January 26th, 2016, 13:35
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Relatively speaking I'm probably in second behind Khan as he managed to Oracle CoL with Bob roughly at par or just below me, with GingerEagle taking the rear end.
But my protential snowball due to Financial, and the fact that I'm ahead on GNP, means that I'm not overly concerned, and the fact that he with getting ahead as such might provoke some of the others into looking at him as the most critical threat.
January 30th, 2016, 07:46
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Looking at the charts, in terms of Foodhammers, Me Khan and Bob is roughly even (I'm second in both, they're respectively first and third in either as far as i can guess) while i'm far clear of the pack in terms of GNP. getting Calender in 4 (with an instant +1happy from the sugar and a dye ready to be tapped), a settler in 2, and two settlers in 5, and enough Immortals sweeping around to deny any funny business. and all but one or two pop is working improved tiles
GingerEagle is already unhelpfully last with fewest cities by far (at 4, while I'm at 7, and Khan/Bob is at 8), and what i suspect is the tail of all stats.
February 8th, 2016, 04:03
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Moving onwards, we've just passed t84 now and I'm in shared first in terms of cities (Khan, Bob and me all have 11 cities), I've just completed CoL and is building Courthouses in my larger cities (which have a maintenance of 8-12g each), taking an estimated 2-4 turns (thank you Organized), Saddam Hussein have just built MoM (at turn handover), and if everythings as planed, i'm starting Hanging Gardens at t87 at Jozef Tito. Started researching towards Metal Casting with vauge ideas of getting Colossus built, probably at Saddam, even if i don't get it (Khan picked CoL from Oracle so that's that less to worry about), through Forges would be quite handy on this map given that i already have 4 reasonably strong hammer producers, and in a handful of turns (ETA ~t95) Moai is finished in Quisling making that one competent as well.
And for those wondering why GingerEagle is so far behind ... well... He've been camping out a settler for a couple of turns on the edge of his borders, seemingly unwilling to push for more cities even through he's behind on city count by quite a distance (at 6)
February 23rd, 2016, 13:25
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Khan declared his intentions by boating Vidkun Quisling, my Moai city near his border (catching two workers at Imre Nagy with a chariot that was exploring Bob)... merely a setback™, although it have provoked me to go nationhood (at least i'm in a Golden age) and drafting a few bodies around for defensive purposes, releasing some Immortals that can be upgraded into knights, while I rebuild Moai in Diarra Trauré, which frankly is a better Moai candidate, now that its up and running, which it've only gotten within the last some 20 turns.
Also decided that instead of moving my knights down from my staging to snipe at GingerEagle, I'm pushing at him, as he don't really have anything to defend himselves with, hence i should be able to keep that line of offense rolling even with only a few troops heading that direction.
Trying to see if i can sneak Tal Mahal as to get even more out of MoM ... although sadly i failed to get an Engineer on my 22% roll a few turns ago, and got an Scientist instead, leaving me having to set off my current golden age with that and the merchant that i got in the end of my previous one.
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This is not intended to pressure anyone, just to avoid this process possibly playing out in the tech thread as has so often happened and typically results in a game ending sooner than it otherwise would or perhaps should. Once folks start hashing out issues in the tech thread momentum tends to build toward calling the game.
So, in light of the most recent post in the tech thread, I'm asking each player his opinion on the current game situation. Is it time to concede, and if so, to whom?
Please reply here in this thread. I'll post in the tech thread once I have heard from every player whether the game has been decided or if it is to continue.
Thanks!
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Due to the complexity and a number of mistakes made from me by letting stuff get sniped by Khans boats, I'm fair with calling it...
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