Ah, as if an ad for AT using an ax in AW. Am thinking AP, ay?

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ahh... or, that could happen...

[AutomatedTeller]

For those of you not watching other threads....

I'm very likely toast.

I neglected to really garrison Lava against, i dunno, a guy with knights and fast workers 1-turning it out of the fog, despite knowing it was a possibility.

And thus...

Having attracted a really large stack to my doorstep and losing Lava (presumably, stick will notice that i have a large score decrease and the largest city in the world disappeared), I'm guessing he''ll come in after Slivery - which I can't adequetly protect AND protect Pitch AND protect Muscle. I am definiitely switching to nationhood - not sure if that is this turn or what, though. If stick comes in, it's nationhood. If celizul pulls out and stick pulls back, then I'll stay with bureau until tag is done, then nationhood.

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oh - havne't updated in a while. Turns have been anti-climactic... stick didn't come in (though, from the banter, looks like he killed a city someplace). caliazul pulled back. If stick is hitting celiazul, I might have to kill patilapurta. Still buidling taj. Getting monarchy - if I can get theology in a couple of turns, i'll switch to it when I switch to nationalism. might have to make a couple of missionaries before i leave OR, though..

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stick is now 2 turns from Mil Science. He's close to a runaway. I am 2 turns from theology and taj being done, which is 2 turns from nationalism/theocracy and 3 promo maces from muscle (I killed a small stack of celiazul's and got a GG from it), which means gearing up for hitting stick.

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Since time has past (and the pain is lessened), I can post the downfall of lava.

4 days ago, i received my turn from Ceilazul with this note in it:

Sorry man.

That's never a good sign

I opened the save and saw that



Which is about where it was when i said i was toast. If stick and celiazul had both moved in, I was gone - I'd lose pitch and maybe either Silvery or Muscle, depending on what i defended, and i was dead.

So, i killed that impi with an xbow and deployed and both guys pulled back - stick, apparently, took the opportunity to raze a city.

Not much to say - it's pretty much killed my research - I'll build a new city on that site and it'll grow, but it's never going to be the same....

I got a small measure of revenge here:



Captured 3 workers, which I then deleted. I'll pull back, see if the knights stay away.

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though, lookign at the game now, I wish I hadn't done that. stick is running away with it and we have to concentrate on him. and my hitting celiazul isn't going to make that easier.

On that note - how to hurt stick?

he's 1 turn from mil science, which is grenadiers, which = "counter to everything" Right now, it's close to game over - knights are ok vs. grens, but still lose, and some time from knights and gunpowder. rifles dont' really counter grens, though they are better than maces. Really, you need curaissers and cav, and I'm a long ways from either of those.

so, we must hurt his ability to research, and i see 2 ways of doing that:

Hurting his happy cap:


I can kill those gems with 2 GII archers or crossbows and the road, making it harder for him to hook them up (and, also, making it so I can farm that corn safely)

I should be able to kill the spices with a warchariot and a couple of drafted maces (presumably, he'll move a unit over to cover it)

The second is to pillage his towns:



I talked about doing this before, but wasn't able to put a plan into effect. I dunno if I can put one into effect now, but it will definitely entail a lot of war chariots...

I get Taj and a prophet next turn - then go to 2 turn settler for LavaLamp to start rebuiding that city. It'll never be Lava, but that's lot of commerce I'm not using.

Theocracy/nationalism nets me 3 promo units from muscle and 1 promo draft units, so that's nice. Everything else just grows...

Would it be cheesy to put a pike named "lets kill stick" in as a lone guard in Lavalamp when I settle it? I think the answer is yes and I won't do it unless people say it's not. it's meant to be AW, after all.

[NobleHelium]

Such a unit name would be a big violation, yes.

[Commodore]

Gilbert T. Efoe, however, would just be funny...

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I wish wish wish I hadn't hit that stack. I figure I could shown the ABILITY to hit that stack and shown that i wasn' going to and maybe he would take it as a truce.

Well, that's AW - hard to coordinate dogpiles. It's the one problem I have with the format - I think that if all three of us dumped stacks in sticks land, he'd have problems... but there's no way to make that happen, so he's probably going to win.

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Gilbert T. Efoe, however, would just be funny...

Because it's a funny name? Or is there a pop reference I'm not getting?