RBP3 [SPOILERS] - Zara of the Ottomans

[WarriorKnight]

It's probably worth congratulating Team Nice Shot settling their third city (turn 48 I think) if you're sending them a message. Maybe ask if they want directions to try and meet up also. Maybe mention an EP agreement since we've got all our points on Krill ATM?

Well, we are still their only contact. Hopefully when they meet DIM they can switch away from us.

Also just sent to Nice Shot:

Greetings Team Nice Shot

The A4 would like to Congratulate your team on settling your 3rd city. We would have said so sooner but RL can be a hassle sometimes.

We have met Krill last turn. His warrior appeared on our W border.

Are you guys available for a chat sometime over the weekend? If you are can you name some times when you are available?

Enough Talking!
WarriorKnight of A4

Krill has mentioned that Rome will hopefully have IW and they have a warrior trying to find India. After we meet Portugal we can try to co-ordinate something there. Carthage will probably have to research Monarchy as the early tech.

[WarriorKnight]

T51:

Valeria moved as per Krill's instructions. However we will probably be facing a lion. He found Krill's land too.

Belit had moved NW/NW and has ended turn next to 0.2 health barbarian bear. We all know what this means . Finally Conan and Red Sonja have been avenged.

I would post pictures but they don't work for me ATM .

I haven't ended turn, since everyone not called Sockboy doesn't have a updated growth plan of what we should be doing. Could you (Sockboy) finish the turn and post your current plans so the rest of us can do the turns?

[WarriorKnight]

And another post (spamming messages in your own thread is fun)

2 new drafts.

Reply to Krill:

Hi Krill

So you have defeated a lion with less than half health? Congratulations, you have just avenged the death of our warrior Red Sonja. Although we would prefer if we avenged her death, we are still grateful that you have slained it for us.

Thank you for laying out the basic rules of the alliance. We will happily trade you math as soon as we can in return for writing and alpha. We were not aware of the other condition but we will spread Hinduism to our cities sometime in the future.

We are currently friendly with all of the nations we have met in the alliance so far and do not have any war plans with anyone involved. So no need to worry about anything there from us.

We will follow the instructions that you have given us to meet India and Portugal. We are currently a while from contacting Rome, however we can hopefully organize a meeting between us soon.

We haven't yet told Carthage about the alliance, although we have invited them to a chat to discuss it. We are currently their only contact so it seems likely that they will join.

Enough Talking!
WarriorKnight of A4

Also new message to DIM:

Greetings DIM

As we have already mentioned in passing via chat, we have recently met Krill. He has clarified the alliance to us, so now we have a full picture. However, you mentioned that you are no longer going for HBR but Krill still thinks that you are. Could you clarify this for us?

We haven't talked to Carthage yet about the alliance, although we have invited them to a chat sometime on the weekend. Do you have any updates on the movement of Tricky? Carthage have mentioned they have passed the lake with their unit.

We will attempt to keep in touch with you as much as possible. Hopefully your team will also do the same.

Enough Talking!
WarriorKnight of A4

[WarriorKnight]

Reply from Nice Shot:

We noticed that your EP spending had changed and figured that you must have met someone... but Krill, eh? Please tell me us are guarding your workers carefully! Feel free to direct Krill toward us, we would love to meet him.

I have forwarded your message on to Shoot the Moon regarding chat times. We both are in the PST time zone (GMT -8:00). I tend to be available after 8pm PST, and that tendency should be true this weekend as well. We will get back to you more specifically after we have had a chance to talk times amongst ourselves...

By the way, our scouting unit is now proceeding east of what we believe is the lake you mentioned, roughly 5-6 east of where we first met. Feel free to pass that along to DIM.

Until later,

Mr. Nice Guy of Team Nice Shot

Well, 8:00 pm PST translates to noon for me and 4:00 am for the rest of you. I guess that I'll have to do it.

[Sockboy]

Hey,

Sorry about the lack of growth plans. I'm still trying to adapt them for us not having libraries available. I'm not sure I'll have good net access this weekend, but will try and log on when I can. I probably won't have civ though

Workers A and C should finish chopping. On the turn they finish chopping switch Aquilonia from granary to settler. The following turn whip settler. Then finish granary. Start on Chariot. Worker A should then move W and road. Worker C should move NW/SW onto the grassforest and road. Finish both roads before settling. Workers A and C should move to wheat and farm after they complete their roads.

Worker B should finish roading the plainshillmine then head W and roading the river grass. Then move NW and start chopping (to complete t59 for finishing chariot and overflow into (hopefully) 2-turn settler). Nemedia should whip granary when possible and then build a chariot then worker.

That should take us up to around t58/59. With city settled on t56 I think. Second settler should be produced t61/62, can't remember exactly which but it's another chop + 2-pop whip.

Hopefully that's clear enough, if not take pics and I'll comment on them (even if they're on the PB account, just let me know they're there. Good Luck!

[WarriorKnight]

OK, I ended turn. The only thing I wasn't sure about is that we are working the spice tile in Nemedia so I followed the last plan and kept it there for this turn. We are meant to whip Nemedia next turn so do we whip the granary complete and if so what do we build next?

[WarriorKnight]

Just realized this:

We (DIM) would appreciate if you could wait to do so (inform Carthage) until after we've met them ourselves.

We have already sent them an invite.



However, if we stall the chat until they meet we could avoid this situation. Carthage have provided us with the location of their unit so if DIM can send us the location of their unit then we can actually give them both instructions. Sent this message.

Greetings DIM

As we have already mentioned in passing via chat, we have recently met Krill. He has clarified the alliance to us, so now we have a full picture. However, you mentioned that you are no longer going for HBR but Krill still thinks that you are. Could you clarify this for us?

We have unfortunately invited Carthage into a chat but realized that you wanted us to wait until you have made contact with them. We have stalled it for now but we would appreciate if the two of you could meet ASAP. They have recently informed us that they have passed the lake's southern point and are moving east. Could you send a screenshot to us with Tricky's position so that we can co-ordinate this meeting without many difficulties?

We will keep in touch with you as much as possible. Hopefully your team will also do the same.

Enough Talking!
WarriorKnight of A4

Also sent the message to Krill.

[WarriorKnight]

Very quick responses for our 2 messages

WarriorKnight,

That is some good news that I hear. You should have contact with India after the turn rolls over and you both move. Portugal are at most another 8 turns away, depending on hills and forests. Hopefully Carthage can start meeting other teams quickly after getting some scouts out. Rome have a scouting warrior next to India, so you should talk to India next turn to try and set up a meeting.

Krill

But more importantly from DIM:

Thanks for the heads-up guys. Tricky Dick's current location is the following: http://tinypic.com/r/2ldk9y9/6
We'll hold off on moving him until you give us directions.

If you could relay that to Carthage that would be much appreciated. We're also very keen to meet them.

We're still working on our tech path, HBR is still an option but others are also considering it which may mean we end up having to research something else. We've had an English warrior follow Tricky - he's 3 turns behind us - which will allow them to meet several members of the tech trading group. Given the delicate situation we've stayed very vague and asked them not to relay the little info we've given them to their other contacts. They have no idea this is a meeting specifically intended to allow members of tech cartel to make contact.

We'll also keep in touch as often as possible :-)

Meatbalz for DIM

Referring to the image, they clearly need to head NW to make contact. I sent this in return.

DIM,

Quick response so you can move your warrior. We are unsure about their exact location but they are located somewhere to the NW of your warrior. We have asked for a similar screenshot so you can meet them ASAP.

Also, have you told anyone else, specifically Krill, about your preference for England in the alliance yet?

Enough Talking!
WarriorKnight of A4

We could use a screenshot from Carthage to avoid them missing each other. Sent this to them:

Hi

We have confirmation of where DIM is currently located. You will need to head SE with your scouting unit to meet their unit. However, just so the worst doesn't happen and the two of you don't miss each other, could you send us a screenshot of the general area of where your scouting unit is located?

Enough Talking!
WarriorKnight of A4

It seems that Krill has Rome in the alliance while DIM wants England. Fortunately we don't really mind who gets in but I think Krill will will win and get Rome in.

[WarriorKnight]

It seems that now the diplo game has really started.

DIM:

Hi guys, Tricky actually spotted Cathaginian borders this turn so we'll be making contact next turn. It would still be great if you could give us directions so we can have England meet India + Egypt.

Egypt knows we'd like England in but we're not taking anything for granted yet, it might be they'll be asked to tech something they don't want to.

Meatbalz for DIM

Good, we don't need a screenshot from Carthage then. To Carthage:

Quick follow up

Actually, DIM has reported that they have found your borders and you will meet them next turn. Therefore there is no need to send a screenshot to us.

Enough Talking!
WarriorKnight of A4

Also, to DIM:

It's great news that you are about to meet Carthage. Trying to make England meet with India + Egypt is a bit more challenging. India has a warrior a couple of tiles N of Egypt that we are trying to contact. Egypt also has a warrior slightly NW of us.

While we would like to help you have England meet India & Egypt, your team does have direct contact with the 2 teams in question. We suggest that you talk to the teams directly to lessen the chance of errors (also we are busy enough with diplo ourselves).

Enough Talking!
WarriorKnight of A4

Since DIM has contact with India and Egypt, I don't know why they don't talk to them directly.

[WarriorKnight]

I've recently learnt the trick to spread diplomacy around several posts to inflate our post count.

New message from Ruff:

Well Met,

My warrior (Find Krill) just met your chariot (Belit) south of my cities. It is a great meeting, beautifully timed for me. So far I have met the following:

India (Sunrise, regoarrarr, darrell, sooooo)
Exploit
HRE
Inca

As you may be aware, I am involved in the Tech Cartel providing Archery. I understand that you will be providing Pottery.

Sorry to strain the friendship so quickly, but I was wondering if you could do me a favour? I see from the game that you haven't met the Inca yet. I have the feeling that they (Inca) are planning on attacking me soon (about 80% sure of it). They refused a very short NAP and they are just next door to my civ. Couple that with their tendency to like to acquire Holy Cities. Anyway, they had a Q around my second city. I don't have anything that can deal with a Q ... so I was wondering if you would mind lending a hand to killing it. It was near my second city (location is 2N, 9E of Ladies Night - 9N, 2W of your chariots current location) and I'm thinking it is returning to attack my 2nd city while other units attack my capital.

If I am right and you come north then you can meet the Inca if they don't attack me (best case scenario) or help out in my defense by killing the Q if they do attack me (worse case scenario). I am currently gearing up to defend my capital and if that Q can be removed then I can safely hook up copper and be really secure.

I'm also talking to HRE about this - we both have single warriors over near the Inca capital and we are heading there with the same objective (meet Inca if they don't attack / see if we can cause some strife if they do attack).

Regards,

Ruff

Big news. Apparently Inca might come after Ruff and he wants to have Belit nearby just in case.

We should probably help him out since Belit is free from meeting India and Ruff is also in the tech alliance and will be grateful to us. We could also meet up with the Inca.

Hi Ruff

Greetings from the land of Greater Hyboria.

It indeed does seem like the meeting is beautifully timed. It is even more fortunate that Belit's original intention of meeting with India is no longer needed.

We don't really want to leave you to possibly get attacked since you are in the tech cartel. Therefore we will be moving him N towards your second city. The only thing we are unsure about is actually declaring war on the Inca but hopefully it will not come down to that.

May this gesture be the 1st step to a long and fruitful relationship with the Aztec People.

Enough Talking!
WarriorKnight of A4

P.S. Enough Talking! is our standard sign off message, see the attached picture.

With our picture of course.