You just need to plant border cities so your borders make a perfect circle. Then you go mental and win. See! I have proof:
[Spoilers] Commodore bakes a double entenada.
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(February 19th, 2018, 20:59)Commodore Wrote: Pin east, Gav south...who is going to be north, Mack? That's either Old Harry or TBS by color. Holy balls this is a bad 'hood.
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I write RPG adventures, and blog about it, check it out. (March 16th, 2018, 01:47)ipecac Wrote: The silver lining is that you don't have anything to lose. Let the old Commodore out!Yeah, looks like TBS from careful color comparison. And because of the mirror-ishness of the starts, that looks like not his capital, ergo, both my neighbors north and south began by settling near me. And my warrior got eaten by the lion at 8% odds.
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Not much is happening here in the Lewd Lands; settler is out for city #3, workers are working, warriors are attempting to avoid annoying Pindicator. I see out and about there's some excitement, judging from the lurker thread. Dark Savant is in a turn split with someone, maybe Rustern given his post flurry. Some people are making Real Units. Plako and Gavagai aren't scary yet:
Anyway, time for a mini-list. In reverse order of threat, let's... MEET THE NEIGHBORS: Merely Highly Threatening: Pindicator Pin is expanding in my general direction, naturally. He's met Gavagai, his eight-tiles-away neighbor, although I don't know that he knows how close they are to one another. Pindicator is a conservative guy until he tilts, and as tight as the map is, I still don't think we're near him hitting a tilt point. He's got a leader and civ that sets up for an early mediveal push, so I expect he'll try to settle a solid border that manages to mix defensiveness with “slightly more than my fair share”. He's actually the most safe (!) of my neighbors, good luck to him then. Hope Gavagai doesn't eat him with unexpected war chariots. I'm down 1:6 on EPs with him right now. Hydrophobic Menace: Gavagai Gavagai is the least oppositionally positioned of my neighbors. But let's not forget, he's already declared war on me. I'm spitballing here, but right now my theory is that Gavagai just wasn't paying attention to color and DoW'd me to hop in to borders...then bumped into Pindicator. But that's just a theory, and dismayingly he didn't DoW Pin, so definitely getting a hostile vibe. Distant as he is, Gavagai's war chariots are the best distant power projectors in this era. Going to be watching him closely, for now. Ideally I can configure borders so that Pin and Plako protect me, but 'till then...down 3:4 on EPs with him right now. Murderer (has killed me before): Plako Nearest to me, and Guy Most Likely to Kill Me (unprofitably, yo), is Plako. He settled his first city towards me, but he settled his first city in a place beauifully set up for a low-conflict border allocation. This guy knows I'm a nasty messy kill, respects me enough to be unconfident in a 1v1 duel, and clearly (from EPs, yuck) has more room elsewhere. So I don't expect to get the bum's rush. But I do expect him to Build Stronk, Git Gud, Get Swole, and Wreck Face. Plako's presence means I need to be able to handle a knight on turn 100, thirty knights on turn 120, and sixty cavalry on turn 160. That's...a hell of a baseline worry, particularly given the other worries. Gonna suck to face this guy all game, and still try to expanding more east and particularly north. Dark Elder Monster of the Deeps: The Black Sword So I predicted the identity of my killer, why is TBS more of a threat? Because dying doesn't matter, folks, winning or losing does, and TBS is a huge threat to win. I'm not as close to him as I am to some others, and there is an ugly stretch of wild jungle between the two of us. So we're not likely to bump uglies in the short term. In the longer term, though...I just described a game-winning territory, didn't I? Judging by size of map, this jungle is a huge tract of fertile green land perfect for making ten big cities in a secure and productive core. That's how you win this kind of game (it's like step #21 of 85, but still). So TBS looms large here in my mind as, along with Pin, the big rival for the real playing field. Not going to lie, I kind of want to go Exodus right here and now, planning for the far(?) shore(s) as a retreat.
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Can I just say how much I hate jungle? (see near Dry Prong sign)
I'm moving to Virgin next turn; I'll be highly miffed if that warrior decides to be disruptive.
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Also holy crap Donovan just captured a city from Dark Savant. Holkan russssh!
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Third city, as the Hendersons get city 4.
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