RB Pitboss #1 [SPOILERS] Willem of Persia

[Krill]

What do you plan to get out of the war with Exploit?

[shadyforce]

Alleviate my boredom by killing stuff.

Maybe I can capture and keep Puddle Jumper and Something Town as well.

Also generally help Daniel because he helped me loads against Elkad and ended up not getting anything out of the war.

[shadyforce]

T190: The Shady Expanse....Addicted To War!

Hi Exploit,

This is my formal declaration of war. For what it's worth, I was the most vocal of everyone else in opposition to the gang-up-on-Exploit plan but in the end it looks like it's going ahead anyway. I couldn't really go against all of them completely on my own and since Daniel is now at war with you and he helped me out loads against Elkad, I feel obliged to repay the favour.

Brian.
(shadyforce of The Shady Expanse)

(Daniel had softened up the defender by sacraficing a Rifle for me.)




Ok so the plan is to reassemble those forces and reinforcements moving through Daniel's lands and to advance on towards Border Town. I estimate I can attack the city on T194 with a force of 4 Cannon, 2 Cavalry, 10-12 Rifles and a Machine Gun.

[shadyforce]

Oh and I forgot to mention, in a stroke of bad luck both me and Rego lost out spies in the area so we're a little blind right now. Daniel still has his floating around to the East of Imhotep's Revenge though.

Also, once I get Communism off Rego, I'm going to make the swap to State Property. I'm considering switching to Representation (from Hereditary Rule) as well but I'm not sure if it's worth it. The research beakers are all but useless, the happiness boost helps the big cities a little but not much and it's a more expensive civic.

[shadyforce]

Revolted to State Property this turn. A second civic switch would have been an extra turn of anarchy so my decision was made for me.

Exploit has just capitulated to Exploit. My mistrust of Dler was well placed. The most likely outcome is that Broker and Daniel will crush Dler and the offensive against Exploit will continue as planned.

I see Exploit mention something about people withholding techs from Dler? I never heard anything about that. Nor did I see any email from Dler about that issue. Probably blowing smoke.

[shadyforce]

I had an almighty scare last turn when I checked civstats:


But it turns out that Elkad just (finally) used his Great Artist to culture bomb Utica. What happens is that the culture that used to exist on Kerkouane's tiles was expunged once I captured the city. However, once another city's borders expand to take over a tile that Kerkouane also influenced, it gets all of the old culture even if the existing city only has a single cultural point applied onto the tile. This is the result:

The Courthouse has sufficient defence to hold off a strike given the existing forces Elkad has but I'm sending some Infantry and Machine Guns into the city just in case. I'm also hiring 2 artists. The city does not, however, have sufficient food surplus to draft any more. I'll keep working the cottages I have and keep the artists. I think I have about 35% culture in the immediate neighbouring tiles to the city centre and witht he 2 artists, the borders of the city will pop in 22 turns. I have no idea how soon I can get to getting at least the 1S tile back.

Ok so I'm winding down my activities in former Zululand. I gave most of my army to Daniel to send against Exploit. I have 2 cities and intend to found a third filler city in between them:


And I was planning on going on a infrastructure push but this Elkad situation has changed things. I haven't reacted publically or privately to anyone about the Elkad situation. I'm going to fly below the radar here. I think that I'll continue the Factories that I have queued up but I'll be continually drafting Infantry and slowly building Machine Guns and Cannon and I think I'll build a bunch of fighters super-fast once Flight is in and invade at that point.

[shadyforce]

Filler city built. Globe Theatre is due next turn. I have about 8 Factories in production throughout the Expanse. All cities except The Bank and The Grocer are being drafted every 10 turns. (The latter two are food poor heavily cottaged cities.) Infantry are wandering down towards the Elkad border. I need to find a quiet staging tile though.

Elkad has a Cavalry wandering through my lands. I forgot we had open borders. I need to decide whether to boot him out or ignore him. Probably the latter and just keep my army that is getting drafted in innocuous positions. I'm building culture as well as running 2 artists in The Courthouse. That's 22 culture per turn and borders pop in 11. That should help get some key tiles back. The lumbermilled forest is close to, flipping back which would be nice since The Courthouse is otherwise production poor. But strategically the Spice tile immediately south of the city is essential since that tile alone controls whether he can hit the city immediately or have to spend a turn in hostile territory.

Exploit and Dler's cities are falling like dominoes to the coalition. At this stage I'm a helpless spectator. I can only hope that a development stage followed by a swift and succesful atack on Carthage should lift me into a position where I can compete with Daniel, Rego and Broker in terms of winning this game. I can't help but feel that any chance of me winning this game required me succesfully invading Rego at some point and with the crippling of Exploit, that chance is evaporating before my eyes.

[shadyforce]

Hmm... Was one of my posts deleted or swallowed by the forums? Or did I post it in the wrong place? I was sure I made an update post that at least contained 2 screenshots.

[shadyforce]

From T201:

[novice]

Hmm... Was one of my posts deleted or swallowed by the forums? Or did I post it in the wrong place? I was sure I made an update post that at least contained 2 screenshots.

I guess the forum swallowed it. You can see all your posts here (Contains spoiler info for other games!):
http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/search.ph...user&u=879