Apocalpyse Redux - Os-Gabella of the Sheaim

[NobleHelium]

Can we see some demographics?

[uberfish]

Can we see some demographics?

No

[uberfish]

We're on t90 and research is basically treading water around 85-90 while I expand and add more resources and farms

I spotted a 2* griffon on the southwest coast, wonder what it's been eating. Fishing boat scouts maybe?

[NobleHelium]

Yeah I know you're angry about the Lanun situation...

Nonmilitary units don't give experience.

[uberfish]

I'm #1 land area by a fair margin due to drama llama + relatively wide city spacing

A griffon on the NE coast ate one of my warriors.

Still no foreign contact.

Sailing finished EOT revealing pearls on the inner ring at a nice city site (Rice, cow, dye, mini-river, pearl, fish), that looks like a good city #9 but the pearls will take a while to get connected as it needs 1 culture expansion and a fishboat.

I can still attack someone randomly if I want. Tatan is far enough behind that I could probably conquer him. Mardoc is far enough ahead to be worth attacking. I don't particularly want to fight Ilios or Darrell, but the chance of both of them being my neighbours is 1 in 6...

[uberfish]

Doing a quick philo research which is required for all paths to postpone the decision a couple more turns

[uberfish]

Picked up Form of the Titan EOT 94

also finished philo

The free milstrat GC went last turn, probably to lanun

Given the current standings, the "obvious" play would be for Ilios and myself to coordinate an attack on Mardoc (ai-diplo is an obstacle but not an insurmountable one)

The obvious problem with that is that no one has contact anyway...

[uberfish]

t103

I have something else to rant about so here's a short update

End of turn I notice I'm at war with Tatan (lol), he has 5 cities (lol). No units in vision but I guess I wasted a turn or two on the response which might be pretty bad.

I have a fishboat about 6 tiles up the SE coast past which he must have spotted somehow

My hunting lodge is late, which is just because I was paying minimal attention to what I was doing and forgot to build one.
now

Tatan started militarizing before I did so I'm being blind rushed apparently

I've been sitting in Military state / Conquest for a few turns and building up PZ, I know he can see this on the graph. why not attack his other neighbour??

and now I've come to realise

NO DIPLO PBEMS ARE AN INCREDIBLY STUPID CONCEPT

I guess if he wants to turn this game into a 1v1 it's fine

it's not like Lanun are really playing the same game as the rest of us anyway.

[uberfish]

Amurite location confirmed in the NE spot via fishing boat seeing his culture edge, no boats spotted (might not actually have a spot), no units spotted yet either

Offered ceasefire, if he's firebow rushing which I expect is the case, then attacking Sheaim is pretty much the worst possible target. PZ have Resist Fire promotion for free and their death explosion is not affected by Amurite world spell.

Ceasefire is my way of saying "I don't really want to fight you but I'm not afraid of you either"

[uberfish]

Pirate scum galley turns up from the east, so presumably from past Tatan's side. Weird that my fishing boat missed it.

Diplo screen thingy shows that Amurites and Lanun are at war.

Amurites accepted my ceasefire offer. I'm sending a warrior to keep an eye on the hill fort chokepoint anyway.

I don't know if there are troops on board the boat and it's too close to my cities for comfort so I decide the appropriate course of action is to sink the galley. I offer ceasefire afterwards to see what he does.

I've put about 500h equivalent into military production (PZ + FoL infrastructure) so far. I will get a few PoL but I need to find out who's to my west and what they have before deciding how much to invest into PoL (I also need to splash for cultists). I should have hawks in ~3 turns to help figure this out

PoL double the effectiveness of carnivals as a happiness building which is useful.