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[GeneralKilCavalry]

Fucking reroll. Won combat flawlessly last time, now spear is on 0.1 strength.

Lazteuq can ruin my game if he wants to. If he does, all he will see for the next 100 turns is keshiks.

[Lewwyn]

Lazteuq can ruin my game if he wants to. If he does, all he will see for the next 100 turns is keshiks.

Are you ruined? Are you keshiking?

KESHIKS!

[GeneralKilCavalry]

Lazteuq can ruin my game if he wants to. If he does, all he will see for the next 100 turns is keshiks.

Are you ruined? Are you keshiking?

KESHIKS!

will post an update after playing the turn. HBR is coming shortly. I have a few more settlers coming up, and then i'll start rushing out gers/barracks/keshiks. A force of 7-8 should be enough to wipe a few of his cities. Probably will send a galley too to ruin his day.

Ramk seems to be suffering, but I'm not discounting him long term. Very happy to be friendly with him for now.

I think I can do ok this game. I have a plan, I have a few cottages up starting to grow, ICTR this turn.

[GeneralKilCavalry]

7 cities. Kind of bad for an imp leader at this point, but I should have 9 soon, then will pump to 14 after that. Turfan's settler is going to settler the shared cow, providing a clear border against Ramk.

By the way, HBR is like 3 turns, then 2 turns gold, 3 turns writing, then IW and then math. Karakorum is doing worker -> workboat -> barracks -> ger -> keshik spam. Need to get another mine to it, and take away some food after worker is done.

New island city has lovely furs, ferrying worker and axe there shortly. Will raise happiness cap to 7/8 in capital. I think I can get 14hpt in Karakorum? Not great, but it'll do, plus there's still a few forests im going to chop. 

Specifically:

Going to settle this great pigs spot with a settler from the city next to the barb (had to whip axe, overflow towards a settler + chop coming in). Will use it to launch into Laz. Then there are 2 cities left to backfill, which I will do relatively soon, but they aren't high priority.


Two cities down here towards mjmd/charriu. Important to get these pretty soon as they are quite good and I want two cottages on those southern floodplains.

Demos:



Shit GNP, but boy is Laz mismanaging econ. Time to invadeeeee


I have a really high mfg, whoopdeedoo?


CY is ok.

Yeah, uh, this is the kiddie table area between me/laz/charriu/mjmd/ramk trolling around with oracle.

[GeneralKilCavalry]

Axe beat the pesky barb spear. Going to settle towards Lazteuq and start keshiks soon

He's really pissed me off this game and it looks like he's choking charriu to death (only 4 cities!?!?!)

[Lewwyn]

Just wanted say looks good and promising!

[GeneralKilCavalry]

DEMOS:





Ramk is fighting with MJMD. But I should consider increasing border garrisons a bit.

I think I need to invade Laz soon. MJMD and I are the top dogs of the continent, Laz has lagged behind, and Charriu is dead in the water. I think a force of 12 keshiks should be enough to make quick work of Laz. Just need to follow up with 3 spears and 3 axes, just as garrisons. I should try to have this force ready asap, whipping down a few cities.

HE also has an island city, which I should attempt to snipe. Sword + axe wombo combo?



Empire overview. I should probably go for monarchy? I can have huge cities everywhere. But I instinctively feel the drive for catapults and currency.



Ramk front



MJMD front



Laz Front


Overall demos. Doing a very obvious MFG crop tradeoff here.

In terms of peaceful expansion, I have 4 more cities left to build, with 1 on the way. 2 of these are kind of mediocre, 1 is pretty damn good. THere's also central islands I can snipe.


Need to start going for a great scientist to pop a golden age that can let me time monarchy -> herd rule wo/ anarchy.

[GeneralKilCavalry]

Got an update, may lead to more as things heat up:

Here are the current continent standings:





A few things to note:
1. MJMD is being punished HARD by Ramk for being too greedy. GNP is collapsing, MFG, crop, are all down the drain. All the while, MJMD is not successfully leveraging his power. I'm not about to disrupt this balance of power by attacking Ramk and letting MJMD get back into the game.
2. I whipped out a set of keshiks and that was extremely noticebale on the power graph. Laz is not responding.
3. If Laz is left unchecked, he can develop well. I must attack him urgently.


Diplomatically, Laz is at war with Charriu. Charriu has sent me clear messages to invade. The constraints of AI diplo prevent me from saying in how many turns i plan to attack, but I have sent him a copper-copper back. Hopefully he gets my intentions and pursues the war.


The capital is stagnant. It is necessary to get monarchy ASAP. I have 0% rn, it will take 3 turns to save up enough to 2-turn monarchy. So 5 turns, then I revolt, and I will be able to put in another round of whips in some cities, while growing out the capital on archer production.


My poor second city which just got some culture. Using it to whip keshiks.


Third city is working a bunch of cottages and hammers, great city, making keshiks right now. Should start on a library at some point


Fourth city suffering from serious whip unhappy. Library here was probably unecessary, should've gone ger + keshik.


Horse city is whippped even harder. The gems are nice, but I need keshiks.


Gold city making workboat for newer city. On growth, will add scientists here, this city is no good for production. I'm super behind on the great person game, and am not particularly likely to pick up wonders. But hopefully, taking a chunk of that sweet sweet Lazteuq land will let me develop.



Border city - 4th pop is always whipped for a keshik/axe.


Ramk lands looking tasty but can't attack them.


Lazteuq has fucked up by going into serfdom as he's about to get whacked by 10 keshiks and a few axes.


Plan overall:
Take at least 2 Lazteuq cities and burn what I cannot keep. After monarchy, whip more and more keshiks to swamp the poor guy.
Tech monarchy, take the anarchy hit, and start saving for currency, which will boost me by 40 commerce, which is insane. Then I need metal casting for forges and triremes, and after that I will see where things take me. I think there's people who are going to be rushing GLib + similar wonders, but I may want to try for notre dame at engineering. Extra happy is always welcome.
Another note is to settle one of the island cities in the center of the continent to get wines.

[GeneralKilCavalry]

I'll try to post an update next turn, but this situation is quite interesting...

[Lewwyn]

I'll try to post an update next turn, but this situation is quite interesting...