[SPOILERS] By the Rivers of Babylon, FIN has no effect (on krovice)

[Thoth]

In case yer bored Krill:

As it's likely to be noticed very soon, 2 posters have been banned.

Ben Kenobi - for personal attacks based on race. 4 months.

and where the fuck is my Assburger's Symptom?

[novice]

So maybe the fat lady will be singing BGN's praises. Things seem to be coming to a head, at least.

[Krill]

Dunno. Finharry number 1 in land. We just have a large scrap ahead of us. Game might be going on for a while.

[novice]

For the lurkers: afaik no combat took place this turn for us, but our second culture bomb looks like a city capture in the pitboss portal.

[Krill]

Couldn't think of a way to not imply there was no combat thus shown g we dumped a second artist into WL.

[Krill]

Avendale falls next turn, we will make enough culture to one move it out of Willow Lake. We must raze it as the city tile will be adjacent to dtays borders.

dtay will have an opportunity to reply to kill our units that are left over ie any cannon we use will die. The city currently has no culture defence due to naval bombardment ergo I suggest sacking 3-4 cannon into the city, which is defended by 4 rifle and a cav then throwing knights at it, maybe a couple of muskets depending on odds. It's an equal hammer trade at best IMO, we probably lose, but cutting that road between the north and south parts of his empire will hopefully trigger an invasion by OldTourist and keep us that little bit safer. We might even get another few cities out of it.

dtay also has a frigate in Ridley, north of DS. I am in the process of moving a few units back towards WH to stop it from being one moved out of the fog. I am building caravels in a few cities to queue upgrade to frigates.

dtay looks to have dropped down to match us in crop yield and in MFG, so with PS we are likely a little ahead and have cannon, he is drafting rifles and can build cav. We are still up 300K power and he has a navy whilst we don't. I think we may be heading for a stalemate: I'm constructing a second stack between DS and RC which is starting to look more reasonable. BGN has Cossacks so has Rifling, so more people are going to start reaching it soon, we can follow on coattails and start drafting rifles. I'm not drafting muskets much atm, letting timers drop. Still drafting cities that have no anger.

tl;dr: Nothing interesting, we are just stopping dtay from winning and being royal pains in his arse.

[novice]

Good job.

[Krill]

In case yer bored Krill:

As it's likely to be noticed very soon, 2 posters have been banned.

Ben Kenobi - for personal attacks based on race. 4 months.

and where the fuck is my Assburger's Symptom?

Fuck I just saw this (mostly because I work Xmas and I saw family then).

It's the least that shit deserves. Should have been 4 years.

[Krill]

I didhn't hit Avendale, although I could easily have crushed it. It held two CG3 rifles. I had 50% odds of having 65% odds with a 5XP musket AFTER thowing 2 cannons at it, both of which just died ie given median results from two battles I'd start getting odds. Not worth it.

Razing that city doesn't help us. We currently have a 50 units stack in position to kill anything that moves between dtays cores except a fast mover stack. As we are not goign to be attacking dtay in the near future, killing Avendale just helps OldTourist attack the southern core. That has to be their next move, and if they want to do it they can raze Avendale. I'm not wasting units on a bit of capture gold and a handful of GG points.

[Krill]

dtay didn't do anything with Avendale. Got annoyed because I don't want to half-ass this game and I'd like to still invade Ruff whilst I have a chance with the #1 power in the game. So I razed Avendale, lost two cannon, next two cannon had good odds and nothing else did so I threw them in and got retreats, then killed the rifle with a 0XP musket (now 2XP and low health) and a knight, although even a lowly HA has good odds against a 2.8 strength rifle.

I checked Bell Preston with the sentry chariot and there is a single knight that could attack the remaining units, so I felt safe enough to do so.