Dave Fires Up The Epstein Drive [Japan]

[oledavy]

You'll notice I notably don't have back-stabbing Woden as a mistake here. I think Chevalier and I are just going to disagree on this one. I think that regardless of stealing Jerusalem from him, Woden would have been hostile by t160. Even if he hadn't been overtly hostile, I would have faced the dilemma of take him at his word and don't alpha strike him, or alpha strike him to remove him as a threat and end up with him as an enemy anyway. I'm curious to hear Woden's thoughts on this, but from where I stand, this is one of the few decisions I have no regrets over.

Pretty much correct. Once I saw you core, I was making plans to attack it. You had no walls and no land units and I figured I had 2 locations for a canal city where I could bring ships to your back side. That was what the settler was going to do but you captured it before I could get it to land. There was a 1 tile blockage in the north where I had a few MGs and a Caravel ready to move on your backside plus an army to pillage your core.

The other location was the cotton next to the city state but your navy pretty much negated that location.

Where were you going to plant it?

[TheArchduke]

Ridiculously good reporting of the game in after action report.

#3 might shock you.

[Woden]

Where were you going to plant it?

The tundra location north of the eastern mountain has water on both sides of it and it connects to the water in your backlines. It would have been a shitty iceball of a city but I could pass my ships to your back water. If you look closely, you can see cliffs on the tiles east of the mountain.

I am planning on writing up a summary of my last turns this weekend and I have a picture of the area defogged.

[Ituralde]

Congratulations on your win! I think it was well deserved and above all well reported. Just read all the after game stuff as well and have to thank again for quality entertainment!