Ugh. T248 was the last report. Here we go...
T249
Who even knows what was happening 12 days ago? Not me. Nevertheless:
How I know OH/Fin can get another GA: They've got all the GP they'll need.
With only 8 defenders, a nuke and a well positioned boat.... nope. Not in this lifetime. That sounds like too much work and too much mapmaking. Ahem.
Elsewhere, TBS is setting up his new Culture City #3. Not much I can do to this except some espionage shenanigans.
Spies for espionage shenanigans. If anything I maybe delay TBS one turn on his CV time by messing with his micro.
GNP is inflated because some other folks besides OH/Fin have Rocketry.
T250
Round number turn reporting extravaganza! The huge 34 player game made it to T250? OMG No way!!!
Great success! My agent has struck a terminal blow to the heart of the enemy!!
TBS hadn't played yet so I'm sure he effectively countered this. What's good for fixing angry faces in your culture city? Culture! But the mission was cheap so ehhh.
You can see exactly when I stopped building military and started running wealth in most cities. Aztecs aren't exactly killing it on new military builds either.
I'm not tracking what dtay is stealing. He's piling points up on TBS. He'll get some tanks and then?? Maybe revenge against Krill and/or OH/Fin?
Joey still puts EP into me. I've built A LOT of Observatory/Library/RIs. And somewhere along the line I got my 100 kills on LBs. Sadly, I may not get there on the cannons, but holy crap at the number of Rifles/MM killed! I'm proud of that.
I really should close borders with OH/Fin. Otherwise, day-um.
Writing this up several days later, I see a lot of builds not ideally suited to the short term, which is all we have left. The Three Gorges Dam is a boondoggle. That should have just been wealth all this time but screw it. I'm going to finish the build. Maybe it saves me building 3-4 coal plants in new conquests. I also wish I had started Apollo Program sooner.
I'll never learn.
Anyway, I don't think Molach cares. I'm not going to put in a garrison. I think leaving it empty gives it a better chance of surviving in the same way that you have a better chance of surviving an encounter with a bear if you don't run from it. Trade routes!
Spitballing ideas of how to snatch a space race from Aztec. Killing a factory is expensive but would be effective. So would being a dick and revoking the fair trade aluminum but I'm not going there.
Just in case anyone else posts a T250 F2 and in case anyone else wants to compare. The numbers are so big that I don't even care at this point. State Property is awesome, but is it more awesome than Free Market? I can't say because doing math is anathema to me.
I've been thinking of paying WLP and Molach for a defensive pact so OH/Fin's trade routes will nuke if/when they declare war on me. I doubt the usefulness of this though.
OH/Fin have revealed the entire map via Satellites. I'm a couple of dark tiles from doing it the hard way. And they're also spending from their massive war chest now because they love the internet. It's like KTB, only better, and for tech leaders! TBS has also stockpiled gold for the great last push on the CV. I think his attempt will succeed or fail within a couple turns of Aztec's spaceship launch. Even if it succeeds though, I'm giving TBS third place. I just hate CVs. You shouldn't get the win if your whole empire is a smoldering ruin when the condition triggers.
I'm sure I had a point when I highlighted this. I have too many spies in TBS land and not enough in position in Aztecland. This gives a good look at my increasing city visibility on OH/Fin as I continue to pile up the EP on them.
Oh. The point was to show my entire military, just not where I have things positioned. I should start building some cruise missiles for my subs.
Taoism has spread far and wide and a shrine would have been just amazing but it never quite worked out. I could build one now but I'm keeping fingers crossed for that final GA. ~90% odds to get it, but will it be in enough time to matter? Plako still has a GA/GE combo, either of which would allow me the 5th GP for a final GA. But I can't get him to bite on any diplo offers, nor to even make a counter. I haven't deciphered the plako code, and I'm not sure it is even possible.
Sure looks like a winning position here, except time is a precious short commodity. I still curse that I didn't finish Sistine when I could have.
Late but hopefully not too late, I'm dumping EP into OH/Fin. They're dumping back into me, at a slower rate. I probably won't be able to do more than ruin one or two buildings so I'll need to be strategic about what I sabotage to make this count.
More reports to come...
T249
Who even knows what was happening 12 days ago? Not me. Nevertheless:
How I know OH/Fin can get another GA: They've got all the GP they'll need.
With only 8 defenders, a nuke and a well positioned boat.... nope. Not in this lifetime. That sounds like too much work and too much mapmaking. Ahem.
Elsewhere, TBS is setting up his new Culture City #3. Not much I can do to this except some espionage shenanigans.
Spies for espionage shenanigans. If anything I maybe delay TBS one turn on his CV time by messing with his micro.
GNP is inflated because some other folks besides OH/Fin have Rocketry.
Round number turn reporting extravaganza! The huge 34 player game made it to T250? OMG No way!!!
Great success! My agent has struck a terminal blow to the heart of the enemy!!
TBS hadn't played yet so I'm sure he effectively countered this. What's good for fixing angry faces in your culture city? Culture! But the mission was cheap so ehhh.
You can see exactly when I stopped building military and started running wealth in most cities. Aztecs aren't exactly killing it on new military builds either.
I'm not tracking what dtay is stealing. He's piling points up on TBS. He'll get some tanks and then?? Maybe revenge against Krill and/or OH/Fin?
Joey still puts EP into me. I've built A LOT of Observatory/Library/RIs. And somewhere along the line I got my 100 kills on LBs. Sadly, I may not get there on the cannons, but holy crap at the number of Rifles/MM killed! I'm proud of that.
I really should close borders with OH/Fin. Otherwise, day-um.
Writing this up several days later, I see a lot of builds not ideally suited to the short term, which is all we have left. The Three Gorges Dam is a boondoggle. That should have just been wealth all this time but screw it. I'm going to finish the build. Maybe it saves me building 3-4 coal plants in new conquests. I also wish I had started Apollo Program sooner.
I'll never learn.
Anyway, I don't think Molach cares. I'm not going to put in a garrison. I think leaving it empty gives it a better chance of surviving in the same way that you have a better chance of surviving an encounter with a bear if you don't run from it. Trade routes!Spitballing ideas of how to snatch a space race from Aztec. Killing a factory is expensive but would be effective. So would being a dick and revoking the fair trade aluminum but I'm not going there.
Just in case anyone else posts a T250 F2 and in case anyone else wants to compare. The numbers are so big that I don't even care at this point. State Property is awesome, but is it more awesome than Free Market? I can't say because doing math is anathema to me.
I've been thinking of paying WLP and Molach for a defensive pact so OH/Fin's trade routes will nuke if/when they declare war on me. I doubt the usefulness of this though.
OH/Fin have revealed the entire map via Satellites. I'm a couple of dark tiles from doing it the hard way. And they're also spending from their massive war chest now because they love the internet. It's like KTB, only better, and for tech leaders! TBS has also stockpiled gold for the great last push on the CV. I think his attempt will succeed or fail within a couple turns of Aztec's spaceship launch. Even if it succeeds though, I'm giving TBS third place. I just hate CVs. You shouldn't get the win if your whole empire is a smoldering ruin when the condition triggers.
I'm sure I had a point when I highlighted this. I have too many spies in TBS land and not enough in position in Aztecland. This gives a good look at my increasing city visibility on OH/Fin as I continue to pile up the EP on them.
Oh. The point was to show my entire military, just not where I have things positioned. I should start building some cruise missiles for my subs.
Taoism has spread far and wide and a shrine would have been just amazing but it never quite worked out. I could build one now but I'm keeping fingers crossed for that final GA. ~90% odds to get it, but will it be in enough time to matter? Plako still has a GA/GE combo, either of which would allow me the 5th GP for a final GA. But I can't get him to bite on any diplo offers, nor to even make a counter. I haven't deciphered the plako code, and I'm not sure it is even possible.
Sure looks like a winning position here, except time is a precious short commodity. I still curse that I didn't finish Sistine when I could have.
Late but hopefully not too late, I'm dumping EP into OH/Fin. They're dumping back into me, at a slower rate. I probably won't be able to do more than ruin one or two buildings so I'll need to be strategic about what I sabotage to make this count.
Maybe he's concerned about AT's response? If so, he shouldn't be. He should have eaten AT alive a long time ago, especially after AT poached a couple of HAK's island cities. 
Unfortunately, the poison water mission is more expensive than the unhappiness mission, which is irrelevant anyway with the culture slider maxed, so I can't do this much more without losing visibility over here. I have to invest EP in OH/Fin to sabotage production in hammer cities to have a chance at winning via space.
