[Spoiler] Kaiser has a plan

[roland of gilead]

He will pillage Geneva campus I suppose

[roland of gilead]

Wooden could have wiped out ichabod and won this game already if he had built units with the thousands of hammers he has put into those IZ

[Kaiser]

Probably, but the way Ichabod let his cities overrun was also quite curious. He was a clear game leader at the time and already suffered a small attack from my side. Apparently it was to small to get him out of his farmer's Gambit and so he was surprised by Woden (Woden's Navy mostly, as ge conquered only two cities by land)

KG and GM are both already beyond 60 production and Isaac and EM can steal some tiles to get near to 60 as well.
Ruhr is also a 1240 investment, but its impact is bigger and it is independent from running the 100% IZ adjacency card.

Woden's issue is that he was trusting to much on Free inquiry and did not get his Science infrastructure up in time. Granted he was investing in military to stop Ichabod from running away with the game. Thanks Woden!
I do not get why he was mass building renaissance walls though, basically all his cities built them when I last could see his building queues.
Maybe he was kind of checked out at that time?

Currently I would say we are the slight favourite to win this, likely:
- Kaiser 35%
- Woden 30%
- Suboptimal 25%
- Ichabod 10%

A lot depends on if we can defend our territory against Suboptimal, he is out of the game if he does not gain at least significant plunder and science from this attack. So I probably will churn out some more units.

Btw, it looks like Ichabod beats Suboptimal to Darwin, but it is close. Ichabod has the better income so he should be able to snipe him if he wants. For Ichabod Darwin is 1000 science worth, so about 25 turns of science delta to us.

[roland of gilead]

Hope for wooden lol.

Ruhr also brings significant science but perhaps the principle does still apply.

[Kaiser]

I am not sure i follow, how does it bring science?

Do you mean by makingGM become the most productive city in this game (very likely) we can build space ship parts and science projects?

[roland of gilead]

Important eureka

[roland of gilead]

I doubt we get as far as space. Hope not lol

[Kaiser]

Twilight Valor only works on Melee units, we slot it nevertheless as it seems his best units are Musketmen. 
We lost another Curassier this turn and I moved all units back out of firing range. 



Though the attack on Geneva looks a bit half assed, doesn't it?

I am moving units to support EM and AK as I have a feeling that he is moving there with his crossbows. 
Without the Ironclad better 2 or 3 or even a Fleet we cannot defend the coast. We have to leave him the coast to plunder (and lost 3 FC and a Curassier to learn this) and Geneva to take.

- rice farm at Isaac (health)
- PHJBanana at EM (faith) 
- Campus + Library at GM (Science)
- PHJCoffee at EM (faith)
- Campus + Library + University at EM
- crab at EM (health)
- crab at AK (health)
- Whale at AK (health) -1 Amenity for us
- 2 Lumbermills at AK (Gold)

Hopefully we can kill 1 sea dog each tiem he plunders, worst case the hills do not let EM shoot on the tiles he need to be on for plundering. I am actually not sure of the exact amount and yields of pillaging, again something which is not documented in the wiki

[roland of gilead]

He may be bypassing Geneva.

Twilight valor seems to Buff your units.

Will have a look at the save later.

[roland of gilead]

It's all about units short term.

We want to be hitting his units with musket horse etc then mopping up with range so we can stay away from coast.