[SPOILERS] Pindicator emerges from the wilderness to play pb74

[pindicator]

125

Moai!!!




Our detente continues....

[Thoth]

If you're going to ask for cities back in exchange for peace it usually helps if you demolish your opponents stack first.    

[klops]

"...our words are backed with metal weapons..."

[pindicator]

Well I'm not going to offer peace again until after knights have made their mark. Honestly I probably don't offer again at all because he's in tilt mode.

Honestly I get it: he has technical problems that keep him from playing only to come back and find he's lost 3 cities. Not saying he could have done better than scooter, but it's more about ownership than outcome. When you don't feel like your choices are what affect your outcome it becomes difficult to care.

This reload is probably going to mean another extension request as amica didn't play in his normal window

[pindicator]

126

Naufrager wins a cookie!







Had to delete the mobility HA, which seems a shame. But I'd rather not clue Amicalola into how he lost his city if he doesn't figure it out on his own.

Sadly Amicalola had a sentry chariot around and saw us move up, so he retreated his army. No big showdown this turn. Instead we keep everything in place and plan on building a second army to go south.




Scott got renamed to Koko Head.

Commodore is ready to move in next turn.




Next turn we start whipping knights.

[Qgqqqqq]

Northern knights?

[pindicator]

Amicalola put 100EP into us last turn. Dude, don't do this kingmaking bullshit. I don't want to conquer you but you're going to force my hand.

[Mjmd]

123

EP vision is such a strong tool.

Maybe he just doesn't want you to have city vision

[pindicator]

True, but we lost that 2 turns ago and he is continuing to increase the rate at which he spends. This is hampering any long term potential for his civ.

If he is afraid of us conquering him then why has he declined repeated peace offers?

It could be I'm wrong but my impression is he is throwing his game against us when this is 80% a situation of his making. I don't want to conquer him, i would rather go south and conquer Bing and then build infra in a golden age. But now it's going to have to be non-stop units

[pindicator]

128

Amica leveled off his EP spending to just equal us. Fine, if that's all he wants to be even with us then that's reasonable.

He also threw away 3 horse archers to kill the Guerilla 2 longbow i had put on a jungled hill. Need to build some more of those.




I sent him another peace offer. Like I said, I don't want to fight him, but i have my city back. Has he clued in to the fact that every time he declines a peace offer I burn or capture another city?

In the south, Bing is crumpling to Commodore's attack.




With Dorp under threat of falling I made the call to declare on Bing and moved my small stack up against the city. Our first knights finish this turn but that is too slow with how Commodore has blitzed through Bing.

Poor Bing, he has made great strides in economy but he just never gets an army in place fast enough. Quantity > Quality.

Amica can take solace in that he wrecked both our games. We had originally wanted to split Bing with Commodore. Now Commodore is going to get 90% and we are just trying to grab Derp so that our borders with Comm are somewhat decent after all this.