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I'm about to go on vacation (next Monday) and TheArchDuke will be turning into locutus of borg. He and I haven't really talked so I hope that he is thinking along the same lines as I am.
Q: What lines are those?
A: Are you kidding? Haven't I been blatantly obvious so far? Hello!!!
We are the Borg. Resistance is futile. Your culture will adapt to service ours. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.
I act as if I am joking when I send this out, but I am deadly serious. I will be sending out borg scouting ships (crew of 5) as soon as they are constructed and seeing how many capitals I can capture. Once I have taken out 2 or 3 capitals, there should be plenty of land to occupy and capital city locations to churn settlers so that The Borg should become a super power.
Now, is this going to win me the game. I don't give a rats ass about winning this game. I am the Borg, my job is to terrorize the lesser civilizations!
Borg scout
The Borg scout ship is cuboid in shape but considerably smaller than its counterpart, the Borg cube. The Borg scout ship is only several metres in length, width and depth, and holds a crew of five. A Borg scout ship was found by the crew of the Enterprise-D on a moon in the Argolis cluster in the episode "I, Borg" (TNG).
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On another note, I don't think I should have double whipped my settler last turn. I don't have a granary so regrowing will take a while ... duh!
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Woha. This is going to be close or impossible.
I come back on Wednesday evening CET 5th August. If you are unavaiable for the Tuesday, we have a problem.
Also I am very happy with our theme and will go along with it.
Not sure about the decision to settle on the iron, but this will be a heck of a nasty suprise for our victi... neighbours to see Praets that quickly. How many do we want when we show them our hand? 4?
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settling on the iron saved us mining and roading turns and getting a worker down there - at least 10 turns or more.
I've raised the option of a pause to get us over this hump.
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oh - re raiding parties. I think we should build 2 preats and send them North to visit Imhotep. Build another 5 and send them to assimilate mh and Kodii and 1 to take out that city near our iron city.
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Ruff_Hi Wrote:I act as if I am joking when I send this out, but I am deadly serious. I will be sending out borg scouting ships (crew of 5) as soon as they are constructed and seeing how many capitals I can capture. Once I have taken out 2 or 3 capitals, there should be plenty of land to occupy and capital city locations to churn settlers so that The Borg should become a super power.
Now, is this going to win me the game. I don't give a rats ass about winning this game. I am the Borg, my job is to terrorize the lesser civilizations! 
I sense a slight tidal wave of disturbance in the force!
Good luck in your quest to conquer!
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I found India (rego) who is half a world away from us. I sent him a 'share technological advancements' IM.
In other news, Imhotep has done something stupid. He just founded a city that I can see from Delta Quadrant. I have just finished 2 forest chops and my first Borg drone will be rolling off the assembly line next turn. He will be heading North to investigate the new yellow peril.
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Ruff_Hi Wrote:oh - re raiding parties. I think we should build 2 preats and send them North to visit Imhotep. Build another 5 and send them to assimilate mh and Kodii and 1 to take out that city near our iron city.
Sounds very good. You can estimate where we will be on wednesday when I take over? 
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email from mh and Kodii
Quote:Greetings Ruff and TAD,
Congratulations on getting your iron hooked up! Obviously we did not know it was there when we placed our second city, so sorry for the squishing.
What are your thoughts regarding tech coordination? Our research paths have already diverged, and we will both gain maximum benefits if we continue to do so up until Alphabet. The beakers and exact trades can be sorted out at a later date. We understand that you may need to backfill worker techs after going IW -> Sailing, but if you hold off on some techs that you don't need at the moment, we'd be happy to trade them to you.
Also, in the interest of developing our relationship, how about a 100-turn NAP with some cooldown/renewal period?
We look forward to your response 
mh & Kodii
Not to sure how to respond apart from "we are the borg". I don't want to bump them into a military build up, preferring to kill warriors or archers than axes.
One thing that I am finding with pitboss and pbem games is that the games take soooo long to do anything. With SP games you just hit 'end turn' 10 times and you have 3 preats. Here, you have to wait over a week. I suppose the same is true for them building defenders.
I think I will shoot something back along these lines ...
Quote:We are the Borg. Resistance is futile. Your culture will adapt to service ours. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.
Is that joke wearing thin yet? TheArchDuke (TAD) is awol at present and returning mid next week ... at which point I am awol. We can certainly steer away from collecting unnecessary early techs so there might be options down the track for tech trading.
Regarding the NAP, 100 turns is, like, forever. Based on lessons from prior pbem and pitboss games, I would like to work slowly on NAPs of that length, and, actually, NAPs in general. I am still struggling to get a lay of the land regarding the other civilizations. Not ruling a NAP out, just tabling that discussion for the moment.
I'll also have to get input from TAD.
Cheers,
Ruff
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Ruff_Hi Wrote:email from mh and Kodii
Not to sure how to respond apart from "we are the borg". I don't want to bump them into a military build up, preferring to kill warriors or archers than axes.
One thing that I am finding with pitboss and pbem games is that the games take soooo long to do anything. With SP games you just hit 'end turn' 10 times and you have 3 preats. Here, you have to wait over a week. I suppose the same is true for them building defenders.
I think I will shoot something back along these lines ...
We are the Borg. Resistance is futile. Your culture will adapt to service ours. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.
Is that joke wearing thin yet? TheArchDuke (TAD) is awol at present and returning mid next week ... at which point I am awol. We can certainly steer away from collecting unnecessary early techs so there might be options down the track for tech trading.
Regarding the NAP, 100 turns is, like, forever. Based on lessons from prior pbem and pitboss games, I would like to work slowly on NAPs of that length, and, actually, NAPs in general. I am still struggling to get a lay of the land regarding the other civilizations. Not ruling a NAP out, just tabling that discussion for the moment.
I'll also have to get input from TAD.
Cheers,
Ruff
Excellent job at sounding a bit uncommital but still not ruling stuff out. We want them to think that they can handle us and not that Praets are going to storm their cities as soon as we can possibly manage.
Regarding my input, I certainly agree on your statement of NAPs. We should consider however actually leading them astray if they got copper in their reach. Do they?
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