[PB37 SPOILER] Coeurva, Bacchus -- Cyrus of Carthage

[chumchu]

Dark Savant took white peace after he got emerald isle back. Krill has taken Swallows Gyve with a stack of amphibious maces. I repulsed his assault at Maudlin Sphinx though which gave me a GG which I planted in heroic epic city for better knights. I do not think that Krill can make any more progress against us as I beef up the defenses on the mainland and mandrake. This should be the natural time for him to sign peace but I do not really expect him to do that from what I have seen earlier so the plan is still towards gunpowder and chemistry.

In other news I am going to start on Notre Dame in Dragonish Sicil after a 2 turn settler finishes. The wonder would be good long term and the fail gold in the short term so it is win/win.

[Coeurva]

Sounds like you've been doing a great job.

Note that Gavagai's caravel might have indeed been warning us about Krill's plans to attack Swallow's Gyve (it veered off shortly before you took over). There's hope that he's secretly getting ready to attack Krill while we're occupying him in the north.

If you can get another stone deal to reduce our reliance on JR4, that would be great. 2:1 conversion failgold building (OrgRel, forge, stone) is a good plan, as is balancing whip unhappiness.

What about the hot potato islands, are we controlling Regna / Sweet Water?

Where's the settler going, that island towards Joey? Can you get two galleons of workers over?

[chumchu]

So-so. I gave up on the indefensible islands to regroup as our mainland was exposed. Krill has the hot potatoes. The only action this turn was me sinking a nav galleon Krill had sent to the western sea.

Let's hope. but we can not contribute that much to it more than distraction. Krill's chinese neighbor still lives as well.

JR4 just canceled stone so that was a well timed comment. He probably noticed that we just teched engineering =(. He offered sugar for silk instead which i accepted.

I'm going to settle the banana island towards Joey and stone island in the western sea before main land fillers as both these cities act as buffers towards Dtay and Joey, giving us more safety on the western shore. They also have a food resource each and stone which we need for castles.There are workers aplenty so no problems there. I'm laying down some windmills and thinking about serfdom as the transition after slavery we are quite heavy into watermills on our rivers. It's not like we are going to work many specialists outside of NE.

[chumchu]

No war news this turn. Krill is pillaging a few fishing boats. I think he does not see us as a threat and is therefore hesitant to make peace. Either that or he is massing for an attack on mandrake or somewhere. I'm going to add 2 longbows to mandrake just in case. Other defense units are going to the new western islands. The knight stack is 10 strong now.

Dark savant has already got banking and is heading towards astronomy.

Economy wise I'm saving up gold for gunpowder or banking. Getting religion in southern cities in anticipation for a whipping out infra there. I feel like I need to do a fair bit of whipping before hopefully growing the cities and then transitioning out of slavery but that is a long time away.

[chumchu]

Well that went bad. I noticed an exposed mini stack of galleons and lost 4 consecutive fights at 28, 50, 73, 73 %. The two 73 were two of our our fast galleons =(

He is also threatening mandrake with a huge stack on the forest that I can not take out. He will take it in 2 turns.

The good news is that we are 5 turns from chemistry (if we want) while krill is still getting gunpowder. So we will probably have a window to get frigates. I'm a bit uncertain about what to do about that front, if I should just concede it. I'm leaning against conceding it as it represents too much of a threat long term, we iwlljust have too long a border to defend. Dtay is in war with Gav so we have peace on that side. If we could wrest back naval superiority from krill in the east we will just have to defend the land border against savant. I think we could do that decently by moving the anti-Krill garrisons on our east coast to the north. The other option is knighting Dtay's in the backline.

[chumchu]

Krill took mandrake and offered white peace. I accepted as will not get a frigate fleet out before that any way. Losing mandrake also put us under the 2 turn limit for revolutions if we just change one civic. I switched out of slavery into serfdom as we are heavy on watermills and windmills at this point and OR+forges are present in most cites. The plan now is to grow the cities back after the heavy whipping these turns and prepare for a 2-person golden age to take us the last way to rifling.

The plan is still to frigate Krill but it will come later. It is also worth noting that Dtay is at peace with gave so that front is less secure than before. I have a formation pike as top defender though and my stack of 20 knights/numids almost finished. The defensive plan is to put about 8 cats in both north and south chokes and have the cavalry in a central position.

[Bacchus]

I don't really have time to follow these days, and into the foreseabel future, so I'm going to drop out into the genlurker population.

[Coeurva]

Thanks for all you did for Carthage. It's been fun.

I'm still ded-lurking, but there's not much of worth I can say. I could try. Hey chumchu, maybe attack Krill again right away in 10t, he won't see that coming. Alternatively, we still have a few neighbours we've never declared war on so far!

[chumchu]

=p

[Bacchus]

Hey chumchu, maybe attack Krill again right away in 10t, he won't see that coming. Alternatively, we still have a few neighbours we've never declared war on so far!

I regret nothing.