[SPOILERS] ipecac wants a win

[ipecac]

Dark Savant has Rifles. This could turn against me pretty nastily in the form of a 4-way dogpile.

[ipecac]

Superdeath has attacked. It's going to be 'ipecac vs. the world' anytime now.

[ipecac]

Glorious victory. A 50 unit-stack of Dark Savant's has just been obliterated. I think his power has actually dipped below mine, I'm now 4th out of 6 for soldiers

If Superdeath is careless I should destroy his 60+ unit stack too.

They really only should come at me when they're 2 eras ahead, not one. Bring your infantry or go home.

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

[ipecac]

The Zulu still have 70 catapults, so I can do some damage to someone's stack. Guess who?

[ipecac]

I'm not spitewhipping, my unhappiness and finances are terrible so it actually helps to whip off population. Even if it means whipping an explorer.

In other news, I took care of about 40 of superdeath's knights. Now it's JR4's turn to have his stack ruined.

[ipecac]

They really only should come at me when they're 2 eras ahead, not one. Bring your infantry or go home.

Bring your infantry, JR4. I still have about 50 cats and 80 muskets, ~40 cuirs.

[ipecac]

Superdeath attacked JR4 through my land. It's crazy, but it allowed me to recapture 2 of my old cities.

[JR4]

You played a very strong early/mid game imo. Why didn`t you eliminate Yuri before going for Dark Savant? I thought that you`d be able to take more cities pretty easily, adding to your already big city count. The attack on Dark Savant might have succeeded if someone else had piled on Inca. I was reluctant to do because you were set to gain a stupid amount of land (and probably the best land) from the conquest.

[ipecac]

You played a very strong early/mid game imo. Why didn`t you eliminate Yuri before going for Dark Savant?

It would have been a very long and exposed front against wetbandit. My mistake was not really converting my early lead into HAs and/or swords and taking out yuris then. I attacked too late and with too few HAs, then dallied till knights to finish him off when
wetbandit had his own big stack of well-promoted knights in the area, which kept me from taking all of yuris out. I also started to check out around t100.

Wetbandit and I were staring at each other across yuris area with many knights and curaissers for quite a while. He actually got to curraissers earlier and I was worried about him attacking for quite a while since I had no counter.

Attacking DS was the other option. A great artist bomb didn't change the broders at all, and I followed that up with a second terrible mistake of letting my stack get hit by his cats, and then I was completely out of the running.