Alright, let's put couple of thoughts out there ahead of our big turn.
1. I'm feeling pretty WTF towards BGN right now. It's great and well appreciated that he is willing to cover for GJ, who just decided to disappear (another topic), but you should not really cover for someone when you know that his neighbor is actively preparing for an attack, especially if your game actions are directly related to that info.
As BGN took over we assumed that he was going to play it neutral, but he has been shuffling the units towards our border during the whole period, which is probably objectively the right call, but feels really disappointing considering his information level. Our border with GJ has been entirely peaceful for the whole game, while on the other side, GJ has been already once been attacked by DZ. I really don't see a scenario where GJ would have made this sort of unit re-allocation had he played.
I guess we should have raised our hand as BGN took over, but a) we did not expect him to play like this, b) it can't really be done in the tech thread as that also gives the attack away and c) we did not expect GJ to just disappear for a longer period. Now it's too late and we just need to live with this, but yeah, this really screwed us big time here.
2. Back to the actual game. As I repeat every time, this game has been pure struggle since T60 and the last 100 turns we just have been scrambling and taking risks in order to achieve/maintain some level of relevancy (ie. attacking OT4E and later Elkad opportunistically with limited force, Astro beeline without economic or militaristic resources to really back it up). What we are going to do next here, is only going to amp up the level of
here 
So what's probably going to happen, is that we are just throwing ourselves willingly into a 1v2 against Toku and BGN/GJ while it's questionable whether we have enough resources for a profitable 1v1 war in the first place. This decision boils down to the philosophy that we prefer playing for the win/relevancy to going for more conservative options that would guarantee us a respectable finish. At least the way I see these games, there (typically) is only one winner and the rest are losers..
So we are kind of banking that there exists a scenario where we just somehow outplay our opponents here, make this 1v2 work and that will improve our position this game. At the very least this decision provides a lot more
for us and the lurkers vs. us focusing on fixing our economy and waiting for Cavs or whatever for the next move.
3.
to OH and Hitru for putting in the real preparation work during the last period while I have been swamped with work.
1. I'm feeling pretty WTF towards BGN right now. It's great and well appreciated that he is willing to cover for GJ, who just decided to disappear (another topic), but you should not really cover for someone when you know that his neighbor is actively preparing for an attack, especially if your game actions are directly related to that info.
As BGN took over we assumed that he was going to play it neutral, but he has been shuffling the units towards our border during the whole period, which is probably objectively the right call, but feels really disappointing considering his information level. Our border with GJ has been entirely peaceful for the whole game, while on the other side, GJ has been already once been attacked by DZ. I really don't see a scenario where GJ would have made this sort of unit re-allocation had he played.
I guess we should have raised our hand as BGN took over, but a) we did not expect him to play like this, b) it can't really be done in the tech thread as that also gives the attack away and c) we did not expect GJ to just disappear for a longer period. Now it's too late and we just need to live with this, but yeah, this really screwed us big time here.
2. Back to the actual game. As I repeat every time, this game has been pure struggle since T60 and the last 100 turns we just have been scrambling and taking risks in order to achieve/maintain some level of relevancy (ie. attacking OT4E and later Elkad opportunistically with limited force, Astro beeline without economic or militaristic resources to really back it up). What we are going to do next here, is only going to amp up the level of
here So what's probably going to happen, is that we are just throwing ourselves willingly into a 1v2 against Toku and BGN/GJ while it's questionable whether we have enough resources for a profitable 1v1 war in the first place. This decision boils down to the philosophy that we prefer playing for the win/relevancy to going for more conservative options that would guarantee us a respectable finish. At least the way I see these games, there (typically) is only one winner and the rest are losers..
So we are kind of banking that there exists a scenario where we just somehow outplay our opponents here, make this 1v2 work and that will improve our position this game. At the very least this decision provides a lot more
for us and the lurkers vs. us focusing on fixing our economy and waiting for Cavs or whatever for the next move.3.
to OH and Hitru for putting in the real preparation work during the last period while I have been swamped with work.