[69] Ginger and Miguelito do as fortune commands

[Ginger*]

We're back up to more gpt than we started turn 1 with

[Ginger*]

All hail Big Trongle, convert my food into knowledge please 
I guess I'm now 3/4 in my games here at RB for building the Pyramids, talk about originality 

   
Here's our core cities, with Javert finishing Pyramids this turn  
Ursula is notably completely undefended and at Bing's mercy, but Bing's problem in our dynamic is that his lands are more defensible than mine, which make him a profitable potential target, but if he attacks me and I crumple, Naufragar takes it all. 

   
Exploring Bing has revealed a similarly distended imperial corpus, he's also been doing pretty well for himself (rival top CY afaik) and the land between us is terrible terrible terrain (hilly   ) 
Maybeee Commodore and I can do a partition? Idk, I'm anxiously in need of building some kind of economy or rolling my snowball into someone else because this land and leader ain't it. 


   
I'm kinda wracking my brains what to do about this ugly, angry, long and undefended border. Planting Magenta dot to culturally coerce Innistrad seems like a possible play to make if cities didn't cost Maintenance 
White dot is an idea to grab Deer and marble and a couple forests plus spread culture and vision. The problem is that its slow, expensive, and the marble could be yoinked by Nauf settling in its first ring anyways

   
Power is around the same level, Nauf and I are spiking by a couple units but not tremendously.
You can see Nauf's dip where I razed Giedi Prime, but he's recovered back to the non-Joao pack. 
Mfg is same story, all roughly equivalent

You are not allowed to see GNP.

[Mjmd]

You are not allowed to see GNP.

I approve. 

ETA on my promised HG?

[Cornflakes]

All hail Big Trongle, convert my food into knowledge please 

Your swiss army knife has forged some better tools to play with! Congratulations!

[Ginger*]

Sorry I did not want to double move Nauf in the lead up to a treaty expiration

[Tarkeel]

As long as you don't plan to attack (or gain another lasting advantage) there's no reason to avoid the double when treaty expires.

[Mjmd]

Leaving this here to hopefully give you a bit of a laugh.

naufragar

Sure, I still think he's lunatic suicide bomber, but anybody who has the stone cold nuts to look me in the eye and say "Fuck your Pyramids" has my deep respect.

[Miguelito]

they both had offered peace. Presumably to fight each other? After retaking the capital I offered it back to both. Why oh why did I? I suppose it might keep the civ alive for longer. But how is that in my interest?

[Miguelito]

... not even. When I took over, the only thing I asked Ginger was whom we hated more, naufragar or Magic Science. His response was MS, I don't really remember why, was it the opportunism? Anyway, I was supposed to punish him, but instead now MS got all the cities because naufragar kept throwing peace treaties at us while marching his unassailable stack through our territory. Apparently he also was at peace with MS (how would I know?), so he could not even take advantage of open borders.

Anyhow, I was pleased to see that both nauf and MS were accusing me in their threads of throwing the game to their respective counterpart

[Tarkeel]

Nicely piloted and parked Mig.