[SPOILERS] scooter, pindicator, and Huayna Capac try some fast Zulu cuisine

[NobleHelium]

Death to Commodore, etc.

[pindicator]

Commodore has caught me in chat (while I'm waiting for scooter to show) and proposed a nice idea for renaming Whales. He says we should find a fast food chain in Wales. The internet has told me of a place called "Greggs" but i have no idea what that is

[pindicator]

So I waited for scooter until we were last to play and then I played the turn. And then, wouldn't you know it, but he shows up 5 minutes after I ended turn

Anyway, I promised an overview and here we are, quite possibly at the xenith of the Zulu Empire!

Our new acquisitions in the east:



The south:



The north:



As you can see from the builds I went for infrastructure. Scooter and I are chatting right now and we both want to hit Commodore, so these may not have been good builds. The question is how: we can probably tech to Chemistry OR Nationalism, but if we wait for both them Comm will be running around with Rifles. Well, he may do that anyway.

Here's our city builds:



And now the depressing parts:






Overview shot!




And at the end of the turn...

So what do we do with him!?

[scooter]

Little bit of Seven-style diplo. I'll give the lurkers a stab at it - can you parse this?



Hint for the weak:

What Slowcheetah will probably say to himself:

75% chance: "that makes no sense at all"
24% chance: "ok I figured out the offer but nooooo thanks, you guys will die in 10 turns and LIKE IT"
1% chance: "great idea, I'm in!"

But I mean, why not try?

[scooter]

So I don't have to explain it, here's our thought process:

pindicator: here's the real question:
what are you hoping to get out of the rest of this game?
scooter: see that's what pushes me towards a commodore war
we can't win or even come close
we accomplished our objective of outliving a bunch of people and being relevant... beat up on slowcheetah which was fun
only real thing on the todo list is extract some revenge on commodore
pindicator: i think i know what we gotta do then
scooter: unless you can think of something you'd rather aim for
but I think it's the right thing to do
pindicator: i think so
ok, so this is going to be the last war

*Somewhere near a computer, NobleHelium briefly smiles at the prospect of another Commodore war, then returns to closely looking for errors in pindicator's turn report to correct*

[NobleHelium]

I can't believe you guys couldn't figure out a place to build a work boat besides Arctic Circle.

[scooter]

I can't believe you guys couldn't figure out a place to build a work boat besides Arctic Circle.

There it is!

I don't know if you noticed, but we sort of fought a war and stuff and had things to build and whatnot.

[NobleHelium]

Yeah but you could have just built one fewer catapult or whatever. Come on. That city would be size 4 now and you'd get the catapult back!

[scooter]

Arctic Circle basically exists because GLH exists. I couldn't give the sliiiightest crap about that city.

But yes, point conceded we could have been more efficient there.

So Noble. We got a Great Engineer on a 10% roll . We've got a couple routes we could go here in the context of a Commodore war, curious to hear what you think.

1) Tech Theology-Drama (revolting to Theocracy before GA ends, we can 1T Theo this turn), whip theaters everywhere, GE-rush Globe, finish Gunpowder and then head to Nationalism to be able to draft. In the meantime whip Knights where we can.
2) Finish Gunpowder, knock out part of Chemistry (it won't do that much of it) with the GE, finish Chemistry, get Frigates into the water to protect ourself, try to do this thing with massed whipped Knights. We already have the Galleons necessary, would just need to whip Knights from basically everywhere. Ignore Drama. Head to Nationalism eventually of course, but it'll be much later this way.

(in case it's not clear, we knocked out HBR this past turn)

Also note: Commodore completed Chemistry this turn. Any thoughts or other ideas? I sense right now Pindicator leans towards option 1, I lean towards option 2, but neither of us are convinced enough to dismiss the other idea. I'm skeptical that building 7 Theaters and getting Globe is worthwhile since we won't be able to draft at first. Pindicator is thinking we can get away with skipping Chemistry. I think that about sums it up.

[pindicator]

I can't believe you guys couldn't figure out a place to build a work boat besides Arctic Circle.

Well, we were in the "race to Chemistry" mindset before, so we were building Wealth in Culver's and everywhere else was building military. I thought about a work boat this last turn, but really I think it's better to just forget about Arctic Circle.

We may swap to Slavery again at the end of this golden age, and if we do then we can just whip that work boat finished.