[SPOILERS] Scooticator and Pindooter give a sporting try

[pindicator]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that Commodore flashed a catapult a turn or two ago

I like that deal. The only thing we have use for stone of in the next 10 turns are walls. Although maybe we want to build some walls? After all, we can build Castles (+1 trade route, +25% EP) with Engineering. Well, another thing for after the war, most likely. And during the war the silver will be more helpful to combat any war weariness, so let's I'm going to re-offer the deal.

Edit: Nakor's already played! Well, I'll jump in then. (And he's offered peace already... heh)

[pindicator]

Turn 140

I jumped in game and re-offered the deal to Old Harry. And then I noticed Nakor had played, so I played the turn.

Commodore is using IMP very well:



As sad as it is, we're likely ceding that large fur-covered island to him

So as far as pleasant surprises go, I think this one ranks up there pretty high:



And while I could be talking about the defenders of Nine Valleys looking like the appetizer on the all-you-can-eat Berserker Buffet, I'm really talking about another surprise. Can you spot what it is? (Noble already knows; I had to ask him if it was something I missed from earlier RBMod games.)

Next turn our super-zerkers are going to load onto the 3 galleys by Pirates and then head to the staging tile. Yes, the war is that close!!!

The staging tile for the land group is here:



Thankfully I remembered at the last moment to move the chariots and HAs a tile closer, so they can actually move and upgrade on t141. I have a single worker roading the banana; he's covered by a spear. Two more workers are on the grass hill by Tigers. Frankly there wasn't a way to pull off the roads needed without wasting a worker turn or two this turn; this seemed like the best way to do it.

Next turn we'll have 10 knights on the staging tile, and on t142 we'll have them going up against the 2 archers and spear inside of Red Springs Hold. And two more knights will be covering our workers on the tile SW of the banana.

I also offered Black Sword peace. I think us forgetting a turn after leaving their borders was a good thing here

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

Based on your picture, I know the answer to the trivia question, but I'm not posting it for fear of the lurker police coming to get me. They've been a bit testy lately.

No, this is not intentionally designed to get more posts in your thread...



Also,

[Mardoc]

I forgot your leader - are you Agg?

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

I forgot your leader - are you Agg?

Darius, right?

[scooter]

I forgot your leader - are you Agg?

Winner. We're Darius, but Zerks get C1 regardless of whether or not you are Aggressive. I also can't remember if this was an RBMod change or not, but it certainly is a nice bonus.

War soon. I'm excited.

[scooter]

One funny side effect - I fully expect every other thread to be freaking right now about the fact that we just declared on Nakor... and they're going to be mighty confused when we're not actually taking cities. And then suddenly we start taking cities.

[pindicator]

If people were paying attention they would see our declarations go Fintourist, dtay, Black Sword, Nakor - a traveling ship would be most likely. But I don't think many people have paid that close attention to our war decs.

I'm pretty sure Nakor isn't. He offered peace on the first turn, so I think he's on to our shenanigans his innate paranoia trumps our shenanigans at masking the war dec.

I forgot your leader - are you Agg?

Winner. We're Darius, but Zerks get C1 regardless of whether or not you are Aggressive. I also can't remember if this was an RBMod change or not, but it certainly is a nice bonus.

I started up a BtS game: no C1. And it's not in the changelog. So somewhere along the line it got added in but never documented. I know you were AGG in pb5; was Brick also AGG in pb8? Or did get to zerkers? It may not have even been noticed before.

[SevenSpirits]

It's a good thing vikings got buffed, they were just so bad without it.

[Ceiliazul]

lol.