RBP2 Lurker Discussion Thread - No Players!

[regoarrarr]

I just pulled up civ stats and saw the scores

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Sullla      Gandhi      India       1408      Offline
    Nakor         Unknown     Unknown     1070     Offline
*     athlete        Mehmed II     Ottomans     970     Offline
*     plako             Wang Kon     Korea     841     Offline
    Dantski     Mansa        Mali             814     Offline
    slaze             Huayna      Inca             658     Offline

And to repeat myself (and many others from a bit ago)....

Uhhh I don't see how India is going to lose this game

[Beamup]

If India/Korea have a falling out, all bets are off. But they both seem determined to stick together.

Assuming that they DO stick together, IMO their joint best play would be for India's Ottoman war to go off as planned, while Korea expands into the empty space between former Rome and Inca. After consolidating those lands, hit HRE. India takes Centralia, Korea (with Indian support) goes after the mainland. At that point there's no effective opposition left.

[sunrise089]

If India/Korea have a falling out, all bets are off.

I still think if all non-Indian civs DOW'd India right now and cooperated fully for the rest of the game India is a 2:1 favorite.

[Mr. Nice Guy]

I still think if all non-Indian civs DOW'd India right now and cooperated fully for the rest of the game India is a 2:1 favorite.

I'd accept that money - I think they're closer to 3 or 4:1. The only reasonable way I can see them losing is in a PBEM1 type diplo steal.

[antisocialmunky]

That would work if half of the world's population hadn't been whipped about by the non-Indians.

[Whosit]

My "insider's perspective": I think that everyone else working together now is the only way for K.A. not to win (a chance, not a certainty), but I think everyone mistrusts everyone else too much to do so, and I don't think anyone could motivate Dantski to attack the monster on his back doorstep. This also assumes the new mega alliance avoids making critical strategic and tactical errors.

I think I actually urged Athlete not to declare war on Slaze again and instead try to make nice, but that didn't happen. 'Course, can't say who's right 'till it's all over.

[Beamup]

I still think if all non-Indian civs DOW'd India right now and cooperated fully for the rest of the game India is a 2:1 favorite.

Oh, I agree. My point is simply that things would get a LOT more complex if there were three (varying) strong groupings instead of one overwhelming + one strong.

[scooter]

I still think if all non-Indian civs DOW'd India right now and cooperated fully for the rest of the game India is a 2:1 favorite.

Completely agree. I think India losing would be a bigger surprise than Korea getting to where they are now...

[darrelljs]

By the time our war starts, we expect to have ~20 cuirassiers and ~15 catapults on top of whatever muskets we can draft via Nationhood civic.

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Darrell

[regoarrarr]

So is there any way I could purchase units from you? Get a loan of them?

Uhh... please tell me Athlete is NOT asking someone to loan him units?!?!?!!??!