[spoilers] Commodore: Worse than Toku, it's Giggles of Siam!

[Adbekunkus]

Yay for sneaky, sneaky, war!




Also, quick question: If ballista elephants meant you were safe during the knight attacking era, what is the advantage of building that many knights over said elephants?

[teleh]

Can I take a guess and say, ballistaphants aren't so good at attacking city defenders...?

[Ceiliazul]

So... sneak?

[Ceiliazul]

It's been, like, 12 hours!

[Commodore]

It's been, like, 12 hours!

Yeah, got up and it was work calls and emails even before I left.

Anyway, I evaded the caravel scout, but things are a bit grim. First, Scoopin took Rheims. Second, they kept it. Thirdly, they offered peace for their old city back and Slow took it...so Slow is now at peace with them, and soundly beaten. Um. And they must have roughly one billion ships, now sailing...west?


I won't be rushing a great merchant over to Culver's, because, alas, I made a scientist. He's worth about a turn and a half of research at most in a bulb, so it's Academy in Western Heights or else golden age. We'll see what the capital spawns.


I'll try again next Pacifism/Caste period, which means Riverside is going to be working on just growing to pure maximum size, nothing else. I love this little craphole, I really do, even though it's not making many hammer. The ToA trade beakers rock though.


In general, demos: Good GNP, bad MFG, good CY. Nice power. Okay, we need to overcome the Plako Factor here.


Nothing for it, most likely, just gotta build ships. At least my hammers are better than the Zulus' hammers; sadly, I'm worried about exposure on the East Coast.

Turn: 208
Status:

Next turn, it becomes evident that the Zulu were nervous about the 6-mover hitting Jamba. Um, we might be in for a fight even if they didn't see the invasion fleet. Bummer.


I'm trusting that the newly-in-4th Dutch are just going to sit tight and make temple and cathedrals...that's the bet, anyway, plus with chemistry they ought to be nervous. I'm running *light* up here.


Here's Generica. High water mark, or poised to grow?

Turn: 209
Status:

[Gazglum]

Interesting. So are you proceeding with the invasion plan? If so, where's the main fleet situated at the moment?

[Commodore]

Interesting. So are you proceeding with the invasion plan? If so, where's the main fleet situated at the moment?

On the move, I barely evaded the caravel once. I've actually moved 3SE of the caravel scout, he might well see me at this point but I can still disembark on the hill near Culvers.

Thing is, I think they beat Slow by whipping masses, masses of galleons. So the best counter is actually to shove some 30 land units onto Zulandia before they can kick into fleet mode.

...but I'm making basically "all the frigates" too.

[Commodore]

Herein, the challenge:

[Commodore]

Hmmm...


Darn.


Offered peace, no need to slog through this.

[Ceiliazul]

Offered peace, no need to slog through this.

You offered peace? What about that southern flotilla?

What about hammertime??