[spoilers]Oh Canada! Victoria has a Commodore, eh?

[Commodore]

DANEGELD

It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation,
To call upon a neighbour and to say:—
“We invaded you last night—we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say:—
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray,
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say:—

“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!”

[Ceiliazul]

[Dp101]

Give them the , make them to you and their brains out, then after the game .

[Ituralde]

Fantastic stuff! That's why I love reading your threads.

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

Love it! More!!

[Commodore]

Heh, thanks guys. Nothing to do now but prepare for the storm; I doubt I can muster much more than forty destroyers in time for the Mackoti-wave, so that kind of sucks. I'm piling all manner of crap into Montreal, but if he can punch in more than fifty infantry I might well be in trouble in my shrine city as well. I'm going first in turn order, for what its worth, at the moment, but Macko's a shady beast, he'll probably arrange to strike me on a day when the turn rolls at work time.


I have exactly two cities that can make a Mackoti-standard amount of hammers, first most obviously the pollution-starved Ottawa:


...and second the Ironworks city of Toronto. I'd love to slap out Biology here...if Mackoti opts to not try and slaughter me I will.


Gentlemen, the battlefront; I have airships scanning all of the potential vectors for eight-move supertransport strikes on Ottawa and of course I'm watching the Viking lanes in the east, I know Scooter the yellow-bellied would happily allow Mackoti transit. But I strongly suspect this is where the hammer comes in four more turns.

[Commodore]

I believe this is an offer of a NAP, for the low low price of only 8,000 gold.


Mackoti's word is worth shit. I believe the only apropos response would be "fuck you sideways with a rusty screwdriver, asshat".

But that would sadly be diplo. So I just upgraded more ironclads to destroyers instead.

[Hashoosh]

How much overflow on those 1-turned destroyers in OttawaÉ

[Commodore]

How much overflow on those 1-turned destroyers in Ottawa?

70h. I'll be able to keep up the train a looooong time.

[Dp101]

Can we see power graphs?