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RB PBEM #2 - Justinian (SPOILERS!)

t70 -

Constantinople: Conf. Temple - Granary (now working 2Priests)
Thessalonica: Worker - Buddhist Missionary (for Adrian)
Antioch: Workboat - Granary

Workers:
Chop/Mining at Antioch
Pre-chopping forests at Constantinople
Quarrying Stone
On a Galley, heading to Stone
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t71 - exploring...

and there's Yaz's retreating stack:
[Image: RBPBEM2_image030.jpg]

In other news, the Settling party for Green dot has landed next to their target and will found next turn, and the second Worker has reached the Stone.

And Compass will come in at EOT.
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t72 - Ooooo, that way's North!

Compass - Drama

4t @ -24gpt ... 21g in the bank, so a few turns of saving up, I think. If my estimate of Darrell reaching CS is acurate, I'll probably wait until CS is in before turning research back on.

Adrianople: Chariot - Settler (3t)

Literature requested from Ruff; Compass offered to Darrell, and MC requested in return - he will pass Compass on to Krill.

Nicomedia founded at Green Dot; starts Granary.
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t73 - Tum-te-tum, MC in from Krill via Darrell.

Thessalonica: Buddhist Missionary - Worker

Missionary heads to Adrianople.

Stone Quarried, but still 1t of road to get it connected next turn. Still pre-chopping at both Constantinople and Antioch.

I review the logs and notice that Yaz has declared on SL again. OK, so if Yaz does complete Monarchy before being destroyed then I'll need Alphabet to get hold of it again. <sigh>

I also notice that since the completion of The Great Lighthouse, there have been no Wonders finished ... something to bear in mind, I think, especially with Stone coming online next turn.

Nothing new on F4; but have got Ruff's graphs so am now pursuing Darrell's.
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Always nice to have others do the fighting while leaving you to build in peace. smile

May I ask for an overview picture?
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Rowain Wrote:Always nice to have others do the fighting while leaving you to build in peace. smile

Yep, true. Although I just found out from Ruff that Krill now has 7 cities (of Gold?), which is one more than me. frown

Rowain Wrote:May I ask for an overview picture?

Of course you may... wink
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t74 - I promise to do some overview, etc. shots next turn ... it'll be 1AD after all!

Constantinople: Granary - Warrior
Nicaea: Budd. Missionary - Forge

Hmmmm, Yaz's capital is quite nice - Scout passes through the city, while Galley is a couple of turns behind.

Stone hooked up and second Worker starts roading towards Nicomedia.

After EOT - get my Great Prophet! smile
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A pre-turn chat with Yaz:
Quote:me: Hey Yaz

yazilliclick: hey

me: Back at war with SL I see

yazilliclick: Yeah he started trading ivory over to darrell

me: ah
troublesome indeed

yazilliclick: yup

me: Saw you had to replace your no. 2 city frown

yazilliclick: yeah, no biggie

me: right
wink

yazilliclick: He got a bit lucky on his rolls

me: So how's Monarchy doing; it get faster now Darrell's finished it himself?

yazilliclick: I finished it, traded it to him through krill.

me: (with you at war with SL, I need to get Alpha to trade)
Ah
so I can take it from him?

yazilliclick: Darrell researched construction, now on theology

me: turns on Theo?

yazilliclick: 4 I think

me: Hmmmm

yazilliclick: He's a beast gnp wise

me: yeah, I bet

yazilliclick: I still haven't gotten CoL. Does Krill have that?

me: Could you ping Darrell and ask him to pass Monarchy to me?
Darrell has CoL

yazilliclick: Can't trade with him myself :P

me: Ah, right
Krill should have CoL, yeah
but I haven't met him yet

yazilliclick: k, I'll ping darrell for you if you ping krill for me smile

me: done!
smile
Turns on Theo is important for secret plan #1 which I'd been intending to initiate today....
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The aforementioned note to Krill:
Quote:Hey Krill,

Yaz and I have an established trade of CoL for Monarchy, however due to neither of us yet having acquired Alpha, we need to broker it through. Since Yaz is at war with everyone bar the two of us, could you please pass CoL on to him? Yaz is asking Darrell to fling Monarchy across to me since you and I have yet to meet.

On that subject, I have just reached Yaz's lands and my Galley should be passing through his capital next turn. I gather that I just head straight st from there to hop over to your landmass?

Cheers,

Dreylinian I.
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t75 - 1AD!

Constantinople: Warrior - <placeholder>
Adrianople: Settler - Forge

Right, so I got my first Great Prophet at the end of last turn. Obvious usage would be to build the The Mahabodhi and reap the 7+gpt from well-spread Buddhism. (7gpt ~ 10% research) However from reading my chat with Yaz, you will have guessed that I had another use in store for Ananda ... a Theo bulb followed by a grab for the Apostolic Palace.

No I had been operating on the assumption that Krill would be my main competition since his second Prophet is due ~t83 (without Specialist acceleration), and an 8t head-start on him would have been plenty. Now I'm facing down a ~4t head start - actually if Yaz was right that Darrell has 4t left on the tech, it's actually 5t but I'll go with 4t as he's probably able to accelerate if needed. So is 4t going to be enough for me to ride out his IND bonus and complete the AP first?

Here's Constantinople in production configuration:
[Image: RBPBEM2_image031.jpg]

The Monastery is substituting for an un-accelerated AP (I always wrongly think it is Stone-driven). So 27h for 1t, then a base production of 20h with a target of 268h - 13t (needing an extra hammer). OK, so Darrell would have ~9t to beat me ... with a 50% IND bonus and probably a 25% Forge bonus ... so I'll assume 100%. 9t would need ~30hpt after multipliers, so 15hpt base - approximately the same as mine. Judging from the other Capitals I have seen, I'm on the top end, but it should be possible for him to make that.

I also have 2 forests primed and ready for 20h (base) each - which knocks 2t from the build time - but if he has any, then his multipliers do the same. So it would seem that we're tied again.

There's one Ace in the hole left ... Bureaucracy. Darrell has guaranteed me CS ASAP after discovery, and that's due when he gets his Great Merchant in a couple of turns. So let's assume I can revolt around the same time he can start the AP - t79; I'd have 87h invested, and my production will increase to 35hpt ... 6t. The chops would still knock off a turn each, so ~t83 I could complete the build and Darrell would need to do it in ~4t ... and revolting to Bureau would cost him one of those turns and give a lower payback.

OK, I think I've convinced myself, and the fact that this way I found Christianity in 1AD had nothing to do with it! wink

I have entered the Medieval era. Thessalonica is the Holy City (nice!), and the Missionary heads to Constantinople. Build switched to AP.

Buddhism into Adrianople.

Whip Granary into Antioch and queue up the Moai Statues to grab the overflow. I'll also finish the Mine on the plains hill South of the city to push that chop into the Moai overflow.

Calendar-Compass trade requested from SL, and Monarchy requested from Darrell. Drama dialed up to 11 - due in 3t.


I smell something weird going on with SL's cities; a few turns ago he had 6 same as me, but now he's down to 4. One I can explain easily - I'd spotted a newly-founded oddity at the Horse/Iron site between Ruff's two cities, and now that is showing up in Ruff's city listing ... fair enough.

The other missing city appears to be Headingly, which I believe to be his Ivory site. Knowing that Yaz declared on him for trading Ivory to Darrell, I suspect that he's gifted the city away to enable that trade. It doesn't show up on Darrell's city list, so my bet is that he's passed it across to Krill - who is the only other one with OB through Yaz to enable him to receive the Ivory and then trade it on to Darrell.

I call Cheesy Shenenegans!

Now I know that I have "friendship" deals with both Darrell & SL, but I can't say that I'm comfortable with this if it is going on ... particularly if they are taking advantage of trait-based building acceleration to put a Forge into SL's city on the cheap. Frankly, it's also not in my interests for Yaz to be defeated anytime soon as it opens up lots of space in the middle which I can't take advantage of.

I don't think I have enough evidence to make a public accusation, but I do have enough that I'm prepared to float my idea to Yaz and let him check things out. If it's proven correct then he can cut off the supply and I can hide in the shadows as the source of the intel.... shhh
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