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[spoilers] Commodore gets medieval

#131
April 15th, 2024, 15:55
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Pindicator has a chance ruin me utterly...
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...and I have no idea what this symbolizes. 2t NAP? That's okay I guess? Just enough time to castles.
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Scooter smashed Thoth pretty handily, but lost more or less everything doing it. Here's him stuffing his capital with enough to make it dicey for me...
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...so I opt for "go fish" to kill this city...
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...and take some desperately-needed workers and an exposed musket. Knight will heal in 1t thanks to GG medic.
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Just three cities thus remained...
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...and now two remain (lost this 81%, annoyingly). Scooter may retake this one but I'm fine with the attrition at this point.
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Just a numbers game. Capture gold thanks to Scooter's vast wealth reserve been good, I can afford three more turns before striking with a little pillage.
(April 14th, 2024, 22:13)Zed-F Wrote: How long before you have a meaningful economy again after finishing off Scooter?
I have no idea. I hit the conqueror's plateau at least.
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This is genuinely hilarious, I have never screwed my GNP this hard.
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#132
April 15th, 2024, 15:56
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How did you get the GNP that low when starting with Currency? Lots of whipping + no cottages?
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#133
April 15th, 2024, 16:03
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(April 15th, 2024, 15:56)greenline Wrote: How did you get the GNP that low when starting with Currency? Lots of whipping + no cottages?
Bingo. My finances tell the tale. Sixteen cities each running a free merchant nets 48gpt, so the merchantilism swap will break even. Nutty game.
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#134
April 16th, 2024, 08:22
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Sure enough, he retook, then when I took back no more infra, so...burnt.
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Despite the awful positioning, this one did keep granary and forge, so it's retained thus far.
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Ugly massive city garrison at the last bastion of America. The top eight defenders will statistically take out seven knights, then the next five take out two or three, so I need a good sixteen powerful knights to crack this. I have seventeen able to hit not next turn but the turn after; I'm okay if he trades out by killing one of those revolting finance-drains.
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#135
April 16th, 2024, 10:02
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You don't believe in siege units? wink
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#136
April 16th, 2024, 10:03
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In a more serious note, you are not built for the long game so who is the next victim?
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#137
April 16th, 2024, 10:13
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(April 16th, 2024, 10:02)Hitru Wrote: You don't believe in siege units? wink
I was planning on a wave before going in, but remember this torched off a few turns before the 30t timer I was still adhering to. I'm war-weary and it's expensive, but I may look at a least-time delivery for a few trebuchets.
(April 16th, 2024, 10:03)Hitru Wrote: In a more serious note, you are not built for the long game so who is the next victim?
I'm either built for the extreme near-game or the extreme long game, having size does eventually matter most. But I think I'm going to look at which configuration I could stably get into to 2v1 "next guy". Not being the 1 matters more than who I join as the 2. Both Thoth and Pin love defecting on prisoners this game though.
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#138
April 18th, 2024, 09:02
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Scooter decided to up the tempo, I'm cool with it.
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Next turn, he's free.
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#139
April 18th, 2024, 10:44
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Well that was slightly unfortunate.
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Thank you, Mongolian Ability to Give Knights Mobility:
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Boom.

And then there were three...
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#140
April 18th, 2024, 15:45
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Welcome to the lurker land, Scooter. By the way, this was a very impressive recovery from the initial stumble:
(April 13th, 2024, 17:23)Commodore Wrote: You know, for a minute there I was looking at Scooter's land and cities and realized it might be better than mine...
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Impressive job with Phi/Imp there. You gotta be loving what my GNP is doing right now...
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