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[SPOILERS] PB9 Lurker Thread

#261
May 15th, 2013, 13:30
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(May 15th, 2013, 13:25)Krill Wrote: No impressive fuck ups?

Rome/Azza planted his cities too far apart and got killed by Cornflakes/Q for it via impis and galleys.
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May 15th, 2013, 13:40
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Meh, I saw that, the city plants weren't really his fault: I'd have planted the cities where he did.
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May 15th, 2013, 13:44
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Q's messing with Cornflakes queues, possibly in order to cheat the culture bug, then backfiring and causing chops to go into a courthouse instead of Taj was rather impressive, even if not on the same scale.
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May 15th, 2013, 13:55
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(May 15th, 2013, 13:44)Merovech Wrote: Q's messing with Cornflakes queues, possibly in order to cheat the culture bug, then backfiring and causing chops to go into a courthouse instead of Taj was rather impressive, even if not on the same scale.

Actually, yeah, that was pretty impressively hilarious. I'm not sure if anyone on a team with Q should ever give him the keys on a PB.
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May 15th, 2013, 14:26
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Oh yeah, that is what happened? Yeah, that's pretty funny.
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May 15th, 2013, 19:17
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But the recovery was more impressive. Gifting a city to 2metra and then chopping forests outside the border to finish Taj was pretty genius.
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#267
May 15th, 2013, 20:42
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(May 15th, 2013, 19:17)Lewwyn Wrote: But the recovery was more impressive. Gifting a city to 2metra and then chopping forests outside the border to finish Taj was pretty genius.

nod Awesome move.
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May 16th, 2013, 07:24
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(May 15th, 2013, 13:25)Krill Wrote: No impressive fuck ups?

Jowy's invasion against AT has to qualify, walking around the front city, getting his stack annihilated in the field, and then being himself invaded and losing cities. But yeah, nothing as spectacular as Taj Mahal Q / queue problem. I'm not going to laugh at him about that one, though, that's something dumb I would do. Not with using the culture bug, I know not to do that, but I'd find a way to screw up loaded chop overflow, it's happened before!

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#269
May 16th, 2013, 15:42
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Well, I think ATs invasion of Jowy does qualify as well. He did drive him out of his lands sure, but I can't believe that he really expected to be able to take Jowy out just with a few maces, LBs and 8 catapults. That was very optimistic, even if Jowy had just half the LBs in Eden Prime than he actually has (and Jowy really should have gotten a few catapults by now imo).

On a different note: Please remind me not to play with 2metraninja ever. Looking at the score he should still be in the running, especially with TT. Yet he decides to throw himself in a war with either Commodore or Cornflakes, just to play kingmaker. Don't fucking play in 6-7 games if you are not willing to put in the time necessary. And especially don't throw the game that several other people are playing in earnest just because you can.
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May 16th, 2013, 20:43 (This post was last modified: May 16th, 2013, 20:46 by NobleHelium.)
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(May 15th, 2013, 13:40)Krill Wrote: Meh, I saw that, the city plants weren't really his fault: I'd have planted the cities where he did.

And would you have planted them with no defense?

I really don't see much value in most of AT's posts. They tend to say things like "my invasion could destroy Jowy or fail miserably of course." Well thanks, if I flip a coin it could come up heads or tails too.
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