Is vassalage worth an anarchy turn in the middle of invading Bing? Probably not, right? And now the preference is to build infra to recover from war (insofar as is safely possible), not gear up for another one. Absent another GA, it doesn’t seem that the opportunity to switch to vassalage has arrived yet.
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At this point the choice of building units is not Pins, if the neighbours build units he has to match them. Squeeze in courthouse where possible bit everything else? That's a luxury.
More a question of what is the civics plan, yeah, but this game is going to be about the route to knight, and how to defend of others get there first. But we all know that exerting pressure is a good way to defend 
Yes, my preference is to finish the Courthouses I'm building everywhere. I have already swapped some cities back to units (namely ones that had units half completed). But the actions of Cornflakes will dictate what I do next. If he declares war then I swap every to units and start whipping again. If he declares on Mjmd then I continue with infrastructure and go after new city plants. (Although a more ambitious plan would be to raze his MoM city since it's on the border, though there is no way to do that out of the fog.)
I am in the positive at 0% for the first time since the Bing war started; without Courthouses or Wealth Builds there is no way I can get to Knights. And I should point out the situation around Ollan. Because Cornflakes' war is looking more and more like a fake war, SaC is really putting a ton of units up against Ollan and making me keep a lot of the Bing forces over there.
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Turn came in after I went to bed. Cornflakes continues to build up and now has 18 hitters & 8 catapults. Pretty sure if he goes after us we're just out of the running. I mean, maybe we hold on at Clank! or Libertalia, but we have to whip units everywhere and with how badly hurt our economy is I think that would just be what breaks our back. We're just so behind in tech, I'm starting to think the invasion of Bing was the very definition of a pyrrhic victory.
Here's a stitch to get a better idea of the distances involved:  That's 28 tiles from Ollantaytambo (still need to rename that) to Clank! Currently I've split my northern Bing forces and half the catapults and a small number of hitters are coming south. But I might not even bother because even if I were to have the best road network in place they would take 8 turns to reach the border with Cornflakes. Better just to keep them north. Haven't really made any moves yet, but I'll play it in a few hours. I think I just need to hope for peace and a lot of time to try and repair the economy.
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Ollan has to be Risk then, right?
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Cornflakes wants you to invade MJMD. CF has Engineering so if you were the target he would stage outside vision. Or he just socks at vision rules. So he will look for specific actions you are taking then decide if he wants to trust or backstab you.
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Swapped everything in the core to longbows.  Except for Eldritch. I whipped the courthouse there. Hitru, I know you're telling me not to whip, but I'm having a hard time seeing where getting 5.5gpt savings and 60h now outweighs 2 grass hill mines that I'll grow back onto before the whip anger is up. I sent Open Borders to Cornflakes as well as a War with Mjmd in 3 turns message. (December 13th, 2022, 12:37)Commodore Wrote: Ollan has to be Risk then, right? Already used Risk. But I can't believe I've overlooked Codenames all this time, so that's what we're going with.
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