[SPOILER] Close to Win

[Charriu]

T175:

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First a small overview. I didn't stitch a worldmap this time, because that's very time-consuming, but I will do one in T200














Mr. Cairo took the city from AT, but his army is in a bad shape.




Still no advance from Jowy. I took the opportunity to pillage the sea food tile. Apparently he did the same at my new city MerchantTrolls. How did he get a trireme past me? Most likely it was teleport by some border shenanigans. Nonetheless I killed it with my new caravel. It's now pretty hurt. But I don't need to heal it immediately I think. It can go on its big ocean cruise next turn.

[Charriu]

T176:

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Next turn on Close to Win: Episode T177 the Defense of JuvenileWizard

[Charriu]

T177:

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Superdeath was eliminated this turn, so hey I survived longer then one of the players responsible for killing me in my last PB. That must count for something.




No attack from Jowy, but still well played. I moved two more pikeman into CommandoPygmies. He can only attack it with his knights, so he is welcome to suicide some into my 100% culture-defense pikeman there.

[superdeath]

T177:

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Superdeath was eliminated this turn, so hey I survived longer then one of the players responsible for killing me in my last PB. That must count for something.

I killed you in your last pb?


Pretty sure ive only ever killed one person.. and that was Chumchu. Ive ruined alot of people's games however...

[Charriu]

No you didn't. I was attacked by Elkad, but you joined that war, which broke my neck.

[Old Harry]

Didn't you kill Ruff?

[Charriu]

T178:

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AT is falling apart in the north against Mr. Cairo, loosing another city to Mr. Cairo.




Back in my town, I lost a city, too and it is CommandoPygmies. Well so much for the Great Walls. It was nice while it lasted. At least he lost 5 knights in the attack. No combat report, because the combat report was totally boring.




This is the situation at hand right now. I do expect the next attack on JuvenileWizards, which will remove a lot of culture from me. Good that I whiped another Longbowman there this turn.





If it's not obvious right now I won't most likely last till the end of this PB. So it's time to have a little fun, while we still have the time and the fun is called: Escape plan. I'm one of the few players with ocean travel. Let's try to get to Astronomy, upgrade my galley to a galleon, load up a settler and start anew on a new coast, provided there is at least a new coast. So going Calendar->Paper->Astronomy with the possibility of selling maps to the highest bidder on the way.

[Charriu]

T179+T180:

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Jowy has concentrated all his troops in front of JuvenileWizards and is bombarding the city every so slowly with his 5 catapults, which also do less bombard damage, because JuvenileWizards is at 60% culture (For explanations of that look in my Curious Civplayer segment). I doubt he wants to bombard to 0%. He's just waiting for more catapults, which he then will suicide into the city. Maybe he even offers peace after taking that city. Keeping so many units outside his territory is costly after all and he will need more catapults to move on towards the next city. Who knows.  

But the most important news is that pindicator wants to break the record of fewest peace turns played in any PB and attacked Mjmd, taking two cities from him. This could very well be his winning move if he defeats Mjmd. Jowy will be bogged down against me for a long time and the only other contender, Mr. Cairo is also facing an opponent with Engineering aka Castles and Pikemen.

[shallow_thought]

Would you take peace, or is hanging onto whatever limb you can get your jaws around and doing maximum damage your thing this week?

[Charriu]

That depends on my caravel finding ocean islands.