( Spoilers ) The Holy Grail of Threads

[superdeath]

As requested. Just a small drop

[Miguelito]

[superdeath]

Getting some infrastructure done before the NAP with GKC ends on t170. Holding onto a 3man GA till i see what he does so i know whether to swap out of Slavery for Caste or not. Waiting for OH's reply to a discord message but my base-plan is to continue settling island cities, and tech Education with my gold reserve, build universities/oxford while saving gold, and when those are finished... pop GA and grab PP-REP-Rifles ( unless GKC goes for Astro, then we divert to Astro-Chemistry-Steel.

Either way, i plan on taking out his navy, and capturing quite a few naval cities from him in about 30t. Even though this Ocean "terrain" is a pain to move thru. Also i just recently found what looks like an Astro island, unless its just the edge of a very long island chain for Raskol..


GKC has education on me, and is about to get Liberalism and i have NO clue what he plans on grabbing with that. If he tries to sandbag it for something else ill be forced to force him off of it... but i dont think he has the time to actually sandbag it anyway, as im sure he needs more economic techs ( probably grabs PP? ) to try and stay ahead of me in tech. Ive "kinda" lined up a deal with Cairo for him to tech i think... Nationalism and MT? Something like that, which is great and all.. but depending on if OH has a plan for an "easy" 4man GA, this might be the last golden age and it will most certainly be a boosted one.





If i had Cairo's support for certain, id be really tempted to move in on GKC right now.. but i dont trust Raskol/TBW not to play kingmaker and attack me again in 10t. Although, TBW has made a nice deal with me and is likely to attack Raskol very soon. So watch for THOSE fireworks.


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Important graph, with a better drop-


So yeah, was that worth it Raskol? Sure, you slowed me down by about 15t worth of wealth/research builds... but any chance of you winning also went down the pipe with that attack that ultimately gained you, one small city from me on the edge of my empire that was more or less just a stepping stone city. Oh well.

[superdeath]

working on the GNP, i had been whipping most cities rather hard the last 15t or so. But otherwise, not bad right?


Shuffled some tiles around and started plenty of infrastructure builds. Waiting on a GKC pm on whether i should tech education, or beeline steel.



Found some extra units he had. 10knights is the only thing im worried about, and it aint much worry. But this DOES look like the vast majority of his units, with very very very few defending against a possible Cairo attack. Knowing this, im sending a knight to go check on Cairo and that border situation to make sure that im not getting 2v1'd again. Because well that would be rather shitty considering GKC is an actual threat to win still.

Next turn we find out what he grabs with liberalism. If he grabs astro, we will have to follow him i feel because then he could go straight for chemistry and frigates and our privateers.... arent going to hold up.



Questions? Comments?

[Old Harry]

It's all gone quiet over here. Did GKC attack? Has the turn pace improved? Are TBW and Raskol at war?

[superdeath]

It's all gone quiet over here. Did GKC attack? Has the turn pace improved? Are TBW and Raskol at war?

GKC never attacked, he has continued to tech and Cairo and myself have planned out a war. Next turn we both will declare. If everything works out in our favor... maybe the game will finally be called in a Superdeath victory!


TBW and Raskol havent declared on each other but are in a Mexican standoff.






Everyone's stacks ( we also have vision on EVERYTHING GKC has ) So im expecting this war to go rather well, unless TBW/Raskol break their NAP's with me, and come my way... then id be rather pissy.




make no mistake, economics will be done in 3t, not 4t. Raskol will be trading me PP for my education, and then later will trade something for his Nationalism..

Questions?

[Lazteuq]

The hype is real!
How did you get near-complete vision on GKC? Is that all just from espionage?
Also, what do you expect Cairo to do next, if the combined attack is successful?

[superdeath]

The hype is real!
How did you get near-complete vision on GKC? Is that all just from espionage?
Also, what do you expect Cairo to do next, if the combined attack is successful?

I built courthouses, others apparently didnt. I havent turned on the EP slider, and easily got full vision on him.

If the attack is successful, i expect to win by concession. If for some reason i dont get that, i... either tech or eat Cairo who i think would be the next runner up providing i can continue to get NAP's with TBW/Raskol.


Speaking of which... lemme contact them..

[Old Harry]

What did GKC lib?

[superdeath]

What did GKC lib?

Nationalism.