[SPOILERS] Scooticator and Pindooter give a sporting try

[pindicator]

It's Ebenezer Ale for me tonight gents



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[pindicator]

Turn 132

We're playing again!!!
I spent a little time to get used to what the game was like. Speaking of which, didn't slowcheetah used to have some cities around here?



Ichabod is looking to keep pace with Mackoti.

Some neat timing over at Packers: borders pop right before the work boat arrived



Look at this island. This island makes me want to tech to Astronomy and just settle the ton out of these islands. Especially if WilliamLP is going to ignore them



Commodore pics:





Oh, I didn't end turn because I'm not sure what to do with these two workers:



My idea is to have them road the tile NE of their spot. Then next turn we have the 2 workers 2NE of them road the 2/5 farm tile and the other 2 workers farm it. THen we have a farm and a stack of 5 workers for future turns here. But I'm not in love with that plan, so I didn't move them and didn't end turn.

Demos:



My favorite one has to be reaching #4 in Cropy Yield.

And the best screenshot for last:



The world is slowly learning that the Trailblazers are legit

[pindicator]

Jumped in to end turn since i didn't hear from you scooter. I just had the workers farm the tile 2 north of them, that seemed simpler and probably better.

OH and mackoti declared on plako.

[antisocialmunky]

How does the city ranking work? I thought for sure that a size 16 city with 1 wonder would be placed above a size 9 with 2 wonders and a size 11 with 1 wonder.

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

OH and mackoti declared on plako.

Talk about burying the lead...

[Krill]

Lurkers generally demand blood, but in this case we demand information more.

[antisocialmunky]

Jumped in to end turn since i didn't hear from you scooter. I just had the workers farm the tile 2 north of them, that seemed simpler and probably better.

OH and mackoti declared on plako.

Hmm, a few Zerks on Galleys and you can play kingmaker with all those undefended cities you passed by earlier.

[Cyneheard]

OH and mackoti declared on plako.

Talk about burying the lead...

And now we know what the lurker thread was going on about.

[pindicator]

Honestly, I don't think there's much to tell about that war.  Mackoti has been on the warpath lately: he just absorbed mostly_harmless, and had a quick war on suttree that I don't think caused any cities to exchange hands.  He has an ocean between him and plako, and while there's a coastal route it's not direct.  My best bet is that he's trying to get contacts and doesn't want to give plako trade routes to do it, so he just sent a work boat or something else through and declared war.  I will be shocked if this is an actual hot war.

Speaking of our hot war, we have 3 horse archers and 1 zerker built as of this turn.  The capital can 2-turn zerkers and Orioles can 2-turn HAs, so we should have a few more by the time the GA ends.  But not nearly enough to run over anybody.  We need more production, and really we need more growth to get that production.  I would want a dozen knights at minimum before declaring.

[scooter]

Jumped in to end turn since i didn't hear from you scooter. I just had the workers farm the tile 2 north of them, that seemed simpler and probably better.

OH and mackoti declared on plako.

Hey sorry, few things came up and I got unexpectedly super busy, so I didn't get the chance to weigh in. But that sounds fine to me.

Also agreed that I doubt the mackoti thing is a hot war. Although, mackoti's metagaming is about as good as it gets, and he may recognize that Plako is his primary thread to victory. If he has a chance at an opportunistic strike to weaken Plako (his military is significantly better than Plako I imagine), I bet he would take it. Really doubt he gets tangled in some fruitless long war though, he's much too smart for that.