Pitboss 18 Lurker Thread of Infinite Wisdom

[Lord Parkin]

Turn 72

Our capital generates... a 34th Great Spy! Settled him as a specialist, since we already have Scotland Yard... brings us up to a nice round 500 EP/turn.

Ruff seems to be caught a bit out of position again with the barbs.

Some potential conflict possible between Xenu and Plako in the near future? I'm assuming Plako will settle on the Marble this turn.

Caledorn gets unlucky with a barbarian Spearman to his east. Pretty sure he moved his Vultures out of position too, so he may have to rebuild the Ivory camp.

Azza's got a barb approaching but is well prepared.

Seems MYKI's Galley wasn't loaded after all. Probably for the best, that would have been a pointless razing on his part.

Bacchus confusingly continues to avoid building Axes while Yuri's axe continues to trek around his territory.

No question what Pindicator's intentions are... war with Barry Lyndon is clearly imminent.

[Atlarge]

Thanks for the global updates Parkin!

[Lord Parkin]

Turn 73

An interesting turn! Lots of exciting things happening around the world.

First off, the biggest news - dtay finally completes the long overdue Oracle!

The Black Sword founds Confucianism.

Pindicator declares war on Barry Lyndon and looks certain to take/raze at least one of his cities.

Molach further increases the garrison along his border with AutomatedTeller.

Mardoc declares war and razes Azza's western city plant.

[Dp101]

Anything that kills Barry is a good thing.

[Dp101]

Anything that hurts Barry is a good thing.

[Gawdzak]

Do we know what dtay took with the Oracle? He can get either Metal Casting,Monarchy or even HBR. There certainly are arguments for any of them. What's good for dtay though is that TBS founded Confucianism on the same turn so people may assume dtay took CoL.

Edit:He took Metal Casting.

[Zed-F]

Meta Casting. Thinking toward Colossus.

[Lord Parkin]

Meta Casting.

Does that give him access to metamagic spells?

(Sorry, FFH reference.)

[Lord Parkin]

Turn 74

Barry's city of Benghazi falls to Pindicator's overwhelming numbers. The remainder of his empire (only 2 other cities) is not looking good. Will Barry be the first out of 34 civs to depart this game?

It hardly seems possible, but Krovice's expansion is actually about to be (momentarily) outpaced by another civ: Finharry.

Caledorn had his Ivory pillaged as expected. At least he can kill the Spear this turn.

Molach expands towards the northeast while his troops continue to reinforce the border against AutomatedTeller to the south. You can't quite see it in this screenshot, but there is a Barbarian Spearman 1NE of our Great Spy, near Molach's Settler.

Mardoc and Azza make peace for the time being, with Azza clearly worse off for the brief war.

[Commodore]

Behold, updated world!


Mea cupla with Xenu and Pin there, although Pin seems to be making lemonade. He's going to be war chariot vulnerable for all of about a dozen more turns.

Also, psst...Ox is beating Krovice and Finarry both.