Lizzy's rise to greatness

[mzprox]

probably everyone would be able to steal anything. counterespionage would slow this down, but if timed right they could steal everything in every tenth turn.
The strategy I'm thinking about is this: we spend our gold to increase our income and production rate, then use that to produce a huge army and go on killing. We wouldn't go for tech lead, but tech parity-either by stealing or following others. The Kremlin gives us an edge here.

[OzzyKP]

That sounds like a good plan to me. Where do we stand currently in points, production, etc? Are we to the point yet where we need to worry about getting dogpiled?

[mzprox]

the top 3 powers are about the same.

Btw as it was expected uciv entered golden age, now it says 8 turns for completition for both of us for the SoL, but it actually would take more for us since our golden age ends sooner and I don't intend to stay in bureaucracy till the end. So we are gona buy it 4 turns later for 3500g.

[OzzyKP]

What civics were you planning to switch into near the end of the golden age?

And did the Aztecs get a GE?

[mzprox]

we shall go back to nationhood, and maybe choose representation, I will think about it. A GS was born, not a GE. I don't think we can lose the Sol now, but uciv will ba mad at us

[Dinner]

Back to nationhood. So I guess you just plan to keep drafting forever and try to win militarily? I was really hoping to stop drafting and to actually get both our production and population up so we could go for a space race victory.

[mzprox]

Nationhood is not just for war. For a big sized empire it's much better than bureaucracy. Besides cheap military production it gives +2 happyness, 25% spy bonus (thats 100+ spypoints even at 0% slider) and no maintenance that's 50-60 gpt)
But until there are 3 big powers there is no point really working on any victory condition because the other two would come and stop us.

[Hercules]

So its SoL and then the Maya. Do Uciv have knowledge that we are also going for SoL. Would Aztec or CFC have told them or can they see our cities production?

[mzprox]

Since we will want to start the attack next turn, please no one log in until the war starts to keep turn order.
We will buy SoL next turn, uciv can't buy it but they might slave it.. I think that's unlikely.
Our workers have finished the railroads to the front line, all our forces are in position. Next turn we will cross the border possibly from 3 different directions with about 80+ riflemen, 15 machinegunners, 15 cannons, 4 cuirassiers and some other units. Cfc will come too, but with a smaller army. We are negotiating some kind of agreement about how to split the spoils and the compensation for military losses will also be included in that deal (I proposed that we will check the hammer cost difference of our losses and the one who loses more will be compensated with gold from the other).
Right now maya has no big army, but we can't advance fast so they can draft/slave much more units.

[mzprox]

game is paused because maya hasn't logged in for a while.. Turn timer also has been increased for the holiday season so there won't be too many update in the following days.

[Hercules]

game is paused because maya hasn't logged in for a while.. Turn timer also has been increased for the holiday season so there won't be too many update in the following days.

Yes I noticed that at CFC. I keep a watch out. In the meantime Happy Christmas team.

[OzzyKP]

Has Maya been missing turns?

[mzprox]

They skipped one turn, but no sign from them for more than a week now. Probably we will need to find a sub for them.

[OzzyKP]

[Dinner]

So we declared war on them and they just stopped playing?