[Spoilers] RFS-81 and haphazard1 don't know RtR, but won't let that stop them

[RFS-81]

We're at turn 146. I've played the last two turns back to back and am now in Hereditary Rule. So my capital does not need to care about happiness anymore. Feudalism will take about 60 turns, so we're not likely to see that before I'm eliminated. I don't know what I want to do now. One option is to build more cottages, maybe another city and hope to reach longbows before I'm overrun. This will be more free stuff to whoever conquers the remnants of my civ. Another city in particular will signal to other players that my Stack of Doom is split. The other option is to just drive my economy into the ground by whipping more archers. Happiness is no issue anymore.

The first option seems more fun.

[RFS-81]

I decided to go the cottage route. Feudalism is put on hold for Alphabet, so I can build research instead of wrecking my economy with more units.

[RFS-81]

Charriu declared war again. I pillaged my newly built cottage, and I hope that I can do the same with my village. I'll whip as many units as I still can.

Elkad gifted me ivory and iron. I appreciate the gesture, but it won't do me any good due to my lack of techs.

[RFS-81]

Operation Scorched Earth continued, but I wasn't aware that villages only get downgraded from pillaging. I doubt that Charriu will give me a chance to do another round.

[RFS-81]

Charriu did let me burn the village to the ground. Weird: It was just one spearman! It seems like he wants to bomb down my city defenses first, so his non-siege units don't even have anything to do right now. I also keep whipping my city. Maybe I can even reduce it to 1 pop before capture.

[RFS-81]

Interesting times: Elkad has declared war on Charriu and captured a city. Charriu is playing extremely cautiously at my capital, Elkad seems ready to pounce on his weakened stack if Charriu attacks outright. I might stick around a little longer after all.

[RFS-81]

Peace again Building a worker. I don't think it's worth building up cottages again, but what else am I going to do to pass the time?

[Hollybombay]

How would you rank everyones chances of winning/ect atm?

[RFS-81]

Really hard to say, at the moment. Charriu is toast since superdeath and shallow_thought have also declared war on him. So the main question is how much each of them can capture. Elkad has a head start on the others, while shallow_thought is slightly ahead in score and power. Magic Science seems to be in a weak position. None of Charriu's cities are in easy reach. He might declare war on another player to stop them from gobbling up more cities, but that would just be playing reverse kingmaker (is there a proper name for that?), because it leaves more for the others. I don't think he can distract all of them. Well, I know one city that he could easily get, while everyone else is busy

EDIT: Eh, MagicScience can not get to my city either...

[RFS-81]

Shallow_thought has declared war on me. Weird, I didn't see any notification of that, only spotted it in the player list in the bottom right. He also captured a city from Charriu.