Turn 109, 390 BC

[Theseus]

Thank you for sailing GSSS... glass of white wine?

Well done Nathan, I agree, let's get re-inforcements up there post-haste... I lean toward Cats and MedInf, btw.

[nbarclay]

Turn sent. Sorry about not getting back to finish playing it earlier when more people were around. I posted a message to the public board about our having taking Vox's iron supply and trying to encourage others not to supply Vox with iron.

[Theseus]

Nathan = Gathering Storm's very own Donald Rumsfeld.



Now you just gotta yell at some reporters (e.g., Trip ).

Very well written public post... I don;t know exactly why... but a good tone. Some will think it a bit arrogant, but given what we've gone through, and what we've accomplished, I think a bit of attitude is OK.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Theseus
Very well written public post... I don;t know exactly why... but a good tone. Some will think it a bit arrogant, but given what we've gone through, and what we've accomplished, I think a bit of attitude is OK.

Those diplomatic messages always seem to do us more harm than good. No matter what we say all the other teams declare us arrogant and threatening. If we say nothing at all they call as isolationist and boring. The situation is a real mess - the bottom line is that they simply hate us (not as individuals, but as a team).

[zeit]

To the outside they hate us, that's true, but with more posting of this sort, we can create a link between those sane and open minds in the other teams and ourselves. I hardly believe our team is looked upon so unfavorably by EVERYONE as individuals.

[Harovan]

I don't see that anything has changed. Hostilities from the usual suspects Roleplay and GoW, bah, who would've thought? No statement from Lego and ND so far.

[vulture]

Since we failed to take the catapults this turn, I think we ought to go with the plan of rushing a temple in Inchon next turn - otherwise Inchon 8 is a good point for Vox to mass troops where they can heal. Once we build a temple we gain control of that tile, which a) puts more culture pressure on Elipolis and less on Inchon, and b) means that troops on Inchon 8 can be catapulted without being able to heal.

[vulture]

Judging by the score and power graphs, GoW appear to have founded a new city or two somewhere. Does someone with the save have any more info than this?

[Shiber]

Temple: keep in mind that it will take five turns for the borders to actually expand to Inchon-8.
Building a temple would be sweet though, if only for being able to heal from Inchon-8 when we stage our own attack against Eliopolis.

[vulture]

It takes 5 turns for the borders to expand, but my experience is that we will get the two tiles adjacent to both towns immediately. Once two towns have equal claim to the same square, it goes to the one with the highest culture (even if that is only 2 points vs 0 points), and in the case of a tie, goes with the one founded earlier. Unless Vox rushes a temple there before us, we can claim the tile the turn we finish a temple.

[Shiber]

Yes, you're right. I haven't thought of that.

[Arrian]

Man, that thread in the public forum sure backfired.

I think I'm at the point of not caring anymore what other teams think of us. It's pretty clear that lots of people have a deeply ingrained negative impression, and no matter what we say, they will interpret it negatively.

-Arrian

[OPD]

Originally posted by Arrian
Man, that thread in the public forum sure backfired.

I think I'm at the point of not caring anymore what other teams think of us. It's pretty clear that lots of people have a deeply ingrained negative impression, and no matter what we say, they will interpret it negatively.

-Arrian

it would be fun to just declare war on everyone. Suicidal but fun. We could keep them at bay for a while with boats but the eventual tech lead would kill us.

[Harovan]

It's not "the other teams" that "hate us". It's Roleplay and to a certain extent GoW. The latter are whores, though, as they have shown, and will give in if we sweeten a proposed deal. Therefor their present attitude doesn't really matter.

Roleplay does, as the name says, play roles. The current role seems to be hypocrite and penis envier. We should not let them distract us now. Let's finish off Vox and pick on them after that. It sure would be a great pleasure to see their fancy Spanish cities getting razed, but we shall withstand the seduction of the dark side of the force now, for the sake of a quicker victory against Vox.

[vulture]

And everyone, try to remember that it's a game, and not anything personal...