Gavagai climbs the chaos ladder

[Dreylin]

It's a shame; I've been following your reports with interest, but totally understand the added workload of reporting.

[Gavagai]

And so the game ended. Even in surrender my opponents managed to be weird. The way I pictured it was that I would be able to land a heavy enough blow to force one of them to make peace - and that would trigger concessions. Or that it will happen after I complete the Manhattan Project next turn. I mean, I expected some clear psychological breaking point. What happened instead was that Krill randomly sent them a PM asking whether they want to concede and they responded that they kind of do - with no immediate connection whatsoever with any major in-game events. Could just as well happen a bit earlier, I would appreciate playing a few less of those day-long turns. But whatever.

[Krill]

I've had a shitty week and I haven't read this forum since before last weekend, but Pindicator on posted on the 7th (his timezone) which completed the triumvirate.

[Gavagai]

I've had a shitty week and I haven't read this forum since before last weekend, but Pindicator on posted on the 7th (his timezone) which completed the triumvirate.

Thank you for forcing the issue by the way. Normally I would be on Mjmd's side in your dispute about how much lurker intervention is allowed but with this crew we could kept on fighting forever without anyone actually wanting to.

[klops]

gratz and thanks again for spending additional time for reports!

I thought the coalition would wrestle you down when Commodore had battleships, or when Piccadilly would throw his stack at you but you managed to hold a long, exhausting war.

[Gavagai]

Thanks for reading. I also thought I was fucked when the war started because the Coalition had an overwhelming resource advantage.

[Thoth]

Nice work beating the dogpile.

[Qgqqqqq]

Very well played since the beginning. The conquest of Rome, in particular, was an excellent first step.

[Tarkeel]

A question: can anyone see my images? I mean, those who used to be able to see them. Because for me they all broke all of a sudden and I have no idea what happened.

None of them showed up for me, but since others said it worked I did some testing. They would show up in incognito mode, which usually means it's a cookie thing. Cleaing all cookies for onedrive made them show up again.

[Tarkeel]

First off, I think this was a well deserved win. You probably had one of the bottom-quartile starts in this game, but rolled good on the neighbour lottery instead. Still, this was a very impressive play.

Also, look at the tech thread. Plemo noticed that Tarkeel and Commodore are engaged in some shady turn-order BS - an accusation Commodore did not really address. What the fuck man, just what the fuck. As if their alliance did not have enough advantages already.

I think I wrote this elsewhere, but this was mainly a result of sticking too much to the "play your damn turn" rule and wasn't intentional. We probably should have noticed it though, but in the end it didn't really matter that much.

Pindicator made peace with Tarkeel. This is some 5D chess well beyond my understanding. Also annoying, I would prefer Tarkeel to die to Pindi so that Pindi would become a credible threat to Commodore.

The only explanation for Pindi sparing Tarkeel I can think of is that he believes Egyptian attack is imminent.

Pindi ran into our contingency plan: Bulb-finishing Chemistry to whip Riesengardes everywhere. We actually thought this invasion was your doing, as it really served your interests well.

I mean to hell with Tarkeel - the hammer value I see in the immediate proximity of my territorial waters is sufficient to crash Pindicator. The dude does not even have Rifling yet, his best regular unit is Knight.

Correction: We had the grenadier-replacement UU, which does stand up slightly better than knights, but we'd still be pretty toast.

Тhe "War weariness 272" is the WW you experience because of fighting with that civ.

Thanks! I suspected it but it looks strange. I have more war weariness with Commodore than with Mig but I mostly fought Commodore in my territory where I should not accumulate WW at all while my large battles with Mig were in his land.

One of the latter versions of CtH makes WW decay even while at war, and I think that's what happened here.