[SPOILERS] Kurumi & wetbandit serve you Hannibal's Breakfast Cocktail (of Persia)

[wetbandit]

Any news? Should I play the turns? You always seemed to be first so I basically conceded doing them not to ruin anything :c

Sorry, been negligent about updating. Please play some turns! I'll be away this weekend and will need help.

Basically, I saved up enough gold for us to finish Construction, which should be done in 6 turns.

Foreign news, we found Kuro, who is way to our north. I cancelled OB with Oxy since we were giving him free money. Everyone else has signed OB like an AI game, so cancelling OB doesn't make sense other than to lose our access. This is especially true with Molach. He has currency and probably has the highest GNP with all that creative culture with 14 +2 trade routes!

I especially don't want to irritate Molach since we'll be building up to go take Azzaland.

On T91, I discovered azza moving a mini-stack of 2 spears, 1 axe, and 1 chariot to our new lands in the northwest. He had two chariots poking around up there. I had a chance to hit a chariot outside Three Olives with a spear and took it. It appears that Azza deleted his other chariot once I settled Stoli, which boxed him in. Peace treaty was signed on T93. We have 9 more turns of enforced peace, I think Azza has lost steam.

Invasion stack needs to be prepared. Imagine 2 Imm, 2 spears, 4-5 Cats, and probably 8+ Axes. He doesn't have HBR so we can go light on spears. We'll keep feeding axes and cats as required.

[Kurumi]

The problem is I am away from around Wednesday for like 1,5 week, hopefully will get CIV4 running on dad's pc and have good enough internet to download the turns.

[Cornflakes]

...to go take Azzaland.

Trademark Violation! Copyright Infringement! Whateveryoucallit! My lawyers will be contacting you

[Bigger]

...to go take Azzaland.

Trademark Violation! Copyright Infringement! Whateveryoucallit! My lawyers will be contacting you

I got it before you, and Krill before me :P

[wetbandit]

I claim fair use as a defense, but I'll happily change to:

Azzastan
United States of Azza
Azzanesia
Azzareich

In all fairness, we first have to take it! First cats don't come on line for at least 6 turns.

[Cornflakes]

...to go take Azzaland.

Trademark Violation! Copyright Infringement! Whateveryoucallit! My lawyers will be contacting you

I got it before you, and Krill before me :P

is that so? And all along I thought I made that up!

[Kurumi]

So bandit should I ask Maiar to do the turns or we can rely on some lurker?

[wetbandit]

Yes, it's good idea to line someone up for this weekend. Maiar or a lurker can jump in, makes no difference to me. I'll be traveling Friday night and won't have reliable internet access or foreseeable time to play Saturday or Sunday. When do you get Civ access back?

I'll put together a detailed overview tonight. We are waiting for Construction to finish. Azza made some trade overtures to us (clam for ivory) which I rejected. Suttree took a city from Oxy and Molach is using his Praets to tech like a beast. Both of his western and eastern neighbors have been at war fighting others while he techs in peace. Teching towards, what, I don't know, Agg Praets would be good enough for me to stomp. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if he looks to his east too and snags a piece of Oxy.

I mapped out our island up north, it has two city spots. Unfortunately, only one will be worth much, but it will be great as a Moai if we choose to use it there instead of Belvedere.

[Kurumi]

Probably a week to get civ. I dont have both good internet or a pc with it here where I am, I can only coordinate things through posts. I think settling the island might be really worthwhile because of the overseas domestic traderoutes. Molach not attacking is great news. Lets just be safe.

[wetbandit]

I held off on the update because only Oxy had to play, hoping that another turn would roll in the meantime. I think there's still a chance, regardless, I'll post pics tonight before I leave.

We are at ~11% of worldwide population with the leader, suttree, at 14%. IIRC, we were at #2 GNP with 107, max research and coins to make sure we get construction in 2. The leader is at ~123, but Molach showed off a 156 a few turns earlier. Manufacturing is good, crop was OK.

Mad Dog is a beast with 17, soon to be 19 base HPT. Unfortunately, that's all of its hills. I'm thinking it will continue to just about two-turn Lvl3 axes for the near future.

Re: Island, a galley will finish this turn, but with impending conquest, I'm not sure we really have the time to fit in a settler.

WilliamLP's power shot through the roof. He has Kuro to his North on what appears to be a peninsula, I think he's heading that way.