(July 3rd, 2017, 08:36)OT4E Wrote: Can you explain how has it happened last time?
And what did he do now?
The thing with Krill is that he, I think, underestimates the chaotic component in these large pitbosses. For some reason he believes that the only path to victory is to establish a comfortable, dominant position from early on and then pilot it to victory. If you do not have an early advantage, especially over your neighbors, you have already lost the game - and Krill always plays for win.
It means that he pursues early dominance with extreme ruthlessness, irrespective of risks and costs. This is what has happened in PB33 - we clashed over Tsargon's dead body as the only landsplit he would be willing to accept would make most of my spoils essentially unusable. The worst thing, it was rather obvious that if we both committ everything we have this war, I would win - and I believe Krill understood it. But the cost of such victory would be tremendous. But Krill could only accept a world where he has borders he is fully comfortable with - and this is why he started a war anyway. I won eventually but since that point the game for me was an uphill battle. I was never able to catch up with the leaders. And Krill abandoned the game, leaving to a weaker player a complicated political situation which his sub was unable to manage.
I believe something like this is happening now. I do not have pictures - uploading them has become a pain in the ass for me after gmail has forbidden direct links. But there is a very rich are between us - a little bit closer to me due to the fact that Krill moved his capital. I am moving in to claim this area and there are signs that Krill would try to disrupt my attempt: he is scouting me aggressively and his power spiked up. This is exactly the same scenario: if we both fully committ, I would win but he seems to believe that if he gives this area to me, everything is already lost long-term, so he would try to contest it anyway.
I may be completely wrong about it, of course. I lost my scout early and then lost another scouting warrior and Dark Savant who circumnavigated the globe refuses to trade maps with me while keeping an important border city defended by a single axe. Krill also does not give his maps and those two are my only contacts. So, I havee little idea about what is going in the world at large. But from the way top and average power behaves I can see that there is a war going on. And worst rival food is 16, so someone gets his ass kicked, most probably Ventessel. It is possible that Krill is responsibe for thi - if he settled away from me, he must have settled into some poor guy's face. In this case my paranoia is comppletely unjustified - well, short-term at least.
Next turn (or turn after next), actually, I should have a definite answer because if it is Krill who is engaged in this war, his power should go down.
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