( Spoilers ) The Holy Grail of Threads

[superdeath]

Lost 1 knight to capture InnerLighthouse, and setup next turn to take his remaining 2 mainland cities. Galleys are prepping to assault his island holdings.




Tech situation continues to look pretty good.



3!! of our remaining rivals ( everyone but Gavagai and Cairo ) are in golden ages, and this is how demos are looking. Cant wait for our MoM boosted golden age...


Graphs-

 

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What's the diplo plan from here?

[superdeath]

What's the diplo plan from here?

Get the techs that im promised from Cairo and Raskol.


From there, one of three plans.

Go full backstab and run knights thru TBW land and slam into unsuspecting Raskol forces... this is the least likely plan, but it all depends on how well Raskol does vs TBW.

Consolidate and slam into GKC and try and take as much mainland as possible while using tech advantage to have caravels/ect keep his navy at bay. Not super likely, but not off the drawing board (t145 NAP currently)

Consolidate, and help Raskol eat TBW providing by that time TBW is still alive. Use the extra cities to build a power base that Raskol and Cairo cant compete with and force their concession.



TBW and Raskol havent fought yet, and im keeping up with Raskol in power. I want them to hit each other hard, and lose a ton of momentum so that i can come swoop in and grab a bunch of practically undefended cities... Hopefully TBW isnt the spiteful type, and wont just send everything at me now that we share a border to "bring down the leader" or something like that.


Knight won vs his longbow at 66% odds, and then i got a HA withdraw vs his HA at 50/50... followed by the 2nd HA winning. The other city was a free capture. All he has left are 3 island cities. One of which built a catapult.... 2 3-move galleys will be heading to those cities very shortly. WW has hurt only a couple cities, but the one that is hurting the most is the MOAI city.


GKC is still in a Golden age, i ... wanna say TBW is too? ill have to check next turn.


Civil service-Banking-Lib route? With i think the 2-man golden age popped right after Civil service is researched? Will have to consult with the master Old Harry on that.








Any questions?

[superdeath]

Came back from DQ and had a message from TBW... fearing that it was "hey i declared war on you"... i opened it

Say, if you're looking to really help me out (or just puppet state me so you can win the game, which I am perfectly fine with) besides the OBs/resource trades, Raskolnikov's army is all centered around the city Herpes right now, he's packing about 20 knights, 6 urukku pikes, and he just had to burn off most of his trebuchets killing a CG3 longbow. I can't kill his stack by myself but I get the idea you might be interested in killing his stack too.

Told him id consult with my dedlurker, and get back to him.

[superdeath]

Graphs:

 

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What we know so far..

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Demos look pretty nice before all of our new big cities come outta revolt. Cant wait!


Raskol's current army.

[superdeath]

Golden age in 11t roughly.

[superdeath]

sorry been a boring couple turns, with not much actually happening in-game, but quite a bit happening outside of game which will end up in a report eventually..



Current situation is Raskol is attacking TBW and hopefully TBW can slap his mighty Boudicca wang at Raskol's stack and stand his ground. Incase he cant, im prepared to backstab Raskol and eliminate his entire stack... just not REAL soon.







Any questions? Concerns?



Oh, and apparently the forum no longer likes certain images i tried to post... so had to split this update up. Weird.

[superdeath]

Not going to bore you bloodthirsty lurkers with too much this turn, but figured id show off



Next turn the last of the mainland cities come out of revolt.  


Won the first fight vs the longbow at 68%, and cleaned up with a 2nd knight at 98% vs an archer. Next island is a 66% roughly fight, so im thinking ill wait a smidge for the 2nd galley to come back around, or swing the northern galley back to pick up a knight or two. Dont want to whiff the fight and have an even more highly promoted longbow to defeat..


Took a whole TON of pictures of various things... Any questions?