[Spoilers] Fintourist and Old Harry have nothing to see here

[Fintourist]

Two things:

1. Possible Mackoti-attack

Mack played before us last turn so we should give him a chance to move his units first. I don't think it's a problem to log in and do other stuff first. The only annoying thing is that if mack has already declare-peaced us as we would like to be the ones doing it later during the turn. (If we do that stuff)



2. Nakor

You managed to play in 4 minutes without whipping this time?? Really?? It's already too late, but could we:

1a) Retire him to AI?
1b) Get a sub?
2) Ban him from ever joining a RB game again

This is just sad and totally game-breaking, far beyond the effect from map imbalances and they already mean a lot. I really doubt that scoopinhelium either wanted this to go like this

[TheHumanHydra]

I would let him do his whole turn before we do any of ours, just to be on the safe side.

[Old Harry]

Turn 145 preamble

So lets see if this attack is a good idea?


Nope, it's a trap. Note the trireme up north too.


I don't see any workers around so I don't think they plan to hit us with this stack, but we're not getting far with it there.

The upside is that if that's where they are keeping their stack they won't get it back to the capital for a knight attack. Assuming there isn't another stack.

[Fintourist]

Just for the record, this stack illustrates the sad fact that suttree practically is mack's ally and mack does not need to defend his border there (probably uses OBs to give him a fair warning).

We are currently chatting with Harry, we will offer white peace to mackoti (I would imagine 10 turns of secure peace are still welcome for both of us) and start some defensive measures such as a LB build in Peterloo just to make sure that if mackoti thinks that offensive is a good idea, it will only become a bloodbath. It would be actually kind of nice to get rid of our ancient trash.. :P

[Fintourist]

Hmm.. Mack has not accepted our peace offer and has moved a galley towards Cannae, which can threaten the city only if mack takes and wins a low-odds naval battle. Interesting to see if mack wants to start an open conflict with us..

[Old Harry]

Turn 145 end and 146 start

At the end of t145 we get sight on the city we think dtay will build the Taj in. Those two catapults make it impossible to take the city, so we could just upset the worker micro, but with chariots around the axes are dead so we'd have to be sure of getting the Taj... No decision required for a couple of turns.


Rolled the turn and Mack logged in. He turned down our white peace offer and moved this galley up. If it has Horse archers on we're in a bit of trouble - we can dry-whip a longbow for 4 pop or a spear for (I think) 3 pop. More likely it's empty, but we should keep three units in Cannae from now on just in case (sorry THH).


Power and demos from t146

[Fintourist]

Hey O'Harry, THH and lurkers,

if mackoti forces us to do some kind of annoying defensive measures and does not offer peace back, should we:
A. Perform a suttree-defense and just whip all our cities down and throw everything at mackoti.
B. Perform a Nakor-defense and just stop playing
C. Come up with some kind of a compromise between those two..

Feel free to express your vote

[Bobchillingworth]

I'm totally spoiled and can't really talk strategy, but aren't A, B and maybe C just different flavors of throwing your game away?


(Oh, unless that's the joke)

[Zed-F]

Definitely not B.

[Fintourist]

(Oh, unless that's the joke)

I just managed to find one further way to express my dislike on suttree's and Nakor's behaviour in this game.. Unfortunately I did not manage to squeeze in m_h into this "poll". C isn't supposed to mean throwing up your game though...