Turns have been dragging 2-3 days lately 
Hopefully with Gavagai's exit the remaining 4 of us can get into a rhythm with our turn windows and keep up a regular pace ... Speaking of Gavagai's exit:
I'll get the kill this turn! And I'll get the GGeneral as well! My trebs have 83% odds already without taking CR1 promo. I have about 4 extra hitters so I should be able to clean this up easily, and likely without even losing any units if the first couple trebs roll well.
***Promotes the first 4 trebs to CR1 to improve odds to 87%*** WIN ALL!!! ...
***Gets cocky and doesn't promote the final treb at 94%*** LOSE
Oh well, won all the remaining fights. I think only 2 of the remaining combats were <99%, although I had to promote 2 spears to suboptimal CR2 and C3 promotions instead of formation in order to take out spears early on to make those two combats 95-ish% instead of 85-ish% with just C2. I figured I'd rather have a couple suboptimally-promoted units rather than lose one of them.
The Persian civilization is destroyed! And thanks to the weird culture clearing mechanics my stack ended up inside my culture this turn when it should have been in neutral territory. I'll take the free +15 savings from unit supply costs, thank you very much! At the turn roll that tile reverted to neutral, but my stack will move back inside my culture again.
I'm taking a risk with my stack exposed to TBS's 25+ knights in Persepolis, but he mirrored back a fish-fish 2 turns ago which I interpreted as a "green light" to proceed with my attack. I held off revolting into Organized Religion this turn, in order to reserve a Slavery swap if needed. Once I pull my stack back to safety next turn I'll revolt into OrgRel + Confucianism. Why Confucianism? Purely to maintain the holy city +5 culture on the contested border with TBS. I don't every intend to build a shrine and I have 2 Confu cities compared to 3 Hindu cities so it doesn't make much difference what I choose. I considered swapping to Buddhism for the AP religion, but the hammer investment in religious infrastructure doesn't seem like the most profitable use of precious production.
I realized that with OH hitting the Renaissance era next turn at Nationalism I would get an extra +2%/player Known Tech Bonus if I wait one more turn. Therefore I saved gold again this turn and will turn on tech next turn.
Here is a graphs and demographics comparison now that we can calculate all numbers of the remaining 3 rivals:
Note the I have 1 turn of GA left, and OH presumably has 20 turns of 3-man + Taj GA's remaining
TBS should be able to launch his 3-man GA soon with PHI GPP generation. I'm probably 20-30 turns away from my next GA which will hopefully time out with the swap to war civics.
Hopefully with Gavagai's exit the remaining 4 of us can get into a rhythm with our turn windows and keep up a regular pace ... Speaking of Gavagai's exit:I'll get the kill this turn! And I'll get the GGeneral as well! My trebs have 83% odds already without taking CR1 promo. I have about 4 extra hitters so I should be able to clean this up easily, and likely without even losing any units if the first couple trebs roll well.
***Promotes the first 4 trebs to CR1 to improve odds to 87%*** WIN ALL!!! ...
***Gets cocky and doesn't promote the final treb at 94%*** LOSE
Oh well, won all the remaining fights. I think only 2 of the remaining combats were <99%, although I had to promote 2 spears to suboptimal CR2 and C3 promotions instead of formation in order to take out spears early on to make those two combats 95-ish% instead of 85-ish% with just C2. I figured I'd rather have a couple suboptimally-promoted units rather than lose one of them.
The Persian civilization is destroyed! And thanks to the weird culture clearing mechanics my stack ended up inside my culture this turn when it should have been in neutral territory. I'll take the free +15 savings from unit supply costs, thank you very much! At the turn roll that tile reverted to neutral, but my stack will move back inside my culture again.
I'm taking a risk with my stack exposed to TBS's 25+ knights in Persepolis, but he mirrored back a fish-fish 2 turns ago which I interpreted as a "green light" to proceed with my attack. I held off revolting into Organized Religion this turn, in order to reserve a Slavery swap if needed. Once I pull my stack back to safety next turn I'll revolt into OrgRel + Confucianism. Why Confucianism? Purely to maintain the holy city +5 culture on the contested border with TBS. I don't every intend to build a shrine and I have 2 Confu cities compared to 3 Hindu cities so it doesn't make much difference what I choose. I considered swapping to Buddhism for the AP religion, but the hammer investment in religious infrastructure doesn't seem like the most profitable use of precious production.
I realized that with OH hitting the Renaissance era next turn at Nationalism I would get an extra +2%/player Known Tech Bonus if I wait one more turn. Therefore I saved gold again this turn and will turn on tech next turn.
Here is a graphs and demographics comparison now that we can calculate all numbers of the remaining 3 rivals:
Note the I have 1 turn of GA left, and OH presumably has 20 turns of 3-man + Taj GA's remaining
TBS should be able to launch his 3-man GA soon with PHI GPP generation. I'm probably 20-30 turns away from my next GA which will hopefully time out with the swap to war civics.