[Spoilers] naufragar's fist full of pesos (Montezuma)

[naufragar]

Maceman with shock as you are agg?

You're right. The shock mace beats the axe pretty easily.

[naufragar]

I opened the turn up to a peace offer from nane. Sure enough he moved off the hill:


I sent back a peace offer. (Once at the beginning of my turn. Perhaps again in the middle. Then again at the end. I was overexcited, and I worry I annoyed the guy.  )

But now I can fight a whole new opponent.



I've got the power for it:



Want to guess who number 1 power is?






I'm in a rough spot. I need to find out if I can body SV. I'm running out of stuff to do besides roleplay Montezuma apparently.  

[naufragar]

We have peace with nane. If he were terribly tricky, he could move a settler to the contested hill and demand a coinflip from the referee. I doubt he'll do this.

Now that we have peace, I can move to the next crisis I've caused myself:






The Aztecs would be dominated by the military-industrial complex, if they had any industry.

Suite (Spi/Pro), who I've come to think is very good, has more cities than Ziankali (Exp/Imp). Ziankali has transitioned from peaceful expansion and will hit someone soon:


I haven't been doing any C&D, so I don't know what techs he has. If he wants to dance with me, I'm game. But it'd be nice if he waited until my army is back from the East.

[naufragar]

I miscalculated the timer and thought I wouldn't have time to wait until morning local time to play. So I played in the previous evening which means I had to take first slot and let SV whip defenders.   Couldn't have played any earlier?  


He's whipped twice, so I expect the hill city in the north to be decently defended. I loaded up the old PB73 map and this entire eastern area seems considerably changed. I don't know how easy it will be for SV to reinforce. He seems like a diplomat. He's giving away resources to nane and Holland, and he offered me a luxury trade that I don't think would have benefited him. Breaks my heart to attack him, but there are no brakes on the Aztec bloodlust machine, unfortunately.

Ziankali swapped to Hereditary Rule on the turn I finished Writing. Civ vets can work out for themselves how far behind I am.  

[Miguelito]

Why again are you going for war against Greece, besides needing sacrifices so the sun keeps rising?

I was with you on Carthage, but should you not rather settle and secure that land now?

[naufragar]

The only other food resource that I can see in the East is that deer. Settling other cities would mean just slowly growing on river cottages, which I plan to do, but that deer tile is far and away the best option, and SV is Cre, so he's got to be removed. (There is a clam in the Southeast, but Suite will grab that with his culture shortly.)

An additional reason is that I've got an absolutely gigantic military (#3 in the world) and pushing people back from this section of the map is one way it can make itself useful. Btw, I don't yet have graphs on SV, so he could be the #2, but that would be surprising.

Last turn when SV offered me the luxury trade, I really did think for a very long time about not attacking him. Unfortunately for us both, my land is too bad for me to sit back peacefully. Now that I've caught a glimpse of his northern city, the plan is to burn the little one and settle on the deer and sue for peace. I've whipped a settler this turn, and if memory serves it can found for the deer in 4 turns.

(Note my rock solid 0gpt at zero science. Make of this observation what you will.)

[Papa Bear]

Well, let me congratulate you on truly remarkable Montezuma-RPG.

Bearing that in mind it seems kind of strange to sue for peace once you have razed one city just to able to found a new one there yourself. Seems like a rather small gain in return for creating that army of yours, if you ask me...

We readers sure won't complain, as the entertainment factor is really high. Keep it up! I am truly curious about what will come to your mind next in this game, as it seems awfully hard to predict 

[naufragar]

I am truly curious about what will come to your mind next in this game, as it seems awfully hard to predict 

I am always just as surprised as you!

[Rusten]

AI Monty has got nothing on you. At least he goes into a war prep phase before attacking again. And your economy is worse.  

[naufragar]

At least he goes into a war prep phase before attacking again. And your economy is worse.  

The second sentence explains the first. Also, welcome back!

I will point out that Miguelito thinks I should expand peacefully and Papa Bear thinks I should conquer more than one city. I am in the middle of these two viewpoints. Therefore, I am a moderate.