[spoilers]Commodore is Tokugawa of Zulu, or, playing for second place.

[Commodore]

After some annoyance with the check/recheck awkwardness that happens in a pitboss, we're now at peace. Ten turns until war again. So also Azza hopefully doing at least some damage to Krill.



Here's the site of our future campaign. No idea why Cyneheard never settled that plains hill there, but for now he's got five cities to build an army against my own twelve, although his are much stronger.



Barlow granted me knowledge of exactly how much stronger these are.

Gaspar, ideas? "Don't fight yet, out-tech to the win" is a good one, but alas Cyneheard is already partly through machinery, which means 'phracts are close. Nerfed, but still...I'd rather not face them in the field.

[Commodore]

Here's the world.

[Merovech]

Again, awesome.

[Commodore]

Again, awesome.

Thanks Merovech! This game has been a lot of fun, I got to say. There is something epic about this map/game setup. It's not at all even, but the challenges of the randomness and the interest of the map shape has presented all kinds fun. I would 100% love to do this again, actually. Maybe change a handful of things...give the Aussies some luxuries, maybe have an eleventh guy on the islands...but this is an epic storyline for a game.

[Gaspar]

Just caught up - exhausted, so the actual looking at the save will have to happen tomorrow. Couple things...

• The Magellan report was awesome.
  
• The Map, also awesome.
  
• I don't think out-tech for the win really can work. In the short term his small, tall empire will overwhelming likely outtech yours. Fortunately, your much larger number of build queues means you can outslug him. I think you basically have to go all-in and kill him off.
  

Yes, Gaspar advocating for war over teching. The world truly on end.

[pling]

Awesome map

[Gaspar]

So uh, I have no idea what this is about, but screw you rego:



Anyone paying better attention than me want to help me out? Even global's can give me information Commodore would have that I might not have due to not paying all that much attention.

[Gaspar]

Ok, so holy hell I have no idea what's going on here. Normal speed, RB Mod and some sort of weird geopolitcal situation that makes no sense to me. But you left me in charge, so you get what you get.

Anyway, after that pop up Rego offered me Iron for nothing. How have you not researched IW on T163? I took it, because while I generally believe rego to be a douche, there's really no downside to free iron. My read of the message rego sent us was that Yuri is going to attack Vorpal Blade. And y'know, that seemed pretty reasonable. So I shuffled some units to VB and put free build queues on War Eles. I dunno what you want to research next, Commo-boss but if you don't indicate otherwise I'ma go for Engineering. I also swapped EP to Yuri because I'd like his graphs more than anyone else we don't have yet. Sorry if I'm screwing up whatever the diplo plan is here.

Other than that I whipped the Ikhanda in Juju and streamed the spies over towards Cyne-land. 1-move really blows, that seems an unnecessary nerf to me. Anyway, that's the turn. I probably screwed a few things up being flustered by the trade screen spam.

Here's the situation over there:



I moved 2 HAs into VB and 3 War Ele's will join them next turn. I'm going to feel really bad if I lose a city on you or something while you're have a baby. REMEMBER THIS STRESS AND BE NICE TO ME IN PBEM38.

[oledavy]

I haven't read Rego's thread lately. To me it looks like he's suggesting Yuri is coming after VB with Knights?

[Gaspar]

Ok, definitely trying to warn us about Knights.



In 27t? That's a long term deal. *shrug*

Anyway, almost nothing to do this turn. Jiggered a little tile micro, continued streaming spies to Cynelandia. Machinery in, onto Engineering though I'm saving gold for a turn. Will take ~9t to tech it. Get graphs on Yuri in 3t.