[SPOILERS] Lewger goes for the Bigwyn

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quest complete. for some reason it offered me +2 research in gilgamesh. I took the free meditation tech anyway (thats only +3 research when we finish a university here, the +10% from the monastary here alone is much more). I just finished a mace here and decided to squeeze in a quick monastery since we're turning on research.

we got vision on ALL of azza's cities this turn - good timing

this is annoying. we passed serdoa in soldiers this turn (according to demo screen) but serdoa is sstill #2. azza is not defending his border with serdoa nearly as strongly as he's defending against us. if serdoa decides to dogpile with us Im afraid he's going to be able to push into azza much quicker than us, he may even reach tenacious D before us .

the good news is, the islands will be ours - serdoa can't reach them


azza has 3 cities on this long island - and between the 3 of them, only one archer defending (in interpol, the middle city). so I moved our navy one out of el cid. this turn a mace and spear will load on it and it can reach the northern most island in 3 turns (and attack immediately if he hasn't gotten a defender in by then). probably will have to raze, but we'll see.


ok. the mace was just dropped off from the galley moving from volsung. I also moved a mace from gilgamesh that couldnt reach the front in time to attack in such a way that it can move into the odyssey. the recently whipped mace from the odyssey is one of the 15, but it can move back - all sfeguards in case azza tilts and moves his army onto the grassland hill here from A7x. that won't be a bad thing, ebtter to slaughter them out in the open instead of behind city walls (we have a much larger army in the aeneid) - but it will delay my sneaky fort attack.
assuming azza doesnt push on this front, this turn this mace and a spear will load onto the galley, which will hang in the city, then turn 173 I'll build the fort and dump them both off on the hill next turn the presets.
(btw, moving through the fort doesnt count as a turn of movement does it???)

heres our invading force:

end up just holding back 1 axe and archer. the axe at least will move in with hte maces this turn. I promoted this axe to medic one, but I can promote the 2nd axe or the HA to medic one as well if he somehow dies.

demos:


we are #1 in soldiers this turn we had a 405 GNP before I moved all our soldiers in place (an extra 20gpt in supply costs :/)


notes: Buddhism spread to rama's journey, yuck. probably going to pump out a missionary from mahabrata while we research engineering, then it can turn to pikes.
On that note, engineering is only 3 turns with overflow from drama
I would really like to see serdoa go to war with someone that isn't us very soon.

[Qgqqqqq]

Confident enough to not pillage the horses?
Best of luck

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Confident enough to not pillage the horses?
Best of luck

yes. once the city is razed, king arthur will be working those horses .
edit: he isn't building any horse units anyway, so far as I can tell. I fear HA's far less than maces or cats anyway.

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so I logged in just to see if Serdoa would react to our DOW on azza. he didn't, but I had this offer:


umm, ok. how about no?
we are building our national epic in a hammer poor city, and besides that I have no interest in helping Plako build his epics (or Sistene chapel).
Besides that we are already getting sugar... from Plako!! Not sure if he forgot or just thinks I will forget, lol.

This is what serdoa is doing:

he moved off the gems hill to this hill last turn, and just fortified this turn. ok, he wants advance warning before we attack him so he can boat units to his northern land. fair enough, we won't be invading serdoa anytime soon.

with completed library and barracks, mahabrata has 9 more turns to expand its borders - I think once it claims the FPH we will get a little bit better vision??? not sure.

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well this was unexpected:

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at Xenu's reaction to the razing. Priceless.

Bigger and I have discussed plan online. I think things are looking even better than expected.

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The drum beats, orders are in: we press!


this is the war song the minstrels sing as the army marches on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdXQJS3Yv0Y

WHIP


WHIP


WHIP


8 of our 14 cities are building a cat or mace. 2 are building galleys. mahabrata is building a missionary for rama's journey, then straight military. the 2 new cities are working on infastructure, and shahnahmeh is working on national epic to get us some great people .

POWER, RAWR


demos:

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

Blood!!!

at the clip. Gotta love singing orcs/goblins. Take that, Peter Jackson!

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ok, so looking at civ stats it looks like serdoa surprised Brick and took a city off of him. hmm, that's interesting.