OH, YEAH, the flying guys.Mack the Sandolphon.

[mackoti]

Indeed very  hard turn to play as Auro got  another MW i supose from the gate no way to produce 2 in a row. so he has 2 right now i think he can spawn maximum another 1 and build by hand another 4  so there you have 7 mobius by then(thats maximum i think).phew, and i have to outptroduce that.

Actualy looking at the demos he is at 34 hammers so 20 from prod+10  from gk and another 2 from nationhood(those are not in demos) and i supose between them the other 2 city have 4 hammers. So in 10 turns we look just at 3 MW and max another one if he spam one. HMMM...

Must consider if he goes for better spectres as well, from what i see there is jus 1 mana nod imediat , and he needs 1 adept to hook the resource.Can MW to hook nodes?

[mackoti]

T 62.
 I went for the  option with a third city , because i mannaged to get one elephant and some gorila which will gave me some bodies in city by turn 71.
Oh yeah and this turn I completed my list of 'friends":

   

So Superjm and dave went for a fast CS(dave didnt revolted yet), which I am not very convinced is the best on this starved hammers map but perhaps they have better hammers and they went for BW as well( I met Super wariour at strenght 4 and i get alot of GNP studieng BW)

And demos :

   

man I was like what the heck did Auro got one witch on the gate and build another but after i remebered that spectres gave like alot of power so he must  summoned 2 spectres me thinks and hope.

And a picture with my second city:


   

As you can see i get  alot of science from this one as well, hammers are near 0 but what you can do....

[mackoti]

Turn 66.
5 turns of enforced peace remained(very good i could take that otherwise the freaking spectre would have been nasty...)
 My tall strategy shows his ''fruits''

   

As you can see i have the least food , my live expectacy is worst then in dark ages  bot cities are at maximum growth.Why didnt gave us a corn istead of Flood plain or pig Bob? 

but there is more bad news I am last in number of people as well and the dwarf and the atheist(agnostic) is at 4 cities already...I will setle my third in 2 more turns.
 So all  have 15 turns headstart for the 3 city. They setle cities becasue both went for bw first a luxuri which i dint aforted you know because i had no happines in jungle and dieng to a MW wasnt very appealing.

[mackoti]

turn 67...
Looks like Auror is using all his power to stop me.Actualy not all but just a few...He pilaged my roads on neutral lands to stop me to plant my third city so I decided to plant it  on tile closer.Not as good as the other one but well..

I am suprized how good i took this move not beeing angry or something else..., but Auro will pay.

And the angry dwarf has 82 food and the elves are close.Will see how this unfolds...

[mackoti]

turn 68.

One of dave or castiel was nice enough to gave me the map(exchange) .
ANd boy what can I say, I was realy  pissed from what I seen.Its clear now I am piggy in the midle and only if I had the most resorces near me.Everyone else is better.

[mackoti]

OK.Question.

After Auror razing my roads,and seeing he builded a roand on a jungled hill made me to think what he is doing.And Auro is not just doing silly stuff, so he is preparing something.And i rememeber that ring of flame and the air 2 magic can broke even enforced peace...Is that true? And isnt that considered a chesee move at rb?

[RefSteel]

I hadn't heard of that one! I suppose you could set up a test game via Worldbuilder, load it as a scenario in Hotseat mode and see what happens. I couldn't even begin to guess how the game deals with that.

[mackoti]

Just  tested in a hot seat game.Started mastery on a duel and build all i need and looks like even if you have an enforced 10 turns peace if you use maelstrom and one of oponent units is touched war will be declarated. i realy dont wanna play something like that is a serious abuse and i better quit then playing in this condition.

I bet Auro knows this thing and if he got lucky he is planning to use that witch on this porpuose but I think is against of the game mechanics and I remebered just now otherwise i wouldnt took peace.

So what should I do ? Ask him in mail to not use this 'trick' let the game go and hope he will not use? Ask a replay if he use it? Just to be clear if he use this stuff I am out.

[mackoti]

Turn 70.One more turn of peace.

Looks like Auro didnt wanted to do shenagigans with some maelstrom stuff.

I was thinking what he can use so i cheked the mana which he gets from palace and there is death and fire so i expect a mix of spectre and fireballs which are very good as dont gave experience to defender and i think they can kill and can move over the jungle without any problem.So i have to get to mobius with my ghosts .

Good news is this turn i finished my super hero upgraded one super DS to assasin and got something chossen.

lets see how this will unfold.I dont know how stron are those fireball and i expect spectre to be strenght 5 soon.

I have like 4 DS with 17 or over experience think at posibilities if Auro didnt decided to go berserk on me(I supuse he is right to do so)  .

[mackoti]

I started a game with arbandz and this witches and there something i found which is good for me i think.
First the fireball have just 1 turn life   . And second looks like the free spell witch the MB are learning are eating from 5 experience wich them get for free.    (Is that true or i do something wrong?). MW dont get extraexperience from the civics. 

bad news is that firebal are realy strong and can kill , speed 3 , strenght4 and get combat 1 and i see them get empower too. Phew very scary stuff.Is normal to be like this is very hard to get a mage loads of techs..  . Not the case here.With cats i made test and there was 4/10 when top defender was realy strong the catd didnt damage it here after 10 tries every single time the FB took helath from it . Solution kill the freaking MW.

After chanching maps looks like dave got the most shafted in happines but with BW he is even better then me.Auro got  4 from the start plus furs and near him are no less then 3 gems which can be mined with BW. In my area nothing. Same fot the ether thing.If auro went bw route he could had all that gems 3 of them worked plus 2 more furs which is lets say  3 shades just from the quality of the land he got.Oh and he got 2 deers which are forested very close and 2 sugars again very close to him.Did anyone realy cheched this map?

Is realy bad to me in the midlle and all the other to get better resources better acces to them.At leas usualy was if in the midle more resouces near by. Oh i got pig as wasnt enough food on this map.