[spoilers] Commodore's RNG Report

[Commodore]

If I'm right and Naof is on Astronomy this was an amazing event:


Ginger is also powering his Steel push with a merchant mission, but he's got too many knights to make disruption worth it.

[Commodore]

Traded maps with Naufraugor by the way, looks like I was decently close in my estimations:

Nowf and Amicalola are in an existential war, initiated by Nog. He's razed two cities so far and seems to be pressing hard despite the Persians' massive siege stack, while the Persians in turn have whipped to sub-Greek population despite the recent Hanging Gardens. This is baffling to me, but I think I figured it out: 
Nowfrogger doesn't realize that Ginger is a dozen turns from Steel
It's the only thing that makes sense. He thinks that a three-way FFA détente is actually just a two-horse race between himself and Amicalola. He's fooled by the Ginger city count and doesn't understand how fundamentally unstoppable cannons are going to be for the entire land-based world. It just doesn't matter that there's only nine cities when seven of them can pump out a cannon every other turn. Twenty cannons with that many knights can take *anything*. Actually, if Ginger is bold enough, he could probably safely conquer ME AND SUPERDEATH AT ONCE. And yet his current knight stack is powerful enough to ruin either one of us in Prisoner's Dillema-topia here. 

Ginger is about to win this game because Nhoafrquer is tunneled onto the efficiency of Amicalola's trade economy. Heaven help us all.

[Charriu]

By the way are you actually keeping track of how many different kind of spellings of his name you used so far?

[Commodore]

By the way are you actually keeping track of how many different kind of spellings of his name you used so far?

No...and at this point I've forgotten how it's actually spelled.

[Charriu]

I think thanks to you I also misspelled their name more often. Sorry for that

[Commodore]

Traded maps with Naufraugor by the way, looks like I was decently close in my estimations:

Mjmd, let me also say this is a lovely map.

[Mjmd]

Mjmd, let me also say this is a lovely map.

I noted in the lurker thread some of the changes I would have loved to have made, but yes vaguely aesthetically pleasing was one of my two very loose requirements 

Glad you've been having fun. I'm not going to lie your start was one of the things that interested me and made me want to change things as mentioned before (I really wanted to give you a fish). It was the start my sea shanty self most wanted to play. I'm still rooting for you for that matter!

[Magic Science]

Thanks for the pretty satellite shot.

No deserts.

[Miguelito]

So, what is the path to neither Ginger nor nauf nor Amica winning?

[Commodore]

So, what is the path to neither Ginger nor nauf nor Amica winning?

Perhaps, the horse shall sing.

Seriously, Nowg can lose this for him and Amica by continuing on this course of action, just destructively dueling into the end of time.

Ginger can lose by being overly cautious. Not biting the bullet for slavery to mass units, he just takes cautious bites or just tactically moves too slowly. There's a point at which he has to throw the dice, but he's strong enough that not only does he have to be slow, but Superdeath, Gavagai, and I all have to be careful and canny. Need to murder another megastack like last time. In that case, winner is of course which of me or SD isn't the one having to sacrifice 3-4 cities to wipe out Ginger's invasion.