[Spoiler] Kaiser has a plan

[roland of gilead]

only advantage to not buying armys corps direct would be getting them different promotions before joining and i don't see any value in that.

armys save us on oil is that right?

no one seems to have caught onto the idea of building faith instead of units. That's good but they will work it out eventually.

[Kaiser]

unit / corps / army - each need only 1 oil I believe, so we should be able to have 3 artillery armies

I have started to calculate this, you get 15% of the production per turn as faith + the GP points as faith at the end (~50). Even with 100% increase this is sadly not worth it actually as units cost 100% more than

[roland of gilead]

unit / corps / army - each need only 1 oil I believe, so we should be able to have 3 artillery armies

I have started to calculate this, you get 15% of the production per turn as faith + the GP points as faith at the end (~50). Even with 100% increase this is sadly not worth it actually as units cost 100% more than

Shame that was a good idea.

we will just need to fight through the minus a bit perhaps.

[Kaiser]

Ichabod accepted and we have now our first world war on our hands. I suspect Woden and Suboptimal will join in a MA, as they signed another DoF while Suboptimal is actively turning CMF's cities with Eleanore's loyality mechanic.



Bruins and Wild will fall to him thanks to minimum 6 Great works in reach, lets see if we can steal some, as we do not want him to put the same pressure on our cities.



Ichabod seems to have used a charge of his GE on Chichen Itza, curious choice, especially regarding that he already had to chop most of his rainforests when defending against Woden.
That would be great news, as I pumped EM to be at 73 and it gets 10% for Heartbeat of the Steam and 15% for Skyscrapers into Oxford.

We have switched to skyscrapers while Ichabod has had some dealing with Suboptimal this turn. This war might be phony as hell, because it could be he was indicating to Suboptimal that he will bow out after 10 turns again. Then he had to accept something this turn which came as an offer from Suboptimal last turn, as everything else would have been canceled when declaring war I believe.

[roland of gilead]

maybe we do similar with woden for now.

we can carve up CMF between us.

I suspect he is fighting us mostly to keep CMF until he flips and also to limit us a bit.

[Kaiser]

Woden and Suboptimal are now in an alliance, likely a or cultural one, as Suboptimal is already in a Military Alliance with CMF and you can only be in one type simultaneously.
Ichabod is also going for Oxford, it is questionable if we can outrace his GE which he should still have one charge of left.



Ichabod send us an offer, Spices and Marble for 1 Ivory. He already provides me spice and marble, so I checked the map if this is maybe a type of message. Misty Mountain (spice) and Erebor (Marble) each have these resources, while Venice is directly next to Ivory.
I am reading this as a split agreement, this is certainly favorable for Ichabod, especially as Misty Mountain has a strong Campus location. However he is also the one pulling heavy against Woden and I am happy with our defensive setup on this front as well as keeping the front between Ichabod and Woden as big as possible.



Here is my answer, indicating that I will support his efforts at Misty Mountain with a Bombard (actually an Artillery corps bought in CF next turn) in 5 turns.

Here is the save

[roland of gilead]

nice.

not sure if this is allowed but you should be able to set pins he can see?

Shame about Oxford. Does seem unlikely we can stop him.

[Kaiser]

I don't think that is allowed, so cryptic trade messages have to be the means of communication here

Maybe he does not pull through with it, I need to estimate his capabilities at Rio to see how it looks like. EM is putting about 100 / turn into it

[roland of gilead]

it's whether you can get 500 ahead

maybe he will get flooded.

[Kaiser]

That worked out once already, you are right :D