@ WilliamLP, thanks for that, and for RBStats in general. I was definitely refreshing that page almost as often as CivStats! Someone is going to have to go bump your thread again pretty soon to keep it on the first page, since the powers that be haven't seen fit to sticky it yet.
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[SPOILERS] Yossarian blames Caledorn
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I've got some quiet time and finally booted up my computer, so I can actually post some pictures for the lurkers
  In the north we have more infra builds, fewer wealth builds. We're breakeven at 20% research, so we should be able to coast to Construction in 3 turns no problem. After that, we'll go for Monarchy. Hopefully the HR happy and hooked Wines will let us grow onto more cottages (or scientists) to further help our research rate.  Here in the middle is where a lot of our unit builds have been switched to more infrastructure. Good thing the lurkers convinced me to pop out some quick units before Cal took over, because it seems like we won't be getting anymore before Construction comes in and we can start pumping out cats.  There's our far south. Not much to say there.  We messaged Classical_Hero in-game asking if we can cut through his gold city to continue exploring west. I probably would have left the scout in BowAivo's land to keep tabs on their units, but Caledorn is less-inclined to go on the offensive so that intel has less value right now.  That hallucinated chariot in the galley has disappeared back into the ether   DMOC/Teddy sent us a picture of our iron. Good to know where it is for when we finally manage to squeeze in IW. We've engaged in 3-way chats between their team and Arkipeller to discuss ways we can cooperate against Suttree. All the legwork would fall on Arkipeller since he is the only one bordering Sutt, so we're wondering how we can get the Cat Burglars involved in this new alliance. Since they're pretty new to the game, we're not sure how receptive they'll be, or if they even want to engage in any diplo. They have not had any correspondence with our team at all. Demos:
How many settlers do you plan to have ready on t130?
Completed: RB Demogame - Gillette, PBEM46, Pitboss 13, Pitboss 18, Pitboss 30, Pitboss 31, Pitboss 38, Pitboss 42, Pitboss 46, Pitboss 52 (Pindicator's game), Pitboss 57
In progress: Rimworld
BREAKING NEWS!!!
Rome has plunged the world into war with a DOW against DT. This triggers the Defensive Pact so that we must DOW Rome in return, as must DMOC/Teddy. Here are pictures that DT sent us at the end of last turn (T127), before Rome actually attacked:   That is 27 praets, 10 axes and 6 chariots that can hit the city of Nottingham on T129. They also have 3 chariots that can hit Chelsea on the first turn of war, which are backed up by a praet and 2 axes. So here is what happened:   This is what Rome has on our side of things:  And what we have to attack with:  Plus a few other axes / spears sprinkled about. We definitely don't have enough to threaten Arretium, maybe a total of some 10 axes and a few spears. However, Construction has arrived, and we can start pumping out the cats. If I were behind the wheel, I would probably focus everything now on getting cats and more axes to this southern front. EggHeads will be responsible for attacking Rome's northern city of Antium, and maybe even sending in a couple galleys to threaten their sole source of iron at Ravenna. The quicker we can end Rome's game, the faster we can turn our attention to our real prize, BowAivo to the west. Let's see how Caledorn plays this one out.
A composite image of the battlefield:
 I'm thinking we move all the underlined troops to the frontlines. I will take 4 turns to get the northern troops south (we should be safe up there if DMOC/Teddy move their army in). The goal would be to get some 4-5 cats to the front in that time, so that we could move everything against Arretium on T134. Caledorn and I are chatting now, I'll update with more details after we play the turn.
And DT had...no units in a border city?
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lol, I guess they had a single cat inside Chelsea. They said that it killed one chariot before dying to the second chariot. Interestingly, Rome seems to have decided to keep the city. Hopefully that ends up biting them in the ass.
I took back the reigns for this turn since Rome DOWed. Chatted a bunch with DMOC/Teddy while playing the turn, and shared some screenshots. Turn report coming shortly. Nice to see you lurking, btw, NH!
Turn 128
 True to our word, DMOC/Teddy and we declared on Rome to help protect DT.  We have switched 8 of our cities to catapult builds, pretty much all of which will be whipped next turn. About half of those will reach the front in time for an attack on Arretium. I still need to figure out the logistics, but hopefully some of the cities closer to the front will also get out a second catapult. The cities further from the front will probably keep their cats in the west, in case it does become safe to attack BowAivo after all Here is Rome:  I had to delete the chariot and quechua that I sent inside of Rome's borders. That composite shot was put together with several pictures from our allies, which I'll put in spoilers. Here's DMOC/Teddy's stack, set to raze Antium on T132:  They'll use their galleys to transport 4 of the cats to keep up with the front stack, allowing them to bombard defenses before the rest of the cats show up for the actual attack. The chariot in their stack will pillage the silver mine on the way south to make it more painful for Rome to whip reinforcements. Depending on how that goes, they might send 4 axes in their galleys to try to pillage Rome's iron. DT said that they will lose Nottingham. Hopefully that last whip was for walls. Hopefully they can make it costly enough that they'll be able to counter-attack with their own cats and axes. After that, we are hoping that Rome will be spent and DT can start taking back some ground. Either way, Rome shouldn't be a threat to us or DMOC/Teddy anymore once we raze those border cities. Neither one of us plans on pushing too much harder beyond that. Here's our army again: I'm not going to fix it, but we should actually be able to get 15 axes and 5 spears in place to participate in the attack on Arretium, in addition to our 5-7 cats. They should be able to all stage on the circled tile on T134. We'll have roaded up to Rome's border by then, so they can move adjacent to Arretium on T135. If all goes according to plan, we'll burn the city on T136.
Oh, and this C&D gem just came in from our allies:
DMOC/Teddy Wrote:Rome has 574,000 soldiers. tl:dr - Rome's entire military has been revealed in the composite shot I posted above, minus about 3k soldier points 
January 29th, 2014, 13:25
(This post was last modified: January 29th, 2014, 13:31 by Old Harry.)
Wow, sounds like you could even get a free fairly expensive city!
If you wanted to make them turn their stack around you could head straight for Rome (nb I'm definitely not suggesting that!) but I could see you keeping Arretium with enough catapults and axes in there... Have you simmed any cat+axe vs praet battles yet? Might be fun to see how many cats it takes to give you good odds. Although am I right in thinking GG are saving promotions to heal with after getting collateraled? Meaning you'd need to attack out with the axes rather than sitting behind walls. Maybe keeping it isn't so great in that circumstance. 
Completed: RB Demogame - Gillette, PBEM46, Pitboss 13, Pitboss 18, Pitboss 30, Pitboss 31, Pitboss 38, Pitboss 42, Pitboss 46, Pitboss 52 (Pindicator's game), Pitboss 57
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