[SPOILERS] Pindicator promises brighter days ahead

[Lewwyn]

Looks like plako settled 2 cities meaning we likely don't have to worry about him beating us to the two spots.

[pindicator]

I hope we're spurring him to push out settlers faster now. The ideal scenario is having him put most of the hammers into settlers for that area and we take them with Military.

We have 4 settlers now, correct? Where are they going again?

[Lewwyn]

Plako wardecced, killed our settler and the 3 knights that were covering. He also killed our chariots. Then he sent a peace treaty.

Smart play, I underestimated his fear of pissing us off, but if he already knows he's in the corner... why not make the first strike.

So how do we want to play this? Do we take a white peace, plant the thorn city and tech as fast as possible, then crush with cav?

He has two workers on the border that I could snipe before offering the peace, and if he accepts straight off then he won't see we've done that.

[pindicator]

I think we have to take the white peace. Definitely we settle the cities in his face now and tech, but we won't get to cab in 10t,not even if we bend the entire empire towards it. So that leaves:
1) Bend the entire empire towards building research or infra in an attempt to get to cav as quick as possible, then invade at that point. I'm guessing 15-20t off
2) Spam knights during the enforced peace and hit as hard as possible when it's up

[pindicator]

I'm back now. After some breakfast I might even be human again

[Lewwyn]

I finished the turn last night. Sent white peace started all the universities. They will all finish in 4t.

I didn't plant the two cities by plako yet because I didn't want him to see score increases on civstats. I wanted him to accept peace first, then we'll plant them.

We lost vision on a few of Comm's cities, he's put a bit of EPs into us.

[Lewwyn]

NotGav attacked out and we lost only 1 unit. He has 4 units remaining in the city. Going to go finish it.

[Lewwyn]

He attacked out:



I finished up:



Plako accepted peace so I planted the 3 cities.

Unis on the way:



Couldn't sustain 100% sci, We still get PP in 2 at 90%

[pindicator]

Glad we can finally close that chapter. We're going to need a lot of missionaries here with all the new cities. Looks like the universities will take up the remainder of our GA production so any plans of fighting Plako need to be done with the troops we have now. 

Also, glad he attacked out. We didn't need to use up our CKN

[Lewwyn]

We have a missionary travelling south and a new missionary built in Kim next turn. Kim can 1t missionaries for now.

NotGav attacking out did us a real favor, I agree.