(NO PLAYERS) Lurker Thread

[MJW (ya that one)]

I don't really play Civ VI, and have barely any MP experience, so I have very few, small, weakly bound stones to throw here.

Nonetheless, I'd love it if someone could explain to me exactly what it is that Kaiser thinks he's doing here. As far as I can tell he's managing to lose hammer/cog trades with a weaker civ while moving towards ... no particular strategic objective? I don't have the knowledge to definitively judge his decision to declare on in order to rob an opponent of a civ-state bonus; that actually seems to me fairly sound. It's just the way he is dividing forces as if that was a real front and dithering around Canada seems ... unwise.

Splitting the stack/blob is a typical new player mistake.

[shallow_thought]

Huh, Kaiser may yet make me eat my words. Good for him if so.

[MJW (ya that one)]

Dogpile of Kaiser !

[MJW (ya that one)]

no idea what's going on.

[MJW (ya that one)]

Well it looks like Woden will kill Ichabod and win unless something happens. Corner start is better then center because you can use the ocean as a defender.

[marcopolothefraud]

Suboptimal's invasion of Egypt isn't going to work, right? I see lots of Crossbowmen and Musketmen when Kaiser's cities are all at around 70 defensive strength. Am I missing something?

[ljubljana]

Yeah, I'm also pretty skeptical - they might get Geneva, but I'd be surprised if more cities fall unless Kaiser gets dogpiled (which is possible, but Woden seems still preoccupied with Ichabod). This feels like the rare game that might actually be decided by Industrial or Modern Age tech, with Woden in the lead but having stalled out a little in Brazil, and Kaiser and Suboptimal still having odds to win, especially if one of them eventually takes out Canada or snipes a few Brazilian cities.

[MJW (ya that one)]

Must spam lurker thread, so players think we care, yes-yes!

[marcopolothefraud]

Well, if we're using the lurker thread we might as well say something meaningful.

I think Kaiser might still be the favorite to win this game...maybe? At most, his odds are still only about 50% and he has a long way to go. But he's number 1 in science (has been for a while) and I'm pretty sure number 1 in production capability. I think he will be first to get aircraft and win that way.

Otherwise, I give Woden slightly higher chances than Suboptimal...maybe like 29% chance of victory to 21%. Not a very high margin. Suboptimal's invasion still appears doomed to fail, but if he decides to invade Canada he might take the lead and finally win. Woden on paper looks like he has nice production, but his position is not as strong as Kaiser because Ichabod is pretty good at fighting a harassment campaign.

And I give Ichabod and Williams482 about a 0%. Not enough cities and not enough production capability to overtake anyone else.

Civ 6 really gets slow roughly around the Medieval and Renaissance Era, which is a little sad. Maybe Steel technology/Battleships, as well as Artillery, might change the course of the game.

[MJW (ya that one)]

Ichabod hasn't updated forever so I prodded him. He cannot read this thread so I used the same link twice. (: