[spoilers]Oh Canada! Victoria has a Commodore, eh?

[Dp101]

Is it safe to assume that you will end all future updates with a picture of ottawa? Also, is the unit named after me still alive?

[Ceiliazul]

Is it safe to assume that you will end all future updates with a picture of ottawa?

...and wouldn't it be deserved?

You know, the fact that an empire this size has units nearly (?) all named for individual lurkers says something about your military power.

[Hashoosh]

What, that he's got a lot of lurkers? :P

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

You know, the fact that an empire this size has units nearly (?) all named for individual lurkers says something about your military power.

Zing!

[Commodore]

In comes Steam Power, and I have coal! One single solitary coal. Um. RNG, please get to work popping 2-3 more, thanks.


...although honestly it seems crass to complain, this is a wonderful city to buff up. Toronto is only a middling commerce center but the hammers keep rolling in; completion of the levee will make it rock 34 base hammers, enough to actually consider it as an ironworks spot. I don't have a ton of other options, anyway. We'll see, cannon will never go amiss first.


That's Canada, though, in a nutshell. Our hammer spots are weak, our food spots aren't, and our commerce is off the chain. Banks, exemplar of the Canadian East, is finally cracking the Threshold of Awesome and feeding distant western inner routes. It'll actually make a decent hammer pile in a few turns once those villages Emancipate to towns, but rushbuy is still our default option. I'm still improving things, but the economy really will start to fall behind The Three Giants if I don't get more land.


Also of potential interest in the world? Mackoti launched his third golden age, and is probably going to be rocking Org factories and infantry swarms by the end of it. Scooter is certainly not on bestest friends terms with the Ottomen, given this mutual suspicion. Wooden fleets like this are going to be obsolete and expensive as hell to upgrade soon anyway...mackoti might well opt to burn them in burning some Vikings before too long. Interesting times down south, certainly.

Also, is the unit named after me still alive?

Dip's 101st is cheerfully garrisoning away, like all Canadian military units.

[Commodore]

Whew boy. Dtay, that's one hell of a complex offer. Lotta stuff going on here:
Pros:
-If someone DoWs me, they trash their trade routes with Germany and open themselves up to opportunistic German strikes.
-I read Dtay as being fairly sincere, I think he means this as a legit alliance offer.
-That message goes out to everybody's event log.
Cons:
-I might get dragged in to a war I don't want with Ichabod or Finarry.
-I don't trust my read totally, certainly won't let down my guard to Mr. E. P. Dumping here.
-It's a possible shift in the balance of power and my power...isn't.


In the end, I took it. I don't think he knows about the backstab abilities of carracks but his deployments say he's not exactly comfy with my positioning. For myself, I'll toss a few ironclads into guard positions and keep a wary eye on Friend Germany; we're in a defensive pact but we gotta watch out, man.


Meh, geopolitics. It's a more dangerous world out there, man, I just want to hang out and trade. I rushed a harbor in Ammund Ringnes, should be worth it very quickly because I'll be building the feitoria there next. What I'm showing here mostly is the lovely new oil fort; once Combustion comes in I'll be ready to not use it and eat the health penalty! Mackenzie will get an oil rig there eventually, of course, but the workers will be railroading for a while I'm sure.


CANADA: 1500 AD

We're not the biggest, but we're the best. Steel is a quick 2t at a mere 70%...barrelling towards tanks, folks.

[pindicator]

Steel is a quick 2t at a mere 70%...barrelling towards tanks, folks.

Oil puns!

[Commodore]

I thought it was pretty slick...

[spacetyrantxenu]

I thought it was pretty slick...

Ow.

[Bobchillingworth]

I thought it was pretty slick...

Ow.

OPEC on someone your own size!


Sorry, I know that's an awfully crude pun.