[SPOILERS] 2metraninja's diffident introduction to RB

[2metraninja]

Victory for me this turn. Killed 50 Cf military units, recaptured 1 city and captured 9-10 workers of Cornflakes. I lost 26 units, half of it siege - canons and catapults. Played unconcentrated and got 1 unit or 2 workers short of recapturing second city of mine. Cf's remaining army and fleet are trapped deep in my territory. Would be fun if I heal for 2 turns and make a raid in his territory with 50-60 units

But the most funny thing was Cornflakes offering me to attack Bigger if I give him like 5-10 cities beside the 3 he already captured for this :D I guess he and others will have to learn the hard way that the last thing I will be is to accept to vegetate indifferently just to see the end of a game :D

Commodore was not much behind in his demands, asking for 3-4 cities more to attack Cornflakes.

I can wish them both higher position than they are in now, but I simply doubt with this kind of international strategy

Here are some screenies for my faithful lurkers :D

   
   
   
   
   

[Old Harry]

Nicely played! How many of his cities do you think you can take?

[2metraninja]

Thanks.

I dont know if I can at all take any of his cities. It is just a weird theory. Most likely it will not work if everyone is just keeping at their bottoms.

[2metraninja]

I think I will have to be the one to propose the game to end in concede to Bigger. We had some fun lately, but the game was decided ever since the last time I proposed to Cornflakes to attack Bigger together

[Jowy]

Sorry for not joining with you against Bigger. Cornflakes had just tried to surprise attack me a few turns before that, so I thought he was planning to come for me now that he was finished with Krill.

[Cornflakes]

Well played, 2metra. I enjoyed this game a lot, and learned much too. I had no prior MP experience coming into this. You are good at warring (or at least aware and alert ). Several times I tried planned naval invasion surprise in the mid game, but your garrisons always seemed to appear just in time. My metagaming was perhaps my weakest point. I didn't really consider much beyond my empire ... and each time you offered war against someone I was occupied in something else, or had my army completely out of position (it was a good 5+ turn walk across the empire pre-RR).

I think the most logical thing to do is to try to get Cornflakes to attack together with me Bigger. The only problem with this plan is that Corflakes is quite wild card for me. He looks like real unscrupulous player. He was requesting cities few times from me when he was stronger. The first time he did that it costed him half his empire though But he did not stopped and since then he requested weird things few times.

I'm not sure what you are referring to here.

To my biggest surprise Cornflakes stole Rifling from me What a stupid move. Now I HAVE TO sell my rifling to the other one having SciMeth, i.e. Bigger. Stupid, very stupid move on Corn's side. He probably spent a GSpy to steal this, when he could had it for his otherwise unusable SciMeth (unusable in terms of Bigger having it too and it was traded around). As much as I hate to do this, I must call off the attack on the score leader

This coming right after we reloaded to undo the SciMeth/Rifling trade?

[Cornflakes]

Sorry for not joining with you against Bigger. Cornflakes had just tried to surprise attack me a few turns before that, so I thought he was planning to come for me now that he was finished with Krill.

Do you mean my stack of Cavalry? those were landed with the idea of marching towards Krill and being joined by a 2nd wave of Infantry/Cannon off ships ... but the following turn I decided to take the "safer" option of just massing all my forces into one mega stack (I haven't started reading your thread yet, Jowy).

[Jowy]

Sorry for not joining with you against Bigger. Cornflakes had just tried to surprise attack me a few turns before that, so I thought he was planning to come for me now that he was finished with Krill.

Do you mean my stack of Cavalry? those were landed with the idea of marching towards Krill and being joined by a 2nd wave of Infantry/Cannon off ships ... but the following turn I decided to take the "safer" option of just massing all my forces into one mega stack (I haven't started reading your thread yet, Jowy).

Yep. You gotta admit it's highly suspicious when you drop off a stack of Cavalry next to my badly defended border city, then I somehow manage to scramble enough units there to save it, and you end up leaving with all the Cavalry

[Cornflakes]

Yep. You gotta admit it's highly suspicious when you drop off a stack of Cavalry next to my badly defended border city, then I somehow manage to scramble enough units there to save it, and you end up leaving with all the Cavalry

I don't even think I had vision in your city. In fact, I'm pretty certain I didn't.

Ok, I went and dug up this screenshot. I never actually got vision inside Omega

[Bigger]

AFAIK in American English singular proper nouns should always have the apostrophe and s regardless of whether the word ends in s or not.

whaaat?

I was always taught Cornflakes' is right, not Cornflakes's. cornflakes's is really silly, are you sure that's right?