[SPOILERS - PBEM17] novice and spaceman - Suryavarman of India

[spacemanmf]

Chat with Darrell:

11:31 Darrell: I am going to hold the save again
11:32 until we have time to corrdinate
I also need to talk to shoot and dave
11:35 me: hi
space here
11:36 Darrell: hey
me: i've been chatting with novice this morning
i am up to speed
Darrell: we need to coordinate before I play the turn
me: indeed
Darrell: are you guys in agreement all space race techs and construction is halted for the duration?
me: yup
full agreement
Darrell: good
me: all out military!
Darrell: I think its the fairest way forward
yes indeed
me: let's wipe these suckers off the planet!
11:37 Darrell: I totally agree, they get what they earned
given your magellan's navy makes sense for you and air force for me?
and the marines
me: although is the cooldown initiation just from shoot?
Darrell: always the marines
you got one from shoot?
me: sorry
Darrell: let me go back and look
me: just from dave
typo
11:38 was just dreaming about tanks
Darrell: I am not going to play the turn until I pin shoot down one way or the other

me: although do you think marines are more effective?
Darrell: its a real damn shame I've obsoleted the kremlin
yes
me: have you?
Darrell: I think our plan should be to raze the coastal cities near us using sirian doctrine
Fiber Optics does it
11:39 I almost went via laser damn it all
err...the pre req to F.O.
me: harsh
Darrell: We have to keep in mind Dave has 1 hammer/water tile so his productin is going to be really high
me: didn't get too much benefit in the end then
Darrell: I know
me: yeah
Darrell: just the labs and grocers and banks and markets :P
but yeah, no military benefit really
well, the destroyers
anyway I pinged shoot, I will let you know when I hear back from him
11:40 me: ah right, lots of cash rushing building eh
Darrell: I will request a 30t NAP extension for both of us
me: ok cool
Darrell: if he refuses I will initiate my cooldown
me: sounds like a plan
Darrell: cool, I think I wlll head for stealth and flight most likely
11:41 will send a full plan when I have it worked out
me: ok
we just need satellites and composites for MAs i think
:-)
Darrell: burn them...burn them to hell!
me: oh yeah
game's got interesting again

[novice]

Shoot is not interested in helping Dave.

I agreed with Darrell that we'd halt Apollo immediately, and that we'd finish the Fusion race now (which he will most likely win) since we both have built up research overflow which is part of the race.

Also, no space elevator, no overflow into Apollo when we resume the race, and we build the Internet for denial, so Shoot doesn't get any clever ideas.

...and then we figured, let's just go all out war mode, and we can replay from turn 163 with AIs controlling Holland and Turkey to decide on the winner.

So yeah, forget about the space race, we're mobilizing! Grab the Fusion engineer, rush Pentagon, adopt Police State, Vassalage, Caste System, State Property and Theocracy, and build 10xp navigation II ships everywhere. Darrell diverts to stealth and builds stealth bombers, and we both build marines.

Does that sound like fun to you, Spaceman?

[spacemanmf]

Does that sound like fun to you, Spaceman?

Yes, yes, and thrice yes.

[spacemanmf]

So, digging out last turn's save.

Dave hasn't got Electricity, Biology, Flight or Artillery.

We don't have Flight, but we do have the rest plus Rocketry, Industralism, Plastics, Radio, Refridgeration, Computers and Superconductors.

His MFG is king, helped by those dikes, but ours will be boosted by workshops everywhere, plus Police State will help.

Dave is in HR/NH/Slavery/SP/FR

Power-wise, we have 0.91m vs Dave on 1.13m and darrell on something like 1.26m. It doesn't look too bad but our modern army/navy is as follows:

6 machine guns
2 destroyers
1 transport
3 airships

No wonder he declared.

[novice]

Got it.

[novice]

I changed our wealth builds to Marines, which can be whipped if we spend a turn in slavery at some point. Still finishing up Factories, and started a few Nuclear Plants. Had to keep some research capability this turn so we could finish up Fiber Optics and bulb Fusion next turn. Adopted Organized Religion. Pillaged our coal - Cash Cow will still be able to build one turn battleships.

[spacemanmf]

So when do we revolt and start churning stuff out?

[novice]

So when do we revolt and start churning stuff out?

We'll have Pentagon eot166, so I guess we should start in earnest on t167.

I was planning to whip some of that infra, get rid of some useless specialists that only consume happy and health.

[spacemanmf]

Not that I have been leaping up to grab the saves, but I am out of action all day (just noticed the save is in).

[novice]

Started the Pentagon and researched Fusion. I think that's as far as we'll bother to tech, I guess we can get Medicine and Genetics at a snail's pace.

Next turn I think we can adopt Police State and Slavery, rush Pentagon, and whip some infra. Then whip military on t167, and adopt PS/Vassalage/Caste/State Property/Theocracy. That should give us 6xp/9xp land units and 10xp naval units starting eot167.