Goreripper. Here is where I had fun just before the end.

[scooter]

Both knights were lost at about ninety percent odds which is sad but with anti depressants and alcohol I am getting through it.

Good stuff, I've been reading this thread frequently for awhile now.

[Commodore]

Commodore can you cover for me Thursday and Friday I am going to have to be out of town?

Sure, just give me an idea of what you need me to do, looks like it's simply throwing rocks at walls then.

[Commodore]

Maybe we can take a hint from those Sullla AI games and who ever wins their duel gets to go in to a new pitboss. Make it seven players so Gaspar and Noble can be the wild card because if they really are next to Gavagai and Yuri on a bigger continent then that sucks for all three of those teams. But PB16 is won by Seven Spirits.

It is not all sad I am liking the turns right now and I hope you all like to read this and other reports. Yuri will get to play with drafted musketeers soon he should enjoy that a lot.

Wow, you really are enjoying things more if you would seriously countenance playing with this set, reduced, again. Maybe propose it? I doubt many would mind.

[spacetyrantxenu]

Maybe we can take a hint from those Sullla AI games and who ever wins their duel gets to go in to a new pitboss. Make it seven players so Gaspar and Noble can be the wild card because if they really are next to Gavagai and Yuri on a bigger continent then that sucks for all three of those teams. But PB16 is won by Seven Spirits.

It is not all sad I am liking the turns right now and I hope you all like to read this and other reports. Yuri will get to play with drafted musketeers soon he should enjoy that a lot.

Wow, you really are enjoying things more if you would seriously countenance playing with this set, reduced, again. Maybe propose it? I doubt many would mind.

"Do not be butthurt by the following proposal."

[Goreripper]

This is not very complicated. Poland gets bombarded next turn while you move more catapults and stuff to it then next turn go in. I think you can handle a siege you know the drill man.

As the captured cities come out of revolt start them on stuff I need like granaries and lighthouses and courthouses. 2metraninja is settling his edges like a mad man. Punish him and whip odeons to pop third ring borders fast.

Other stuff.
Gavagai traded maps so we can see this is a very strange set up.
With all the units I have do not revolt now to Bureaucracy it can wait for the golden age.
Tell a story if you want or just dump pictures.
Watch Yuri for him doing some thing stupid with musketeers.
Get the bananas hooked fast to grow Thales with health.
Have fun. I am which yeah is new.

[Commodore]

Okay, I was actually inspired by the plight of the Ottomans, so I will write that story post. But just fyi...
-Map is really really weird.
-Gavagai has a crapton of land.
-Yuri sure don't look like he's mass-drafting.
-None of it matters, because Seven rushed Taj with MoM and will now be in a golden age until Plastics. This ain't RBmod, runaways runaway.

[Commodore]

Princess Dalfir, consort of Crown Prince Hashash, son of King Hashoosh XXXVI of Ottoma, ruler of Poland.

Today dawned bright and beautiful, particularly striking as messengers from the river forts to my husband rode in through the north gate. Their high banners snapped in the wind and they saluted the Prince with noble grace. The company at the gate gave a hailing shout, and it was all very grand.

My darling husband speaks wearily of fall and retreat, but there is a grandness to Ottoma yet! It has been sixty-two long years since France and her province were overrun, but our kingdom is still here! Hundreds of miles around the Last Cities there are villages and hamlets and farms and mines and pastures full of men that all bow to my lord husband and his father.

Ottoma may live in the shadow of the time when she reached across a thousand miles, but her last cities thrive. Or iron is mostly reclaimed and the gold is long gone but peasants still pour into the gates and gawk at the splendor of Poland and even greater, northeast in the hills, Great Hungary.

Dark and evil Greek knights gallop through the fords and have taken much of the riverlands to the south and east, but I cannot imagine them challenging the walls of our city. The thousands of longbowmen here would soon make ghosts of them!

Husband dearest worries about the siege engines that follow the knights into the lower hamlets, but the rumors of such awkward and unwieldy machines ever effectively harming the walls of Mameluke must be lies. After all, were not our own engines of war dispatched with ridiculous ease centuries ago in the Dividing of the Kingdom?

My grandmother always spoke of when our family was driven from France with such sorrow, but it has been springtime for us all of my days. Ottomans still have larks and idylls amongst the green hills of our fair land, and I have every reason to think my sons shall live likewise.

The little one within me grows so very strong! He, and I know it must be a boy, kicks regularly and swiftly. My lord husband is excited to see his son, and I can tell my day draws near. How I look forward to see him grow into as great a man as his father!

*Journal entry was found seven years later in the Sack of Poland. Crown Prince Hashash along with his wife and three young sons Hashish, Hasheesh, and babe-in-arms Hashush were all slain in the palace, extinguishing the long line of Ottoman kings.

[Goreripper]

Well that was dark but you will be the one who sacks Poland so you are the murderer. Thank you for playing this turn and the next one but Gavagai sent a private message it looks like he is ready to surrender.

[spacetyrantxenu]

Surely the game must go on until you deal the terminal blow to the flailing Ottoman body. It is not kind to leave a man to die this way, fatally wounded but slowly dying alone. Give him the gift of mercy, finish what you started!

Dagger, heart, twist, or be accursed for your terrible cruelty!

[Ichabod]

I release you, my friend. Go! You are free!