[Spoilers] Alhazard goes back to BTS

[Alhazard]

I expected DZ to have pillaged my copper this turn but he retreated?! pics later. offered peace treaty.

[Alhazard]

T72






Suspicious quechua and DZ is increasing power but figured he would go after RM whose power is lacking

T73






see stack of 5 chariots heading to what must be RM. Now lets talk about the Government Plaza in R&F, which I have the biggest beef with. The problem is that the government plaza counts as a specialty district, but you can only build 1 of them, so it screws up the district discount equation because you need to build more districts at full price to make up for the lone Goverment Plaza. thanks Firaxis. Looks like the peak is a lone island so no hopes of island cities. Do plan to sent a scouting WB there.

T74




Now I see that all those chariots are heading towards me and that he even whipped HA. His classical tech must have been HBR and got archery later? I am so mad at this point. What does he think he will accomplish? He might take 1 city, then realize that the maintenance killed his economy, basically taking both of us out of the game. Right now ORG is saving about 6-9 gpt so we are both in precarious economic situations but he is worse because he still has 0 cottages and can't rely on double gold forever. Since he has yet to play, dry whip spears except in Nan Madol which already has hammers into a spear because I except copper to get pillaged on T75. Honestly, I probably am out of the running already because of all these whips, but we will see.

T75






Chopping the tree W of DotF was a huge mistake because of lost production because of overflow. Would have waited next turn if I thought about it. Chopping that tree is important because otherwise the chariot from the capital cannot reinforce DotF next turn but this should have waited. The plan is to have 3 workers road the tundra tile N of discount card next turn to bring the axe and spear from that tile into Bambi. Chopped the deer forest to 1 turn the chariot from Bambi. Painful but my sim showed that I can get the mids only with 6 chops. Also have 2 workers S of Bambi to road the hill then road the cottage N of cow, which would allow the chariot from Nan Madol to reinforce Bambi in 2 turns and attack if needed. I was ok with only 2 axes and 2 spears in DotF against 6 chariots because if he uses 1 chariot to pillage the copper, then he would only attack with 5 chariots, which probably won't breakthrough the city.
If DZ did reinforce his stack with HA, the 1st HA would join the copper tile (to protect the pillaging chariot) on T76, and the 2nd HA on T78. If the stack is on the copper tile as I predict, then I would attack out on T77 with axes first (first from Bambi) to weaken the HA and the ax. Hopefully, they would be weak enough that I can start sending spearmen to weaken the spear, then hopefully get spears against chariots then clean up the remainder with chariots.

[Alhazard]

T76






DZ strangely retreated? Maybe he is gathering forces to attack another front but offered peace to see what happens. Havent put hammers into spears yet because could pillage the copper again on T77 but maybe I should have dry whipped a spear in capital? I dont think I finished archery because of inflation. Save up gold for 3 turns and hope thats enough for Maths.

[Zed-F]

Hopefully you’ve sufficiently rebuffed him.

[Alhazard]

DZ offered peace back. Accepted 10 turns of guaranteed peace. Will chop out mids on T80. Hopefully pre-chop a bunch of trees with roads before the peace treaty expires for needed spearmen. I built so many units so my economy is taking a hit.

[Alhazard]

T77




I moved the workers figuring that originally, mids will be done on T81 but afterwards I realized that I can chop it out on T80. Lost 2 worker turns.

T78






The Discord team likely gambled on the GP/GE and got the GP.

T79




Honestly, DZ is crazy. Instead of settling North city with an actual food resource, he is determined to deny me my city spot. Right now he can get away with it but non-stop HBR with the failgold. I will try to chop 4 trees before the peace treaty runs out for the GW for 240 failgold when it gets finally built.
EDIT: Note that DZ built so many units that he has to pay for their upkeep and this new city that will claim 0 improvable resources and 0 food will crash his economy. To save money, I even deleted the 2 warriors in my cities and am using chariots as MP. Does DZ even have writing?

[Alhazard]

I keep wanting to go HBR before currency but every game I read went currency before HBR. :/

[Alhazard]

Ok so lets say that I build 20 HA and take DZ's cities. Then I would be in a similar situation as he was, broke and no way to recover economically. I guess I can limp to currency with rep scientists except I would have whipped away the pop that should have been the scientists.

[Alhazard]

Got mids.
Unfortunately I have no choice. I will have to research HBR and declare as soon as the peace treaty expires because of DZ's super aggressive plant. Have 6 chariots and will build 5 more soon then try to raze each front city with 5 chariots each. Hope that is enough but I think DZ is chopping spears at his new cities. If that's the case, razing the southern city will have to take priority. Hope that I can put chops into the GW and someone is kind enough to build it for failgold.

[Alhazard]

T80






This where I realize that the Commodore got the prophet from the extra GPP by the GLH.

T81




Note DZ's offensive city. I don't think thats a good idea when his GNP is trash. Revolt in the representation because I really do need the happiness because of the extra whipping, and to hide my aggressive intent. Planned out my chariots to finish by T85 at the latest because they need to be on the staging tiles by T86 so they can attack on T87 when the treaty runs out.

T82








Quite mad at myself this turn because I didn't mean to whip the chariot at discount card. I was trying to hover over the slavery icon trying to figure out how many turns it has until it goes back to only 10 turns (aka 0 whip unhappiness) but I guess the game thinks I wanted to whip? I blame the trackpad on the Dell G3. Never had this problem on the macbook pro ugh. This is also a problem because I am trying to 5 turn HBR but it is going to be really tight. Capital is working the 2h tile because I need to work it to produce the chariot timely. Ugh also need another worker or 2 but hard to build these at the moment with the war prep. Anyways I am hiding the chariot build by not completing the chariot but instead switching production to a spear since I don't want to show my hand as much as possible although it won't be that big of a surprise on T86. Not sure how DZ's GNP increased last turn.