LURKER THREAD- No Players

[NobleHelium]

Someone needs to link Zulan's vodka tool for SD. He will then dominate rb until the end of times.

You literally linked the tool to SD in PB54 already. SD has no concept of how probability works and/or refuses to believe in his own fallibility so it doesn't matter.

[Charriu]

Uh these last posts are savage.

But let's not forget that Superdeath has many good sides too.

[Miguelito]

Yeah he's rocking the diplo game, weirdly
Also Arabia vs America and Maya on Celtia (Maugitar on Konsul / JD on X) were both far worse in my book. The latter led to the total collapse from a superior position with Pacal (!), and I stopped counting the random workers that got caught.
I'm not actually sure if this hurts SD in any significant way. There will be no counterattack and he's lowered his costs some

[civac2]

North America:




Noone from North America has ever won one of these world map PBs.

RobAnybody (Rob), the red Chinese (Mao), got off to a strong start by settling lands that probably should have gone to the 2metraninja (Bismarck? or Frederick) to his south. He the took more cities with chariot raids from the teal Korean (middle of Canada) and Brennus (California). In that way he made a lot of enemies and rivals and utterly tanked his economy.

Meanwhile wahl-profi (wp) executed a perfect axe/cat timing attack on 2metraninja who did not get Construction in time. wp started in South Carolina(?) with 2metraninja situated to his west. He is an old time legend and one of the strongest players in the days of yore with several PB wins and other strong finishes under his belt. wp was able to take Berlin in the first few turns of the war as it was close to the border and wp could approach on hills. 2metraninja defended reasonably well with a 30 strong axe stack but was eventully overcome in part due to losing his capital so early, in part due to superior tactics from wp. wp then used his army to roll over BaII/mouseferatu who was situated in Middle America (I mentioned him in my South America post. BaII unsucessfuly axerushed Boudica in Venezuela but had a decent empire regardless.) BaII employed the AI tactic of defending his cities with some units each. This bold choice worked about as well as it does for the AI usually.

About the time wp was assaulting BaIIs last island fortress several of RobAnybody's neighbors decided it was a good time to punish Rob for his insolence and declared war on him. These were the aforementioned Brennus and Ramses (Western Canada and Alaska). The Korean who never made peace with Rob also mustered a small offensive force and wp jumped in hoping to cut his main rival to size before he got Cho-Ku-Nus. Rob had tried to reach machinery directly without researching Currency first. However, his economy was so shot that he had not come close to either in centuries (even millenia). Now desperate he started a pyramid scheme taking money from anyone who had some and then taking out new loans to pay for his running costs. He soon reached Currency and then Machinery. In a remarkable turn of events both Brennus and Ramses threw away their army by ramming it piecemeal over a river into the same walled hill city manned by protective super archers and some Cho-Ku-Nus. wp razed a border city but then retreated in the face of increasing Cho-Ku-Nu numbers. The Korean also took a filler city but payed an enormous price for it (PRO archers again). Currently, all borders appear to be stable.

With the ability to build Wealth Rob may be able to service his loans (we aren't sure) but the volume of his loan payments is not for the faint of heart. It is also unclear how much production he can afford to delegate to Weath builds considering he is technically at war with no less than four neighbors. He is still able to procure fresh money, however.

Ramses was in a reasonably strong position until the unfortunate incident costing him his army. As it is though only wp remains as a power of worldwide standing on the North American continent. He is tied(ish) for second in number of cities but is horribly behind in research.

[Charriu]

North America:




Noone from North America has ever won one of these world map PBs.

How could they. Most players in those PBs came from german speaking countries. 

[civac2]

Next SD mini stack: 2 ele, 2 cats, 2 axes
Ceres' losses: 3 cats, 1 axes ,1 spear

[Charriu]

Or in other words +6 gold per turn for SD

[civac2]

Superdeath watch:
1 ele, 3 axe, 1 cat
vs
1 cat, 1 spear

[Miguelito]

Ive wittled down his catapult stack from 25+ to about 13 or so. All while also cleaning up other units sometimes even at a good hammer trade! I do this because ive got alot more production/whipping power + WE's, all of which will doom him. Plus, i still dont want to risk getting my stack hit by all those cats and 20!+ axes.

All going acoording to plan, apparently

Also I'm a fan of naval stacks:



Vicky on the very green Greenland has been forever at war with Alexander in Britain, who is one of the site's top dogs but built the Pyramids before his first settler. She could secure Iceland, and briefly the Hebrides (?) in northern Scotland, but Alex with hardly a third of her cities managed to get a leg up in technology, and is now fielding maces and caravels against what you see, what you see her fleeing from here. Recently Louis in Québec (I think the only one more or less historically correct placement that the RNG gave?) declared on her, cutting her international trade routes. You see the state of her finances.
Funnily Louis is also really afraid of this stack. I think if Vicky just decides to let Alex have his way on Iceland she can at least punish Louis.

(I may have got parts or the essence of this story wrong, as I have not read really closely, I'm sure Papa Bear would correct me )

[civac2]

Oceania:




Indonesia is the home of the Ethopian civilisation let by Flunky. Flunky has been almost completely peaceful so far. His starting position enabled him to settle almost all of Indonesia which is blessed with outrageous amounts of sea food. Abundance of food resources coupled with ORG lighthouses and courthouses gave Flunky an early lead and he is still among the leaders in technology but he has very few cottages. Snatching a few cities from Meiz (Darius) when the latter was run over by Ragnar (cf. Asia edition of the overview) allowed Flunky to gain a foothold in Malaysia. Currently, he has a strike force of galleons and elephants out to subjugate Japan. The Sumerians inhabitating Japan built the Great Lighthouse.

shade (Genghis Khan) sitting in Australia has the opposite problem compared to Flunky. He has a ton of land but a lot of it consists of plains and deserts with meager food resources. His peaceful development was interupted by aggression from Donovan Zoi leading Japan in New Zealand. (One would expect this to be the other way around as shade can cut off Donovan Zoi's international trade routes in war time.) Naval warfare was interspersed with periods of uneasy peace. Recently, shade has bulbed Astronomy and it appears that Donovan Zoi is on the way out. He has lost his capital to a expedition force of crossbowmen, catapults and the ubiquitous elephants. His navy was sunk desperately trying to engage a blockading Mongolian caravel stack.


Only Asia is left.