Lurking the Seven Seas

[MJW (ya that one)]

Emergencies overriding DoF is not a bug. It's intended as a comeback mechanic, so you are supposed to be able to dogpile people. Having the DoFer being benched hampers that. The payouts aren't very good too. You can also avoid emergencies by just not declaring war.

[civac2]

If I understood Woden correctly using an emegency to circumvent a DoF only works in team games by targeting the ally of your DoF partner.

[MJW (ya that one)]

If I understood Woden correctly using an emegency to circumvent a DoF only works in team games by targeting the ally of your DoF partner.

You were right! Firaxis messed up! Firaxis also messed up limestone fueled wall-overflow production. But this should be banned because it doesn't make sense otherwise. If banning it causes problems, I'd add the rule that if one partner gets a DoF, the other partner must get one too.

[MJW (ya that one)]

I would consider taking over, if October wasn't super-busy for me. Pick up a win for a 100% record! Scott Foster!

[civac2]

They may be willing to wait for a while. A game this long leads to a good amount of investment.

[civac2]

And, what's your expert opinion, thrawn?

[civac2]

These impressions are appreciated. I have a hard time understanding what's going on.

[MJW (ya that one)]

Okay I'm pretty sure CMF / Williams wins this.

[MJW (ya that one)]

Australia split their fleet! Wow, their edge in ship numbers is truly gigantic, as the milpower scores suggest. But they will not take Oasis at Dawn, as they can move only one frigate per turn past the encampment due to ZoC rules, and any frigates that try will be two-shot by the encampment and city fire. They may be able to take Anoch Sun, though...which I wholeheartedly welcome them to do, as that city is the target of the emergency and I believe taking it would forfeit their +2 CS. That is well worth losing an almost completely unproductive city site over, and if they go for it, I may even deliberately leave the walls unfinished to help them out a bit

Unfortunately, the emergency doesn't end if they take the city, it ends in 30 turns.

I call it

[Jabah]

I still don't understand how privateers' invisibility is working.
I thought that taking an aggressive action (pillage/attack/..) would make them visible (and if within city striking range, that would be the end of them soon).
It looks like Woden is not even aware that some tiles were being pillaged.

For range3 frigate, I thought you still need a way to see the target (at least from the base game). But of course if you need to capture/raze, you will have a unit around.