[SPOILERS] Bismark of Sumeria (luddite + Atlas1998)

[NobleHelium]

Are you planning to call LP out on his spying?

[MWIN]

what are you building in Nu Lupu. I see different things in different screen shots. Where are you putting Great Library....

[luddite]

Are you planning to call LP out on his spying?

We had a chat yesterday. I asked him to send his warrior directly south, because that way it would at least be far away from my units, so it couldn't see anything.

me: if you could move the warrior down to the far southern tip it would help me a lot
i think he might still have a couple units down there
LP: ok... SW, S, or SE?
me: directly south
LP: ok, sure thing
I'll check it out
me: thanks man
LP: wish I could have been more use earlier... misclicked the Warrior and he moved to the SE peninsula below your former southernmost city, wasting 3-4 turns
8:00 PM hopefully I'll find something useful soon though

His last line is just hilarious. He misclicked? twice in a row, to waste 4 turns?

And then he just did this.

That's... NOT directly south. It's OK i guess- it can't see reinforcements coming from there. But still. I'll have to call him out on this one.

On the plus side, if he was passing info to Mackoti from the beginning, it probably helped me a lot. That might have been why Mackoti didn't build more units.

[luddite]

what are you building in Nu Lupu. I see different things in different screen shots. Where are you putting Great Library....

I kept changing my mind about what to build there first. But I'll put the Great Library there as soon as I can.

[luddite]

lol... I've just finished a lengthy session of analysing every possible attack Mackoti might make, trying to come up with the perfect defense. And then he sends this email...

Hi,
Let me talk first with Ioan, but i think peace could be good for both of us.
regards,
Mackoti

[luddite]

Guess I'll post my thoughts on defense anyway. But first, this happened. A splend monument to the god of pönty metal!


No fail gold yet- I guess that happens next turn. But my economy is already looking a lot better. i'm breakeven at 20% science, wow!


Here's what I've got in the south. The stack shown is on the farm- it'll be out of sight of his chariot unless he moves onto the forest hill, in which case I can build a road and get him with the spear. In the city, I've got my (slightly damaged) vulture and spear, and a chariot. The combat 1 chariot is on the forest.


It's difficult because I have no idea what, if anything, is on that galley. The way I've positioned things, he can't possibly take that city, and it'll be difficult for him to land on the forest. If he does land there, and doesn't have a spear, my chariots will clean it up. Then I can quickly chop the forest to make a trireme in Kilkenny. A trireme would make the city almost completely safe from naval invasion.

The north is a little then right now, with the chariots and 1 vulture coming down. But I've got reinforcements coming there, too. It'll have 7 vultures next turn.

[luddite]

Here's another fun thing about Sumeria.

I'm already getting 10 spy points per turn, so I can crush anyone else's espionage. I think I can get city visibility on Mackoti in about 20 turns.

[NobleHelium]

On the plus side, if he was passing info to Mackoti from the beginning, it probably helped me a lot. That might have been why Mackoti didn't build more units.

Not following this reasoning here. Can you elaborate?

[luddite]

When LP was moving his warrior through my territory, I moved units out of the way so he couldn't see anything. So maybe he told mackoti that he still had time to prepare defense? That's the only explanation I can think of for why mackoti build so many settlers and zero defense.

[luddite]

Just picked up 249 hammers from fail gold, very nice! And yes, I microed it to squeeze out the maximum possible hammers .