[SPOILERS] Retap is over and Retap is gone...

[retep]

More importantly, when did you swap to a Bender avatar?

Since I start posting in my PB27 thread

[retep]

Well my spy finally was usefull and spot commodore stack coming to atack me.
I called before it happens! He was taking to long to finish HAk so attacking me was his best option.

Of course to me this means perma war until death, as in him killing eventually

If donovan accept my Peace offer I can safely concentrate in Comoodore if not then well is going to be a really fast conquest.
Of course Donovan doesn't know that Commodore is going to attack me in a couple of turns, so there is no reason for him not to take peace.

Couple of things I have in my favor:

Unless Commodore has his own spies loking into me he doesn't know the exact position of my stack.
Donovan declared war on me twice, so probably Commodore thinks I'm out of position/weaken. Which is incorrect of course.
I have an EP advantage on him, I invested in EP this turn which means next turn I should get visibility in most of his empire unless he does something.

Until now I didn't notice his caravels but he has then in a perfect position to a) scouting me b)stop me for oving my kinght stack out of my island, clever for him bad for me, This is mostly because I have been playing so fast lately but this turn when I stop and carefully watch I was so painfull obvious Oh well I could probably kill one but there are going to be a pain in the ass.

If only Tas was still playing Commodore wouldn't attack me at all...why did he go?! Bring him back!

[Old Harry]

[retep]

Resume battle with Commodore:

[retep]

Also I didn't want to said anything but HAK is really anoying. He has send me to many diplo offers something like 10 in the last 12T

Mindy is in there so I guess they mean something but I don't really care man! I send one to then just to srcub with them which was a terrible mistake, this turn alone there was like 4 diplo "messages"

[Zed-F]

Resume battle with Commodore:

So does that average out to ?

[retep]

Danm last turn I lost 4 knights to kill a musketer. If I could instead injure his 3 top defenders I could have had 50-60 odds battles to kill his stack.

Oh well such is life.

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

A request has been made that you play when it is reasonably possible for you to do so. It has been noted in more than one thread that your turns seem to be taking a long time to complete and that this could be slowing down the pace of the game. So, there's that.

No update in nearly a month. How are things going?

[spacetyrantxenu]

T201 - The End of (retep) Days

I kicked retep to AI so I could claim the civ, since his password isn't posted anywhere. Retep, if you planned to play at some point very soon sorry, but the game must go on.

Upon logging in this is the scene (plus a grim event log):




Unit disposition:




So Donovan has enough on hand to wipe the remnant if he's willing to use his catapults and I see no reason to assume he wouldn't do so. So this is retep's last turn in this game. How, then, should retep die? Should he sit behind his walls (wait, there's no walls) and await death? Is that what retep would have done? No, I don't think so. What has retep been in this game, if not this?

I checked the tech screen, this is what he's working with:




Engineering, check.

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Yeah, this is probably what retep would do on the last turn of the game. Also, I don't know the cultural saturation on the tiles around here but there's a possibility that swapping cities here will let the reteplands survive one more turn, if DZ's units are trapped in green culture. Here we go!

First musket scratches longbow...




Second musket deals a flesh wound...




Third musket deals the mortal wound.




I missed the capture gold screen, but it's irrelevant anyway. There's nothing to upgrade that I could see (oh wait maybe I could have upgraded the one longbow. Oh well).




The map after I finished up. I whipped a musket in the city that's assuredly about to fall. But just in case it doesn't...there's one more musket for next turn. I looked through available units in One more Day and the only thing I could dry whip was a scout, so I did that. Won't stop a bullet or anything but at least they'll fight to the last.




A wider view, because why not, this is probably the last report ever from the reteplands.




Hopefully I didn't exceed a mandate by not just ending turn, but I can see this in the spirt both of what retep would have done (trollface!) and because trying to live one more turn has to be better than almost certainly dying this turn. With the units DZ had on the scene retep was doomed as long as DZ was willing to use them, so why not try? I guess on the other hand if there is another turn left, I've just signed up to play it. In that event, the password is 'retep' if someone else has to play it in the event it's needed.

At least retep will die with a bit more green on the last page of his event log.

[wetbandit]

Xenu is henceforth required to play out the string for all OCC civs going forward.