It's really expensive to be the marginal leader and have everybody working against you.

Boldly brought up his lucky Trireme along with another one and a galley. I don't want to risk losing my furs city, so I had to complete the Phalanx there and delay the revolt to Bureaucracy and Representation.

Zak is scouting out my island. You may also remember that Zak ran the EP slider against me a few turns ago, making me lose my graphs:

With Civil Service researched, I could run 10% EP to regain the graphs at end of turn:

Not good. It's a bit confusing how Zak keeps doing his power buildups while in caste... Anyway, I don't know what he's got planned, maybe he's going to fort the bananas and ambush my island.

Oh, as you can see Zak also completed the great wall. Please be planning to sit back and defend for a while...
Boldly brought up his lucky Trireme along with another one and a galley. I don't want to risk losing my furs city, so I had to complete the Phalanx there and delay the revolt to Bureaucracy and Representation.
Zak is scouting out my island. You may also remember that Zak ran the EP slider against me a few turns ago, making me lose my graphs:
With Civil Service researched, I could run 10% EP to regain the graphs at end of turn:
Not good. It's a bit confusing how Zak keeps doing his power buildups while in caste... Anyway, I don't know what he's got planned, maybe he's going to fort the bananas and ambush my island.
Oh, as you can see Zak also completed the great wall. Please be planning to sit back and defend for a while...
I have to run.


; played in Civ VI PBEM 4, 5, 15; DL suboptimal Civ VI PBEM 17