[PB 64] Ginger plays as Charlemagne, famed man of letters

[civac2]

^^

I want pictures of burning cities.

[Ginger()]

Yes Civac, soon we will warm our hands with the fires of their cities. Ambition is to raze Commodore's capital, and put enough pressure on Naufragar so that Amica can finish the job. Lessons need to be taught.

Word of the day: szalámitaktika

We sign peace with Superdeath and can now safely ignore our eastern flank and bring everything up to hit Commodore soon.

Moment of truth for Monte Cristo, did Naufragar bring combat workers? (Always bring combat workers guys)
I've cut the road and moved up my cannons and my own workers on the isthmus, ready to re-road. Half the main knight stack is also in the capital ready to clean up.

[Magic Science]

What happens if naufragar brought combat workers?

[Ginger()]

He can road and hit my Cannons with his Knights. Whoever gets first strike wins.

[Ginger()]

I popped the Artist in my new city on the sugar (replacing Dune), but it went off like a wet firecracker and failed to flip the desired tile. Another reminder that the only use case for artists is to either remove anarchy turns or in truly empty land like fresh conquests.

Another disappointment

I offered Commodore peace in an attempt to slice yet a little bit more off of the Salami, and free up my stack to go help Amica in the south. I am also steadily making my way towards paper while I build frigates.

Commodore has no reason to take peace, but no reason not to either, he's pretty shit out of luck when it comes to options for advancing

I will always wonder why Superdeath decided to declare war on me twice and refuse all the demands that I tied for fish-fish.
He tried to cool tensions before I invaded by offering fish in our first peace treaty. I replied by asking for him to stop trading with Amica, the obvious leader everyone with a shot—at this point only Naufragar is relevant—should try to stop. But he refused. AFAIK he's still buying Wine from Amica while his own wine sits unimproved
Maybe Superdeath was in on it with Commodore and Naufragar? Still doesn't make a lot of sense why he would volunteer to take the first blow. Very brave of him

[Mjmd]

What tile were you trying to flip? There is a distinct lack of pictures so I have no clue if artist should have worked or not.

[Ginger()]

I'm pretty perplexed how CG3 muskets behind castles manage to lose to C2 knights, but Comm probably simmed it so *shrug*

Like i'd expect them to take at least two down before dying

[Ginger()]

On the bright side they're as fucked as I am. This game is very over
           

Nauf buying into Commodore's revenge romp assures the one thing opposite of his goal—Commodore will not be able to commit any troops to his west. Naufragar will also have to split his naval production between me and Amica. Now this doesn't necessarily mean that Amicalola will roll over Naufragar. I suspect the defender's advantage is just too much. But he doesn't need to, the graphs look bad now, and Naufragar is whipping. I mean if you're trashing your pop when the food and mfg graph looks like that... bye felicia

[Ginger()]

After the game I'd like to hear from Amicalola...
   
Why not Fort south of this city? If only to troll and force Naufragar to cover angles.

Afterall, this is how much he is investing in this worthless crap
   

(I realize that this is not just defense and also pins down Amica's forces but the point stands)

[Ginger()]

We have peace, and revolt to Serfdom and Bureaucracy to return to a semblance of an economy.
Additionally, we petition Amicalola for a gold injection to help us reach paper. We hope the message isn't lost on them.

Snip snip the salami shortens