[SPOILERS]Prep, Coin, Concede

[Gawdzak]

What is going on with Ichabod?



Completely outplayed by Cairo. Ichabod even swapped into Nationhood. 

Meanwhile I sniped another former Cairo island city from Ichabod.




He's got a few galleons there,but my ships should be ok with the coastal defense. If not, this little fleet is expendable anyways.

If this was two years ago when I first join this site to play MP, I definitely would not have attacked Ichabod here. From PB20, the biggest lesson I learned was to not let other people get things that you can easily take for yourself. In that game, I should have attack wetbandit much earlier to put myself in a better position. 

I started to march onto Cairo's capital with cannons, will be a little slower than just two movers, but no need to take unnecessary losses against PRO musket on a hill with 60% culture.

A quick city count:

Me: 50 cities
Ichabod: 36 cities
Dreylin: 32 cities
AT: 20 cities

My filler cities does inflate my count a bit, but Merc is so ridiculous that they are very valuable to have.

[Gawdzak]

The game gets called on Turn 200. Guess that's it.

If pitboss are continuing to be run, I will probably join another game. Otherwise, I will join in on the Civ6 craze once I get a machine that's capable of running the game.

If anyone have any questions about this game, post them here. Otherwise, until next time!

[OT4E]

Congrats, well played

[Gawdzak]

Thanks man. Did a final monster count: 23.

[Dreylin]

I could have sworn I posted something in here a few days ago!

Anyway, I wanted to ask about your Statue plans; were you anticipating a race, and were you stacking overflow to speed the build?

Also, who was going to receive the blessings of your Cavs if Mr. Cairo hadn't been distracted?

[Gawdzak]

I could have sworn I posted something in here a few days ago!

Anyway, I wanted to ask about your Statue plans; were you anticipating a race, and were you stacking overflow to speed the build?

Also, who was going to receive the blessings of your Cavs if Mr. Cairo hadn't been distracted?

Regarding the Statue, I was considering the possibility of a race against either you or Ichabod, but Ichabod diverted to Corporation instead. If there was the possibility of a race, I was planning to use my GE that I had stacked. I even had an extra Great Artist that I considered using to bulb Democracy considering that I know you had a GE. I planned to have about 100 base hammer of overflow towards the build. 

So plan if anyone were to race me to the Statue:

GE: 920h (500+20*21 size city)

which leaves 1500-920 = 580h

Had IND+Forge+Copper+OR for 2.5 multiplier

580h/2.5 = 232 base hammers

With 100 base hammers overflow, and ~50 base hammers per turn, it would have been a 3 turn build with the engineer after I tech Democracy.

I was going to attack Nyles until Ichabod attack Cairo, which just made it too tempting to not switch the target. 

FWIW, I thought you played really well. I considered you to be a bigger threat than Ichabod towards the end. Honestly, if it was possible for you to finish off Yuri earlier, you might've won.

[Dreylin]

Thanks!

I hadn't considered that your Artist would go into Democracy; that would probably have tied us on the turn we got there and started the Statue. I would have had an extra size on my GEng rush, and a similar overflow, but the lack or OR & IND would have mine as a 5t - maaybe 4t - build. My goal was to try to get the coinflip, but sounds like I'd have had to settle for burning 2 of your Great People while still keeping mine.

Re Yuri: looking back, maybe I should have taken more of a risk and kept piling in to him, but I'd outrun my intel on his army location & composition and didn't have enough unit diversity in the advancing stack to continue once he had Pikes or a concentrated defense. I had to keep diverting units to cover new borders with Nyles, AT & Molcah, all the while preparing contingency for the attack from you. I suspect that if I had pushed further, you'd have had a decent chance to come in a liberate BRickland from me.

From where we were, once it was clear that Ichabod was getting torn up by Mr. Cairo, I guess I could have tried to take Aztecia for myself. I just never saw a decent opportunity to really gut Ichabod's stack, without which I'd have just made myself vulnerable. Maybe I should have tried it, but I'm generally of the opinion that once one player's chances are >2/3-ish it's not really fair on the other players to keep them logging into a game while I'm pursuing a slim chance of victory.

[GermanJoey]

Great game, congrats on the win! Very nice turnaround after getting wardeced on two sides in the ancient era!

[Gawdzak]

Thanks!

I hadn't considered that your Artist would go into Democracy; that would probably have tied us on the turn we got there and started the Statue. I would have had an extra size on my GEng rush, and a similar overflow, but the lack or OR & IND would have mine as a 5t - maaybe 4t - build. My goal was to try to get the coinflip, but sounds like I'd have had to settle for burning 2 of your Great People while still keeping mine.

Re Yuri: looking back, maybe I should have taken more of a risk and kept piling in to him, but I'd outrun my intel on his army location & composition and didn't have enough unit diversity in the advancing stack to continue once he had Pikes or a concentrated defense. I had to keep diverting units to cover new borders with Nyles, AT & Molcah, all the while preparing contingency for the attack from you. I suspect that if I had pushed further, you'd have had a decent chance to come in a liberate BRickland from me.

From where we were, once it was clear that Ichabod was getting torn up by Mr. Cairo, I guess I could have tried to take Aztecia for myself. I just never saw a decent opportunity to really gut Ichabod's stack, without which I'd have just made myself vulnerable. Maybe I should have tried it, but I'm generally of the opinion that once one player's chances are >2/3-ish it's not really fair on the other players to keep them logging into a game while I'm pursuing a slim chance of victory.

After going through your whole thread, I can see how you are feeling stretched at that point. I think I probably would have done the same thing. The only real "mistake" I can see from your thread is actually goes really far back: the locations of your 2nd and 3rd cities were quite weak and that hurt your snowball. But hey, hindsight and all.

Great game, congrats on the win! Very nice turnaround after getting wardeced on two sides in the ancient era!

Thanks man. Btw, great map! I also enjoyed the monsters thing. I got to admit some of the monster names were pretty clever and made some good entertainment.

[The Black Sword]

Nice job Gawdzak, that was a tricky neighbour situation you had.