A fair few. Thomas/Percy/Gordon/Henry have lib/obs/uni. James has lib/obs building uni. Douglas/emily/Edward/duck have library. I also have customs houses in Thomas/Gordon and Percy EoT - each giving me an extra 6 commerce per turn currently.
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REM goes on the Sudric Express [Pitboss 33 spoilers]
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Main news is that I will likely declare on BGN next turn, going first as per the turn order we have been in. I jumped in to have a look (I assume this is ok?) and he has moved aggressively towards my planned on top of rice city, and offered rice for wine.
I now realise that he was getting at take that spot for a batch of wines and I'm happy, but didn't realise that until too late. I countered him an offer of wine for 5gpt. I would love to get a SS but jumping back in now again is probably bad form... He has his one unescorted galleon supposedly out of visual range, but I can see due to the recon missions, and has at least an inf on there it seems that was in the city it was in, and probably a couple of rifles. His gren pair have moved to the site, and he has an inf/rifle just outside my borders on that island. So the war would sink the galleon with my frigate in range, which would allow me to take the jungle hill with my rifle. I would be able to bombard his units with the airships to make aggression a poor payoff choice, and perhaps take the island which he wouldn't be able to reenforce. I can perhaps scour the seas in the south too. Wish I had picked up on the coded message sooner... Ah well.
I had a lot to think about on playing the turn today. Unsure about the BGN war, mainly because I am about 90% certain that Drey4E are gonna try and hit DZ. with my city visibility coming through I have noticed a stack of 4 galleons and supporting military just outside his island city next to DZ. Add that to the hugely aggressive whipping/drafting and it seems likely that he is gearing up for an attack and they are filled with his veteran soldiers.
This makes things interesting for me. I don't want to get bogged down in a war of dominance over a small island when I could take advantage of the other scrap. It seems likely that if this is an attack they will bypass the land border and go for his cap right off. Will they raze? Debatable. However this could be of benefit to myself. There are few units in the old Dutch territory, enough that I feel I could grab cities using airships alone. But is this better than factorying/shaling up? Debatable... One thing I have been wondering, has WW been scaled back? Everything seems 80% of normal, or 20% less, from growth to unit costs to worker builds to GP costs. The only thing that hasn't been scaled back that I would have thought of would be bulb values - it is still the standard 1500+3per pop for a GS. If WW triggers 80% earlier a plan to cripple Drey4E would be to set him into a permawar with DZ and prevent him from completing the job after heavy non cultural losses...
May 27th, 2016, 03:37
(This post was last modified: May 27th, 2016, 03:37 by ReallyEvilMuffin.)
Well here's the rub. I went in to finish and I HAD decided to be benevolent and not attack BGN I was going to place my 2 rilfes in the city on the jungle hill with the cavalry and explorer, and then ferry 3 rifles from Percy into the new city I founded last turn, and move up the cavalry to cover Percy. That was the plan, however I didn't have any chance to play last night, until I got back in at half midnight and I saw that BGN had already played so I thought it could wait until the morning as I was shattered.
For Brick... I'm not sure what would be best here. I realise that I created an issue by trying to play my turn before going out in the morning, seeing a lot of movements towards me and needing more time to think about a turn than I thought I would. I assumed a de facto turn split from that point. I had a busy day and was unable to get back in with virtually no time to play, save fast playing 30 as that had been waiting on me for a while.
I didn't screenshot it, but the issue is he now has an easy run at the city from the Jungle hill, which I was going to have a fair few units on. However I see that there have been a lot of turns played including a new war, so I don't really want to ask for a reload.
Just replied to your PM - don't think a reload would be OK here, as you're not in an official (wardec-binding) turnsplit. That said, since there's nothing binding you, it'd also be perfectly fine if you "double-moved" defensively.
That said, Brick's the official game admin for this match, not me. (and at any rate, I washed my hands of all my game-adminning back in January.  )
(May 27th, 2016, 07:14)GermanJoey Wrote: Just replied to your PM - don't think a reload would be OK here, as you're not in an official (wardec-binding) turnsplit. That said, since there's nothing binding you, it'd also be perfectly fine if you "double-moved" defensively. He did play after me in the preceding turn, and I hadn't moved any units in the area. Does that change your opinion? (May 27th, 2016, 07:14)GermanJoey Wrote: Just replied to your PM - don't think a reload would be OK here, as you're not in an official (wardec-binding) turnsplit. That said, since there's nothing binding you, it'd also be perfectly fine if you "double-moved" defensively. No he did declare this turn when I logged in. So it goes I play -> he play -> turn roll -> I play some not finish -> he declare. I didn't move any units in the theatre when I part played the turn.
May 27th, 2016, 07:20
(This post was last modified: May 27th, 2016, 07:22 by ReallyEvilMuffin.)
(May 27th, 2016, 07:19)ReallyEvilMuffin Wrote:(May 27th, 2016, 07:14)GermanJoey Wrote: Just replied to your PM - don't think a reload would be OK here, as you're not in an official (wardec-binding) turnsplit. That said, since there's nothing binding you, it'd also be perfectly fine if you "double-moved" defensively. (Apart from founding the city, although this gave me natural visibility on his galleon)
Oh, I just saw your followup PM!
If it's like this: Quote:I play -> he play -> turn roll -> I play some not finish -> he declare. then that's a double-move from him, technically. he probably didn't see that you hadn't finished. that said... you only asked for 5 minutes and it's been 15, and so I'm gonna stand by my decision to leave this mess for Brick to deal with and go to bed. 
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