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Quote:me: well, it's gotten to that point
in PB8
for whipping time
Yuri: hehe, good luck with that  sorry I didn't look at the game this weekend at all, had 2 major Magic tournaments
me: oh its no big deal, i'd been handling it
i was about to get the other half of the markets in, and get to... whichever tech i have left to get zerks
than: stack of 20 knights!
Yuri: uhoh
Serdoa?
me: which i didnt see cause i was a dolt and didnt look at power graphs!
yup
took Terrapin before i knew we were at war
Yuri: oh well, I assume we're still far away from Pikes
me: yeah....
Yuri: so we's probably dead
me: at least with the bonus spears are 8
oh yes
totally dead
im just making it as annoying as possible to put nails in this coffin
i knew this was coming eventually
it's Serdoa's best play
i just thought it'd be a bit later
Yuri: yeah I didn't realise he was at Knights already.... but sure, we have been behind in tech since forever, and once he got Knights, his only play is to swallow ys
and probably Xenu as well
do we still have iron? our iron was at Terrapin, wasn't it
Sent at 6:55 PM on Sunday
me: yeah it was at Terrapin
but
i got some from Xenu, in return for trading bluefish back
because
it's been in revolt over half of the time we've had it
and is pretty much useless to try and keep
better to move it's troops into black for a harder nut to crack
Sent at 6:58 PM on Sunday
Yuri's new status message - I'm not here right now 7:00 PM
Yuri: haha, didn't expect Xenu of all people to help us
he's not one to hold the grudge
me: hey
he gets a city back
he's happy
so not there's like 15 troops in black
i'm contemplating bringing them all to the island we're on, and just taking mero's leftovers there before plako
island empire
Yuri: sure, let's do it
do we have the fleet?
me: no way i could get them up to defend homeland
and serdoa doesn't have a reason to bother going over water chasing
uh
we have 2 galleys right there
and i can whip in 1 or 2 more maybe, but shouldnt be needed
nop reason for serdoa to go to black quite yet i think
it'll probably fail
but i mean
knights?
and i don't have pikes?
tell me a better option besides just whipping spears everywhere, and trying to get a bigger foothold in islands
Yuri: that's the best we can do
spears can hold off for a while
not for long though
Sent at 7:04 PM on Sunday
me: yeah
Yuri: I need to go to bed... sorry to hear about the invasion, hope we can hold off for long enough!
me: it's fine, should be fun
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Looks like civstats is saying I didn't lost a city, though merohoc did lose one to plako. That means that any attempts to conquest Merohoc will likely be fruitless, since i'd be throwing lots of older crap at him and plako can clean up nice and easily afterwards.
Whipping spears in every city still sound good? Maybe try and sneak a settler to some barren tundra somewhere?
April 8th, 2013, 18:26
(This post was last modified: April 8th, 2013, 18:26 by BRickAstley.)
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SO, I forgot to take pics but here's a synopsis of the turn:
- Serdoa is moving all his knights north. The spear I whipped in Old Black Bear killed one of the attacking knights, so I'm whipping in more spears across the mainland.
- I have like 15 assorted defenders in Black Fish, but Serdoa doesn't appear to be going south to try and take them out. Maybe I can try and take Terrapin back? Maybe I spite attack Xenu later and raze a few cities for the fun of it? Build nothing but defenders there and stay put til the world ends?
- I popped a Great Scientist this turn.
 I have no clue where'd he be useful. I might build an academy in my super fishing city for slightly better teching? Maybe in my cultureless border city with merohoc. Gotta claim control over those pigs!
Oh the life of a mediocre Pitboss player with certain doom looming.
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Have you looked at the bulb list?
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it bulbs Compass. not exactly the tech we're looking for
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(April 9th, 2013, 11:55)yuris125 Wrote: it bulbs Compass. not exactly the tech we're looking for
Yup, this is exactly it. And researching compass to whatever is next on the list wouldn't happen until the point where it is too late to make a difference.
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Not too much to report. Serdoa's halted his advance to heal his knights up, so I'm just whipping my cities into a few more spears.
I have an outside chance of getting to pikes in time to hold him off of my oldest cities, but i'm just short enough on money to kep from getting there in time i think. I begged for gold gifts from the other non-Serdoa bigwigs, hoping someone would take me up on that to try and occupy serdoa a little longer, but nobody did. I'll still try to research it, but that will be.... 6 turns away? which is just too long.
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(April 18th, 2013, 09:45)BRickAstley Wrote: Not too much to report. Serdoa's halted his advance to heal his knights up, so I'm just whipping my cities into a few more spears.
I have an outside chance of getting to pikes in time to hold him off of my oldest cities, but i'm just short enough on money to kep from getting there in time i think. I begged for gold gifts from the other non-Serdoa bigwigs, hoping someone would take me up on that to try and occupy serdoa a little longer, but nobody did. I'll still try to research it, but that will be.... 6 turns away? which is just too long.
He's not renaming your beautiful beer cities to some ruinous, slanderous thing, is he? What is your take on how the situation will evolve once Serdoa's knights are healed?
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(April 19th, 2013, 11:30)Boldly Going Nowhere Wrote: (April 18th, 2013, 09:45)BRickAstley Wrote: Not too much to report. Serdoa's halted his advance to heal his knights up, so I'm just whipping my cities into a few more spears.
I have an outside chance of getting to pikes in time to hold him off of my oldest cities, but i'm just short enough on money to kep from getting there in time i think. I begged for gold gifts from the other non-Serdoa bigwigs, hoping someone would take me up on that to try and occupy serdoa a little longer, but nobody did. I'll still try to research it, but that will be.... 6 turns away? which is just too long.
He's not renaming your beautiful beer cities to some ruinous, slanderous thing, is he? What is your take on how the situation will evolve once Serdoa's knights are healed?
Well, he's invading again. I have about 8-10 C2 spears in each of the closest cities he can hit, and he has a stack of about 15 knights. he'll likely win it, but it comes down to dice rolls.
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