The Antisocial Team

[DaveV]

My sympathies to you and your family, Ichabod.

[Ichabod]

Thanks, guys.

[Mist]

Rifling in 4 turns.

Dave sent a single unsupported trireme to be obnoxious and pillage my seafood. I sunk it at 27% odds

Also it seems that since "attack Jumping with one million pikes" idea was so wildly successful he's preparing a sequel called "attack Jumping with one million maces". I'm building some catapults, might shuttle a couple c2/s phracts from Bravery.

Gaspar attacked Yuri, will probably eat him live. Ah well.

[Mist]

Rifles in 3t.

I thought about tech options for the immediate future. I can

a) aim for Military Tradition

This opens drafting and Cavalry. It also allows for horribly expensive West Point, which would nevertheless allow for 15xp infantry and 4 (!) promo mounted units from Composure. That would be a sheer terror of commando Cavalry out of the gate as soon as I get Military Science.

b) aim for Railroad

Ironworks in Composure for 1t everything, Cannons and Machineguns for a leisurely warmongering.

c) aim for Astronomy

And go dump some rifles in Dave's / Commodore's backline with Galleons. Opens a small useful bonus in observatories, might force my dearest enemy to tech Astronomy himself and obsolete Colossus way sooner than he'd like. Also, i have a source of whales that's worth +2happy that waits to be netted.

Right now I'm leaning for c) -> a) -> b)

In the meantime, I'm going to squeeze some more cities inside my land. Prime spot is where Commodore's spear is standing right now



I sent two phracts to shoo it away. Plans are to build three Guerilla 2/CG 1 Longbows and a pair of triple promoted rifles and sit on that hill. This city will be extremely secure and give me another avenue of attack on Kusari later on.

Then there's Yuri's border. Gaspar/NH are about to take New Istanbul



My actual cultural borders reach as indicated. If they burn the city, there's nowhere sensible they can replant it and I'll resettle the site. If they keep it, they won't have any use of it until forever and I'll offer them some gold for it. Either way, I expect it'll be mine.

[Mist]

Had to run some more wealth, but got rifling eot. 3-promo rifles, here we go.

[Mist]

Hmmm, seems Commodore doesn't learn and has too much troops.



Here's the situation



I sooo, hope he moves onto Forest of Love

[Mist]

And since I didn't do that in a while - big city screen dump with slider at 100%.

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[Mist]

Commodore turned back, soo... He has city visibility on me?

With just 460 EPs spent? In all cities? Seriously?

And I need to get over 1100 EPs to get one on him? What the fucking fuck is wrong with this game system

Ah fuck it, I just got optics, I'm dumping 2t of 70% EP slider on him and he can go to hell.