Operation Gooseneck Chop
Objectives:
1) Rearrange the global alliance into 4 alliances (Dler, Munro & Exploit; Shady & DSP; Rego & Sunrise; Broker, Lins & Elkad)
2) Obtain Scientific Method, Biology & Physics for Dler, Munro & Exploit
3) Secure western front to concentrate forces on an attack against Broker, Lins, Rego and Sunrise
4) To make the eastern front of Lins, Sunrise and Rego insecure so that they must divide their forces.
Specific Steps:
1) Turn 184. Exploit gifts Steam Power to Munro, Elkad & Imhotep.
2) Turn 184. Tech trades amongst the rival alliance for Railroad, Corporation, Scientific Method & possibly Biology are expected.
3) Turn 184. Munro moves the stack of 10 riflemen, 7 catapult along with the 3 cavalry in Charitable View (along with any other units you can spare) to the hill 2 north and 2 east of Serious Callers and gifts them to Exploit. Exploit agrees to repay the equivalent troops in hammers (1810+ hammers) to Munro as quickly as possible upon request minus the 500 hammers for the settlement agreement.
4) Turn 184. Munro immediately sends a worker(s) to the jungle 4 west of NIH and builds a road there to allow for the surprise attack. Road must be in place by end of turn 188.
5) Turn 185. Exploit moves the troops received from Munro, augmented by his own, to the invasion point Axehead (forest 5 west and 1 south of NIH).
6) Turn 187. Exploit obtains complete city visibility of all DSP cities via espionage.
7) Turn 188 Bulk of DSP army is expected to be 1 tile NW of Angband (expected to be conquered on Turn 188) headed towards Utumno. Exploit destroys the farm and the road on the tile 1 south of Angband to slow down DSP's army if it should try to return to the south.
8) Turn 188. Exploit finishes researching Corporation and trades it to Munro, Imhotep, and probably Dler (since i doubt Broker will trade it to him).
9) Turn 189. At the beginning of the turn Exploit moves stack to the invasion point Axehead triggering a declaration of war.
10) Turn 189. Start peace negotiations with DSP & Shady. The bulk of DSP & Shady's forces are expected to be out of position in the north engaged in the war with Imhotep, with very little remaining to guard Wolf359 and south. Making my bargaining position very strong.
Here is peace offer:
a) NAP between Shady, DSP, Dler, Munro & Exploit until Turn 220.
b) Shady & DSP immediately give their 10 Turn notice removing themselves from any alliances with Rego, Sunrise, Broker, Lins and Elkad. Agreeing not to form any new NAPs with any of those parties until after end of Turn 220.
c) DSP immediately provides Dler, Munro & Exploit with Scientific Method.
d) If DSP and/or Shady do not have Corporation yet then Exploit agrees to gift them Corporation but regardless DSP will provide Dler, Munro, Exploit with Biology.
e) Assuming DSP researches Physics next as expected then Exploit agrees to provide Shady & DSP with Assembly Line while DSP provides Dler, Munro & Exploit with Physics.
f) Imhotep wants out of the game therefore all parties agree that the cities of Thangorodrim, Angband, Utumno, Brithombar and Dagorlad belong to DSP regardless of who conquers them. This will allow DSP expansion room to the northwest neutral territory and into Rego's territory. It is understood by all parties that if a civ does not have expansion room outside of NAP participants that the NAP will eventually fail.
g) All parties agree that the cities of Morthond, Carn dum, Ered Lithui and Nan Dungortheb belong to Exploit regardless of who conquers them.
If everything goes perfectly then we will not even lose a single troop and the entire matter can be settled before Turn 191 when Sunrise can join in the attack against me and Turn 192 when Lins/Broker may join the attack. I will then gift the troops back to you and we can prepare for a joint assault on Broker on Turn 192 or later. I know Dler wants to attack Broker which would allow you expansion room including claiming the holy city of Urumqi. With the NAPs between Shady/DSP & Rego/Sunrise/Elkad/Lins/Broker all severed they will be forced to guard their eastern fronts which will probably mean that the joint assault against me may not even occur. That would allow us to concentrate on taking out Broker or if I can convince DSP & Shady to agree to it then I can join them in an assault against Rego and his lackeys while Dler and you take out Broker.
This plan requires absolute secrecy to work. Please do not post it to your spoiler thread until after it is over and don't even discuss it with Dler since he will need plausible deniability to maintain his alliance standing (which protects both of you) if this fails.
I think the odds of success are good but there is always a risk that this blows up in our face. Worst case scenario, I am stuck in a two front war facing off against Shady/DSP/Broker/Lins/Rego/Sunrise which is what I expect to happen anyway unless I can break up this global alliance. I doubt it will happen but if DSP/shady declares on Dler and you as well, then DSP will lose a lot of cities since most of his southern cities are guarded by single skirmishers. I would certainly be willing to compensate you with some of the cities conquered from DSP in this scenario.
Please let me know if you agree to this plan.
Thanks,
Exploit
Objectives:
1) Rearrange the global alliance into 4 alliances (Dler, Munro & Exploit; Shady & DSP; Rego & Sunrise; Broker, Lins & Elkad)
2) Obtain Scientific Method, Biology & Physics for Dler, Munro & Exploit
3) Secure western front to concentrate forces on an attack against Broker, Lins, Rego and Sunrise
4) To make the eastern front of Lins, Sunrise and Rego insecure so that they must divide their forces.
Specific Steps:
1) Turn 184. Exploit gifts Steam Power to Munro, Elkad & Imhotep.
2) Turn 184. Tech trades amongst the rival alliance for Railroad, Corporation, Scientific Method & possibly Biology are expected.
3) Turn 184. Munro moves the stack of 10 riflemen, 7 catapult along with the 3 cavalry in Charitable View (along with any other units you can spare) to the hill 2 north and 2 east of Serious Callers and gifts them to Exploit. Exploit agrees to repay the equivalent troops in hammers (1810+ hammers) to Munro as quickly as possible upon request minus the 500 hammers for the settlement agreement.
4) Turn 184. Munro immediately sends a worker(s) to the jungle 4 west of NIH and builds a road there to allow for the surprise attack. Road must be in place by end of turn 188.
5) Turn 185. Exploit moves the troops received from Munro, augmented by his own, to the invasion point Axehead (forest 5 west and 1 south of NIH).
6) Turn 187. Exploit obtains complete city visibility of all DSP cities via espionage.
7) Turn 188 Bulk of DSP army is expected to be 1 tile NW of Angband (expected to be conquered on Turn 188) headed towards Utumno. Exploit destroys the farm and the road on the tile 1 south of Angband to slow down DSP's army if it should try to return to the south.
8) Turn 188. Exploit finishes researching Corporation and trades it to Munro, Imhotep, and probably Dler (since i doubt Broker will trade it to him).
9) Turn 189. At the beginning of the turn Exploit moves stack to the invasion point Axehead triggering a declaration of war.
10) Turn 189. Start peace negotiations with DSP & Shady. The bulk of DSP & Shady's forces are expected to be out of position in the north engaged in the war with Imhotep, with very little remaining to guard Wolf359 and south. Making my bargaining position very strong.
Here is peace offer:
a) NAP between Shady, DSP, Dler, Munro & Exploit until Turn 220.
b) Shady & DSP immediately give their 10 Turn notice removing themselves from any alliances with Rego, Sunrise, Broker, Lins and Elkad. Agreeing not to form any new NAPs with any of those parties until after end of Turn 220.
c) DSP immediately provides Dler, Munro & Exploit with Scientific Method.
d) If DSP and/or Shady do not have Corporation yet then Exploit agrees to gift them Corporation but regardless DSP will provide Dler, Munro, Exploit with Biology.
e) Assuming DSP researches Physics next as expected then Exploit agrees to provide Shady & DSP with Assembly Line while DSP provides Dler, Munro & Exploit with Physics.
f) Imhotep wants out of the game therefore all parties agree that the cities of Thangorodrim, Angband, Utumno, Brithombar and Dagorlad belong to DSP regardless of who conquers them. This will allow DSP expansion room to the northwest neutral territory and into Rego's territory. It is understood by all parties that if a civ does not have expansion room outside of NAP participants that the NAP will eventually fail.
g) All parties agree that the cities of Morthond, Carn dum, Ered Lithui and Nan Dungortheb belong to Exploit regardless of who conquers them.
If everything goes perfectly then we will not even lose a single troop and the entire matter can be settled before Turn 191 when Sunrise can join in the attack against me and Turn 192 when Lins/Broker may join the attack. I will then gift the troops back to you and we can prepare for a joint assault on Broker on Turn 192 or later. I know Dler wants to attack Broker which would allow you expansion room including claiming the holy city of Urumqi. With the NAPs between Shady/DSP & Rego/Sunrise/Elkad/Lins/Broker all severed they will be forced to guard their eastern fronts which will probably mean that the joint assault against me may not even occur. That would allow us to concentrate on taking out Broker or if I can convince DSP & Shady to agree to it then I can join them in an assault against Rego and his lackeys while Dler and you take out Broker.
This plan requires absolute secrecy to work. Please do not post it to your spoiler thread until after it is over and don't even discuss it with Dler since he will need plausible deniability to maintain his alliance standing (which protects both of you) if this fails.
I think the odds of success are good but there is always a risk that this blows up in our face. Worst case scenario, I am stuck in a two front war facing off against Shady/DSP/Broker/Lins/Rego/Sunrise which is what I expect to happen anyway unless I can break up this global alliance. I doubt it will happen but if DSP/shady declares on Dler and you as well, then DSP will lose a lot of cities since most of his southern cities are guarded by single skirmishers. I would certainly be willing to compensate you with some of the cities conquered from DSP in this scenario.
Please let me know if you agree to this plan.
Thanks,
Exploit
