[Spoiler] Pindicator Buys the Farm - Zara Yaqob of Maya

[AutomatedTeller]

Thanks for the game, pindicator How are things going in your lands? We had very little interaction this game - mainly cause the other guys liked burning my cities

[pindicator]

Hey, I burned one too!

Um, I'm doing ok. Lately I'm trying to just build up economy while they've been fighting it out. I put cottages everywhere so that seems the best plan - buy time while the cottages grow. Except I keep getting cold feet and building military, but that's probably going to be what I need to do.

Wonder what happens now. Normally I'd say there would be some kind of stand-off where nobody wants to invade the other without some assurance the third party will intervene. But here we have Commodore, and that guy likes to push the action. So I need to be on the right side of what is a surely upcoming 2v1.

Tech is on Printing Press right now (due in 3). After that we'll go RP -> Rifling -> Nationalism

[pindicator]

Just so you guys know, I'm literally throwing everything at a border city of Scooter's, just trying to raze one thing before the game ends.



I didn't do anything. Not enough to crack what he has. But I did have 9 more catapults and 4 more rifles to add, and I'll have 4 more cavalry moved into position for next turn.

Hey, I just got a save...

[pindicator]

And that's game for me

[pindicator]

Meaning, I just threw everything at him and couldn't get through. I suppose I could have waited for cannons, but then I would have been going against Infantry. Oh well, gg scooter

[pindicator]

Well, from the banter thread I can tell that scooter doesn't realize how hard I whipped and drafted, and doesn't realize I brought EVERYTHING that i could (minus those 9 catapults...)

[pindicator]

Well, scooter has opted to give us the slow painful death instead. So i am teching to machine guns: if he wants to grind out a win, i will be happy to oblige by making it tough.

Another thought: head straight for flight. But steel first

[pindicator]

So I know I said I was happy to tech along to Railroad and make the game difficult on scooter, but then he went and changed course from Assembly Line to Railroad himself.

And I realized I had a brief window if I wanted to try to attack again:



So instead of burning through 900g on teching Railroad, I used it to upgrade 7 catapults into cannons and we're once again at the gates of scooter. By the banter thread, it looks like I may have been fortuitous in my timing - I did it like so because 2 turns ago Scooter read as teching to Railroad in 3 turns, but he's turned tech off -- I assume because of warring with Commodore?

I apologize to admit this, but part of the reason I am not updating is because it's an established pattern. And so by updating I give scooter a reason to be attentive to my part of the world.

Now that I have 35+ troops pointed against his city there's no reason not to post

[pindicator]

Wiped off the board


again