[SPOILERS] scooter's PB53

[sunrise089]

How many units did you leave alive in AT’s cap?

[superdeath]

How many units did you leave alive in AT’s cap?

You mean next to i assume? Since AT is still alive.

[NobleHelium]

sunrise was asking about AT's remaining units.

[superdeath]

Grammar was not my strongsuit..

[Brian Shanahan]

How many units did you leave alive in AT’s cap?

From reading Scooter's last post, six I believe.

[scooter]

How many units did you leave alive in AT’s cap?

So you mean I made that pretty stitch for nothing?


6 units. 3 of them full-health CG or CG2 Archers.

[scooter]

Turn 100: Part 1


Figured I should do the fun part now.





This is what I saw upon loading up the game. Cornflakes got another Merchant, and the doomsday clock advances. TBS picked up another wonder as he snatched several that seem focused on just GP generation. And yes, Commodore took a shot at the city and won a couple fights too. That said, we're all ready to do this.





Selected this Knight to hopefully pick up a 3rd promotion. He won.





And then I picked up an additional XP on my GG Knight.





Honestly, I needed that 113g as much as anything here. And with that, AT is gone! His capital is of course really great, so I'm going to need to pump culture into it as fast as possible to keep some of these good tiles.





Zero buildings because I can't have nice things. Get ready to be whipped, son.





And then I instantly settled my 17th city here on AT's former city rubble. I've got another settler headed to pick up city 18 as well. My break-even bpt is up quite a bit just from last turn too, though that's largely thanks to a pair of Banks completing last turn. I'm finally starting to build Buddhist missionaries to better take advantage of OR, so that's going on. Plus some military builds to prep for the possibility of Commodore round 2. Speaking of.





Uhh, can we be sort of friends now? Or at least, friends in the sense that some interests align even if we aren't really friends? Later I'm going to figure out something more to send to him with regards to Cornflakes. The sales pitch if it can somehow be conveyed will be that he needs me to serve as a counter-weight to Cornflakes. If he fights me, Cornflakes probably wins. He's set me back quite a bit, and I'll have to make investments to slow Cornflakes that he'll benefit from, so we'll see what he thinks. Really just depends on how he views my position relative to Cornflakes. On one hand, you've got dominant tech power miles ahead of me just ready to eat everyone in sight. On the other hand, you have land area leader with FIN that's a bit of a sleeping giant due to poor but steadily improving infrastructure with limited further expansion opportunities. What's he more scared of? Only he knows.



Ok fine, I know the answer too. It's probably me.

[scooter]

Also, hi AT! Sorry that I was an enormous dick to you in-game this entire game . I didn't necessarily intend for that, but once I saw that empty city, it felt like the rest was fate. I definitely thought about leaving it, but the upsides of setting a direct neighbor back in a game where you only get two of them was just too big to pass up.

[AutomatedTeller]

I have absolutely no problem with your actions in this game, from a meta point of view, at least I cursed you roundly and spent some time plotting to make you unhappy, but all that was in game.

I dunno that I would have declared, but having done so, I would have razed that city, too.

[scooter]

Turn 100 Part 2


After playing part of the turn earlier but not having the time to finish, Commodore actually logged in and played his turn. So I was greeted with this reply to my fish-for-fish earlier.





Alright, that's something. He seems to be concerned about Cornflakes, or at least he's saying that he is. The Stone for Stone puzzled me for about 30 seconds, but I'm pretty sure that's just this:








I think he just means fight along those avenues along the stone - away from each other. Fair enough and agreed. I'm not necessarily looking to outright invade Cornflakes, but I would at least like the freedom to keep him honest if/when he invades TBS. This would let me do so. I offered the same thing back to him to signal agreement. However, I sent a second offer back after.





By far the best way to build trust in an AI diplo game is to sign OB and watch each other. Slowly demilitarize your border as you literally watch the other person do the same. For example, my border with Cornflakes is really light, but I have 3 units in his land (and vice versa), so I can see literally every unit he has within 3 turns of my cities. So as long as I can muster a good defense in 3T (and I'm setup to do so with Galleys and 2-movers), I'm fine. If Commodore refuses OB, it's going to be hard to believe him. This isn't about trade routes, because our routes are trashed, so they won't be worth anything for me for awhile.


One positive sign was that he withdrew his Horse Archers without doing any pillaging around AT's former capital. I expected him to pillage the cottages down. I returned the favor by not pillaging around the city he captured, which I definitely could have done. We'll see if he accepts the Open Borders. If so, I think this game is in a super interesting situation. More on that in Part 3, which yes, it's coming.





That is a shiny new Watermill. There's some mixed news here. The good news: he does not yet have Replaceable Parts, or else this would have an extra hammer (the second hammer is due to his Golden Age). The bad news: I think this indicates he believes he will have that tech really soon, AKA 1 shy of Rifling. That's legitimately terrifying. He's like 25 turns of tech ahead of me. The cool part about this game is I honestly don't know who is winning. I could make a case for 3 players, and then the guy in 4th is the most talented of the bunch. More on this in Part 3.