[SPOILERS] Wang Kon of Arabia (Adlain & ManiaMuse)

[Ellimist]

The iPhone autocorrect is terrible, but at least you can turn it off. I highly recommend it(I use mine for most of my internet usage.)

You end up with some typos every now and then but you won't threaten to invade anybody by accident.

[Adlain]

I fell away again at the end of the week, sorry abuot that.

anyways, heres the map as i know it on Turn 66 (1360BC)



Not alot to say other than

• Locke seems to be Settling in my general direction, not good
  
• Damn this map has alot of space between players.
  
• I do, so far, Like this map - nice mix of Happy, Food and Production tiles, i hope i will find some copper or iron i my vicinity as if i do i will be a very happy camper at this moment in time.
  

Demographics:



Not as sucky now, GNP has taken a turn for the better with my Gold mine hocked up and 3 Cottages online. Im taking a stab at warriorknight being the short Stack as he has been through a war already and lost a city, but i really need to raise my game i think to stand a chance in surviving long enough to mean a damn in this game.















Technology:



Bronzeworking due in 2, will double revolt to Buddism and Slavery.

Tech path:

BW (2T) ----- Writing ----- Fishing ----- Archery ----- HBR.

Writing is obvious tbh, Open borders, Madrassa, Opens up alot of techs
Fishing is mainly for my costal city to have a fair crack at those costal tiles
Archery if for security, i want archers in my citys asap
HBR is horse archers if i do decide to attack anyone i will want these. not to mention i will want HBR at somepoint for my UU.

HBR isnt set in stone, writing, fishing and Archery are prity certain to happen asap unless ManiaMuse happens to dissagree and says somthing to the contrairy.

Capital:


Buddist monestery is for me to spead the faith in my realm. prolly a Axeman next as i need to work on my militry.

2nd City:


Pigs will be farmed within 2T, warrior in 2T aswell then prob barracks.

3rd City:


This city is whip Central, i will get that GLR Cottaged asap. Granary for obvious reasons being built.

Diplo will follw when i can.

Adlain

[Adlain]

Right, i will be blunt here - im wondering What the Hell have i let myself in for.

Mainley as i am looking at the Demographs and thinking short of an expected competative GNP score (i am finacial after all) my Stats Suck.

Couple that to what i feel has been a filled start on my part, Poor diplomacy and the lack of a mid to long term plan and i think im in a ever growing pit in this game.

Right, with that off my chest - lets see where im at.



the South most warrior will head zig Zaging south then West to meet up with Malkotis Scout in the area around a Cow tile approx 5T away as arranged between myself and Plako.

The northern Scout will head West then south to finish mapping out this area. Regoarrarr has siad not to go further North as he "claims" to have "expanses of double gold and floodplain corns"



Picture Self Explanitory - i will have Writing in 3 turns, then i will offer OB with Moogle and hopefuly that will allow my warrior passage to seek out Malkoti and Luddites Land.



Scout heading through Lockes Land to seek out Nakors, Warrior Knights and Plakos. Again OB will be offered when needed - Only this time there is an informal agreement to atleast consider if not accept OB when offered from ether party.



Warrior is just going to head East alittle to see how far across Locke has settled in my direction. then head back to be garrison to my Newest City.

Worker 1 is roading to the new city in prep for the first Buddist Missionary to spead the faith to it.

Worker 2 is hearding the local Sheep into a adiquate food scource for this city.



Worker 1 is Building a Cottage here. Although in hindsight i will be moving him to the Floodplains further south Asap.

Capital:



Will build 2 more missionarys a Libary then a settler and worker and then prob some Axemen when the copper is online.

2nd City:



will build a pair of workers (i need them badly) then get some Axemen Out as i need some troops - im LAST in soldior count

3rd City:



Whipping city, will build a worker next then slave out a Lib after the Whip penalty wears off

4th City:



Granary to grow Quick then prob some Axes and the Libary

Summery:



Demographs:

















Anyways - there my current thoughts. Nakor is worrying me mind - i have heard talk he MAY be thinking about attacking Locke, i think there has been a falling out between them 2 but that could spell trouble for me as im in no shape to even defend against a strong wind letalone a EXP`d Army landing on my doorstep if Nakor wins or visaversa is Locke secures his borders he MAY turn around and nail me. Definatly need some defence sorted and Soon.

Adlain.

[DMOC]

So ... how's it going? Have you been able to add a few more cities and negotiate some more deals?

[Adlain]

I will post a Write up proper this weekend (im Crazy Busy this week)

Suffice to say, i have a new City in the Tundra for the Silver, a New city in the next 2 Turns on my Western Edge Claiming a FP and Corn (not 100% Settled on that location yet, i may move onto a hill to to claim all of a Pig, Horse, a Flood plain and the Corn and costal......... yea ill prob do that ).) and i have another settler heading to my East to settle between myself and Locke claiming some pigs and Corn.

Im building Archers like anything to shore up my Defence worries and once my whip anger is over i will have a decent enough base to work from imho moving forward in this game.

I have Exended my NAP with Locke another 40T (not 100% sure on the end date off the top of my head) however i doo seem to be getting alot of inquiries about him from others. I guessing he is ether unpopular, considered a easy potential target or he has been upsetting some people. Ether way thats somthing to keep an eye one. I also know that Nakor has a lengthy NAP with him (unless that was misdirection on Nakors Part) and locke is considering settling in my direction - hence the settler heading to the contested lands in the East to stake my claim to my half so to speak.

Nothing else of note that i can think of, but as i said - i will post ehter this week but most likly the weekend to say whats been happening in more detail. (feel free to nudge me to remind me to do so aswell as i have a memory like a bleeding seive )

[Krill]

How many workers, how many cities?

[Adlain]

I was running 1 worker per city untill last turn. But I founded my tundra city last turn, and my west and eat cities will be founded in the next 3-4 turns to make my city count to 7 and I currently have 5 workers but will have atleast 7 in 5T

[Adlain]

Ok, First things First -

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Ok, with that out the way, Lets see what im talking about:



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Yes, its turn 95 and i have Fucked up my Economy. dont get me wrong, its quite fixable with abit of work, but i am 100% stuffed in anyone decides to cast their eye over my lands. my main problem is i have over Whiped, coupled to some moves like over expanding when the signs where there warning me to consolidate and wait for currancy before adding more citys. however i decided against the right plan of action and expanded anyway and now its looking like this - not good.

The main reason i was determind to expand is that i have alot of diplo talk telling me about my lack of cities and i was worried that if i didnt get up to parity then i would be inviting attack - unfortunetly i have dont it half arsed and when people look at my graphs they will see an opening and be even mor tempted to attack now imho. Regoarrarr has gone VERY quiet, that says to me that he is planing somthing - he doesnt strike me as somone that can be very quiet for very long, and my last message from him was over a week ago - and with his UU being in its prime at this time i need to prepaire for an assult sooner rather than later.

The rest of my Graphs:















Self explanitory really - i suck. you will notice i am at 30% reserch, as Financial, with Rivers aplenty, Coastal oppertunities and im still at 30% - thats not just Poor - thats Criminal.













Newes Cities:









Theres all the hard Data for you to look at, i will post thoughts later today/ Tomorrow when i get more time. im just trying to think of how to correct this.

Sailing is teching to get Lighthouses and costal trade Routes.Gives me somthing while im waiting for the whip angry to die down and i can tech at nearer 60% for Currancy.

[Adlain]

Ok, Regoarrar has just been asking me for a border Agreement in diplo - my Responce is as follows:

hey Adlain!

It's been awhile since we talked and I've been meaning to drop you a note for awhile. But I saw that you had sent a missionary our way so it seemed like a good trigger to make sure I sent something!

If you wouldn't mind moving it on to the gems tile and then NW into our lands and gifting the missionary (rather than just spreading it yourself), that would be appreciated. We're not exactly sure where we want to make the spread yet.

The other reason that we wanted to drop you a note was about our eventual borders. I saw that you've settled a city in our direction (CEO's Doubt - though I just saw that it's blocked by a peak) and I know that you've got a couple of other cities starting to poke their way into Centralia. And your missionary has probably seen that we have settled a few (though not all) of our cities to our SE.

It may still be too early to form the final border agreement, but I thought it probably made sense to start having the discussions - so how far to your NW do you see as "yours"? I know that there's a lot of open land to your direct north also so I don't know if you plan to move in that direction primarily or not.

I should be around on chat off and on today

dan.
regoarrarr
zulu

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Hi Regoarrarr

It has been too long scince our last chat, How are things going??

I have moved the missionary as you requested, as for CEO`s Doubt, i consider that city firmly in my backline and not "In your direction" as you said due to the fact it is unreachable by yourself Via Land but is a mear few Tiles west of my Capital

As for Centrila, i agree it may be time to agree some broad idea of a Border agreement, My First Suddgestion is attached to this Email. I feel is is very much a workable solution, Giving yourselves plenty of room to broaden your empire in my general Direction without infinging too far on what i regard as my Potential Lands.

Please feel free to grab me on chat to disscuss this or anything else - if im showing as away, try anyways - sometimes i hear the thing and sometimes i wont .

Kind Regards,

Adlain

Picture:



Thoughts anyone??

[Adlain]

Intresting Diplo Deleopment today:

Subject: Boycott plako!

Hey there. This email going to all teams in game except plako. This is gonna sound kinda weird but hear me out. We are all losing to plako. Some doing better than others but all losing. You all see his GNP graph spikes. He has 14 cities and most food and most production and most GNP. If we do nothing he just outtech us and eventually kill us. WarriorKnight first and then the rest of us. That is bad result.

So what do we do? Most teams are way far away cant go to war. Also I think war coalition has been tried in other games and it doesnt work well. Because someone doesnt send units and then they get ahead while everyone else fighting. But there is something else we can do. plako has Currency tech. He is running economy off foreign trade routes in 14 cities. That is 28 trade routes to other civs. If we all CLOSE BORDERS with plako, he lose all them at once and economy crashes. It is a lot of income will hurt him a lot. So I want ask everyone to join together and close borders together with plako. Has to be everyone though. This will not work if only some of us do it. It is in eveyones interest to close borders with him. Even if you are friends with plako. We need to present united front. This is peaceful boycott as a group.

Some of us have units in plako borders. We do right now. So if we do this it should be together on turn 110. Give time for units to move through plako borders.

So tell me what you think. I think it is best way for us to slow down runaway. It is easy and you dont have to do anything. Just click to cancel OB. If we all do it together plako cant get mad at any one team. You will still have plenty of foreign trade routes OB from other civs. We need EVERYONE in on this. Lets do this. :D

Locke

PS Please dont say anything to plako. Even if you are friends theres no reason to help him win easier.

TBH i dont know what to do for the best, Plako - to my knowlage - has been nothing but freindly towards me. Yes i agree that he is at this moment a runaway but does that also mean i should try to Pull the rug from underneath him and boycott him for no actual Benifit for myself. coupled to that fact i dont think it will crash his economy that easly, and it would only make Lord Parkin the next legit target under the same set of reasons im wery of doing what this email says.

Food for thought i think.