[Spoiler] Fintourist loses his multiplayer virginity

[Old Harry]

Ha! :Hammer

My bet is that Azza will concede when he gets the save... If not then I look forward to the next few turn reports!

[scooter]

All my friends think I'm the nuttiest person on earth when I tell them what I do in my free time. "Lol, you let emails decide what you do with your evenings?!" "You play in these games for a year?!" "No wonder you don't have a girlfriend ..."

Ha!
I downplay this "thing" significantly when I talk about civ with my friends/gf/etc..

Hah, this is great. I just avoid telling anyone that my primary hobby involves playing long civ games with people on the internet that stretch close to a year. It just seems to be for the best.

[Fintourist]

Hah, this is great. I just avoid telling anyone that my primary hobby involves playing long civ games with people on the internet that stretch close to a year. It just seems to be for the best.

Yeah, better say nothing if possible! But unfortunately my girl friend has kind of noticed what I'm doing..

[Fintourist]

Blaah, blaah, blaah. It seems that Sareln has already missed two times his "regular" playing slot.

[Fintourist]

Turn 182

Azza killed one of my wounded Rifles during his turn and advanced a bit with his SotL's, but nothing too threatening appeared. Therefore I continued my attack:



After winning 4 high-odds fights, the city was mine. And because boating is fun:



I actually kept "Once, A Glimpse", because I might have a chance to keep it as I have already some troops in the area and my HE city keeps pumping more every turn.. "Young Blood" would have been more vulnerable and far away from useful sizes so I burned it..

Azza has now Replecable parts and Viqsi is on her way to Rifling, but I guess both of them still need ~5 turns. Maybe I should exploit the lack of rifles/redcoats during the next turns a bit more. Overall, I would be happy if I could keep my recent gains and remain intact until Combustion and then start pushing stronger again. However, my demos are starting to look pretty strong so I don't know how long this fun lasts:



MFG lead is the thing to notice here, and of course my power lead keeps growing. I added 50k worth of soldiers (mostly cannons) as I ended turn. Maintaining a competitive GNP while pushing more units is also a good sign. I don't want to sound overconfident, but unless my opponents have some kind of a sizeable and totally surprising invasion coming somewhere (which is possible), this game is pretty much over. Azza's current ship harrasment with SotL's is only annoying, but nothing more. Yet

PS. Rival worst approval rate.. Viqsi is suffering..

[Fintourist]

Turn 183

A quick turn!

Azza continued naval harrasment and sinked the galleon that I used for razing "Young Blood".



Otherwise he was just bugging me with his SotL's. On my own turn I killed the wounded frigate and 1 additional one as Azza had left it alone. And that was all the aggression that took place during this turn. However, next turn I'm again targeting one of Azza's young cities...

Another event was settling my 38th city:



I had somehow totally overlooked the fact that I was missing silk. But now I have it And my -situation is once again a bit better.

In other news Steam Power is in, Sareln has Military Science, I probably will let Azza destroy couple of fishing nets while I'm waiting for Combustion. In more positive news, I keep adding ~80k in power every turn. I think I have now something like 6-7 cannons ready and more coming. I promise to use them soonish.

Is there anything that my bored lurkers want to see?

[TheHumanHydra]

Show us the military advisor so we can gaze in awe!

[Fintourist]

Turn 184

Let's try to do a fast report!

1. My opponents did nothing really threatening. Same old Story. Makes me kind of relieved, kind of bored.
2. I had two Galleons and my rifle GG in range to attack Azza's city:



3. My GG won, my heroic amphibious C3 Janissary died for the greater cause and a rifle cleaned up:



4. I also killed one lonely Ship of the Line at the cost of 1 Frigate. If Azza gives me opportunities to attack lonely SotLs and I have 3 Frigates in range I'm happy to trade ships.

5. Let's show some domestic stuff as I haven't done that for a while.

6. My astronomy-required-to-settle-land is becoming useful and can already defend itself:



7. Former Hydra/BaII land also belongs kind of into my core area:



Soon those cities will actually be able to produce useful units also without drafting.

8. Did somebody say drafting?



9. I guess I have drafted roughly 75 units during the last 30 turns (I switched into Nationhood on T154). In the beginning I had to keep couple of pauses so that I don't stack too much unhappiness.

10. My military is not yet amazingly big, but 29 rifles are still solid as none of my opponents has Rifling yet..

11. Railroad should be in EOT188.

[TheHumanHydra]

Nice army! What percent are tied down on garrison and MP duty?

[Fintourist]

Nice army! What percent are tied down on garrison and MP duty?

The most, kind of... I have now 39 cities and because this is a toroidal water map and I'm stretched in many directions, I have to be able to defend the majority of them.

My stand-off with Sareln at the city of Lemongrass currently ties around 15 Frigates and ~20 Janissaries. Because Viqsi's lack of naval techs I can manage that front with only a handful of frigates and rifles. Azza front, map center and the astronomy-required-area tie a bunch of units as well.

Probably, I could gamble and concentrate more of my units in one place and get more land faster, but until now things have worked quite fine with my gradual approach..

So as a final answer: I don't know the exact percentage, currently all my units are serving at least some kind of area-defense purpose, but I can quickly mobilize a large amount of them if required. I think my next attack moves will be small boating attacks against Azza, ~13 rifles/jans + ~5 cannons against Sareln's island holding and same kind of attack against some of Azza's more established cities.

However, it's not clear whether this game continues that long..