[NO PLAYERS] Lurking and Mapmaking PB52

[Commodore]

Pindicator is aware of his danger but I'm not sure he'll be able to stop a determined horse archer stack. Should be the main showdown, unless someone in the AT/Jowy side really screws the pooch.

[scooter]

I can't tell how many Spears he has or how many he's building, but in the one picture of this turn the builds queues are... Library, Archer, Numid. Looks ominous. Game may well be decided in the next half dozen turns.

[GeneralKilCavalry]

Pindicator may just be 2-3 turns late on building spears/walls

[naufragar]

I'm reminded of a maxim to end wars at a higher power than when you started. And scooter, I think you won the bet.

[GeneralKilCavalry]

Wow, I really didn't realize how hard SD had whipped... His demos may be in the gutter for now, but it seems like he might actually roll over a few pindicator cities.

[naufragar]

Is Pindi's bronze 2S of Coos?

[GeneralKilCavalry]

Iron, and if SD takes that lonely city up in the northeast, pindi loses his bronze and it's gg.

[GeneralKilCavalry]

However, even if he does lose a few cities, he still has japan's cities and gold resource he can leverage into a good 10-15 spears in a matter of turns. (however, they need to get out of revolt first...)

[scooter]

I predict Superdeath's stack gets decimated within the next 4 turns without making any more serious gains. Pindicator's position feels bad right now, but I think he's going to be fine longterm. All he has to do is stalemate him, and he will pull ahead. One mistake from Superdeath, and the invasion is over just like that. His army is already smaller, he's just benefiting from Pindicator being out of position.

[GeneralKilCavalry]

Superdeath made the right choice to take that city, but going all in might have not been the best option, or at least going with all horse archers?

Pyramids during wartime arent too great either.

Edit: Looks like Cairo will get 2 island cities (I designed the map with an island per player, perhaps pindi's was a bit too far?) This will give him a pretty massive economic boost. Surprised he hasn't settled that filler spot, 3-4 floodplains are nothing to scoff at.