[PB61 spoilers] vanrober lonely in a green field

[superdeath]

Thats umm, and interesting way of doing the EP.

[vanrober]

Really? i thought it was the standard way to do it when everyone is putting their EPs into you and you dont want to lose the City investigation/City vision on any of them.

[Charriu]

Totally legit way of EP spending. I do that to to fine tune how much I put into someone. For example if I make 200 EP per turn but I only want to spend 2 into player A so as not to scare him because I only want the graphs.

[vanrober]

The fun came back this turn. I moved into Josh and Bellarch since their stacks are getting bigger and in 2 turns they are getting key tech. That means we can get those cities proabbly before they can defend it.

First Josh land:

       

Then Bellarch land

                   

Demos still look similar, they dont even have 10^6 power points when i have 2*10^6. Bing is waiting for engeneering before enagging so this 3 turns the fight had to come.

   

Graphs, this is moment to kill the last stack of them while i can still keep fighting, my cannons arrive already and then im free to push, even if bellarch got rifles or josh has muskets. My only fear is josh trying something weird like pushing with all his knights into my land and try to raze some of the old cities of Jesse, if that happens i might lose a couple of cities, but he will lose all of his.

   

[vanrober]

I think belalrch have just trolled so hard Bing, poor guy,

The thing is Bing showed again his stack so that i would retreat from atacking bellarch, so he was trying to help belalrch, and then bellarch retreated his junk stack so that i could raze his city and then kill Bings stack completely, crazy.

Also took the city of josh, so there is no threat at all. I swaped again into REP/Vass/OR. Now i am at 0% destroying allt he stats, gonna get optics in case Bellarch try now to bring some carabels, and also getting the free commerce of circunnav then ill go for economics. I feel i wont need any military trait from now on. I basically won.

                   

Also upgraded 2 cats into cannons in case they see them and then make them resign.

[Miguelito]

sounds fun!

Can you show us an F8?

[vanrober]

Is that corporations?

[Miguelito]

Victory conditions

[vanrober]

next turn you will have all advisors :P

[vanrober]

Turn 181

So i didnt have to pay anything for the raze of Josh and the stack of bing. The plan now is move the 40 cav i have healing in concordia towards Bing, im pretty sure ill take his empire really fast, the only fear is Bellarch, he moved back, which was really smart, but the problem was that i could take Bings stack. If i get Bing's land, we will have a huge problem between bellarch and me, since we will have a huge border to defend, but ill have his vision and he wont have mine, so i think ill be able to raze several of Jack's land afterwards. 

   

Right now he has a really big stack, ready to ocme to me, so i have to defend somehow that front. SInce The AP city is safe right now i moved several rifles towards Honeysuckle II, just in case, but since he has not anymore his city he will have a hard time to sneak from the fog. Indeed the problem i saw right after burning those 2 cities is that there is a huge fog there where i dont know what is going on. And thats really scary, although im pretty sure almost all is in that tile.

   

So lets see a bit of the advisors. Here you see iam making some infra, Concordia has 15 of maintenance, i didnt make a building there, so now im gonna put monk buildings, then courthouse then forge, and probably then Forbiden palace. But also the Jesses land is costing a lot, so again my plan is getting courthouses there soon. I was 60% BE before all those conquers with less population, and now i falled into 45%, so i need my courthouses done.

   

The economics are here so you see better,

   

This is amazing for me, how the hell is Bellarch making 600 GPT? i didnt even when i was in GA. I guess a lot of whealth buildings. So the fear right now is they get The free merch to launch a 3rd 12 turns GA, if he does he will be more turns in GA than i was with Taj included. So i think i need to deny that if thats his plan. I also need Rose doesnt make a GA, a GE would be great, otherwise ill need more than 20 turns for my 4rth GA, if i can ever land it.

   

This is how tech looks right now

   

Finally this is the request of Mig, im not sure if you wanted to see how far i was to domination victory, I hope i dont need to make it till then, or PB62 will suffer a bit xD. Because im a bit far, i have been razing more than keeping cities so i dont have as much land as needed, if i get all Bings ill be closer, but i would still need some more Josh or Bellarch to get the 65%.