Mansa is the only other AI that has rifles. Gilgamesh is really struggling: he doesn't have GP i think. It also looks like there's maybe 10% of the map in Shaka's territory that has not been colonized.
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(July 5th, 2018, 10:32)haphazard1 Wrote: I now have taken possession of my new place. Did you fork it like a human in MP, spy bonk it like a human against the AI or zerg rush it like Shaka? And how many improvements survived? On the game, Gilgamesh and part of Willem will suffice for the win. Looking at it killing Willem then taking what we need off Giggles'd probably be quickest.
Travelling on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
(July 5th, 2018, 15:39)Brian Shanahan Wrote: Did you fork it like a human in MP, spy bonk it like a human against the AI or zerg rush it like Shaka? And how many improvements survived?  Quote:On the game, Gilgamesh and part of Willem will suffice for the win. Looking at it killing Willem then taking what we need off Giggles'd probably be quickest. Yeah, I think we've broken the AI back with unusually strong Jules and glass-jaw Mansa gone (oh - wait, Huayna "build the player stuff" Capac was also in the game wasn't he?). I've seen Gilgamesh be a real monster (I've got an an unfinished RtR familiarisation game where I've killed two out of six civs and and am still behind him), but here he's got land and nothing else. And we've seen what the land is like... Hitting Gilgamesh is safety play. He might still surprise us. Hitting Shaka with his roaming stack is pure amusement. Hitting Willem and putting him out of his misery is a kindness. All three at once? One quiet turnset to railroad and that is plausible.
It may have looked easy, but that is because it was done correctly - Brian Moore
Unless we start razing all the cities we take, domination will likely happen by default.
If Gilgamesh does not have Gunpowder yet, we should not have much trouble running him over with our cannon, rifles, and cavalry. And Willem also should not be difficult to deal with. Shaka has a lot of units but they seem to be mostly obsolete stuff. So it really seems we can finish this any way we want to. 
Game is thoroughly over, if you're not going to call it, you need to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_sY2rjxq6M everyone at once.
We should try to finish it. I'd settle for domination. But I do think that declaring on the rest of the world is the morally right thing to do in this position (although I'd sneakily let to move our armies west first).
It may have looked easy, but that is because it was done correctly - Brian Moore
Got the save, playing tomorrow. So if we want to win by conquest instead of domination, we'll need to start razing conquered cities at some point. Sounds like it could be really tedious, though.
(July 5th, 2018, 15:39)Brian Shanahan Wrote:(July 5th, 2018, 10:32)haphazard1 Wrote: I now have taken possession of my new place. If the house wasn't auto-razed, there still must be people living in there. Doesn't that get awkward? |
But there is stil packing and cleaning to finish at my old place, and then waiting for everything to arrive at the new place. So please continue to skip me for a while longer. This one may be over before I am available again, but maybe not. We will see.
