native America | PBEM29 Greens - Mao of Babylon
Coincidentally he can no longer research Military Tradition. Knight upgrades to cuirassiers, hello there. I'll be sorely disappointed if he chooses to send everything at us and busts up our wounded stack right after we crack the nut at Sisub's capital. Can you say grudge war until the end of the game? I can. Don't do it, Suttree. 
I was hoping I had found evidence that this theory was incorrect because I don't see a significant jump in rival best power like you would expect when someone burns that much cash upgrading units to cuirassiers (and I'd expect them to be knights to cuirassiers, which is what, like 80 gold?). At the start of T176 rival best power was 912000, at the end of the turn rival best was unchanged. So maybe the upgrades aren't visible on F9 until the next turn (I don't think that's the case but let's go with that for a seecond). Start of T177 rival best is 920000, an increase of only 8000. So that isn't it...But then I remembered WilliamLP is rival best power, not Suttree so all that tells us is that William effectively added strength 8 to his army over the last turn (probably added more and lost some too). So no help there.
yeah that doesn't help, that's mostly what I killed from Kuro last turn. At this point I'm kicking myself for not grabbing a screen shot of the event log because I don't remember exactly what I killed last night. I think it was seven units, and only two or three were strength six (a HA and maybe two longbows?). The others would have been axes or spears/chariots. But let's give it a high guess and say I killed 3*strength 6 + 2*s5 + 2*s4, for 36,000 power in dead Businessmen. That doesn't include any killing William probably did on his front with Kuro and since he has a lot of beat up units down there I'm guessing he has killed some units this turn. Anyway the point of all this is that in spite of me killing off an estimated 36,000 Businessmen power during the turn the rival drop was only 21,000, so there were probably some power increases during the turn (amounting to estimated 15000 power, give or take how much I actually killed from Kuro, and plus or minus whatever units were killed between Kuro and William), or --and this goes to the mechanics of how unit upgrades appear in the demographics screen -- Suttree's cuirassier upgrades could appear in the 101000 rival power that was added at the turn roll. Divided among 8 remaining players that would only be equivalent to a pair of longbows and some change, and with two rivals at war that wouldn't be hard to believe, but I guess the point is that there are way too many scenarios here for me to figure out where the increases specifically came from this turn. I'll have to wait another turn and see them on the power graphs. Two turns from now, though, we may already have found out if it was Suttree and cuirassier upgrades.
