Rp, 190ad

[notyoueither]

Let's dig up some info, shall we?

[DeepO]

has the plan to cut the iron been told to RP already?

DeepO

[OPD]

[OPD]

Togas> I have a question: We could receive Toledo this turn, but we cannot defend it until next turn.
Togas> there is 1 ND pike nearby. Can GS kill that pike?
Togas> if not, or if there's a good chance you cannot, we should delay Toledo 1 turn.
Togas> OK, so I offered WM to you for WM + Toledo. Next turn accept. The turn after we will accept and receive Toledo. We will be able to defend it with 1 pike next turn.
Togas> We need a road built on the mountain tile that is 9-9 from Pamplona
Togas> We need you to either move the pike on that mountain, or move your worker there to build the road.
Togas> We also have plans to build a road at 6 and 6-6 from Pamplona
Togas> Pamplona's culture expands in 4 turns
Togas> when we get Toledo back, we'll have it's full culture
Togas> we may want to try to road that
Toledo silk again
Togas> only 1 more ND unit in their mountain stack, brings the total up to 11 ansars, 6 pikes, 2 inf
Togas> GoW raized Valencia, as expected
Togas> we see no GoW reinforcements in the north with our galley
Togas> pamplona makes pikes every 3 turns. Madrid makes them every 2 turns
Togas> we'll work on Barcelona, which is making walls, 2 turns left.
TogasAWAY> let us in on any invasion plans
opdaway>
TogasAWAY> and maybe we can do some joint worker tasks
TogasAWAY> we're eager to get additional roads in place so we can both move our units easily
opdaway> ok,
TogasAWAY> we have a bit of a traffic jam in the mountains between pamplona & the rest of the cities
opdaway> do you need to speak to anyone one "in the know" from GS?
TogasAWAY> not right now, but I can ask later today
TogasAWAY> I need to take off
TogasAWAY> bbl in 2-3 hours

[Shiber]

Damn, Toledo wasn't gifted again...
Oh well. Here's my suggestion:
Defend it with a pike this turn (one is enough, that pike isn't really going to attack), and gift Toledo accepted at the end of our turn. When RP received their turn and gets Toledo, our pike will be teleported back home (the only drawback of this suggestion), and RP will be able to hold the town themselves with their own pike.
P.S. I would block T-1 with the medinf at T-4 when our turn arrives, to prevent ND's pike from moving in to threaten RP's workers.

[zeit]

I suggest we take out that pike, there's no point in letting it roam around freely, it may just pick a mountain to sit on, and be a nuisance later on, let's take him out, we can spare 1-2 med. infs, and those Pikes will have to go sometime...

Razing V- looks like GoW pulled a Lux, too bad for us and RP, but we could make some wonderful things out of this in the SPIN thread. (have GoW's generals decides to take a course at Trip's war school?)

[Shiber]

Zeit: sounds great!
If you're any good at writing, please produce something like what you described. Hopefully this will spur the hotheads to send their forces down south to deal with us.