[SPOILERS] scooter's PB53

[scooter]

Well that was cathartic.


To be clear, I offered Fan Death to Cornflakes for peace earlier today when playing my turn. He might actually take that, who knows. I haven't been able to make any peace offer to TBS because I logged in real quick just to confirm whether he did declare on me or not, but I can't actually do anything until next turn when it's my half again. I'm not sure I'd actually offer it to him though.

[scooter]

Ok, Cornflakes captured it, and TBS demanded multiple cities for peace .


Are we done? Or do I need to look for a replacement?

[scooter]

I take that as we're still going. Played another turn and just kinda gave it my best shot.


To be clear, here's the issue. It's T127, and I'm already in a two-front war thanks to TBS. Commodore will declare on T129, and my entire eastern flank will be wide open for the taking. Because I can't defend those cities but I can defend on the west, my only path to keeping this merely a two-front war will be to give Commodore several cities for peace - like almost all of AT's former cities.


At that point Commodore will have double the cities of whichever one of these guys are refusing to concede and a long secure flank with which he can conquer Cairo in peace, and nobody will ever be able to stop him. The game will probably then get called, and maybe I'll get accused of kingmaking which will be the most hilariously ironic thing to happen here in awhile.


Anyway, since I'm pissed at TBS far more than anyone else, I demanded some gold from him for peace even though he's got a shot at Bigfoot. If he refuses, I'll give him peace last, and if the others ever DO sign peace with me, I'll yeet whatever I can at TBS no different than Cornflakes is fairly doing to me even if I have to travel through Cairo's land to do it. Commodore will take whatever he can. I will have 4-5 Galleons over that way next turn, so there is some room for shenanigans, but that only goes so far.

[scooter]

GFY. I countered for peace for all of his cities.





Deal. I was going to offer more than that.


Are we done yet?

[scooter]

By the way, I've got a spy in Cornflakes land. He has absolutely nothing left in his core cities. 0 military whatsoever. His entire army is huddled in Fan Death.


Instead of taking that free gift and suddenly getting himself right back into the game, he gifted the game to Commodore because he judged that a 2v1 was not sufficient to slow me down for some reason and he needed to make it a 3v1. Dumbest thing I've seen in an RB game in a long time.

[scooter]

TBS offered white peace and I accepted, against my better judgment. Call it RL war weariness.

My Galleons are arriving in force on the western front now along with 3 that were whipped/upgraded. Cornflakes attacked Chemtrails and lost his catapults to do so, but I ferried in Muskets, so it shouldn't fall. He's going to have to pull some stuff back now or else I'll go on a Mediterranean burning spree.

[scooter]

I guess I should update since Cornflakes isn't updating. After taking Fan Death he sat inside for a few turns while he tried to take down Chemtrails. He suicided his catapults and killed some units, then I reinforced with Galleons and he retreated from there. After that, he finally decided to advance. It was tricky because he forked my cities with his Cuirs, and I made a couple tactical mistakes because frankly, I was playing these turns quickly and with a lack of interest. I waited and stalled as long as possible because while I had better units, he outnumbered me nearly 2-to-1 in raw numbers initially. Galleons came up huge here though, allowing me to shuffle tons of units in, and when he came up next to Area 51, I finally felt like I could attack. It was a big one.














The remainders:





While playing quick, I made the extremely dumb mistake of recapturing Fan Death, which means he'll probably raze it next turn. That's what happens when you don't care anymore. TBS sent me copper for copper and 1g for 1g two turns ago and has done nothing, so who knows what that's about. He's the big winner here unfortunately - Cornflakes stack is falling apart miles away from his empty home cities. I expect TBS to invade him this turn. If not, he's the imposter.





This should show you just how spent my empire is. Look at those city sizes. I've whipped down to the bone.

[scooter]

Guess I have to report 2 turns in a row then. After that fight last turn, I offered Cornflakes peace for Nijmegen - AKA the Great Library island city that is the twin of Chemtrails. With his stack decimated and a TBS wardec incoming, he needed to accept. He apparently rejected it, and then had a change of heart mid-turn.





He slammed his cats in, suiciding them all, then pillaged my town (RIP), then re-offered peace. I think he took a look at what TBS was doing and realized he needed to get out. He sweetened the deal by adding the 1-tile island to the north. RL war weariness and all, so I accepted. He also didn't raze Fan Death surprisingly, so I kinda consider this getting 3 cities for peace.





Hey, sure would be cool if I could squeeze out a 2-man GA out of this city since it also came with National Epic (I never teched Lit).






Oof.



I'll go ahead and withdraw my concession temporarily, but don't be surprised if I re-enter it soon. It may be a moot point because I think TBS is about to absolutely take Cornflakes apart. If that happens, he's back in this game, and that might spice things up. You've seen how spent my empire is, but I am still clinging onto Galleon power, so I might as well try to do something with it. It probably means trying to 1v1 Commodore, which I don't particularly want to do. He also may not want to do that given that TBS is literally walking into undefended Dutch cities right now. I offered Commodore a dual war vs Cairo in exchange for returning my two cities. 0 chance he goes for that, but it's an opening offer. Our peace expires in 6 turns, and between now and then I can fill a 7-8 Galleons with highly promoted units that can fork a bunch of his interior core cities, so that may scare him into coming to the negotiating table.

[NobleHelium]

WTF, you can get national wonders in a trade?? Is that a bug?

[superdeath]