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Yeah Bigger was roading there, which I found really weird. I doubt they are there to help us. If he wanted to help us he wouldn't leech everything we freaking have for techs.
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Here are the techs. I'm liking the diversity, gives us a better shot.
Asked for this city  I don't see him ever giving it up, but if he does, :highfive: to you sir flugauto!
June 29th, 2013, 17:00
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7 grenadiers 5 cannons now. Scattered though, not in stack.
I whipped 3 muskets this turn.
Cornflakes officially declared on 2M.
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10 knights
6 cannons
8 grenadiers
Knights and cannons are hiding outside of my cultural view (but he does not know about my spy).
Also he just used his spy to disconnect my iron. Which I reconnected right away, but still, it's a clear sign of hostility.
The end is near 
Bigger offered me some gold for stopping trading with Cornflakes. However I couldn't accept due to being stuck in diplo screen. Now that I was back and noticed the knight stack, I knew AT was going to attack 100%. So I sent this deal instead.. I don't expect Bigger to accept, but hopefully this offer will convey the message that I'm royally fucked once AT attacks and will need help, or else AT will get even stronger without much effort.
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How many catapults do we have?
How many and what happiness resources AT has?
How many EPs do we have on AT?
How much would it cost to disconnect all his happiness resources?
Should we snipe ATs workers?
What else could we do?
July 3rd, 2013, 14:45
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We have about 300 EP on him. Disconnecting happiness resources would not do anything, they can be re-improved during the very same turn and I don't have enough spies or EP to do it on multiple ones.
We've got no cats and no two-move units. Could build a knight, but capturing a few workers won't stop him from destroying us, I'd say it only annoys him further :P
His forces are still increasing, but the good thing is that there are a lot of knights. Pikes defend well versus them. However suicide cannons will get him the odds with knights too. Then there's the problem of forking.. Judging by where his troops are located, he will use the small land bridge to attack, which means he could go for either Eden Prime or Citadel. We can't move from one city to another in 1 turn
Cornflakes declared on Bigger, so there goes any chance of outside help.
I'll think about it more tomorrow, just wanted to get the turn out of the way so I don't hold up the game.
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Didn 't we have chariots to capture workers? Or are the chariots long dead?
Do you draft?
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(July 3rd, 2013, 15:11)flugauto Wrote: Didn 't we have chariots to capture workers? Or are the chariots long dead?
Do you draft?
Didn't end up building chariots, made scouts instead to keep an eye on our neighbors.
I revolted to Nationhood now. Maybe I should have done it a turn or two earlier when it was clear AT is coming for us.
Btw we are -40 GPT while in Anarchy because of trades
AT unit count: (all units near our borders)
10 grenadiers
7 cannons
13 knights
1 musket
3 mace
10 longbows (most will probably stay behind)
Our unit count:
Eden Prime:
3 muskets
2 mace
3 pikes
16 longbows
Citadel:
2 muskets
1 mace
7 longbows
5 pikes
Thessia:
2 mace
1 spear
Moving around:
1 musket
1 pike
1 longbow
July 5th, 2013, 16:16
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We are in war!! 
And we are not in it alone! AT declared on us. Cornflakes declared on AT. Cornflakes is also in war with 2M, so we don't know if his declaration will even distract AT, but we did have a scout near that at least showed some troops on the move towards AT. We had to delete all the scouts btw, and do some other maneuvering, because we were losing 24 GPT at 0% and would go bankrupt. I managed to bring it close to zero. We're still keeping a single scout, because I spotted these phantom cats in the west:
And here's the war front (sorry can't show promos, pic would get too messy with so many units in there):
It might be possible to defend this? I wouldn't bet on us, but I expected something like 20 grenadiers, 15 knights, 15 cannons all in one stack. Doesn't look as formidable as the version in my imagination. Though neither does our defense, so I wouldn't celebrate yet Biggest question is where are the knights heading? Are they just going to catch up with the main stack and he's trying to keep them hidden a while longer, or will they go for a sneak attack by the land bridge? I'm going to guess join up with the main stack. I'm glad AT seems to be throwing everything at Eden Prime again, that makes defending easier. There are once again a few ships on the way to harass me, but nothing to fear there. I had a spy that spotted two longbows boarding one of the ships, so it's just going to be a pillaging party and not a sneaky attack against the capital. The knights are probably moving next turn, but if they aren't, I have a spy on their tile that should be able to disconnect the road and slow them down a bit.
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How long till gpt with Bigger ends?
Ask Commodore for Chemistry, maybe he is generous today. 
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